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,

The Advantage of the Jew, as we pick up in Romans chapter 3, verse 1.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

Shall we turn in our Bibles now to Romans chapter 3?

Paul has just told the Jew that having the law does not justify a person.

It is the keeping of the law that justifies one.

That circumcision really has no value in just the ritual itself.

But it is the circumcision of the heart, spiritual circumcision, that God really counts.

Therefore, if a person is really walking after the spirit, though he may not have had the

physical right of circumcision, still God counts what is in his heart.

So if circumcision doesn't really do anything for me, if having the law doesn't do anything

for me as far as giving me a righteous standing before God, then the question would naturally

arise, and Paul brings it up in chapter 3, verse 1, what advantage then doth the Jew have?

Being a Jew, what advantage is it?

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