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 man, it is impossible, as we up in Mark, chapter 10, verse 24.

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

He said, children, how hard it is for them that trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God.

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle

than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Now, as I pointed out,

there are those who say the eye of the needle was a sub gate

in the main gate of the city

when after the gates were closed at night

and a person would arrive at the city they would not open the main gate lest there be enemy

troops that would come pouring in so there was this sub-gate that a person could dismount and come crawling through the subgate into the city.

And that the subgate, they say, was called the eye of the needle.

So when Jesus said it is easier for a camel to get through an eye of a needle than for a rich man

to enter the kingdom of heaven, Jesus was referring to this little subgate how that they'd

have to unload the camel and then guys would be pulling and guys would be pushing and squeezing

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