Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, December 21st.

This time of year most of the focus of the church is on Christ's entry into the world as a baby.

But there's so much more than that. The series

Good News of Great Joy continues explaining that for all who are believers

Jesus is your life. Now this is the fourth in a series of messages on good news of great

joy found in Luke chapter 2 and if you will recall in this passage that the angel was announcing the birth of the

Lord Jesus Christ and in that announcement this is what he said. In verse 10, do not be afraid for behold I bring you good

news of a great joy which shall be for all the people. For today in the city of

David there has been born for you. Now listen, a

Savior who is Christ or Messiah, the Lord. Now the angel said for unto you has been born this day been given to you a

Savior who is the Christ who is the Lord but there is one of the title by which we know the

Lord Jesus Christ that the angel did not announce. Now the reason was that the

idea of Savior, Christ, and Lord were all terms known to those who knew the Old

Testament scriptures. That this one who is coming would be a savior, he would be the Messiah, and he would be the Lord.

What they did not know, what was not revealed to them at that time, and what the angel did not reveal was this, that this one

Jesus who was coming would also be their very life. Now I want to explain what I mean by Jesus Christ your life. And the truth

is that is the whole key to the Christian life.

And it is indeed the truth that set me free

and liberated me in a fashion

and in the manner I had never known before. Now I'm not going to tell you I have a full

comprehension of what it means to have Christ as a life, but I do know this. I know enough that I wouldn't ever want to be

where I've been. I've experienced enough to know that without understanding that he's our life you miss some of the cutting edge of the

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