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 word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with God's

promised Abraham as we pick up in Genesis chapter 15 verse 12 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck and a deep sleep fell onrem and lo a horror of great darkness fell upon it.

And the Lord said to Ebrum,

no of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs and they shall

serve them and they shall afflict them 400 years. Now they shall afflict them 400 years. Now they shall afflict them 400 years does not necessarily imply

that they would be 400 years in Egypt. It is, God is telling them they're going to go down into a strange land.

They're going to go down the land of Egypt, but they will be afflicted 400 years.

Now, whether or not the, in Galatians, the third chapter tells us that the 400 years,

which is a realm figure,

430 years from the time that God made this promise to Abraham.

It was 430 years from this time unto the to the sojournes was for four generations in Egypt was not a 400-year sojourn in Egypt but about a

215 years sojourn in Egypt but they were to be afflicted by the people round about them until God would bring them out and

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