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, Your destiny is in your hands as we pick up in John chapter 19 verse 16. And now with today's study,

here's Pastor Chuck. There's an interesting paradox here.

As I told you, Jesus was the one that was in control of the whole scene. Pilot was supposedly

the judge, Jesus was the plaintiff. In reality, Pilot was the plaintiff. His decision was not to affect Jesus at all

because what God had preordained was going to take place.

Pilate's decision did not affect Jesus.

What Jesus had to do, he had to do.

What he did, he did.

Pilots' decision affected his destiny.

His own destiny was determined by the decision he made,

and even so with you. Though in a sense you must make your judgment, what am I going to do with

Christ, your decision does not at all alter the destiny of Jesus Christ. What he is, he is,

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