Oh let the Son of God and fold 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 freedom

of choice as we pick up in Genesis chapter 2 verse 16 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck. Look at those nations ruled by communism today.

How they have taken away the freedoms of choice

and made them very restricted and very restrictive.

as we see in this country, more and more governmental controls, we realize that with each new law there comes a confining of the freedom of choice.

But always where the Christian Gospel is gone, it has taken with it a respect for the freedom of choice because God gave to us the freedom of choice and we respect it as a God-given capacity.

But what value would it be to have a freedom of choice if there was nothing to choose?

It would be totally meaningless that God gave to me the power to choose but I don't have anything to choose

It's all there. It's all laid out

There's no law It's all there. all laid out.

There's no law, there's no restriction, there's nothing, therefore I have no choice to make.

Therefore my power of choice is really meaningless.

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