Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the Word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter by chapter verse by

study through the entire Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck

continues his message, abide in the Lord, as we pick up in Romans chapter 11, verse 20. And now with

today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

When I was speaking a few years back at an international Congress in Jerusalem, sharing the

platform with Prime Minister Begin, then Prime Minister Begin, I got some hate mail from some of the

rabbis in the Mia Shereem area of Jerusalem, who are ultra-Orthodox,

rebuking me for trying to support the nation of Israel with understanding from the Christians.

Because the purpose of the rally was to sort of an understanding, bring understanding between the Jews and the evangelical Christians.

And these radical rabbis wrote me these letters rebuking me and telling me I had no business being there.

And, you know, Israel had no right to even exist as a nation because the Messiah had not yet come.

They did not yet have their temple, and they were very opposed to the nation of Israel themselves.

So they lived there in the Measurim district of Jerusalem.

But they did write to King Hussein in Jordan,

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