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

home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calbury 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

redemption as we pick up in revelation chapter 7 verse 11 and now with

today's message here's pastor Chuck you remember the parable of Jesus concerning the kingdom of heaven was likened to a man going through the field and discovering a treasure and who for the joy thereof went out and sold everything so he could buy the field and have the

treasure. Now the field Jesus said is the world and he was the one that gave everything.

He gave his life to purchase the world in order

that he might obtain the treasure.

So if you only knew, Paul said. the peculiar treasure, well it's peculiar to me that God would, you know, take such value in me, that God would treasure me. But we are his inheritance.

So riches, when the church declares its song,

for we are his inheritance, his riches.

When this group sings,

Thanksgiving is substituted for riches.

And so that's the difference in the response to the two groups.

As the angels respond to this second group,

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