Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, June 4th.

Believers are called to remain close to Jesus and model their lives after him.

Today we learn what it truly means to follow Christ.

Would you declare yourself to be a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ?

And if you would, how would you define what following Jesus

means when he's no longer here physically? You cannot see him, you cannot touch him. You

cannot hear him speak audibly. All of our life, most of us have heard that phrase following

Jesus. But I wonder how many of us really and truly know

what it means to follow Christ.

Now there are a lot of people who think they're following Jesus,

when in essence what they're doing is,

they're simply deciding the kind of lifestyle

they wanna live, and they wanna make sure that there's nothing immoral or dishonest in it.

And once they've made the decision, it looks good, then their idea of following Jesus is to ask God

to bless what they have already decided they want to do.

That's not following Jesus.

So what does it mean to follow Christ?

What did it cost you to turn your life over to Him?

What real difference has it made in your life since you started following Jesus Christ?

And my friend, are you serious about following Jesus or is your idea going to church and reading the Bible when the pastor reads it and giving some money and saying some prayers, especially in trouble, or are you deadly serious about following Jesus Christ?

Well, that's the title of this message, and I want to answer some very important questions

about that. So if you'll turn to Matthew chapter 4, and I want us to read a very familiar passage about

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