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 the claim of the Jews, as we skip in Luke chapter 3 verse 8 and now with today's message

here's pastor chuk this is the claim of the jew we have abraham as our father god gave the

covenant to abraham and to his seed forever so we are the beneficiaries of God's grace and covenant to Abraham.

We have Abraham. We're the covenant people. And they rested on that relationship to Abraham.

And that was an extremely important thing. In fact, to Jesus, when Jesus was challenging their lifestyles, they said,

we have Abraham as our father. It was a common saying among the Jews as they were resting upon the

covenant that God had made with Abraham and to his seed forever, and thus recognizing that covenant,

they would say, well, we have Abraham as our

father, and that was sort of to excuse any kind of a lifestyle I want to live. Well, I have Abraham

as my father. I'm under the covenant. You know, I can live however I please. And he said, hey,

don't try and pass off that we have Abraham as our father bit, Because God is able to raise up from stones children for

Abraham. And so he's calling for a true repentance. They changed life. Change actions. And now also the

acts will be laid unto the root of the trees. And every tree which does not bring forth good

fruit will be cut down. So he's calling

forth fruit that show repentance. Let's see the fruit of it, because every tree that doesn't

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