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

first study through the entire Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck

continues his message, Nero and Paul as we pick up in Luke, chapter 21, verse 13. And now with

today's study, here's Pastor Chalk.

Paul was taken before Nero.

There is nothing in the biblical account that tells us what Paul said.

But as we study secular history, it would seem that Nero wasn't too bad a fellow.

He was actually very anxious to leave his mark upon Rome and to build some

monuments in Rome. His castle is a great monument in itself that has been uncovered

recently. But Nero wasn't really too awful a fellow until in history, until he met this fellow Paul

the apostle. The first time that Paul was imprisoned in Rome, he had his opportunity. You remember

when he was before Festus, he appealed to Caesar.

And so he was sent to Rome, placed there in prison, where he wrote his Philippian epistle,

and he had his chance to go before Nero.

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