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

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, Mr. Chuck continues with the divorce law as

we pick up in Matthew chapter 5 verse 30 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck

Jesus by this deliberately speaking of things that are so repungent to us, is just seeking

to show the importance of entering the kingdom of heaven. And in reality, the most important thing for any of us,

more important than a whole body,

more important than having all the members of my body intact is that I enter into the kingdom of heaven and I need to have that kind of a primary emphasis in my life the kingdom of heaven is the greatest goal, the greatest desire

and thus should bring into my life the greatest sacrifices and I should not be concerned with what sacrifice I may make in a temporal way

because I'm seeking the eternal kingdom of heaven.

Now the third illustration he said it hath been said

that whosoever shall put away his wife let him give her a writing of

divorcement but I say into you that whosoever shall put away his wife accept it be for the cause of

fornication causes her to commit adultery and whosoever shall marry her that

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