In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, Part 4 of My Assurance, God is in control.

When is the last time you stopped and just meditated about your life and just thanked God for saving you.

Or have you taken that for granted all these years? And let me ask your question.

Well, you saved because you first approached God and told him you wanted to be saved?

How do we reconcile the fact that the Bible says,

whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved?

Then we turn right around and read,

chosen in Him before the foundation of the world.

How do you reconcile that?

Likewise, if God already knows who's going to be saved,

why should we be sending missionaries

and having a missionary enterprise? Why should we be trying to send missionaries all over the world

to preach the gospel if God already knows who's going to be saved anyway? Well, I want you to

turn, if you will, to Psalm 103, and this is our fourth message in the series, My Assurance,

God is in control. And we've talked

about his being in control of all the difficulties and hardships and troubles and trials and

suffering and death and all the rest and answered prayer. And so many ways he promises us in his

word and shows us that he's in control. What about our salvation? Is God in control of that

or how much rights or how much privilege do I have in all of that? So I want you to turn,

if you will, to Psalm 103. And this is the passage that we read just the reminders over and over and over

again of who is in charge. In Psalm 103, verse 19, says the Lord has established his throne in the heavens,

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