Welcome to the In-Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, February 27th.

Have you ever worried about what will happen after you die?

If so, stay with us as we examine the clear scriptural foundation for believing that a Christian's eternal future is secure.

There are many things that separate the Christian faith from all the religions, but primarily

the one that stands out above all the rest is this, that all of the religions are based on performance

and the Christian faith is based on grace.

I want you to turn to Romans chapter 8, and I want us to look at two verses in this passage,

the last two verses of Romans 8, because here Paul is offering us an awesome sense of assurance

about our relationship to God when he makes this statement, having told us in these verses in the

8th chapter, how God is in charge of everything,

how he's predestined us to be conformed to his likeness, how everything is under his divine

control, how he is guiding every aspect of our life. And he says beginning in this 38th verse,

for I am convinced, I am persuaded that neither death, no life, nor angels,

no principalities, no things present, no things to come, no powers, no heights, no depth,

nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ

Jesus, our Lord. Now, there are many commands in Scripture.

It's very clear what you and I ought to be able to do as a believer, how we should live.

And yet all of us know that because we still live in this flesh, we're not always going to do exactly what he tells us to do.

So if our relationship to him is built on our performance, all of us would have to say,

Father, just take me on now

because I'll never be able to do every single thing that I ought to do as long as I live in this

flesh, because we will not always rely upon the Holy Spirit. Then upon what is our assurance based?

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