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 God calls the Ordinary, as we pick up in Amos chapter 7 verse 17 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck. What people seem to have a hard time accepting is that God so often calls and uses just plain ordinary people.

But that is usually the case. God calls ordinary people to do his work. Somehow we've put a special little aura around those men who have been used of God and we put them on a pedestal and we begin to think of them in sort of a suitor a feel they're are something special they're out of the ordinary they're they're not really there's

somewhere between human and angelic but they're not just plain people. They don't think as I think.

They don't respond as I respond. Surely they must always respond just perfectly.

They never surely never get angry, nor get upset.

They must be just so perfect and that's why God has used them.

Not so. God uses just plain ordinary people. Elijah was a man of like

passions just like you. No different from what you are.

Amos was just a herdman.

He was following after the herds when the Lord spoke to him

and called him for this ministry.

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