Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, March 14th.

Today we reflect on what it means for Christ to rule your life.

Here's today's final message in the series from The Truth About Sin.

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're 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, and 9 deal with

this problem. Now, right in the middle of a passage that deals with judging each other in our

relationship to each other, Paul makes this very clear beginning in verse 7 when he says,

for not one of us, not a single one of us, lives for himself or unto himself,

not one dies for himself or unto himself. For if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die,

we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. For to this end,

Jesus Christ came, that is, we are the Lord's. For to this end, Jesus Christ came,

that is, Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

So that nowhere does God imply that exclusive island-type living, and I mean by that, that we live to ourselves, we do our own thing, we have the right to live private lives to the exclusion of everybody else

is concerned and being unconcerned about everyone else, that I'm going to mind my own

business, do my own thing. I don't want anybody interfering with me, myself, and I.

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