Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, March 25th.

Sometimes God's instructions can seem confusing, but even when you don't have all the answers,

it's important to respond with prompt obedience.

When somebody starts talking to you about obedience, do you have a negative or a positive attitude coming on?

Secondly, when somebody starts talking about obedience to you about your life, do you think in terms of success or failure?

And then a more important question than all of these is this. Do you obey God

because you fear the consequences of disobeying Him, or do you obey God because you really

and truly want to with all of your heart? Well, the title of this message is the thrill of obedience.

Rather a different kind of title than most people think of obedience. And I want you to turn,

if you will, to Luke chapter 5. Luke chapter 5 is the familiar passage of scripture because of the

miracle that took place. And what I want you to remember is this. These narratives

in the scripture, things that Jesus did, events that took place in his life, they're not

here simply to give us some history, though that is certainly part of his life, but rather to

understand his ways and to glean from these events those principles that you and I can apply to our

life and so oftentimes people will read some passage of scripture and they'll say well you know

that's a good story that's not what God intended for our response to be not that's a good story but

what is God saying to me in this passage and so I want us to this passage, and then I want us to come back and look at several

very important principles.

Beginning in verse one of chapter five.

Now it came about that while the multitudes were pressing around him and listening to the

word of God, he was standing by the lake of Ganesrit, which we know as the Sea of Galilee.

And he, that is Jesus, saw two boats lying at the edge of the lake of Ganeshrit, which we know as the Sea of Galilee. And he, that is Jesus,

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