Welcome to this weekend's in touch podcast with Charles Stanley,

Investment accounts and retirement plans.

Are these where you find a sense of refuge?

Let's continue the study of Colossians to hear about the only fail-safe place where our security lies.

Everybody is interested in security, but I wonder if you really have true security and what your security lies in. If your security lies in some relationship, suppose the person dies, you don't have any security. If you're

security lies in money, the Bible says money is like a bird. It can take wings and

fly away and there was a time we would say here today and gone tomorrow

Now it's here this morning gone this afternoon

So there's no real security in finances. There's no security in position and

prominence and prestige because time after time I've heard men say I worked for this corporation 25 years.

They told me today that after Friday they wouldn't need me anymore. And many people

think they have security in their job. They think they have security in their finances. They think they have security in their finances.

They think they have security in their relationships,

but the truth is there is no security in any of that.

There is only one place you find true genuine security.

And I want you to turn if you will at Colossians chapter one.

And Paul makes a statement in this beginning part of this chapter,

and he uses a phrase that most people would read right across,

pay almost no attention to whatsoever, because it appears to be so insignificant. But it just so happens that

this phrase is the key phrase in all of Paul's theology. In fact, just about everything Paul ever said could be wrapped up in this

one simple little phrase. Now, naturally a person who's not a Christian would read this and

think nothing about it, but the trouble is that most of God's

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