Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, December 12th.

What do you do when someone repeatedly hurt you?

The urge to feel resentful and lash out can be powerful, but giving in to those feelings is never the right choice.

Today's podcast helps us learn how to have peace with one another. When I think about what the Bible teaches about our relationships with each other,

Scripture says that we are to build up one another.

We're to love one another. We're to accept one another.

We are to serve one another. We're to comfort one another. We're to help one another. We're to pray for one another. We are to serve one another. We're to comfort one another. We're to help one

another. We're to pray for one another. So many times, God says, this is the way you should treat

one another. And yet most of us would have to admit that a lot of people we know, most people we know,

don't work in those kind of situations, don't live in those kind of

homes, don't go to school in those kind of environments, and we wonder what in the world is wrong.

Why can't we live with each other? Why can't we be at peace with one another? Well, that's what I

want to talk about in this message. And I want you to turn,

if you will, to the book of Romans, because the Apostle Paul gives us some very clear instruction here

that I think would be good for all of us to consider it this time. And in this message, I'm talking

about personal relationships. I'm not talking about nations warring against each other. I'm talking

about personal relationships. And in this wealth chapter of Romans, he is admonishing us how we are to

treat one another. And I want us to come down to this 17th verse and listen to what he says.

When he says, never pay back evil for evil to anyone, respect what is right in the sight of all men. If possible,

so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men. Never take your own revenge, beloved,

but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.

But if your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he's thirsty, give him a drink. For in so doing,

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