Welcome to the In-Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, December 3rd.

In today's podcast, we'll hear more about Christ's role as peace giver, and learn how we can have a sense of calm assurance, even when things are falling apart.

Romans chapter 5. The Apostle Paul has been talking about man's hopeless, helpless, sinful,

lonely condition for four chapters. And then when he comes to this fifth chapter, he begins

it with a word, therefore, which means based on everything that he had written before, he says,

therefore, having been justified by faith,

we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have obtained our

introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Now, one of the reasons that many people, most people,

in fact, everyone who really does not have peace with God, their primary reason is they don't understand where you find it, how to get it, don't even understand that they can't have it.

So let's talk about what this piece is for a moment.

Peace with God means that you and the Lord are in harmony with each other. You have a sense of

oneness with him. There is a unity with him. There is no war, no consternation, no fighting.

You see, the truth is until you and I recognize that there is a barrier

between us and God, a barrier until it is removed by a change in the heart and life of a human

being, until there is a change that takes place. You will never have peace with God. There is no

possibility. Apart from a work of God

in your heart, that you'll ever be able to have peace with God. And until you have peace with God,

you're not going to ever be able to experience peace with yourself or with others, because peace with God

is the foundation.

Romans chapter 5, verse 10.

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his son,

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