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

Do you live under a cloud of rejection and condemnation?

Well, you can be free.

Let's continue the study of Colossians to see how the cross provides the ultimate declaration

of our acceptance.

When you receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, not only did you accept him, but the Bible says that you and I were accepted by him.

That is totally accepted by him, not on the basis of our performance of what we would do,

on the basis of what we had done,

or any basis of what we promised to be like in the future.

But God has accepted us on the basis of what His son did at Calvary and our response to that by accepting Jesus Christ as their personal savior.

Now, we all know that today and God has made that very clear in his word

But there's going to come a day when there will be a declaration that is a declaration of that acceptance of the ultimate acceptance the declaration of that acceptance to the whole world

You see the world does not understand why you and I live the way we live they don't understand when we talk about a

relationship to Jesus Christ you see you and I only have a glimpse of what reality

is about and if we only have a glimpse of it and we're saved with the grace of God in Christ is their life living within us,

then we should be able to understand while the unbelieving world has no earthly idea what the Christian life is all about.

So I want us to look at the last half of this verse in the light of this very idea.

There will come a time when there will be an ultimate declaration of our acceptance by Almighty God and how he's

going to reveal that to the world.

So I want you to notice, if you will, in verse four, what he says.

When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, that is when he returns,

he says there's going to be a manifestation, there's going to be a revealing, there's going to be an unfolding that is the

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