Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, August 28th.

Today's lesson focuses our attention on Isaiah Chapter 41 to help us find victory over fear. The series on healing damaged emotions

continues. All of us have to learn to deal with fear in our life and And if you'll think about it, we live in a very fearful

time in history and we live in a society that's full of fear.

People are fearing about losing their job, their home,

their health, their family, their friends,

their position, you name it.

Lots of things around us to cause fear and in spite of all that God's

people not to live in fear and so somebody says well I got lots of reasons to be

afraid well I would never question that, but

how are we to live in a society? And somebody says, well, how do we get in this position in the first place?

Well, I was just asking myself that question thinking about

what I found in the book of Ecclesiasties and the passage just one verse

of scripture in fact that sort of sums it all up of how we got where we are.

Why all this fear?

The simple reason we have violated a very clear principle of scripture which says,

listen to this.

At the end of the Ecclesiasties, the 13th verse, the conclusion when all has been

heard is, fear God keep His Commandments because this applies to every person and we've decided not to do that

We've decided we're going to live the way we want to live and we're going to ignore the principles in the world of God and as a result of that what happens?

We're a nation full of fear and we fear many things we should not have to be fearing.

And if you watch the news you can

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