In Touch TV Broadcast featuring Dr. Charles Stanley - In Touch Ministries
Aug 22, 2026 · 0 min · 12 segments
Learn the three categories that works of the flesh can fall into and how we can overcome them.
Charles StanleyHost
Because I would look at the scripture and then I'd look at my life, and they didn't always match.
It was somehow I didn't understand how do I live this Christian life with all the difficulties, and the hardships, and the trials, and the temptations.
How do I do it? Well, I began to look around and realize that some other people felt the same way.
In fact, what I discovered was this, that most people's idea was really doesn't work like the Bible says it does.
And so what they consider the normal Christian life, everything in me said, "No, that's not it." Because I saw their life like a rollercoaster.
I knew there had to be something better than this, because I would stand on Sunday morning and tell other people who Jesus was and what he was like in the Christian life.
I said, "God, I can't keep telling these people something that deep down inside I know is not working for me.
And it wasn't that I did not try, because I would fast and pray and read the scriptures and confess and repent and try to come up with something to repent, maybe I, I couldn't even think of, and somehow it wasn't working.
And you see, it really, the real reason it wasn't working was because I didn't understand a very basic truth.
And they keep feeling defeated in their Christian life, doing the things they don't want to do, failing to do the things that they know they should do, and can't figure out why.
So they just settle down for what I call a settle-for life, which is a life n- God never intended for any one of us.
So what I want to do in this passage of scripture, I want to answer the question why.
Because I would look at the scripture and then I'd look at my life, and they didn't always match.
It was somehow I didn't understand how do I live this Christian life with all the difficulties, and the hardships, and the trials, and the temptations.
How do I do it? Well, I began to look around and realize that some other people felt the same way.
In fact, what I discovered was this, that most people's idea was really doesn't work like the Bible says it does.
And so what they consider the normal Christian life, everything in me said, "No, that's not it." Because I saw their life like a rollercoaster.
I knew there had to be something better than this, because I would stand on Sunday morning and tell other people who Jesus was and what he was like in the Christian life.
I said, "God, I can't keep telling these people something that deep down inside I know is not working for me.
And it wasn't that I did not try, because I would fast and pray and read the scriptures and confess and repent and try to come up with something to repent, maybe I, I couldn't even think of, and somehow it wasn't working.
And you see, it really, the real reason it wasn't working was because I didn't understand a very basic truth.
And they keep feeling defeated in their Christian life, doing the things they don't want to do, failing to do the things that they know they should do, and can't figure out why.
So they just settle down for what I call a settle-for life, which is a life n- God never intended for any one of us.
So what I want to do in this passage of scripture, I want to answer the question why.
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