Oh, let the Son of God enfold you with His spirit and his love.

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 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, Mr. Chuck continues with holding back the work of God,

as we become in Mark chapter 3, 3 verse 5 and now with today's

message here's pastor chuck so many times we feel that Jesus isn't interested in us because our

needs are too great Jesus only likes to chum with the beautiful people, with the successful, with the prosperous.

But the person that Jesus is always most interested in is the person who has the greatest need.

And so it was when he came in the synagogue.

They were correct.

In their assessment of Jesus, they were absolutely correct.

He was immediately interested in that man in the synagogue who had the greatest need.

He was immediately interested in that man with a withered hand.

And Jesus said to him, stand up.

The man stood up.

And Jesus then asked them two questions.

Is it lawful to do good or to do evil on the Sabbath

day? Naturally, it's lawful to do good. They could not answer him. He had them trapped. They could not

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