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, has God cast away his people as we pick up in Romans chapter 11 verse 1.

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

Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Romans chapter 11?

Chapters 9 through 11, Paul is dealing with a couple of subjects.

One, the sovereignty of God.

But it is the sovereignty of God in setting aside the nation Israel

as God's primary target, you might say, for work, and beginning to pour out his spirit and work

among the Gentiles.

And because Paul is a Jew through and through, his heart, his prayer, for Israel is that they might be saved,

and yet he can see in the scriptures those prophecies of God's move among the Gentiles.

And so in the latter portion of chapter 10, he gives some of those prophecies of how God was going to be found of them that did not seek for

him. He was going to manifest himself under the Gentiles. But of the Jews, he said, all day

long, have I stretched out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

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