Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, October 30th.

We often learn right from wrong by making mistakes and dealing with the consequences.

Today, you'll get biblical advice on how to avoid some of that pain in part one of obeying God.

When you're making a very important decision in your life, what's the ultimate question you ask?

What's the sort of the bottom line?

Somebody says, well, I ask the question, is this going to profit me?

You're going to bring me pleasure.

What other folks are going to think?

What's the bottom line question that is safe every single time you come to decision. The bottom line is,

am I obeying God? And as you heard me say many times, obey God, leave all the consequences to him.

And the issue is simply this. If I do that, I'm going to save myself a lot of hearty,

a lot of burdens, a lot of embarrassment, and probably a lot of loss in lots of ways.

So this whole issue of obedience, oftentimes people don't like to think about it.

They say, well, you know, there are many other subjects in the Bible that are much more pleasant than obedience.

But let me just say this. If you don't get that one straight, the rest of them are not going to work.

And if you'll think about this, when your children came into the world, what's one of the things that you wanted to be sure that you taught them? What? To obey you. And the silly, ridiculous attitude, an idea that people had a

generation ago, you do not spank your children, you don't discipline your children. Well, then what

you're saying is we teach them to be disobedient. Because think about this for a moment. Every child

comes into the world with an attitude of disobedience.

So what do you do? You say, I must teach you to be obedient, right? And so you go about teaching

them to be obedient. And some of us learn later than others. Some of us learn earlier than others.

But we all have to learn obedience.

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