Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, March 24th. Building a lifestyle of

obedience to God begins by consistently following his direction in simple matters. The series

teaching the joy of obedience continues. It's not always easy to obey God, but it's always the wisest thing to do, and it's always the best.

God says, you obey me. Here's what I'm going to do for you. You obey me, and I'm going to bless you.

Remember this. It is absolutely impossible to obey God without blessing because God has chosen to bless obedience.

And we as his children, as we learn to walk in his ways and walk in his will, then we're

going to be blessed over and over and over again.

Somebody says, well, what is obedience in a way?

Obedience is doing God's will, God's way, in God's timing. It's doing what God says when he says

it and the way he says do it. So when you think in terms of obedience, that's really simple,

doing what God says when he says and how he says do it. And so when we think in terms of

obedience and we think in terms of the fact that

that's what God requires of us, what I'd like for us to do, I'd like to take a few moments

to talk about some principles here that will help you in obedience. For example, obedience isn't

something that you and I just know automatically since we trust that Jesus Christ

is our Savior. And we know certain things would certainly be obedience to God and certain things

would not be. And so therefore, what we want to talk about is how do we learn to obey God,

the school of obedience? Well, one of the first principles is simply this. That is, first of all,

you must trust him. You will not obey a God. You do not trust. You just will not. And so the real

truth is that I would say that most disobedience is a lack of trust in God. Well, I know that's what

he said. But whenever you put a butt behind something God

and said, you're just about to head out in the wrong direction because God doesn't make

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