Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, July 16th. Is there something you want in life?

Make sure you are going after the right things. Refin your aspirations by embracing and pursuing

life's supreme goal. If I should ask you, what is life's supreme goal?

What would you say?

Somebody would say, well, life's supreme goal is to be saved by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

And someone else would say, life's supreme goal is to be called to serve the Lord in a very special way.

And ultimately, we would get around to

say, life's supreme goal is ultimately to go to heaven. What is the supreme goal that God wants

us to reach toward? And of all the things that you and I could say, ultimately it is this. God wants us to know him. Life's supreme goal is to

know God through the Lord Jesus Christ. There are many things that will happen in a person's life as a

result of that, but that is the supreme goal. And I want to show you how Paul arrived at this

decision. Now Paul, in light of all of this, said,

he wanted to know God. When did he desire to really know God? Having come to that Damascus experience

and meeting the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior, he began to want to know God. Here's what

he said. He said, first of all,

they had to review his life. As he reviewed his life, he looked back over, verse five and six,

circumcised the eighth of the other stock of Israel, the tribe of Benjamin, and being of the tribe

of Benjamin was very important, a Hebrew of the Hebrews touching the law of Pharisee.

Concerning zeal, persecuting the church, touching the righteousness, which is the law of Pharisee concerning zeal persecuting the church

touching the righteousness which is the law of blameless he said you can look at my life

and from a human point of view he says I am spotless I have everything in the world to be

bragging about everything to be proud of but when Jesus Christ came into my life I had to reassess my values in life.

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