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 hope of Jesus as we pick up in Mark, chapter 16, verse 7.

And now with today's message, here's Pastor Chuck.

Commendous volume, two volumes, have been written by psychologists who have been in a study for 15 years on the rehabilitation program of our correctional institutions.

They used to be called penal institutions.

Now they're correctional institutions after the sociologists got into the game.

And, you know, a man's problem is only his environment, and all you have to do is give him

the right environment, and he'll do right. And so

these two sociologists or psychologists studied for 15 years the case history of over a thousand

inmates back in Illinois and made detailed studies of the whole process of their incarceration and all, and of those over a thousand men

that were studied in this particular study that was made, only one man was rehabilitated

through the modern correctional institution.

Only one man.

And when he was released, he was very sick and died shortly afterwards.

The only successful case.

This book is shaking up the whole judicial police and penal institutions.

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