Oh, 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 the charges against Jesus, as we pick up in Matthew chapter 27 verse one.

And now with today's message, here's Pastor Chuck.

This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Matthew's Gospel chapter 27.

In the 26th chapter, we left Jesus before the high priest, the Sanhedron,

and Peter had just outside of this group denied his Lord,

and at this moment he's out somewhere weeping bitterly over his failure.

Now, when the morning was come, all the chief priest and the elders of the people

took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.

And when they abound him, they led him away and delivered him to Pontius Pilate,

the governor. Now, the reason for the pretrial of Jesus was that they might be able to frame

some charges against him to bring to the Roman governor.

What they accused Jesus of was blasphemy because he said that he was the son of God.

The priest, the high priest, said,

I adjure you by the living God.

Tell us, are you the Messiah, the son of God? And Jesus said, you said it. And this guy

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