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's advice to Solomon as we pick up in First Kings chapter 2 verse 1 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck. Now the days of David drew near when he was going to die,

and he charged Solomon his son saying,

I go the way of all the earth.

Be thou strong, therefore, and show thyself a man.

Now here's father to son, and in its typical fatherly advice,

show yourself a man, son, be strong, show yourself a man.

David coming to the end of the road. Now, it is interesting to me that David's later years were spent in a feeble physical condition,

a man who must have been in tremendous physical shape in his prime.

He talks about, by the Lord, I have run through a troop, I've leaped over a wall, and you see the rugged country that David fled from

Saul the wilderness of ZIF and down in Getty and some of this rugged area you know that the guy had to be in top physical shape.

But yet in the later years stricken and now about to die.

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