Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday August 22nd.

Sometimes ignoring God may seem liberating, but the consequences are disastrous.

Today's podcast helps us carefully consider consequences are disastrous.

Today's podcast helps us carefully consider

the choices we make.

Can you recall a decision or a choice you made

years ago, somewhere back in your life that you really and truly regret?

I heard somebody say, yeah.

Well why do you think you made that choice? What motivated you? That is, what were you thinking when you made that choice?

What motivates you today when you make choices in life. You understand that the choices you and I make today

and the choices we live with, tomorrow, the next week, the next month, the next year, so that so

often we make choices without thinking, without considering not only

what the facts are today but what are the consequences of those decisions, those choices we make in life. Well that's what I want to talk about in

this message and I want you to turn if you will to Matthew and the seventh

chapter and two verses in the 7th chapter. Jesus has been talking to his

heroes about choices, all kinds of choices that they're to make in their life and in specific areas of their life.

Then he comes down to this 13th and 14th verses in the 7th chapter as to say to them,

it all ends up being two lifestyles in life.

You either have one lifestyle or the other.

And so he pictures that in this way when he says in verse 13

Enter through the narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction

And there are many who enter through it

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