Welcome to the In Touch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, June 11th.

Today, we'll look at Christ's last instructions for his followers, and all believers are obligated to carry out Christ's final command.

Here's a reminder about our missionary call.

God issues three calls to every single person. First of all is the call to salvation. That is a call

to confess our sins, to repent of our sins, and place our faith in Jesus Christ as our

saviour and our Lord. The second call is the call to sanctification. That is a call to bring our conversation, our conduct, and our character under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

The third call is the call to service, and that is a call for us to give ourselves in service to God by serving other people,

and in so doing, we fulfill

God's purpose for their life, and we also fulfill God's purpose for our own life.

And so every single one of us, God intends to receive three calls, salvation, sanctification,

and service. And so the question is, if God has issued these three calls of

my life, how many of them have I answered? Secondly, if I have not, why not? And thirdly, what am I going to

do about these calls in my life, at least the one of the two, that I have not answered? Well, God calls us when he comes to service to do many

things. He may call you to be a school teacher. He may call you to be an attorney or a doctor. He may

be called you to be a carpenter. He may call you to be a homemaker or a preacher. It doesn't make a difference

as long as it's God's call in your life. One of those calls is a call to missions. That is a call to be a

missionary. That may be across town or it may be across the seas in some foreign country. But God does

call people for very specific reasons. And he calls us to do a very specific work and so I want you to listen very

carefully not for my sake but for your sake you may be 16 you may be 26 36 36

46 56 56 6 to 6 to 6 to 6 to 6 to 6 to 6 to 6 years of age. Yes, he does. Now, I want you to listen carefully.

Because you may be sitting here and saying, well, now I've heard all that, but I just don't believe

God's going to call me. Let me ask you a question. Do you have the courage? Do you have the courage

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