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 David and As Sheba as we pick up in 2nd Samuel chapter 11 verse 14 and now with today's message

here's pastor chap. God could not allow David's sin to go unnoticed or to go unpunished.

The child was born and David figured, well that's great you know. He no

doubt came to love Bathsheba. His first experience with her was not an experience expressing love. It was an experience just expressing lust. But he no doubt came to love, even as I believe

that many couples are attracted by certain physical

characteristics and later on they actually learn to love each other.

Many times you're attracted to another person by certain physical characteristics and later on you'll learn to hate them as you really get to know them.

So love doesn't always follow an attraction, a physical attraction. But people say

love at first sight, no it doesn't really happen that way. Interest at first sight.

Attraction maybe. But love is something that grows,

love is something that develops in a relationship.

And David thought that things were just going great

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