Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday July 4th.

Do you want an influential life that makes a difference?

It starts with learning the basics of listening to God. It is the basics of listening to God.

It is the will of God that every single one of us be saved.

It is the will of God that we walk in a way that is pleasing and honorable to him.

And Paul wrote to Timothy he said

God desires that all men and women of course be saved and come to the knowledge of

the truth and in second Peter he says it's not my will that any should perish.

And the Apostle Paul said, if thou shall confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus,

believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you'll be saved.

And then he also said, Whoso ever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

But it isn't enough just to become a Christian. It isn't enough just to become a Christian.

It isn't enough just to have your sins forgiven.

There's more to it than that.

The scripture says in Ephesians chapter 4,

that it is the will of God that you and I walk in a manner that is

consistent with who we say we are. And in Colossians the First Chapter he

puts it this way.

It is the will of God that you and I walk in a manner that is pleasing to him.

And then, of course, in divisions, he also warns us about something a passage that maybe you're not quite so familiar with and

talking about the walk and when the Bible talks about walking in the scripture

There's always that reference to how we live our life.

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