Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, July 30th.

A proper understanding of the work of the spirit of God is essential for a joyful and fruitful Christian life.

Today we continue with part one of Walking in the Holy Spirit.

One of the most neglected subjects in the Bible

is the work of the Holy Spirit and the life of the believer. You would think

that as important as that subject is that more people would be talking about it, more people

would be referring to the Holy Spirit. But there are millions of people who sit in church

week after week after week, year after year, never hear a single sermon dedicated to the

Holy Spirit in his work in our life.

When it's so crystal clear from the scripture that you cannot live a godly life, you cannot

serve the Lord adequately unless you understand how he works in your life and

you certainly cannot understand the truth of God's word apart from the Holy

Spirit. One of his primary responsibilities is to interpret the word of God

for us properly. And yet sometimes you think, well whose fault is that? Is it the people

who sit in the pew or is it the men who stand in the pulpit? And I think probably merely it is the men who stand in the pulpit and I think probably early it is the men who

stand in the pulpit and the truth is not anyone who preaches the gospel apart

from the Holy Spirit and the anointing of the Spirit and the endumen of God's power

upon His or Her life, doesn't make any difference who it is.

Apart from the Holy Spirit, it's not going to be nearly as effective.

It's not going to have the fruit that that work would have

were the spirit of God, the one upon whom the speaker was depending to get the

job done. It's his responsibility. It's the work of

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