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, Jesus, the Son of God, as we pick up in John chapter 8, verse 41. And now with

today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

You do the deeds of your father.

And then they said into him,

we're not born of fornication.

This could be a reference to the virgin birth.

They could be here declaring, your mother bore you out of wedlock.

We're not born a fornication. And it could be that the story of Mary had gotten around,

that Joseph really wasn't the father of Jesus.

And they did not believe that he was conceived of the Holy Spirit.

And so they are accusing him of being born out of wedlock.

Now, the Bible asserts that Mary was a virgin and that the birth of Christ was a divine miracle because the power of the highest came upon her and Jesus was the son of God, born through the work and the agency

of the Holy Spirit impregnating Mary. Here it seems to be a low blow at Jesus, challenging the virgin birth.

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