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 visions of Amos as we pick up at Amos chapter 1 verse 1 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck. Let's turn out to the book of Amos.

In the first verse of Amos, he introduces himself.

These are the words of Amos,

who was among the herd men or a shepherd at Tacoa.

Now Tacoa is a little valley

going down toward the dead sea from the area of Bethlehem.

Actually, if you're standing on Herodian, that fortress that Herod built, sort of east of Bethlehem,

looking south, you were looking into the valley of

Tacoa, the area from which Amos came.

He was a herdsman, and then in chapter 7 he tells us that he was a fruit picker.

He picked the Sycamore fruit which was the fig.

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