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 Jesus cures leprosy.

As we pick up in Luke, chapter 5, verse 1.

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

Now it came to pass when he was in a certain city.

Behold a man was full of leprosy,

who seeing Jesus fell on his face

and begged him saying, Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.

And he put forth his hand and touched him saying, I will be thou clean.

And immediately the leprosity departed from him.

He's going to give us a list of some of the miracles that Jesus was accomplishing,

sort of a variety of miracles, the one directing them and catching the fish,

sort of a miracle in nature.

Now the miracle of the curing of an incurable disease. Leprosy was one of the most

dreaded and loathsome diseases in the ancient world. If a person had leprosy, he was to be

ostracized from the community. Nobody could touch him. If they touched him, you would be unclean.

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