Oh let the Son of God and found 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

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 purposes of God as we pick up in Joshua chapter 23 verse one and now with

today's message here's pastor Chuck. We read in the book of acts that Herod

stretched forth his hand against the church.

And he had James beheaded.

And when he saw that it pleased the Jews, this was James the brother of John.

When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he put Peter in prison, intending to bring him forth the next day for a trial and execution.

And the church got together and prayed.

And about the midnight hour an angel of the Lord appeared to Peter in the prison

and said, put your shoes on, Peter, and Peter put his shoes on he says follow me and the gates all

started opening automatically and Peter followed the angel out and when they got

outside of the prison, the angel left him.

And all of a sudden he realized he wasn't dreaming.

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