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 an eight-fold woe, as we pick in Matthew chapter 23 verse 9 and now with today's message

here's Pastor Chuck. Call no man your father upon the earth for one is your father which is in heaven

so the title of father was prohibited by Jesus.

In my associations,

I have become acquainted and friends of many ministers

within the Episcopalian Church and also within the Catholic Church.

And I have extreme difficulty in knowing how to address them.

Because for the life of me, I cannot call them Father, so-and-so.

Because Jesus said not to.

And so, to me, it creates a difficult thing as to how to address them, because you're

usually introduced, this is, you know, Father so-and-so, and I just, well, I just have a

hang-up with this, but I just can't address a man, Father, in a spiritual sense.

I don't know.

Do what you want, but I just have problems.

Neither be ye called masters.

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