Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, September 26.

What's the most valuable thing you can own?

Was your answer to the Bible?

Today, Dr. Stanley's message reminds us that we should cherish God's word above all else.

If someone should ask you, when you die, are you going to heaven? More than likely, if you

are a believer, you would certainly say, yes, I am. If you're not sure, you'd probably say,

well, I hope so, or I think so, I'm not certain. But if you were to say, yes, I am, more than likely the next question would be

would be something like this. Well, how do you know you are? And more than likely you'd say,

well, I just know I am. And if they kept pressing you, you'd probably say, well, because the Bible

says so. And they may ask, well, what does it say? And you would say something like this. The Bible says, whosovo shall call upon the name of the Lord, that is in faith, believing, would be saved. And that's what I've done, because that's what the Bible says. That's what I've done. I know I'm saved. So somebody says, well, you mean to tell me then that you know you're saved because of what the Bible says right well how do you know the Bible's true then what would you say well that's what I want to

talk about in this message I want you to be able to say this is the reason I believe the Bible is

true because it certainly is the living word of the living God. And there are many, many reasons

for believing that the Bible is indeed the infallible, inherent word of the living God.

And I want you to turn, if you will, to First Peter. And what I would like to do is to give you

some of those reasons. And I want you to turn, if you will, to 1 Peter, chapter 1, beginning in verse 22,

listen to what he says. He says, since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls

for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart. For you have been born

again, not of seed, which is perishable, but

imperishable, that is, through the living and abiding word of God, which means it was through

the word of God that you and I came to know the truth of who Jesus Christ is, and thereby,

that's how we were saved. Then he quotes from Isaiah, he says, for all flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of grass.

The grass withers, and the flowers fall off, but the word of the Lord abides forever.

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