Grace: God's New Lifestyle - Part 2

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[upbeat music] Welcome to the In Touch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, April 24th. The greatest wealth God offers his followers is spiritual, not material. Tap into his boundless resources to nourish and strengthen your soul. Don't miss the conclusion of our series, Grace For Today, and learn how to walk daily in his abundant favor.

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Do you make up rules for yourself in order to discipline yourself and find yourself breaking them? And do you sort of harshly criticize yourself when you don't live up to your own standards and your own expectations? Do you feel distant from God when you're not serving him or doing something that you would consider sort of spiritual? And do you feel close to God when you're doing something that you think is religious or spiritual? And I wonder if oftentimes you feel driven by such phrases as these in your thinking: I must, I should, I ought to. Well, there are many, many people today who are living under that same attitude. Never quite sure whether they have pleased God or not. That is Old Testament living. That's old covenant living. Jesus said, "I have come to set you free. I'm establishing a new covenant. Things are about to change." And the next day, God established that covenant. Now, I say all that as a background to say the most important thing, and that's this. The Bible says that you and I have been saved by the grace of God. For by grace,