Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, November 4th.

Today, our series on worship continues by removing all the non-essentials to focus on the central

motivation of worship.

You see, there are a lot of people who are saved by the grace of God, and somehow they just sort of

stop where they get saved. And their idea of the grace of God, and somehow they just sort of stop where they get saved.

And their idea of the Lord Jesus Christ in God is that he's their Savior.

But to truly worship him, we need to see him as he is.

We need to be occupied with him, not with simply what he has to give me,

not simply what he's promised me, but who is he? And when I

think of who he is, that's what motivates me. That's what causes me to overflow and pour out my

praise and adoration and thanksgiving to him. That's what causes me to be occupied with him and to be

satisfied with just him without anything else

that he has to give. I want you to look at who Jesus is according to his revelation in

Colossians chapter 1. Listen to what he says. He says, who is this Christ? He says he is the

image of the invisible God. That is Jesus Christ is God incarnate in the flesh.

He says he's the image of the invisible God so that no one has ever seen God. And the only

likeness to God that has ever been on the face of this earth is the person of Jesus Christ. And since he left

his image within us because his spirit lives and dwells within us. Every single person who is a child

of God is a marred image of the likeness of Christ who was the full and is the full and perfect image of God, because he is God.

The Bible says he is the image.

He is the perfect likeness.

He is the flawless likeness of God.

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