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,

Pastor Chuck continues with the duties of the priests as we pick up in First Chronicles, chapter 23, verse 2.

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

The Levites lived throughout the land and there were certain cities for the Levites, but in their

appointed and they would, they set up the order and then they drew lots as who would be the first, the second and third and so forth.

And so at your appointed order you would come and you would fulfill the duties of the priest in the temple for a period of a couple of weeks

and then you go back to your family and to your home and to your fields and so forth and you would take care of your own affairs.

And so in the New Testament that this order that David established continued on up until the time

of Christ for Zachariah, the priest, because he was of

the order of Abia had come according to his course to minister there in the temple and it was his duty to

offer the incense at the time of the sacrifice and while he was offering this incense before

the Lord is when the angel Gabriel appeared and told him that his wife Elizabeth was going to have a son named him John and he's going to be the forerunner of the Messiah.

So that's still following the the order that David had

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