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 stands up for the Gentiles as we pick up in Galatians chapter 2 verse 2.

And now with today's study, here's's pastor chuck i went up by revelation and

communicated unto them that gospel which i was preaching among the gentiles but i communicated it to them

privately those that were reputation less by any means I should run or had run in vain.

In other words, he didn't really proclaim it openly to the church in Jerusalem

because the church in Jerusalem was made up of a lot of former Pharisees

and a lot of Jews who were still following the traditions of the law

and who were still very observant in many aspects to the law.

Jews who believe still that you could not be a Christian if you were a Gentile.

Jews that still held to the fact that the only way you could be saved was by believing in Jesus

Christ and then keeping the law of Moses and being circumcised. That was the basic mindset of the

church in Jerusalem. And so Paul communicated in private to the apostles the gospel that he had been preaching,

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