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 verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message, finish the course as we pick up in Acts chapter 20 verse 22.

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

Then now behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that are

going to befall me there, except that the Holy Spirit is witnessing in every city saying that bonds and afflictions are waiting for me.

Now, I really don't know what's going to happen to me when I get to Jerusalem.

All I know is that I am to be bound and I'm to be in prison.

The Spirit is warning me this everywhere I go.

But none of these things disturb me. Neither count I my life dear unto myself. So that I might finish my course with joy.

My chief desire is to finish my course with joy. It doesn't bother me that I have to

be imprisoned. It doesn't move me that I'm going to be bound. My chief desire is just to finish my

course. So Paul's great drive to finish that course that God had set before him.

He finally wrote to Timothy and he said, I have fought a good fight.

I have finished the course.

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