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-ch 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 and Barnabas face opposition as we pick up in Acts chapter 14 verse 1.

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

Shall we turn in our Bibles to Acts chapter 14? Paul and Barnabas in carrying the gospel

have come into the uncharted territories as far as the gospel is concerned, into Asia Minor. They came from

Cyprus to the area that is now known as Turkey. They did not remain in the coastal plains of

pamphilia. It is thought that Paul probably got malaria fever.

It was a very prevalent thing around the coastal plains of Pamphalia at that time.

And later on, when Paul wrote to the Galatians,

he spoke to them about how sick he was when he was there with them.

So the fact that Paul did not stay in Pamphalia, but immediately moved into the upper plateau country of Pisidia,

to the city of Antioch, that he was going up there for actually help reasons as much as anything else,

coming into the area of Galatia.

There in Antioch, they went into the synagogue, they preached Jesus Christ,

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