Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, May 12th.

God's Word is the only perfect source for answers you can rely on.

Today's podcast teaches the basics of building truth into your life.

Where does truth fit in your personal list of essential character qualities?

Do you just take it for granted, for example, that you're a truthful person?

You take it for granted that everything you say is truthful?

Or it's truth in issue with you?

Well, the Bible has a lot to say about truth. For example, in the New Testament, 98 times that the Bible speaks of truth in the New Testament,

in the Old Testament about 99 times.

And what I want you to see in this message entitled, Building Truth into your life. I want us to go all the way

back to begin with to the Book of Exodus, because you'll discover something here. Not only is

that one of the first times that truth is mentioned, but there is a characteristic given that I

think every single person in political office should have

to adhere to, and that all of us in positions to influence other people should adhere

to.

And the truth is everybody.

So I want you to go back, if you will, to the 18th chapter of the book of Exodus.

And let me give you a little idea of what's happening.

And here, Moses has led the people of Israel out of Egyptian bondage, and now he is in the process

of governing them.

And so his father-in-law said to him, he said, this is not good. This is not working.

And the 18th chapter of Exodus beginning in verse 17. Listen to what he says.

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