Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, June 13th.

Would you like to know Jesus in a more intimate way?

If so, here's help in taking advantage of the privilege of knowing God.

One of the tragedies of this day is this, and that is that many, many people will live their

entire life, and they will never know God. They will come to the end of their life as a person

who is an unbeliever and miss the very point for which they were created, miss knowing the very God who created them,

miss all the blessings that God would have stored up for them,

missing to know the one person for whom it is the greatest joy to know in all the world,

and they will have missed him.

What is this message all about? This message is all about this simple truth all the world, and they will have missed him. What is this message all about? This message

is all about this simple truth, the privilege of knowing God, because it is an awesome privilege,

an unparalleled benefit. Listen, it is a glorious opportunity that you and I have, an eternal

treasure to know this God whom you and I have been

thinking about, talking about, singing about, praising, worshiping, boasting of all these years of our

life. Now, let me just say this to you. God is certainly worth knowing, and he desires that you and I

know him. Turn to the 14th chapter of

john for a moment and you recall that when jesus was speaking to his disciples and so many times

he gave them some very intimate things and shared with them and they were asking him about the father

john chapter 14 and if you look in verse 8 phil said to him, he said, Lord, show us the father.

And it is enough for us. We want to see him. Jesus said to him, have I been so long with you,

and yet you have not come to know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the father. How do you say,

show us the father? Do you not believe that I am

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