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 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 Wise became fools as we pick up in Romans chapter 1 verse 21.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck. When they knew God, they would not glorify

him as God. Neither were they thankful, but they became vain in their imaginations. And their

foolish heart was darkened. And professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

Now, you see, what Paul is telling them is that God has revealed himself through nature.

Man can know God through nature.

Nature is a revelation of God.

It's speaking to man of the existence of God.

It's declaring the glory of God, his power, his wonders.

But if a man doesn't want to hold the truth of God, he doesn't want to glorify God as God, he wants to elevate himself to the God level, I am God. For I am the master of my fate. I am the captain

of my soul. I am God. I am self-governed man. Then as he looks at nature, he looks at nature

from a presuppositional position that God does not exist.

And he then attempts to explain the myriad phenomena of nature apart from God by natural phenomena,

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