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 doctrine of the manifestation as we pick up in Romans chapter 8, verse 19.

And now with today's study,'s Pastor Chuck the earnest expectation of the

creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God now unfortunately

there are those radical groups that take a verse like this and a phrase,

manifestation of the sons of God, and they use it to build a whole pernicious doctrine.

And this doctrine has a way of cycling.

It becomes popular about every 40 years.

30 years maybe.

The last time it was popular was 1948,

and it's beginning to get popular again.

So 30 years, span, 35 years.

This doctrine of the manifestation of the sons of God is sort of a heady kind of a doctrine. It surely appeals to a person's

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