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

study through the entire Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck

continues his message, Paul brought before Agrippa as we pick up in Acts chapter 26 verse 1.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck. Let's open our Bibles to the 26th

chapter of Acts. Paul was rescued by Lysius, the captain of the Roman guard, from the mob that was

attempting to beat him to death in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount.

He was taken into protective custody by the Roman government, sent under special guard to

Cesarea for his own protection, where he appeared before the governor Felix,

who held Paul a prisoner for two years,

more or less as a political pawn,

when Festus became the governor in Felix's place,

who had been replaced by the Roman Empire because of his corruption,

Festus heard Paul's case and began to give Paul the runaround, saying,

are you willing to go to Jerusalem and answer these charges? And Paul said, I appeal to Caesar.

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