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 the destruction

of Sodom and Gomorah, as we pick up in Genesis chapter 19 verse 23.

And now with today's message, here's pastor chap.

We've got a 4th of July display. You've got fire shooting and spouting and and it all it needs is just a little

glistrion upon it to to really set the whole thing off. The heavy water will respond upon the

potassium permagonate and the potassium nitrates will keep the thing really

going and sputtering and sparking and it's like a flare. It's it sputters and all. With all of the

potassium nitrate in the area, potassium permagnate in the area. And of course the area did have great

asphalt deposits. Josephus calls the area rather than the dead sea, he called it the asphalt sea,

because of the tremendous asphalt deposits.

So all it needed was just a spark from heaven to set things off.

And so the whole valley turned into a furnace, a cauldron.

And the... a cauldron and the judgment of God came upon these cities and they were

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