In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, taking advantage of the privilege.

Of all the people that you've ever met in your life, who above all of those stands out the most?

That is, about whom could you say with great delight,

I've had the wonderful privilege of knowing him or knowing her.

Was it some famous athlete, some famous artist, some outstanding musician, or maybe some

particular speaker that you enjoyed and got to know, maybe someone in your field of vocation,

or maybe someone that you greatly admired and got to know in the area of some hobby that you had.

Maybe someone that had helped you a great deal in life. Or it could have been someone not

famous at all. Maybe a precious, wonderful grandmother or grandfather. But someone who had made an

awesome impression on your life and you counted a great privilege just to

know them. Well, when I think about all the people that you and I could know and the privilege

we have of knowing them, one thing is for certain. The greatest privilege you and I have to know

anyone is the privilege we have of knowing God. And oftentimes we forget about that. We forget about the

fact that it is a great privilege to know God, that it is an awesome opportunity, an unparalleled benefit

and an eternal treasure to be able to know the living God. And yet oftentimes we're more concerned about knowing other people,

about what they do and how they think and how they operate

and what they can do for us.

But knowing God is the greatest of all knowledge.

And until you know Him, you can place all the knowledge

that you have of all things in the entire universe.

And yet if you do not know God, all that knowledge in the world

...