Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, November 7th.

If you have ever questioned your purpose in life, stay with us.

Today we continue our series on the biblical view of worship to help clarify what your life is truly meant to be about.

We're in the series on worship, and tonight, God's great purpose. So Revelation chapter 4,

and if you look in the first verse, if you will, after this I looked, and behold, the door was

open in heaven, and the first voice which I heard was, as it were, of a trumpet talking with me,

which said, come up hither, and I will show thee things

which must be hereafter, so that everything that follows from chapter four, verse one,

will be those things that God revealed to the apostle John, John the beloved, while he's in exile

on the Isle of Patmos. And immediately I was in the spirit and behold,

the throne was set in heaven and one sat on the throne and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper

and a sardine stone. And there was a rainbow round about the throne in sight likened into an

emerald. And round about the throne

were four and twenty seats upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting clothed in white

raiment and they had on their heads crowns of gold. Now friend, that has got to be some kind of a

sight, amen? And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices. And there were

seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. And before the

throne there was a sea of glass likened a crystal. And in the midst of the throne and round

about the throne were four beasts or four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.

And the first beast or a first creature was like a lion and the second like a calf.

And the third creature had a face as a man and the fourth was like a flying eagle and the four creatures had each of them

six wings about him and they were full of eyes within and they rest not day and night saying

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