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 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,

Kaster Chuck continues with the wise man as we pick up in Matthew chapter 2 verse 9 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck. When they had heard the king that is king

heared they, and lo the star which they saw in the east went before them till it came and stood over where the young child was.

So it is hard to really explain then this star by some kind of a natural

phenomena in that they saw it in the east that led them west, but now it is leading them back east because Bethlehem is actually south and east of Jerusalem.

And it stood notice over where the young child was.

Notice it didn't stand over the manger.

It didn't stand over where the baby was, but it stood over where the young child was.

Now here is where our Christmas cards and our Christmas pageants throw us off because it makes such a glorious climax to the Christmas pageant

tree to have the wise men coming to the manger on their camels and laying

down their gifts before the child in the manger while the shepherds are peering on wild-eyed.

It's something that is typical of the Christmas card or the Christmas pageant trade.

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