Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the Word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter-by-ch chapter verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message,

The Overflowing of the Spirit, as we pick up in John chapter 7, verse 39.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor chock so here we have john's commentary on the

gospel of john as he explains to us what jesus was talking about and his explanation comes

after years of observation he didn't know at the moment what Jesus was referring to. But later on, when the

Holy Spirit was poured out upon the church, and John began to have those overflowing experiences

of God's power and love, then he understood and knew what Jesus was referring to. And because he wrote,

after the experience of the Holy Spirit, after Pentecost,

he is now able to give the explanation of what Jesus was referring to.

And he said, this spake he of the Spirit that was to be given to those that believed upon

him.

For the Spirit was not yet given.

So John makes reference then, or makes a commentary, that Jesus was actually referring to the Holy Spirit.

And what was he declaring of it?

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