Welcome to the Intouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, September 14th.

Sometimes believers in Jesus can get so caught up in eternal things that we forget the basics.

Let's learn about the singular most important badge of true discipleship.

Would you turn to John chapter 13?

Want us to read, beginning in verse 31 through, verse 35.

John chapter 13.

John chapter 13, beginning in verse 31, he says,

therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said,

now is the son of man glorified and God is glorified in him.

If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him and himself,

and shall straightway glorify him.

Little children, yet a little while, and I am with you, ye shall seek me,

and as I sit unto the Jews, whether I go, ye cannot come.

So now I say to you, a new commandment, I give unto you, that ye love one another,

as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

By this, shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have love one to another.

Now, we have seen that discipleship is not optional but mandatory,

and that discipleship and a believer are not synonymous,

that a believer is the person who has received the Lord Jesus Christ as personal Savior.

But the discipleship demands much more than that, for a disciple is a person

who has accepted Jesus Christ as Savior, yielded to Jesus Christ as Lord,

and one who is available for Jesus Christ to reproduce himself through him in the life of someone else.

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