Welcome to this weekend's in touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

God accepts people based solely on their relationship to Jesus Christ.

Today's podcast helps us see that your approval in the eyes of the Lord is based on faith, not actions.

If someone should ask you, are you a spiritually minded person, how would you answer that? Well, what would be the basis by which you would answer

that question? Would it go something like this? Well, I've been saved, I've been baptized, I attend church regularly, I do read the Bible, I do pray, I do give

either systematically or sometimes I give, and then maybe your conversation or your answer might include something like this.

I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't dance, I don't gamble, I don't run around on my wife, I don't dance I don't gamble I don't run around on my wife I don't lie

stealing cheat the truth is a person wouldn't even have to be a Christian

and could sort of have that as their stand. They could have

experienced all those first areas and maybe for other reasons. Maybe they just

don't want to waste their money in some ways and don't want to harm their body, but not doing these things and doing these

do not necessarily mean that a person is spiritually minded.

And oftentimes we judge another person's spirituality by a set of human man-made

rules which we have established ourselves and therefore because someone doesn't

live up to our standard, we say, well, they may be saved, but they surely aren't very spiritual minded on what basis?

Well, because, and we would probably fumble around a little bit, and ultimately we'd have to say because they don't believe the way I believe

So in the book of Colossians Paul was writing to these believers

who were being faced with false teachers who were saying to them it is not enough to place your faith in Jesus Christ because

there are other things that you must add, other experiences you must have

in order to really be and know that you're saved are spiritually minded.

And so I want you to turn it, if you will, to Galatians chapter 2, and this is part of our series on this book.

And I want us to begin reading in verse 16, though we have dealt with verse 16 and 17,

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