In Touch, the Teaching Ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, the courage to obey.

To obey God is always the right thing to do, the wisest thing to do,

but not always the easiest thing to do.

And when you think about your life and what God requires of us,

we all have to admit that sometime it's not the easiest.

Sometimes we think, for example, our way is a better way.

Our way is an easier way.

It's a less expensive way.

There's less expensive way. There's less pain and sometimes if you and I obey God there'll be pain

They could be suffering that can be rejection that could be lost you say well in the world do I want to obey God if all that could happen to me? Here's a reason.

Because he says, whatever the circumstance, listen, our God causes all things to work together for good to those who love him and to those

who are called according to his purpose.

So God is in the business of blessing and guiding his children, but he's

also in the business of encouraging us to be obedient to him because he knows that's the wisest thing we can do, the best thing we can do.

Listen, the smartest thing we can possibly do is be obedient to the principles of the

world of God.

This is a message entitled simply this,

the courage to obey.

In the passage of scripture I want to turn to

is the passage of scripture my mother gave me upon preaching my first

sermon right before I went to preach at that in the evening and I'm sure she could tell

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