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 a famine

in the land as we pick up in 2nd Samuel chapter 23 verse 1 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck.

Now in chapter 21 is recorded that at this time there were three years of famine in the land.

And so David sought the Lord, why the famine?

And the Lord said the famine was in judgment

because of the treatment of Saul of the Gibeonites.

For Saul had killed many of the Gibeonites.

Now, this is interesting to me because

when Joshua was coming in to conquer the land.

God said to Joshua, don't make a covenant with any of the people in the land.

You're not to make any treaties, any covenants, wipe them out. So after

the conquest of the city of AI, there came to Joshua these old men with worn out shoes, with moldy bread in their hands and ragged clothes.

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