Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, January 9th.

What is a normal Christian life?

If you first think about activities you should or shouldn't do, then today's podcast will help

redirect your thinking. Let's discover key qualities that will be evident in believers who

strive to live an extraordinary life.

Turn to Galatians chapter 2.

I want you to see a verse here that best describes the kind of life that our

Lord Jesus Christ intended for us to live. This is the extraordinary life and

Paul wraps it up like this because in this verse is Paul's heart, soul, and

mind. Listen, I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live,

but Christ lives in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in the flesh I live by faith and the son of God who loved

me and gave himself for me. Paul says there was a time in my life when I walked away from my past. He says I died to the

life that I was living. He says so therefore in this life that I'm now living it is

no longer I, Paul, but it is Christ who lives in me.

And the life which I now live, I live by faith in the son of God. Here is the heart of everything the apostle Paul

believed. Here's the underlying theology. Here's the underlying truth that

governed his actions, his speech, and everything about him.

And what he was simply saying is this.

It used to be the Apostle Paul.

Used to be Saul of Tarsas.

Then it was Paul. Now it is Christ who lives in me. And the life which I'm now living, not the same. I live by faith in the son of God. What he was saying is this, I have moved from that settle for life

that I was living. I choose to live an extraordinary life. What is anything extraordinary?

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