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 where Jesus teaches in the synagogue, as we pick up in Luke chapter 4 verse 14 and now with today's

message here's Pastor Chuck Paul said in Romans 8 for as many as are led by the spirit of God

they are the sons of God in Acts 1 8 Jesus said and you will receive power after the Holy Spirit

comes upon you.

So we as the believers have that same relationship to the Spirit that Jesus had,

in that we can be filled with the Spirit, led by the Spirit, and empowered by the Spirit of God.

And as He was, there went out a fame of him through all of the region roundabout,

and he taught in their synagogues being glorified by all. He was going around teaching in the synagogues in the area of the Galilee.

Now, at this particular time, according to Josephus, Josephus at this time was the governor in the area of Galilee, and Josephus in his writings

declares that he had 204 cities in his jurisdiction that had populations exceeding 10,000 people. So at the time that Jesus was ministering in

the Galilee, it was a very populated area, perhaps as many as three million people. Of course,

that's the number that Josephus claimed,

three million people living in the area of Galilee during the ministry of Jesus.

Today, there's just about four million people in all of the land of Israel.

Most of them are in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

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