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 spiritual birth as we pick up in John chapter 1 verse 11.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck. Someone has put words in the

mouth of that little donkey. I think it was Chitterton. I don't know if I can recall it or not.

When fishes flew and forest walked and figs grew upon a thorn.

Some moment when the moon was blood, then surely I was born.

With ears like errant wings, the devil's walking parody of all four-footed things.

The ancient outlaw of the earth with stubborn, tattered will, mock me, scourge me, I am dumb, but I hold my secrets still, fools.

I also had my day, one fierce day and sweet. I heard the shouts around my ears and there were palm

branches at my feet. He was in the world. The world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

One step further, he came to his own, and his own received him not. One step further, he came to his own and his own received him not.

He said, I am come to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, his own. He was their promised Messiah.

He came to his own, but they said, we have no king but Caesar. They said, we will not have this man

to rule over us, and his own received him not, and the prophecy of Isaiah was fulfilled. He was

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