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 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 second

return to Jerusalem as we pick up in Ezra chapter 7 verse 10 and now with

today's message here's pastor Chuck.

Ezra have prepared his art to seek the law of the Lord and to do it and to teach Israel statutes

and judgments.

So Ezra was called a ready scribe. He had sought his heart to seek God and Arda exurks has given to him permission

to come on back with another contingency of men, about 1754, plus their little ones and their wives

or all their substance.

So this is now the second return. It's a small one under Ezra coming

back to Jerusalem.

A favorite phrase, and of course now we get into Chapter 7, we get into

this is 80 years approximately after the first people had come.

So the people, of course, have been in the land, those at first return,

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