Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, December 30th. Before Jesus

returned to heaven, he instructed his followers to go and tell others about him. Let's embrace

our role while we focus on investing in eternity. What does it mean to invest in eternity?

Eternity is a long time. And if you look around at the circumstances today, you think,

well, I don't think I want to invest in anything very long because the situation is not very inviting.

But there is some way, in one way, that you and I can invest that we don't ever have to worry

about whether we get a good return or not.

So when we think about investing in eternity, we're talking about investing in people's lives

all over the world who desperately need to hear the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The reason you may be a Christian is because somebody told you. And the

reason somebody told you is because somebody sent someone and made it possible for you to hear.

You heard, you believed. You trusted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. He made you a brand

new creature in Christ. Your whole life has been changed. There is a world of people

out there, first of all, who've never heard. Many of them have heard but have not believed. Does that

mean we have to stop telling them? No. We're to keep on telling them. Keep on shouting the truth of the

gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends

of the earth.

Well, what I want to talk about in this message is why?

Why should I be giving to send some missionaries somewhere else when we have our own problems

in this country?

Well, that's a reasonable question, but the answer to that is not somebody's opinion.

The answer to that question is a very clear biblical statement. And that's what I want us to

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