Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his love,

let him fill your heart and will 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 Ruth in the time of judges as we pick up in Ruth chapter 1 verse 1.

And now with today's message here's pastor Chuck.

Shall we turn now to the Book of Roo.

As we were studying the Book of Judges, we pointed out that at the end of Chapter 16, the end of the story of Samson, you actually came to the end of the

history part of the Book of judges.

What followed in chapter 17 and on to the end

were a couple of incidents or scenes that took place during the time of the judges.

Just to show that it was a time of spiritual confusion and moral decay as far as the nation was concerned.

When the Danites moved their area of inheritance, a portion of them went on up to the northern part of the land,

how that they captured this young priest and how he had these

terra-fims and so forth, these little images that had been made, and it was just a time of spiritual confusion. And then it was a time of moral decay

as we saw the conditions of the Benjhemites and the sodomy that was beginning to be practiced

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