Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, January 2nd.

Were you once on fire for God, but now lack a hunger for spiritual things?

Refresh your desire for the Lord as you listen to today's lesson.

When a person is saved by the grace of God, what happens?

They are saved by the Holy Spirit coming into their life,

and they receive the Bible, says, the life of Christ. The man's spirit is made alive by the

presence of the Holy Spirit, and we become the possessors of the life of Christ. If a man has the

life of Jesus Christ living within him, and this life which is perfect and holy

And in this body this body goes back into the world system Paul says listen you are not what you were before you were saved

You can't ever be what you were before because the redeeming grace of God has made you what you were not You can't ever be what you were before because the redeeming grace of God has made you what you were not.

You can't ever be what you were because you have been regenerated.

You have been born again and you have been born a new creation.

Now, how does a person like that relapse back into sin?

Is this relapse absolutely necessary for every believer? Is there going to

come a time in every believer's life and they fall back into sin? No. But all of us will sin at times

in our life, but we don't have to be entrapped and ensnared of what Satan had us ensnared with before.

So the question is, how do we prevent that? And that's what I want us to discuss today. And if you'll turn to Romans

chapter 12, verses one and two, when Paul says, I urge you, that is a term used by a general,

oftentimes, before they sent their troops into battle. He says, I urge you. I am encouraging you. I'm challenging you, therefore, brethren,

speaking of believers now, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living holy sacrifice

acceptable to God, which is your personal or your spiritual service of worship. Now, watch this.

He says, stop being conformed, assuming an outward appearance

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