In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, the transforming grace of God.

God says that he has predestined you and me to be conformed to the likeness of his son,

which means that God's ultimate will for every single believer me to be conform to the likeness of his son, which means that God's

ultimate will for every single believer is to be conform to the likeness of his son.

He begins that process initially when you and I are transformed by His grace at the experience

which we call salvation of the new birth. That is the beginning of that

conforming us to the likeness of Christ. And so all the rest of our life, we are moved and directed

and influenced in that direction. Now there are a lot of things that influence our life and influences the changes in our life.

For example, our heredity, our parents, our grandparents, the way we come

along. And then, of course, there's our environment, the kind of atmosphere which we grow up in.

Then there's the training that we have in school and so forth. And then, of course, the decisions

we make. We're all the composite of all of those things. And we're sort of the sum total of all

that, our heredity and our environment,

our training, and the decisions that we've made.

But the most powerful influence in the life of the believer is not any of those things.

The most powerful influence in the life of the believer is the grace of God, the transforming grace of God.

As you and I live day by day by His grace and in His grace, you and I can say with the

Apostle Paul, by the grace of God, I am what I am. I want you to turn, if you will, to First

Corinthians chapter 15, and this title of this message

is the transforming grace of God, something that has happened to every single believer, and God

keeps on working in our life.

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