Welcome to this weekend's in-touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

If you've received Jesus Christ as your Savior, well, you are a new person.

Today we continue our study of Galatians with encouragement to live a consistent life as the new you.

When you receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal savior, your family, your friends, the people you work with, the people you go to school

with all had the right to expect something different out of you. That is, they had the

right to expect a different lifestyle because you see the truth is you

were born again that is you laid aside the old life that you once lived and took

upon yourself a new life and so therefore the right

to expect change is right indeed. The idea that you can receive Jesus Christ is your

personal savior and there be no change in your life as an

absolute contradiction to everything the Christian life stands for. That's why

such terminology as born again, a new creation, the new and living way, all describe and imply a change of life.

Well, that change is the theme of this message today, I want you to turn if you will to

colossians chapter 3 and it wants to begin in verse 12 and so as those who have

been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of

compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving each other,

whoever has a complaint against anyone just as the Lord forgave you,

so all so should you. And beyond all these things put on love, which is the

perfect bond of unity, and let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts to which indeed you were called in one body and be thankful.

Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with Psalms and

spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do

in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks

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