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's wish for Rome as we pick up in Romans chapter 1 verse 10. And now with

today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

Paul is at Corinth. He's going to head for Jerusalem. He doesn't know what waits him in

Jerusalem, except that everywhere he goes, the Spirit is telling him that bonds and imprisonment

await him there. And yet as he writes to those in Rome, he's saying, I'm hoping to come to you.

I'm praying that if by any means I might have a prosperous journey to you by the will of God.

Now, Paul had said, I must also see Rome.

Later when he was in prison in Jerusalem, discouraged and defeated, the Lord said,

even as you have testified of me here in

Jerusalem, Paul, be of good cheer because you must also testify me of Rome. So he did come to Rome

by the will of God. I don't know that you, well, it was a prosperous journey, though he was shipwrecked

and the whole thing, you know, yet by being shipwrecked on the island of Malta,

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