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's commitment to the Lord as we pick up in Acts chapter 21 verse 10. And now with

today's study, here's Pastor Chuck. So they stayed there for many days,

and there came down from Judea a certain prophet named Agabus. Now, he had earlier been the

prophet who had come to Antioch and had prophesied the great drought that would come. And when he was

coming to us, he took Paul's

girdle, and he bound his own hands and feet and said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit. So shall the Jews at Jerusalem

bind the man that owns this girdle and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. And when we heard

these things, both we and those of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem. Then Paul

answered, what do you mean by this weeping? You're to break my heart for i am ready not to be bound only

but i'm also ready to die at jerusalem for the name of the lord jesus you're trying to persuade me

by tears hey fellas i'm not afraid of being bound. I'm ready to die for the Lord Jesus.

Now, was it Paul, was it the will of the Lord that Paul go to Jerusalem? When he was there at Tyre,

the spirit warned him not to go to Jerusalem. Here the Holy Spirit, you know, Agabus takes Paul's girdle, binds his hand and

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