How the Truth Can Set You Free, Part 5

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[upbeat music] Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, June 12th. Ever notice how your thoughts shape your life? The way you think directly drives how you behave and what you become. Today, take control of your mind and learn more in the series How the Truth Can Set You Free.

Charles Stanley· Host0:19

Would you turn to John chapter 8? And we've been talking about our position in Christ, and we're talking about who we are in Him as a result of our relationship. And you'll recall in that 31st verse of John chapter 8, He says, "If you abide in my word," that's the condition, "If you abide in my word, then you're truly disciples of mine, and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." But the truth making us free and liberating us from the shackles that bind us and hinder us from becoming the people God wants us to be, achieving the things that He wants us to achieve, is our failure to abide in His word or continue to absorb it and apply it to our life. And we've talked about these areas of our life that keep us from becoming that person God wants us to be, and that is the feelings of insecurity that we have, the feeling of being inferior to someone else or situations, the feeling of being inadequate in a given situation when we're required to do something. And so many people go through life feeling like that they're unworthy, they're undeserving, full of guilt, full of worry, full