In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, your convictions about God.

When you think of God, what do you think? Is he some big grandfather upstairs, as people would say say waiting to bless you or some

judge sitting on a throne ready to in some way torment you what's your

imager God I can hear you now you say I don't some way torment you? What's your image or God?

I can hear you now.

You say, I don't believe in God.

Yes, you do.

You may not be willing to admit it.

And the reason you don't want to admit it is because you don't like the idea of how you

think you'd have to live if you believed in God.

So I want you to turn, if you will, to Romans chapter one for a moment and I

want to listen to what God said concerning his presence and what is true of all mankind no matter who they are.

And so when people tell you I don't believe in God, in fact it's interesting that I've had two mothers tell me in the last six weeks that their sons

said, mom, I don't believe in God anymore.

I said, what did you tell him?

Well, I didn't know what to tell him. Well I said well you need to

tell him to read Romans chapter one because you see people decide they don't

believe in God because they don't like the way you have to live if you're going to live a life of obedience.

What they don't realize is, what they're doing to themselves is disastrous. Now, look in verse in

in verse 18 of Romans chapter 1, very important.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and

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