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 rejoicing

in our living home as we pick up in 1st Peter chapter 1 verse 6 and now with

today's message here's pastor Chuck.

Wherein ye greatly rejoice. I rejoice in that work of God in my behalf. I rejoice in the

inheritance that I have. I rejoice in that hope of eternal life through Jesus Christ, the living hope because he rose from the dead.

And I rejoice in it.

I greatly rejoice, though now for a season Paul said if need be you are in heaviness because

of the manifold trials Christianity and Jews they had two strikes against them. The Jews had rebelled against the Roman authority.

Within six years of Peter's writing this epistle, they were to begin another rebellion which

was to bring Reedy the destruction of Jerusalem under the siege of Titus, and then once more they were to rebel when they were utterly destroyed during the reign of Hadrian Barcoba holding out in that little village of Berra, which was much like the story of Masada, but it's,

there were no survivors or no Josephus, Josephus Flavius to record it,

and so we know so little about it.

But the Jews did experience, even in those days, persecution because they were a Jew.

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