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, Peter denies Christ as we pick up in John chapter 18, verse 13. And now with

today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

I think that that would be wise for a lot of these evangelists and healers and all around

the country today to realize how angry God gets when people try to merchandise the gospel or to put in the way of men barriers to their coming to God.

People who try to enrich themselves off of the gospel would do well to study the anger of Jesus when he found this going on within the temple courts.

Anus had it in for Jesus.

Ever since he had overturned his little business, Naturally, they put things right back together again.

But it galled him that Jesus would have the nerve

to upset his extortion racket.

And so he was first brought to this man, an extortioner, a wealthy man, a sadducee.

And there he was first tried before Anus, then to Caiaphas, then to Pilate.

And so they brought him to Anas, who was the high priest, the father-in-law to

Caiaphas, who was the high priest that same year. So that's why there were two high

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