Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, April 4th.

During his time on earth, Jesus was constantly reaching out to transform lives.

And he's still changing hearts today.

Join us to discover how you can respond to his life-changing touch that transforms.

Jesus was in the touching business.

When I think about how he touched people, and usually we think in terms of I touch them

with his hands, Jesus touched people in two different ways.

He not only touched them with his hands, but he touched them with his voice, with his words.

They sensed his heart. He touched them with his voice, with his words. They sensed his heart. He touched them

with his heart as well as with his hands. And so when I think about how he has touched lives

all down through the ears and down through the centrist, you think about where you are today.

The reason you are saved by the grace of God is that he, by his transforming touch, changed your life.

He didn't touch you physically, but he touched you with his word. He touched you with his heart.

You sensed his love. You sensed his forgiveness. You sensed in his word something of compassion

and invitation and appeal and tenderness and love and kindness

and healing. God, through the person of Jesus Christ, was in the process of reconciling men and

women to himself. He wasn't just interested in touching people and meeting an immediate need.

He was interested in meeting long-term needs.

While he was interested in feeding the thousands, while he was interested in assuring them

when he said, don't be anxious about what you're going to wear and what you're going to drink and

what you're going to eat. Your Heavenly Father knows you have need of all these things.

And he says all these things that Gentiles seek out. He says, seek first the kingdom of

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