Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, June 9th. Spiritual growth and

development can only take place when you have Jesus. But there's more to it than just being saved.

Here's today's podcast to explain. One of the biggest challenges that you and I face as a believer is this.

Even having received the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, and having been taught that Jesus Christ

is sufficient to meet all of our needs, the world infiltrates the mind of the believer,

the world infiltrates the church, and convinces and persuades

us that it takes more than Jesus Christ to satisfy our needs. Now, all of us have needs,

and there are all types of needs. We have material needs, physical needs, emotional needs, mental

needs, sexual needs, all kinds of needs. And the world says, if you're going to get your needs met, this is the way you get them met.

God says that he will meet every single need that we have in his own way and in his own time.

And in Colossians chapter 2, if you'll turn there, in verses 6 through 10, here is a tremendously important admonition, something for us to remember, something for us to be aware of that Paul the Apostle says, writing to those Colossians that is so apropos for us today.

And I want you to notice something very important that Paul says

in this chapter concerning the believer. He says three things here that I want you to get a hold of,

and I want you parents to listen very, very, very carefully to what I'm going to say, because it is not only

applicable to you, but it is so applicable for you and your children as you prepare

them to live in the society in which we live. Listen to what Paul says. He says, as you therefore

have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him. Having been firmly rooted in now being built up in him and established in your faith, just as you were in him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in him and established in your faith,

just as you were instructed and overflowing with gratitude. Now, the first thing he reminds us here

in this passage is this, and that is that the Christian life should be pictured here as one of

progress. That is, you and I should be making progress in our spiritual

life. And notice how he says it. He says, as you are in the same manner in which you received Christ.

And that word in the Greek there is an Aris tense. That's something that happened one time.

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