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

end times as we pick up in Ezekiel chapter 39 verse 29 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck. We are now in the phase of the work of the Holy

Spirit in the world and God's spirit is working in the phase of the work of the Holy Spirit in the world. And as God's Spirit is working in the world, the purpose is to draw out a people that will compose the bride of Jesus Christ.

And as God's spirit is working in and through the church today.

By that power of God's spirit within the church,

that whole force of evil is being held in check.

There are people today who hate the church violently.

Most of them are newscasters and political cartoonists. There is a definite concerted effort to

destroy the church by ridicule, by lies, by distortions.

Those forces of evil hate the fact that the church would dare to speak up for morality and hold back this flood of filth that

they want to pour out upon the world. And you can see their consternation as they express it. But the

world can be thankful for the church. For if it were not for the restraining power of the spirit within the church,

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