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 revelation from God,

as we pick up in Matthew chapter 16 verse 18 and now with today's message

here's pastor chuck god you see is a superior trinity father son and spirit i'm an inferior

trinity of spirit's soul and body i meet god in the realm of the spirit and so God's spirit bears witness with my spirit that I'm a

son of God. Now, my spirit has to bear witness to my consciousness. And when my spirit bears witness

to my consciousness, it comes just like a thought from within, an awareness, an inspiration from within.

Now, I have my own inspirations, too too at times. Now, how do I know

if this inspiration is coming from God or coming from me? Because they flash into my consciousness

from this same level as the spirit comes from the area of the subconscious, so does my imagination come from the

area of the subconscious. And because it comes to me consciously, the difficulty is to discern,

did this come from my own imagination, or did this originate, did this thought actually come from

God?

Is he the one planting the thought in my mind?

And so here is Peter.

He just expresses the thought that flashes in his head,

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