Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, February 14th. If you've ever felt like no one notices

your efforts to serve and follow God, stay with us for an encouraging reminder. God is paying attention,

and he will reward those who live godly. Rewards are very important in the eyes of God.

In fact, as you begin to look at the scriptures,

you realize how many verses there on the Bible

that concern our rewards.

God has not forgotten our labors.

He doesn't overlook the good things that we do for others.

God is very concerned about that.

And he is faithful to reward his

children for their service. Now, I will name three different areas in which our rewards will be

given. And one of them, let's use the idea that Paul uses here about crowns. When he talks about

receiving particular crowns and reminds you

before you get your set in place today that what will happen is when you and I do receive crowns,

the Bible says we're going to place them at the feet of Jesus, giving him all the glory and the

praise and the honor. One of the first crowns is the crown, the incorruptible crown,

which is what Paul refers to in 1st Corinthians

9 when he talks about those who get mastery over the flesh. Now, what in the world does that mean?

That simply means this, as you and I endeavor to live a godly life, we don't always live a god

of life. There are times when we sin against God, we fail because we're children learning to

grow in the Christian life. But he says he will give a crown to those who, listen, who I believe

this crown is given to those whose heart's desire is to walk obediently before God and who go

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