Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

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

whole. 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 song of degrees as we pick up in Psalm chapter 120 verse one and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck now you'll notice these Psal have a heading, the song, a song of degrees.

The word literally is a sense, ASCENTS.

And these are sort of the marching songs

for the people of Israel,

as they would come thrice annually to Jerusalem to worship the Lord.

There's a lot of things about the nation Israel that excite me.

There are a lot of things that I wish that somehow we could incorporate in our worship of the Lord. This business of all of them gathering together

three days out of the well actually there were the feast days for seven days but three times out of the year

at the feast of Passover at the feast of Pentecost and at the feast of

suck off and at the feast of Sakoth or Tabernacles. This business of everybody gathering together and just having a great worship service and a great feasting time and a time of worshiping the Lord.

This to me would be exciting when the nation, the whole nation is gathering to acknowledge that God

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