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 speaks to the Jews as we pick up in Acts chapter 22 verse one. And now with

today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the 22nd chapter of Acts?

Pick up on Paul where we left him last week in that very dramatic moment.

Paul, in spite of repeated warnings from the Holy Spirit,

has returned to Jerusalem,

where he has received a very cool reception from the church

and a very stern reception by the Jews.

For while he was in the temple, minding his own business,

not doing anything to disturb anyone, going through the right of purification,

according to the Jewish law in order that he might celebrate the Passover,

not the Passover, but the Feast of Pentecost that year.

Some of the Jews from Asia when they saw him there were incensed because they had been following Paul all over Asia

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