Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and will 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 Feast of

Pentecost as we pick up in Leviticus chapter 12 verse 8 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck.

The descent of the Holy Spirit, the birth of the Church, was foreshadowed by the Feast of Pentecost,

which was really the ingathering of the first fruits unto the Lord, which on the day of Pentecost, the first of the

multitude who were to be saved through the preaching of the gospel and through the ministry of the church were brought in.

Some 3,000 souls were added to the church that day.

That was the first fruits.

Now, Jesus. Now Jesus knew that his church would never be perfect or pure and he gave parables that indicated this and God knew it in the Old Testament.

That's why the lows were to have leaven in them.

Because leaven is always a symbol of sin actually.

So in this offering, which was a foreshadowing of the church,

there was Levin in it and don't let anybody tell you that the

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