How the Truth Can Set You Free, Part 9

Speaker 10:00

[upbeat music] Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, June 18th. Behind the truth of scripture, Christians find the power of the living God. Let's learn to draw on His inexhaustible supply as you embrace how the truth can set you free.

Charles Stanley· Host0:17

We have been discussing for some time the truth that sets us free, and today I wanna talk about how. So let's take just a moment to review what we said in the very beginning, and that is, many of God's people who are saved, saved people, born again, know that you are, go to church, read your Bible, pray, do all the things, activities that you know to do, and yet there's something missing in your life. The cutting edge of joy and, and accomplishment and achievement and contentment and fruitfulness in your life is not there. And the reason is because Satan gets us into bondage because we think the way he wants us to think rather than the way God wants us to think. So what does he do? He harasses us with these feelings of insecurity, inadequacy, inferiority, poor self-image. And the fact that we've got to measure up, and because we don't measure up to what other people expect, then we get guilt feelings. Then we berate ourselves and condemn ourselves. We forget that we accept them on the basis of, of God's grace and not our measuring up to anything. So afraid we're gonna disappoint God, gonna disappoint others. Measuring up to their expectations. Working at our appearance and our