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 ornate places of worship as we pick up in

Deuteronomy chapter 27 verse 4 and now with today's message here's

pastor Chuck

God's desire that the place that they make for the worship of God be simple and natural.

God did not want them building ornate places of worship. Why? Because when you come into an

ornate place of worship your mind is drawn to the or nateness of the place and you begin to

glory in its architecture or in the fine carvings or in the beauty of the place itself.

But God wants you when you come to worship Him not to be distracted, to stand in awe of gorgeous

architecture or whatever, but that your place of worship be just a simple place that

does not attract attention to itself but allows you to give your full attention unto the Lord to worship him. And thus

stones, don't carve them, don't cut them off, don't smooth them out, just whole stones to make the altar.

Then on Mount Ebal to place these stones in a pile to plaster the pile and right upon this

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