Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, January 6th.

Would you describe your faith as active?

Be honest with yourself about where you are and where you need to be as you listen to part one of the series challenging you to move forward by faith.

The Bible portrays the Christian life as a walk.

It speaks of walking in the spirit, walking in the flesh, walking in light, walking in love,

walking in truth.

All through the scriptures, we find the Christian life being portrayed as a walk.

Not something that is stagnant, but something that is moving.

Well, this is the beginning of a series in title, Forward by Faith. And the title of this message is forward by faith,

which direction? Everybody is not moving in the right direction, and the question is,

how do we change gears? Well, in 2 Corinthians chapter 5, there is a passage

that deals primarily here with the matter of our body here in this life and what's going to

happen to it in the life hereafter. And in the midst of some wonderful promises about our life

hereafter, the Apostle Paul makes one statement.

And I want you to notice that he makes this between two verses that speak of courage.

And if you'll notice here, he's talking about our body disintegrating one of these days.

We're going to be clothed of the new body.

And he says beginning in verse 6, therefore, being always of these days, and we're going to be clothed of the new body. And he says beginning in verse

six, therefore, being always of good courage and knowing that while we are at home in the body,

we are absent from the Lord. Look at this. But we walk by faith, not by sight. We are of good

courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home

with the Lord. His whole concept of the condition of this body, and that it is going to be better

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