Welcome to the Intouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, October 5th.

When was the last time you lost your temper, lied to cover a mistake, or maybe something worse?

Today's podcast reminds believers that even on our worst days, our relationship with the Lord is never in jeopardy.

Well, all of us fall into one of several categories.

Some of us fall into the category of people who have been saved and know we are.

Then there are those people who think they're saved, but they're not.

Those people who make no profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ,

and then of course there are those people who desire to be saved.

We all fall into one of those four categories.

So you ask yourself the question, what's one of you in?

Are you saved and absolutely know that you are?

Well, if someone asks you what is salvation, how would you define that?

You say, well, it's receiving Jesus Christ as my Savior, something like that.

So let me give you the definition.

Salvation is God's deliverance of the believer from all the effects of sin through Christ,

plus all the benefits that He bestows upon us now and forever.

It is God's work in the human heart.

Now, there are a lot of things in life I don't have to be absolutely sure about.

A lot of things I can just start to talk about and say, well, I hope so, maybe so.

But there's one thing I need to be absolutely certain about.

That's where I'm going to spend eternity.

The one thing above all else I need to be absolutely certain about is that I am sure

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