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 by chapter verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message,

faith, not works, as we pick up in Galatians chapter 3 verse 1.

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

Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Galatians? Chapter 3. Background.

Paul the Apostle had been in the area of Galatia. Galatia was a general area like a county or a state. It was not a city.

There were many churches established there. After Paul's departure, other teachers came in declaring that the people could not be saved by a simple

faith in Jesus Christ, but must also to that faith, add the obedience to the law and the rituals of the law of circumcision.

And many of the people in those churches that were brought to the gospel of Jesus Christ

through Paul's preaching,

were taken in by these other teachers that followed Paul.

And so a division developed among the brethren there in that area.

These false teachers that had come in had spoken against Paul's authority as an apostle.

And they were actually advocating the necessity of proselytizing into Judaism in order to be saved,

keeping of the law, and a righteousness which is predicated upon following or observing these particular rules.

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