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, insight into the heart of Jesus, as we pick up in John

13, verse 1. And now with today's study, here's Pastor pastor chuck let's turn to the 13th chapter of the

gospel according to john and we've come into a new section of the gospel of john which carries us

through chapter 17 and chapters 13 through 17 cover a period of approximately 36 hours or so.

Probably more like 24-hour period is covered in these next four chapters or five chapters.

So this is beginning the night that Jesus was betrayed.

And his prayer in the 17th chapter of John is offered sometime prior to the Garden of Gassimony

experience some 24 hours later.

So we're actually covering a short period of the life of Christ,

but this is such an important period that John devotes almost one quarter of his gospel

to this 24-hour period. So we realize the importance of this

period of the life of Jesus Christ in the attention that John gives to it. In the overall record,

he spends about one quarter right within this 24-hour period.

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