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 Jeremiah's failed ministry as we pick up on Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 1 and now with today's message here's

Pastor Chuck.

Shall we turn in our Bibles to the Book of Jeremiah.

About 60 years after Isaiah died,

God called Jeremiah to what I feel must have been the hardest task

any minister has ever been called upon to perform for the Lord.

Jeremiah had to oversee the death of the nation.

He had to watch it as it was in its final death throes as it went into convulsions and died and was carried away captive to Babylon.

His ministry was destined from the beginning for failure.

That is, the people were not going to heark and the people were not going to change.

They had set their course and their destiny was determined.

And yet because God is so faithful,

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