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

home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calbury Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the Award for Today, Pastor Chuck continues with giving

a tenth to God as we pick up in Deuteronomy chapter 18 verse 4 and now with

today's message here's pastor Chuck.

God required really a tenth He considered that as his. And the 10th was always to be the first 10th was to go unto God.

Now when you would bring an offering that the priest would sacrifice the offering for you the priest always got the shoulder and the cheeks and

the maw that was his that was his sort of fee or not really a fee but that was just his

allotted share from the sacrifice.

Now, later on in their history

when Eli was the priest,

he had some greedy sons

and the people would come to offer sacrifices and hey these greedy sons they

would put their hooks in and grab the tenderloins, the surloins and the finest of the stakes and everything else and if the people would go to

object, you know, then they'd order them out of the place so that they actually, by their greed caused people to begin to resent sacrificing under God.

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