Welcome to the In-Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, July 8th.

Once you trust Christ as Savior, your life is forever transformed.

Let's listen closely to discover solid reasons to rejoice that you will never again be what you were.

Many people who sit in church pews or who watch television or listen to radio and hear the

gospel week after week after week, believe what they hear, apply some of those things to their

heart, but if you should ask them, are you certain, are you sure, are you confident that if you were to die right now, you would go to heaven?

Many of them would say, well, I think so. I hope so. I'm not sure. I used to feel I would.

Oh, yes, I'm certain that I would go to heaven. If you should ask them on what basis do you place your certainty, some of them would give you all kinds of different answers. So I'd like to encourage you to get out a pen and a piece of paper. And I want to give you three statements. And I want to make it as simple and as plain and as clear

as possible. And I want to give you this in a form that you can take it and share it with

someone else to help release them from the bondage and the fear and the entanglements and the shackles

of fear, unbelieve, doubt, uncertainty about their relationship

to Almighty God. So the first thing I want you to write down is this. It is the will of God

for everyone to be saved. If you'll turn to 2nd Peter chapter 3, one of those familiar verses that most of us know, beginning in

verse 9, he says, the Lord is not slow about his promise, as some men count slowness, but is patient

toward you, not wishing for you to perish, but for all to come to repentance. That is, if it is not the will of the

Father, it is not his desire for men to be lost, then it must be his desire for them to be saved.

He said, listen to this. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Jesus said,

and I, if I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me.

He says, it's not my will that any man should perish, but all should come to the saving

knowledge of Christ.

The second thing I want you to jot down is this.

It is not only the will of the Father that we be saved.

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