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

Next on In Touch, Trembling at God's Word.

Why do you think the world is in its present deplorable condition?

Immorality everywhere. the world is in its present deplorable condition.

Immorality everywhere, it's unsafe.

Many nations of the world are in financial problems,

warring tribes, warring against each other,

unsafe, great need.

Why do you think the world's in this condition?

Fighting each other,

spiritually dead in so many places.

Why do you think we got this way?

And we could go on to describe many other aspects of where we are.

The question is, how do we get here?

Most people will give you some reason that's sort of human, but the truth is it's because

we don't want God telling us how to live our lives.

How foolish.

How foolish to live and to believe that somehow we can do it better than God did it.

He's given us the laws that make it best for us, make life best for others,

and he's given us a principle to live by, and he's given us a command,

that we ought to share the truth of his love and his goodness and his mercy and his kindness and his judgment

to the whole world.

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