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 Man After God's Heart, as we pick up in Acts chapter 13, verse 22. And now with

today's study, here's Pastor Chuck. God is always seeking for a man after his

own heart who will do his will. Too many times we have self at the center of our lives, as did Saul.

And because self is at the center of our lives, we're interested and more interested

in doing our will than we are doing God's will, and we often rebel against the will of God.

When it comes to a choice, my will or God's will, too often we take our will over God's.

So God's was seeking for a man over God's. So God was seeking for a man after his own heart.

During the time of Ezekiel, he declares,

and God sought for a man among them who would stand in the gap, who would fill in the hedge,

but he found none.

How tragic.

God searching for a man, after his own heart who would do his will, in the time of Ezekiel,

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