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

whole. 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,

Astrachot continues with face your problems as we pick up in Jeremiah chapter 43 verse seven and now with today's message here's

pastor Chuck

they came into the land of Egypt for they obeyed not the voice of the Lord, and thus they came

even to top panhays.

This of course to me is one of those sad and tragic scriptures.

It ranks really as one of the most tragic

of all of the passages in the word of God.

For it is always tragic when a man returns to that from which God has once delivered him.

He goes back to Egypt.

Egypt is a type of our life in sin, a life after the flesh and the bondage to our flesh.

And whenever a man or a nation returns to that place from which God had once delivered them that is always a sad

and a tragic day. Nine hundred years earlier God had delivered their fathers out of the horrible cruel oppression of their Egyptian slavery and bondage.

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