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 Genealogies and Chronicles, as we pick up in First Chronicles Chapter 1,

verse 1. And now with today's message, here's Pastor Chuck.

So we turn now to First Chronicles chapter one and let's see what you know we used to say to our

kids they could get juice out of anything when they ate you know they can make a cracker so juicy that when they were through it was all

over the place but we'll pray that the Holy Spirit will help us to draw some juice out of First Chronicles and the listing of all of these genealogies. Now the list begins where it should of course with Adam and

then his sons, Seth, and Inush, and gives the names of the sons, the descendants, down to

Jafeth, who was one of Noah's sons.

And then it's interesting, as you watch it,

it will take off and give you just a few descendants of JFath and it drops JFath.

It'll give you a few descendants of ham, but it's going to drop ham and then it centers in on the descendants of Seth because it is from the

descendants of Seth that Abraham came from Abraham whom David came from David who Christ came and that's the

genealogy really that the scripture is interested in in ready following and so we get a few of the sons of Jefath, and as we read the names of the sons of Jefath, immediately we're aware of the fact that the descendants of Jefath were actually the Europeans and the Russians and the Russians and so Gomer,

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