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 Award for Today, Pastor Chuck continues with strange

fire as we pick up in Leviticus chapter 10 verse one and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck. So here they were coming in a way in which it God didn't command them to take this fire and to offer the incense at this point.

It was something that was totally done on their own part juices were flowing because

there's a lot of excitement people are shouting and and and all and they're of course

important they are priests and maybe they're wishing to show their importance.

Everybody is all excited and watching now the things that are happening and so maybe they want to get into the public eye.

And so as they started in with these incense burners and the smoke rising fire came from the Lord and they both fell dead and

Moses said this is the thing that God spoke about saying that he would be sanctified before the people and that God would be glorified.

Before the people, I will be glorified, the Lord said said and so Aaron held this peace.

Perhaps they were seeking at that point to rob God from some of his glory.

Perhaps at that point they were seeking to draw attention to themselves away from God.

It is always tragic when the instrument of God receives more attention than God. Or when the

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