Welcome to the In-Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, March 13th.

Living a consistent Christian life begins by remembering that we are not in charge.

Let's think about who's really in control of your life as you continue learning the truth about sin.

We hear a lot today about rights, and there is a spirit of independence that prevails

in our society, where some people or some groups of people want to live to themselves and

have their own thing and act independently of and exclusively of other people. But when you open

the word of God, you don't find any of that.

But rather, the fact that we're dependent upon each other.

And when it comes to rights, you don't find in the Bible where God says you are to exercise your rights here and your rights there.

You don't find that in the Word of God. And I want you to open your heart today and listen to what God has to say and see if you are willing to be open

and honest about an issue that all of us have to deal with every day of our life. We've talked about the character of sin and God's answer to the problem of sin in our life.

But what is the ultimate question when it comes to sin?

The ultimate question is very simple.

And to put it in today's lingo, this is it.

Who is going to be the boss in your life?

That's what the whole question of sin is all about. Who's going to be the boss? Because you see,

in essence, sin is acting independently of and exclusive of the will of God. Anytime you and I are to make a decision in our life,

we make it independently of God exclusive of Him and His will. We decide we're going to do our own thing. What we're doing is we're disobeying God

because you see the Bible says that he has the rightful position as being the boss.

Sin, in essence, is deciding that I'm going to get my needs met when I want to met the way I want to met, regardless of what the boss says.

Sin, in essence, is acting exclusively and independently of the will of God, no matter what God thinks.

So I want you to turn to Romans chapter 14, verses 7, 8, 9 deal with this problem.

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