Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, November 6th. When it comes to

worshiping God, what truly matters is not just what comes from your lips, but what flows from

your heart. Today, we continue our series with a biblical view of worship from Isaiah chapter 6.

When you and I read the scriptures, there's one thing that is very evident.

God wants his people to worship, to bow down, to adore, to learn to love him.

And so much of what he did in the Old Testament, in the tabernacle, for example, why was all of that there?

Now, there may have been many reasons, but I believe one of the primary reasons was this,

that God wanted to teach men to worship him.

He wanted to teach men that he was holy.

That's why he had a holy of holies, where only the priests could go after preparation once a year to offer

atonement. Why did God do that? He didn't have to do that. He could have forgiven them

without all this paraphernalia, all these robes and all of this, all of this metal and gold

and silver and diamonds and jewels and all of the fanfare, all the people getting together. Why was God saying all of that?

Because he was using these things to teach men something that he knew was very essential to their

hearing and to their seeing and they're being able to identify materially with it in order to

teach them His Holiness and to teach them his holiness and to teach

them how to worship him. What is the one thing that all through the Old Testament God forbids

over and over and over again? I turn to Deuteronomy chapter 4 and don't turn to it tonight,

but before you go to bed tonight, I want to challenge you to read Deuteronomy chapter 4.

It is a beautiful chapter and it expresses one thing that God intended to express to Israel before they went into the promised land.

Something about himself, something about worshiping him and something about a limitation of their worship.

And he names some things in there

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