Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, September 24th.

Regardless of the content, all books are basically the same. They're created by people, four people.

Today, you'll discover the wonderful exception is the Bible.

Our series continues on the Book of Books.

Every day, all around the world, millions of people pick up this book, and they read it and they meditate upon it.

Every day, millions of people around the world share what they've learned and what's happening in their life as a result of reading this book.

Every Sunday, millions of men

around this globe stand behind pulpits, either under thatch roofs or in great cathedrals

and open the truths of this word to share it. There has never been a book like this.

There never will be one like it because this book is the living word

of the living God. It is the book of all books. Never has been one to match it. Never will be,

because God has given us a revelation of himself and what you and I call the Bible, the Word of God.

Now, I want you to turn for a moment, if you will,

to the prophet Isaiah. Isaiah, one of the major prophets of the Old Testament. I want us to turn

to the last chapter, and I want to give you a little brief idea of what's happening. Isaiah,

as he concludes his prophecy, is prophesying to the people of Israel,

and here's what he's saying to them, your sacrifices are not impressing God. Because rather

than offering sacrifices to a God whom you love, what you're doing is you're murdering or

killing animals, because your heart is not in what you're doing. You're not getting God's attention

by all these sacrifices. He says, this is what gets God's attention. Look in, view, in verse one.

Thus says the Lord, heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool. Where then is a house you could

build for me? Where is a place that I may rest? For my hand made all these things. Thus all these

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