Oh, let the Son of God enfold you with His spirit and his love.

Let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you,

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with a new nature as we pick up in Jeremiah chapter 31 verse 33. And now with today's message,

here's Pastor Chuck. This shall be the covenant that I will make with the House of Israel.

After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their

hearts. And I will be their God and they shall be my

people that is I will give them a change of attitude within I will give them a change of heart

it will not be an outward law that is forcing me obedience but now it is a new covenant where God writes his law in my heart

by creating in me a new nature. Now that's, of course, exactly what God has done for us.

That's what Christianity is all about. Jesus said, you've got to be born again. You were

born of the flesh, but you've got to be

born of the spirit. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born in the spirit

of spirit. Don't marvel it. I say, you've got to be born again. You need to have this new nature.

And when you have this new nature, God then writes his law in your heart. You have a whole new

desire. A whole new, you have such a change. It's from within.

And the desire for the things the Lord as he writes his law upon my heart. And this new covenant

that God has established with us through Jesus Christ is the same thing, the change of nature,

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