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 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's

foolish statement as we pick up in Romans chapter 9 verse 1.

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

Let's turn now in our Bibles to Romans the 9th chapter.

Paul has just closed the 8th chapter of Romans in which he has taken us into the very

peaks of the spiritual experiences that are ours in Christ Jesus, showing us that

we have this glorious place in the Lord where nothing can separate us from the love of God.

Neither tribulation or distress nor persecution, nor famine, nor peril,

nor nakedness, nor sword, for he is persuaded,

that in all of these things we are more than conquers

than that death nor life, nor angels, nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present

nor things to come nor any other creature shall be able to separate you from the love of God which is

in Christ Jesus our Lord oh what a glorious. Now, as Paul sees what God has

done for the Gentiles in bringing them into this glorious relationship with God. And as he

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