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 the word for today,

Pastor Chuck continues with the destruction of Jerusalem as we pick up in lamentations chapter 2 verse 4 and now with

today's message here's pastor Chuck.

It must have been an awesome and a very traumatic experience to have seen the destruction

that was wrecked upon Jerusalem by the Babylonian army.

When after 18 months of siege they finally broke into the city

and began to slay with a sword even before they broke the walls and came in people were already

starving to death within the city. He was a horrible scene. Jeremiah can't get it out of

his mind, the thoughts and the sights that he saw.

They were imprinted in his mind, and now as he sees it lying desolate,

he reflects over these things.

And he tells some of the things that were happening and

they are so horrible that they would make those kind of impressions in your mind that cause you to shudder whenever

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