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 eats with the Gentiles as we pick up in Galatians chapter 2, verse 14.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck. Everybody's sharing all of their food,

all sitting together and eating together. And so Peter came down and he just sat with him and ate with him.

But that's a no-no to a good Jew. For in eating together, you were becoming one with them,

and thus they were becoming one with the Gentiles. And from a Judaistic standpoint,

from an orthodox standpoint, that was bad. But Peter seeing the love of

Christ, realizing, hey, they're just brothers in the Lord, he just sat down with Gentiles and

eight. Now, you remember earlier, when Peter had his revelation on the house top of Simon there in Joppa.

And this sheet was let down and all kinds of unclean animals on it.

The Lord said, Peter Rice, kill and eat.

He said, oh, not me, Lord.

I've never eaten anything unclean. Jesus said, don't call that unclean, which I have cleansed. It happened three times. And then the Lord said, behold, at the gate, there are some men who have come, go with them, don't ask any questions. And so Peter went down to the gate, and here were three men from Cessaria,

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