Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, January 1st.

Christ frees you from the chains of sin, breaking the bonds that hold you back and opening the door to true spiritual liberty.

As you step into 2026, challenge yourself to live in that freedom, not holding on to past failures or fears,

but walking boldly in the power and grace God provides. Discover how to embrace this new year

with purpose and victory in this podcast. Why is it that some people who have been converted,

either for a few weeks, a few months,

or sometimes for a few years, turn right back where they were living in sin,

almost as if they had never been saved?

But remember now, here's the person who has been saved by the grace of God,

who's had a new birth experience.

And the Bible says, therefore, if any man been Christ, he's a new creature, a new creation.

Old things have passed away and old things have become new.

And by new creation, that means that God has made something new that was not before, not like anything else that it is in existence.

That is, God hasn't put a new suit on an old man.

He's made him a new creation.

What about these people who have had a genuine conversion experience,

and then they turn and go back to their old way? Well, there are two simple explanations that

most people give. One of them is, well, real simple. They were never really saved. No,

these people were genuinely converted. Born again

by the grace of God, the Spirit of God, they've been saved, so we can't accept that excuse.

Somebody says, well, but a simpler one than that is, man, they just fell from grace. I mean,

anybody's got to know that. Well, the truth is that we do not believe the Bible teaches that you fall from grace.

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