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 give your reigns to the Lord as we pick up in Jeremiah chapter 11 verse 19.

And now with today's message here's pastor Chuck.

Jeremiah now in verse 19 speaks of himself and the problems that he was running into but I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter and I knew that they had been devising devices against me saying let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof.

Let us cut him off from the land of the living that his name will be no longer remembered.

So there were men that were conspiring to kill him.

But the Lord of hosts that judges righteously that tries the reins.

Now the reins are, you know, that which guides and directs the animal.

You use the reins for leading or guiding, and so that is the guiding area of your life.

And a lot of people haven't given the reins over to the Lord. They're trying to guide their lives themselves.

But God tries the reins and the heart. Let me see thy vengeance. And now Jeremiah's

praying, oh God, let me see your vengeance on these. They're plotting to

gel me Lord. Now let me see your vengeance on them for unto thee have I

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