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 persecution of the Christian, as we pick up in 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 11.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck. Timothy was from Listra.

Paul met him on his first missionary journey. At that time, Timothy was just a very young boy, probably

in his mid-teens.

And yet he was attracted to Paul the Apostle because of the message that Paul bore.

Timothy had been schooled in the scriptures from his early youth by his mother and grandmother.

And so as Paul began to, with the scriptures, prove that Jesus was the Messiah.

With Timothy's background, he could see the truth of it.

And he embraced Christianity.

But he was probably standing there in Listra when the people in the city stoned Paul until they thought he was dead and drug him out of the city.

And he was probably in the company of those that were standing around sort of crying

as they saw Paul's limp body on the ground.

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