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 House of the Lord as we pick up in Second Chronicles, Chapter 2, verse 1.

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

Now Solomon determined to build a house for the name of the Lord and a house for his kingdom.

And Solomon counted out 70,000 men to bear burdens and 80,000 men to cut trees out of the forest and 3,600 men to oversee them.

And so the tremendous number of people that were just involved in

in the labor to the gathering of the materials

for his own palace and for the temple that they were to build.

Solomon sent to Hurham, who is also called Hiram, the King of Tyre, and he said,

as you dealt with David my father, and you sent him Cedars to build his own palace, even I ask you to deal so with me.

Behold I'm going to build a house in the name of the Lord, my God, to dedicate it to him and to burn before him the sweet incense and to place the

continual showbred for the burnt offerings morning and evening and on the

Sabbath's the new moons and the

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