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,

no condemnation as we pick up in Romans chapter 8, verse 1.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck. Let's turn to the 8th chapter of Romans.

Fasten your seatbelts as we take off. In the seventh chapter of the book of Romans, Paul has come to the

realization that the law is spiritual. While he was a Pharisee,

he thought of the law as physical, intended to control man's outward actions.

But when he came to the realization that the law was spiritual,

then he realized that the law actually condemned him to death

because though he had physically kept the law spiritually, he had violated it.

And so he said that his problem was that the law was spiritual and he was carnal.

And therefore he found himself in this dilemma. Whenever he would intend to do good,

evil was present with him. And oftentimes the good that he would do, he didn't do. Many

times the evil that he wouldn't do he was doing.

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