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

whole. 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 prophecy

of the birth of Christ as we pick up in Isaiah chapter 7 verse 16 and now

with today's message here's pastor Chuck. In the near prophecy a child was to be born or before a child born at that period

was old and resin are going to get wiped out. They'll no longer be raining over Syria and

over Samaria within 12 or 13 years. But the prophecy in its long term was a prophecy of the birth of Jesus Christ in that

the Lord himself shall give you a sign, behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall

call his name Emmanuel.

We know that that is a prophecy of Jesus Christ because it is interpreted by the Holy Spirit in Matthew's Gospel, chapter 1, verse 23, as a prophecy.

When it speaks there of how Mary and Joseph were engaged but before they had

had relations Mary was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit that it might be fulfilled

according to the word of the Prophet saying behold a virgin shall conceive and bear

a son and shall call his name Emmanuel.

So Matthew's gospel, as Matthew writing by the Holy Spirit interprets this passage of scripture,

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