Welcome to this weekend's In-Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

It's easy to refer to Jesus as Lord,

but giving him full control is a lot harder.

Today's concluding message in the Truth About Sin series

challenges you to think carefully about what it means for Christ

to be the ruler and master of your life.

Now, most of you probably work for somebody

that you would consider your employer or you consider

or you might say, he's my boss.

When you accepted that responsibility,

you adhered to certain principles and certain policies

that you would abide by.

So that the truth is it is an exception not to be expected.

It is an exception when you violate the rules and the policies

and your boss is surprised when you don't do what you told to do.

In the Christian life, God makes it very clear who the boss is.

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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