Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, April 16th.

What event would you say has had the most dramatic effect on you?

If you've received Christ as your Savior, there ought to be only one answer.

The transforming grace of God.

Here's more encouragement from the series, Grace for Today.

The Apostle Paul says, the grace of God was not given to him in vain.

That is, it did not remain barren.

Something happened as a result of the grace of God in the life of the Apostle Paul.

And what happened to him, God intends to happen to everyone.

And so I want us to look at his life as an illustration of this whole principle of the transforming grace of God, which has

happened in your life already, if you are a believer. And the first thing I'm what you've noticed

here is the transforming grace of God transformed the Apostle Paul from a sinner into a saint.

When this transformation took place,

what happened was he says, I moved from darkness into light. I moved from death into

light. I moved from the course of this world into the course of the kingdom. He says,

something radically changed in my life. It was so radical. He said, now I realize that I have

become a new creation in Christ Jesus. Anyone who has experienced the grace of God in salvation

is a brand new creation. He says in First Peter, we have become partakers of his divine nature.

And you see, the idea of transformation means a change in

nature, a change in condition, a change in character, and can be, of course, a change in appearance.

And so Paul is describing what his life used to be like. In fact, he says in Philippians chapter 3,

he describes, if you'll note there for a moment, he describes in

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