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 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 effects

of crucifixion as we pick up in Psalm chapter 22 verse 14 and now with

today's message here's pastor Chuck.

One of the things that takes place during crucifixion as a person is hanging there and usually

held there by the spikes, your muscles, after a while, begin to fatigue and give way.

And when your muscles give way, your body begins to drop and actually the joints because the muscles have

fatigued the joints begin to your body begins to fall out of joint actually from the hanging there and and this

description of all my bones are out of joint of course the excruciating pain of the joints loosening often

killed the prisoner. My heart is like wax. It is melted in the midst of my bowels.

My strength is dried up like a potchard and my tongue, that thirst, that horrible thirst that you receive when you're hanging there and through the

sweat your body liquids are dissipated and then you get that horrible thirst,

the dry mouth, the cotton taste,

my tongue cleaves to my jaws,

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