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 verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message,

the Lamb of God, as we pick up in John chapter 1, verse 36.

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

As John is writing the Book of Revelation, the Book of Revelation centers around the

Lamb of God.

To understand the Book of Revelation, you've got to see the Lamb.

And our first view of the Lamb of God, of course, is in the first chapter of Revelation as he describes Christ in his glory.

But then as he gets into the heavenly scene, chapter 5, when he was weeping, sobbing convulsively, because no one was found worthy to take the scroll or loose the seals.

And the elder said

unto him, John, don't sob. Behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah hath prevailed to take the scroll and

loose the seals. And I turned, and I saw him as a lamb that had been slaughtered. And he came and he took

the scroll out of the right hand of him that was sitting upon the throne. And and he took the scroll out of the right hand of him that was

sitting upon the throne. And when he took the scroll out of the right hand of him sitting upon

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