Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, November 10th.

External elements like music style or instruments have little to do with genuine worship.

Let's continue the series to get help developing an inner desire that overflows and praise toward God.

In the fourth chapter of John, Jesus preached one of the most beautiful sermons you ever preached,

said some of the most encouraging words because he said these to a woman who was having a problem.

She'd been having a problem most of our life.

So it's interesting how Jesus preach some of his greatest messages. You would think

that he would have shared the truths about worship and about the everlasting well of water that

he places in the human heart to a man like Nicodemus, which he spoke to in the third chapter,

and that he would have said to the woman at the well

who was living in adultery and who needed to be saved, you would have thought that Jesus

would have chose to talk to her about the new birth, but instead he did the opposite. So you know

the first part of this chapter that he met this woman at the well there, Jacob's Well, and they

got in the conversation and he asked

for a drink and they got in a conversation about water and he said, if you knew who you were

talking to, you would ask of him, he'd give you one drink and you wouldn't ever need anymore.

So they continued their conversation. Then he said to her, and here he was

leading her along like he knew how to do, a heading towards something, he said to her in the middle of

this beautiful conversation about water and running water. You see, living water in that time

was like a spring, like running water water and to have running water in your home

would be one of the most unusual things you'd find so that's where everybody went down to jacob's well

he said if you knew who you were talking to you'd ask of me and i would place within you a well of water springing up in everlasting life

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