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

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 a state of

spiritual apostasy as we pick up in 2 Kings chapter 1 verse 1 and now in today's

message here's pastor Chuck.

Now as we finished first Kings, we were dealing with basically the Northern Kingdom under

Ahab with his wicked wife Jezebel,

who had brought the Northern Kingdom of Israel

into its lowest state morally and spiritually as they led the people into

idolatry and more specifically the worship of Bal which was introduced by Jezebel who was from

the area of Seidin and that was one of the major gods of Seid sight and so she introduced that to the children of

Israel in their worship and thus the Israel was sinking into a state of great spiritual apostasy.

Now at the end of First Kings we came to the death of Ahab and his son Ahaziah ascending to the throne who

reigned for only two years over Israel.

And during the time of Ahaziah,

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