Oh, let the Son of God enfold you with His spirit and his love.

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 growing ministry of Jesus as we pick up in Luke chapter 5 verse 1 and now with today's message

here's pastor chuck so we turn now in our bibles to Luke's gospel chapter 5 the popularity of the ministry of

Jesus is growing word is being spread around of the ministry of Jesus is growing.

Word is being spread around of the miracles that are being wrought by him.

And now wherever he goes, people are beginning to jostle and shove in order that they might get close to him.

It made it difficult for Jesus to travel, to get around,

because of the multitudes that, according to Mark's gospel,

at this point, were thronging him wherever he went.

And so here in Luke's gospel,

it came to pass that as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God,

and that to me is always an exciting situation

when people are pressing to hear the word of God.

When this becomes such a priority in the lives of people to just hear the word of God,

they press to hear it, that he was standing by the lake of Ganesrit,

also known as the Sea of Tiberius, also known as the Sea of Tiberius, also known as

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