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 Torture Method of Scouraging, as we pick up in Acts chapter 22,

verse 24. And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck. The chief captain commanded Paul to be brought

into the castle, and he ordered that he should be examined by scourging that they might

understand why the people got so excited. What did he say? He was talking in Hebrew. The captain didn't understand

Hebrew. All he saw is Paul's talking away. Everybody's listening intently until all of a sudden

everybody starts to scream. They start taking him off their clothes and waving him and throwing dirt in

the air and trying to surge towards Paul to get him. And so he takes him in, he says, scourge him, find out what he said.

Scourging was a method of inquisition. It was what used to be called the third degree. Now the

prisoner has so many rights that if the officer doesn't say, please, the judge will let him off.

But in those days, the Roman government would scourge a prisoner, which was a method of eliciting

by torture the confessions from a prisoner.

Most generally, they would tie his hands with thongs, the leather

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