Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calbury Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with a common

fellowship as we pick up in 1st John chapter 1 verse 3 and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck. Ideally you know if we had an ideal situation, you'd work beautifully.

If every one of us were industrious and all and had an ideal situation,

it could work. You know, it'd have to be a real work of God's spirit of love within our hearts and all, but everyone just

really sharing and concerned and giving, it could be beautiful.

But as long as we're in these bodies of flesh, we're going to have those that would spoil something that was beautiful.

So it didn't work in the early church. The church went bankrupt, actually.

The gendiles had to take up offerings for those in Jerusalem after the mishap really of this experiment in

communism within the early church, not communism as you know it today, a

forced thing, a godless thing, but a communism that grew out of a common desire to benefit everyone

within the fellowship, motivated by love and totally voluntary with Christ at the center.

You're not going to find a perfect government, a perfect form of government as long as man is ruling. It's not going to happen

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