Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, November 18th.

Even though Jesus preached to large crowds, he was never too busy to care for individuals.

Today, you'll be reminded that his example is still the model for the mission of the church to extend God's compassion to those who heard.

One of the primary reasons our faith is so weak and oftentimes

so impractical is because of our view of God. However we view him is going to affect every single

aspect of our life. And so I want us to see in this passage of scripture today what he's really like

because Jesus said if you've seen him, you've

seen the Father. So if you want to know what the Heavenly Father's like, you look at the life of Jesus.

You want to know how the Heavenly Father will treat you? Then how did Jesus treat people in his day?

So I want you to turn, if you will, to the Fourth Chapter of John. And in this fourth chapter is a beautiful example

of how a heavenly father fields toward us, how he desires to treat us, how he does treat us,

even when difficult things come our way. And sometimes we want to blame God and feel his accusing

hand, feel his condemning hand. No. Here is a perfect example of how

our Lord feels towards us. Now watch what happens in this passage. So John chapter 4. And this is probably

one of the most beautiful sermons Jesus ever preached to anyone, preached it all to one person.

So we begin in the first verse,

the scripture says, when therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making

and baptizing more disciples than John, although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were.

He left Judea and departed again into Galilee, and he had to pass through Samaria.

So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph, and Jacob's well was there.

Jesus, therefore, being wearied from his journey, was sitting thus by the well.

It was about the sixth hour.

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