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,

a loving relationship with God as we pick up in Galatians chapter 1, verse 7.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

There are still those today who are perverting the good news of Jesus Christ.

By again placing man under certain legal obligations or legal restraints, imposing upon man their rules, their regulations,

their standards for holiness.

That is not a gospel.

If you give me a list of rules that I must abide by in order to be spiritual, that is not a gospel.

I lived for years in a legalistic relationship with God, trying to follow the rules, trying to follow the regulations, signing the pledge.

Annually, we had a pledge signing.

As we committed ourselves to these rules, I will not do this and that and the other thing.

And I had a legal relationship with God that I had all kinds of problems with.

Because though I had signed the pledge, many times I did not keep the pledge that I had signed.

And so I felt doubly guilty.

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