Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, January 6th.

When God calls you to serve, it's never optional.

Let's discover why every believer is called to obey promptly and wholeheartedly when the Lord speaks.

Our series Unfailing Commitment continues.

Now, I want you to listen to me very carefully.

Because there are four basic questions that are essential for all of us who intend to live

obediently before God, to honor His Lordship, to live a life committed to Jesus Christ.

If I don't answer these, I won't understand the foundation of what commitment is all about.

And all of these are found in this passage, the third chapter and the fourth chapter of

Exodus as God deals and as he calls Moses.

Now listen, if I'm going to be committed to Jesus Christ, I mean truly

committed, lay myself down before him, acknowledge his headship, his lordship, his governorship,

his control, his rightful place, his authority, supreme, final authority in my life,

I need to answer these four questions.

And the first question is this.

Who is this God?

Who is this God?

Who is challenging you and me to live in submission to his divine authority?

Now, my friend, it was very important to God that Moses explained to them

who their God was. Whom shall I say, sent me? When you became a child of God, you were born

into a new family. You became a part of the living God. Christ, Jesus became your life. It was no longer your right to make choices about your life except under the final authority of the person of Jesus Christ. It is the fact that we have forgotten who God is. He isn't a grandfather sitting up in

heaven, just watching us do our thing and turning a deaf air to our language, closing and winking

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