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

let him fill your heart and will 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 eye for eye, tooth for tooth,

as we pick up in Exodus, chapter 21, verse 15.

And now with today's message, here's Pastor Chuck.

You knocked out my tooth, all right, man, you had it. I gotta knock out my tooth. All right, man, you've had it.

I gotta knock out your tooth.

Tooth for tooth.

And Jesus said, you have heard that it hath been said.

Now, really what the Lord is doing here is limiting because there is a

perversity about our human nature that doesn't want to just get even, we want to more than get even.

It used to be when my brothers and I were growing up scuffling with each other.

You know, we'd be sort of boxing and all and maybe even

catch you one. What do you want to do? You want to catch him one back just a little harder and so many times where we

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