O 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, Pastor Chuck continues with spiritual defilement

as we pick up in Mark chapter 7 verse 14 and now with today's message

here's pastor chuck during the time of antiochus epiphanes that syrian king who had conquered

Israel and sought to just profane and blaspheme these people,

he ordered that they eat, all of them, eat pork.

It was a commandment of Antiochusiphanes,

and if they would not eat pork, they would be put to death.

And hundreds of Jews died rather than to eat pork.

Thousands of them during the time of the Maccabians.

Thousands of them died rather than to violate the law and eat pork.

Now, Jesus is going to say something extremely radical

with this kind of a background.

Harken to me.

He's talking to the crowd now.

He's been talking to the Pharisees,

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