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,

Pastor Chuck continues with false gods as we pick up in Isaiah chapter 41 verse 23 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck. You remember when Jacob was pronouncing the prophecies upon his sons on his dying bed.

He said unto Judah that the scepter shall not depart from Judah until the Messiah comes.

The scepter being the ruling power and when the government of Rome took away in about

oh 12 a D.

D. They took away from the Jews the power of capital punishment.

The rabbis and the priest put on sackcloth. They put ashes on

their head and for a week they went wailing through the streets of Jerusalem

because they said God's word has failed. The scepter has departed. Shiloh has not come

What they didn't know was that in the village of Nazareth at that time he was there growing up

But they really felt that God's word had failed and that means that it wasn't God's word because God's word can't fail. And to them it was a national disaster that God's word should fail. But not one word of God's

prophecies have failed. And so God challenges the other gods. If you're really God, you say your

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