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

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

continues his message, God hears the sinners as we pick up in John chapter 9 verse 31. And now with today's study,

here's Pastor Chuck. Does God hear sinners when they pray?

How did you get saved? You see, if God didn't hear sinners when they pray, none of us would be

saved. God does hear sinners, and that's part of the grace and the mercy of God. However, if I, as a

child of God, am regarding iniquity in However, if I as a child of God am regarding

iniquity in my heart when I pray, then the Lord doesn't hear me. That's what David said.

Isaiah said, chapter 59, that God's hand is not short that he cannot save. Neither is his

ear heavy that he cannot hear, but your sins have separated you from God.

And sin can separate you from God. It can separate your communion with God.

But to just say God doesn't hear sinners when they pray is not true. God does hear sinners when they pray.

Jesus said, and the man who was a sinner went into the temple and bowed his head and would not

even so much as lift his head towards God, but just smote on his breast and said,

Oh, God, be merciful to me a sinner. And he said, and that man went to his house justified because

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