Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, November 20th.

The world is full of people who are openly hostile to the gospel, but no one is ever beyond the grace of God.

Here's a reminder about the reach of God's love to those who resist the gospel.

Have you ever met someone, been around them a little while and thought to yourself,

I don't think they'll ever get saved.

I just don't know how in the world God will ever get through to someone who has that kind of attitude.

They seem to be so bitter about God, so hostile about the church, so unbelieving about the Bible,

so blasphemous about Jesus Christ, I don't know that they'll ever be saved.

Well, probably all of us have met people that we wondered, Lord, how could you ever reach someone like that?

But one thing that's very evident from the scriptures, there's not anybody so bad, so evil, so wicked, so vile, that it's hard for God to save them.

They may run, they may defy him, they may fight against him, they may be angry toward him, they may be even hostile toward his people.

Nobody is beyond the reach of a loving father. And it's interesting

in the scriptures when you read the gospels that most of the people that Jesus brought to

himself were those people who came to him. Now there was, of course, Zacchaeus, who was up a tree.

When he saw him there, he said, Zacius come down. I'm going home with you today.

Blind Bartamas was sitting by the highway side, but he called out to Jesus and asked him to

heal him. And then, of course, the rich young ruler came to him and fell down and said, tell me how to

inherit eternal life. A woman touched him on the hem of his garment, and he realized that

power had gone out of him,

and so she was healed.

And then the woman at the well, it appeared to be a chance meeting.

Of course, it was not.

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