Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, April 8th.

The chaos in the world can leave you feeling helpless and hopeless.

If that's where you are, stay with us for solid encouragement that will keep you going, even in the toughest situation.

When the disciples in the Garden of Gethsemini

stood there and watched the soldiers,

take Jesus and haul him off to Pilots Hall,

I believe a sudden sense of fear gripped their hearts.

And the thing that made them fear was this. There walked away under the guard of Rome

their hope of escape and release and liberty from Roman rule. As they heard and as they watched him

tried by Pilate, a mock trial that was unjust, unfair, and illegal,

again, all of their hopes were dashed as they heard him tried and sentenced to be crucified.

And then when they heard and when they saw the Romans nail his hands to the cross and lift him up, sink him into the earth,

and watched him hang there. I believe the hope of all that they dreamed for suddenly

vanished. The women who came on East the Sunday morning, they came to anoint the body of a dead man.

And they were hoping somebody would be around in order to move back a stone which weighed hundreds and hundreds of pounds

in order that these little ladies could come in and anoint his body and at least one more time

express their love and gratitude to him.

When they came and the stone was rolled away, and those women were able to walk in and have

the proclamation, he is not here, he has risen for the first time since they saw him die

on the cross, a little flicker of hope

began to flicker in their human heart. For their first impression was, the son's been rolled

away, and who has stolen his body? They had all kinds of reactions. But when the angel said to them, do you not

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