Oh, let the Son of God enfold 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 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 traditions within the church, as we pick up in Matthew chapter 15 verse 2.

And now with today's message, here's Pastor Chuck.

They had the traditional ceremony for washing.

And you would have to hold out your hands in an upright manner,

and they would pour water over your hands as you rubbed your hands in an upright manner, and they would pour water over your hands as you rubbed your hands

back and forth, up and down, and the water had to drip off of the wrist, because the water is now

unclean because it's touching whatever was unclean on your hands, and you've got to make sure

the water doesn't fall on

you. So you hold it out and up so that the water drips off your wrist and doesn't hopefully run up

your arm, or that portion of your arm would be unclean. Having then poured the water over and

washing your hands in this upright manner, then because the dirty water from your unclean fingers has

come down over your hands, you've got to get rid of that. So you put your hands down next,

and they pour water over the top of your hands as you are rubbing your hands in a downward manner,

and then finally rubbing your fingers together as water is poured over to get

rid of all of the uncleanness. And here were the disciples just, you know, grabbing the bread

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