Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, August 4th.

Do you ever feel like what you're doing doesn't really matter?

Today's episode reminds us that no task given by God is ever insignificant.

When you hear the word obey or obedience, what is your response? Do you feel suddenly this burden of something you're going to have to do? Or do you rather feel here's an opportunity for blessing? You see, most people have the idea that anything that God requires of obedience must be a burden to us. Whereas from God's perspective,

it is a wonderful opportunity to be blessed. So I want to talk to you today, and I want us to

open the scripture to Luke chapter 5. I want to talk about this whole idea of the enriching

rewards of obedience, because when you obey God, you will be greatly enriched. You will be

rewarded. There's no such thing as obeying God and not being blessed. He just doesn't operate that

way. You obey him, you get blessed. You get rewarded for obedience. Somebody says, well, does that

mean that I'm to do things just for the reward?

No. We should please him and obey him because of who he is. Revereigns him and honor him as God.

But that doesn't mean that he won't reward us for our obedience because he does.

Obedience always brings blessing. Now, if you listen carefully to this message, I'm going to give you

seven basic principles about obedience. They're simple, they're easy to understand, and out of a

passage of scripture that oftentimes people just think about, well, you know, that's just one of

those events in Jesus' life, but what I want you to remember is this. Every single event in Jesus' life and everything he did has great significance.

And what could appear to simply be a fish tail.

It's a fantastic reservoir of great spiritual principles, especially those that relate to obedience.

So I want you to look in the fifth chapter of Luke.

Give you a little background for a moment.

Jesus is out preaching and people are being healed and saved and all kind of wonderful things are happening.

And the scripture says in chapter 4, verse 37, and the report about him was spreading into every locality in the surrounding district. And then in verse 42 of that

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