Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his love,

let him fill your heart and will 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

name of numbers as we pick up in numbers chapter 1 verse 1 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck.

This time let's turn to the book of numbers so called because twice in the book the

children of Israel were numbered once at the beginning of their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness and then at their

coming to the place of entering into the promised land. So in the two numbers of the families and the numbers on an individual

basis, but we'll be making some interesting comparison showing you that the wilderness experience was tough, that not as many

came out at the end of the 40 years as went into it.

There was a population depletion during this period of time.

It's like my little grandson a while back was saying,

Grandpa, I want to stay at your house a long time.

I don't want to go home. I want to stay at your house, Grandpa.

And I said, well, I'd like to have you stay for a long time, William.

...