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 sin and illness as we pick up in Luke chapter 5 verse 20.

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

You remember when the disciples were with Jesus and they saw the blind man,

they said, Lord, who did sin that this man was born blind?

Now, they even believed in prenatal sins.

While you were in the womb, you could sin.

I don't know how, but they believed that you could.

So was it his parents or was it him?

Did he do some sin in the womb that he was born blind or was it his parents and jesus said no no no

this man he didn't really answer why he was born blind he just said that you know god may be glorified

i must do the works of god while i am with you and he healed man. He never told them why the man was born blind.

People misinterpret that saying, well, he was born blind for the glory of God to be revealed.

No. Jesus just said that he must work to glorify God, and thus he healed the man. Never answered the

question, except that he affirmed that neither he nor his parents

sinned. He affirmed that it wasn't their sin. But they so often related illnesses to sin,

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