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 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,

rejoice in the Lord as we pick up in Philippians chapter 3 verse 1.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck. So we turn now in our

Bibles to Philippians chapter 3. Again, remember the background of this epistle. Paul is

chained to a Roman soldier in Rome, in prison, writing to the Philippians, the keynote of the epistle is

rejoice, and he said, finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. You know, oftentimes it is

extremely difficult to rejoice in circumstances.

In fact, I think sometimes it's impossible to rejoice in circumstances.

You know, I just did a dumb thing.

I ran through a red light and hit somebody, and I'm being sued for a million dollars.

It's hard to rejoice in circumstances. But you can always rejoice in the Lord because he's above circumstances.

So the exhortation in the scripture is always that of rejoicing in the Lord. And Paul writes, to write the same things to you,

indeed is not grievous. In other words, here I am. I'm chained in prison, but I don't find it hard

to write this to you. I'm rejoicing here in the Lord. I'm sure he wasn't rejoicing in the

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