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

grave of Jacob as we pick up in Genesis chapter 50 verse 5 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck.

In my grave which I have dig for me in the land of cane and there shall you bury me.

Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee and bury my father and I will come again.

And Pharaoh said go up and bury your father according as he has made you to swear.

Now though he was buried in a cave and they didn't need to dig the grave that way, yet in these caves they dug niches in the walls.

And they would lay the bodies in these niches in the walls.

If you've been to the catacombs in Rome, you've seen it there. The niches in the

niches in Rome, you've seen it there. The niches in the walls that they have dug out for

the bodies. And the same is true in Israel. There are caves

right up at the top of the Mount of Olives just below the

intercontinental hotel. There is an interesting burial cave there and all of these niches in the wall of the cave that they dug out for the various people who in times past were buried in them and so he had dug out his own niche and so that's

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