Welcome to this weekend's in touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

Today's podcast takes us beyond the facts of the birth of Jesus in Matthew chapter 2.

Let's see how the arrival of the Wiseman challenges us to genuinely worship Jesus.

I love this part of the passage because this group of people are those who

worshipped him. So they come looking specifically for him and when they

find him he's what happens.

Verse 10 says when they saw the When they find him, here's what happens.

Verse 10 says, when they saw the star,

they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.

After coming into the house, they saw Christ with Mary, his mother, and they fell to the ground and worshipped him.

Can you imagine in the absolute dead stillness of the moment. They found themselves standing, kneeling, lying prostrate

before God incarnate. Now let me ask you a question. If I should ask you define for me what

worship means to you. What is worship? So I said if I go to church, I sing with the choir and with the fellow members, I give when they pass the offering plates, I pray, I pray at home also, I read the Bible and so you would tell me all these things that you do.

So you'd say that's how I worship. But I want you to think about something. You can belong to a church and not worship.

You can read your Bible not worship. You can pray and not worship.

Especially if all you do is just ask. In other words, all of those things are activities,

but they're not necessarily worship, because worship isn't what I do.

Worship is an attitude. They believed him, fell on their face, in humility

before him. So let me ask you a question, when would you say is the last time you actually worshipped the Lord Jesus Christ?

You say, well, if it's not going to church and reading the Bible and praying, I'm not sure I ever have.

I'll tell you something that happened to me.

Several years ago I was studying one morning I remember not necessarily the passage but I remember

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