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, Paul, a prisoner for Jesus Christ, as we pick up in Ephesians chapter

three verse one. And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck. Let's turn to the third

chapter of the book of Ephesians. For this cause, Paul said, I the prisoner of Jesus Christ

for you Gentiles. It is interesting that Paul was actually a prisoner of Rome,

but as far as he was concerned, he was a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

That's the one he was really bound to.

A prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles.

The reason why Paul was persecuted and the reason why

Paul was imprisoned is because he was insisting that the Gentiles could be saved by their believing

in Jesus Christ and this upset the Jews who felt that the Gentiles could only be

saved by becoming Jews. Thus, a Gentile could not be saved. Only Jews could be saved,

and a Gentile had to become a Jew in order to be saved. So Paul's insistence that God is now offering salvation to the Gentiles

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