Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, January 1st.

Whether you're a new Christian or have been a believer for a while, start this new year by learning practical answers to the question, I'm saved. Now what?

When you were saved, did anybody sit you down and say, well, let me explain to you just what happened to you.

I want to talk to you about God so you'll understand who he is.

I want to explain to you who Jesus is in his relationship to God.

I want you to understand the presence and the work

and the power of the Holy Spirit

that now will begin working in your life.

I want to help you see that you have some responsibility

now that you've become a Christian,

because what you've said is you are willing to become a follower of Jesus Christ.

Did anybody set you down and tell you those things?

Or did they say, we certainly are glad that you're a Christian now, and to get along the best you can,

they probably didn't say that, but that's the way they acted. For the simple reason, they didn't open the word of God

and say to you, now, let me give you a couple of passages of Scripture that it would be good for you

to learn or to begin to read in the Psalms or John or whatever it might be. Most people who join

the church, even after they're saved, they're sort of left on their own. Most people

become a child of God, and nobody ever tells them what they should expect as a result of that.

When they join a church, nobody ever tells them, here's what you can expect, and here's your

responsibility. So what I want to do in this message,

I want to answer three questions. I want to deal with three specific things. The three specific

things every person should understand if you are going to become a Christian, or if you are one,

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