Welcome to this weekend's in touch podcast with Charles Stanley. The study of the

Book of Colossians continues today with a powerful reminder of our position in

Christ. But you heard people say, you know, I'm not sure this Christian life is always

cracked up to me because somehow it just isn't working with me. Or someone may say, I know that I'm

saved, but why is it that I keep on suffering one defeat after the other? Somehow the

Christian life just doesn't seem to work.

Well, you know, if you don't understand some of the basic principles of scripture,

some things won't appear to work. It's not that they don't work.

Oftentimes it is a matter of our ignorance of the truth.

Sometimes it is a matter of our believing the truth that we do understand and sometimes we just don't really want

what God wants as much as what he wants. So I want us to look in just the moment in the book of Colossians. We've been in this book for quite some time.

But to remind you in the first two chapters that almost all of this has been doctrinal.

In chapters three and four, it begins to be very applicable to our

daily life. Application is Paul's emphasis in this second section of the book of

Colossians. So I want you to turn if you will to chapter 3, and the title of this message is Our

position in Christ. That is, what is our relationship to him the way he sees it?

Now in the first two chapters we find, as the

theme of this book is all the way through the sufficiency of Christ, in the first two chapters

we find that Jesus Christ is the object of the believer's faith.

In the 34th chapters he is the source of the believer's life.

If you really want to understand the Christian life, you must understand the basic

principles. When I understand the truth of the Christian life, then there is within me not on the

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