Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, May 29th.

What makes the difference in believers who endure in faithfulness and those who don't?

Today's podcast identifies steady growth as the key.

Let's evaluate our development as the series on spiritual maturity continues.

Now, being born again means that God has forgiven us of our sins and he's brought us

into a personal relationship with Him. That's salvation, that's being born again. So being born again,

we as believers, if we don't grow there's something wrong with us because God

intends for us to grow and to grow and to grow till the day we die.

We to grow spiritually.

And so what I'd like to do is I'd like to give you a list of things that are evidences that you're growing in the

Lord or evidences that you're not and I think you'll agree with every one of

them you may not like them but you have to agree that if

I'm growing the following things are true. So are you ready say amen? All right number

one. If I'm growing in the Lord I'm becoming increasingly aware of my sinfulness and my weaknesses.

I'm increasingly aware. As I grow, I understand more, I become more and more sensitive to things in my life that are not

right.

As we come along in life, things we don't think about.

But the more you grow into Christ's likeness, watch this, he gives you

the spiritual insight to see that that doesn't fit who you are. And so one of the reasons we know that we are growing is we become more

and more sensitive to sin in our life even little things for example that used to put up with

maybe words you used to say, things you used to look at, whatever

it might be. You become more and more sensitive and here's what happens. The sensitivity

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