Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, December 15th.

We're all born into a world broken by sin, helpless, unable to free ourselves from its grip.

But there's good news. Salvation is a gift freely offered to anyone who believes.

Join us as we explore the God who cares enough to rescue us

and discover the hope, love, and grace that can set you free.

What is the loftiest, highest, the most pinnacle of all truth in the Scripture,

and here's what that truth is, that Holy God so loved mankind that he sent jesus christ his son to die a substitutionary death on the

cross thereby paying the sin debt of all mankind in full and making it possible for us to be like him.

So I want to say it again.

There is no higher thought in existence than that.

That holy God so loved man that he sent Jesus Christ his son to die a substitutionary death on the cross, paying our

sin debt in full, and making it possible for us to become like him.

Now, the key word in understanding everything in this Bible that has to do with redemption

is the word substitution. So I want you to say it with

me. Substitution. So Jesus Christ's death was a substitutionary death. So why do we say substitutionary death?

And this is why it's so important. Because there has never been a person. There never will be a person.

No one has ever lived, ever will live who is without sin it was man in his

absolute total helpless condition that brought about the love of god the coming of the lord jesus

christ and the sacrificial substitutionary atoning death of jesus christ to pay our sin debt in full.

There is the core and the heart of this Bible, wrapped up in one statement.

From beginning to end, God, holy God, so loved sinful man that he sent Jesus Christ, his son,

to die a substitutionary death at Calvary in order that our sin that may be

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