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-ch chapter verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message,

actions confirm belief as we pick up in Galatians chapter 3 verse 6.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck. So he now enters into this principle,

coming back to Abraham, even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

What? His believing God. Now, it is true that his belief in God was manifested by

his obedience to God. It isn't just saying, well, I believe in the Lord. I believe in Jesus.

It's more than just a verbal assent to the truth.

If I indeed believe my belief will be demonstrated by my actions.

If I stood here tonight before you and said, friends, I believe there's going to be a violent earthquake in 10 minutes

that's going to level this building. God's revealed to me that the San Andreas fault line is

about ready to, you know, to let go. And in fact, in just now it's, it's actually only

nine minutes and 40 seconds, that this thing is just going to be flattened.

And I just went on talking and all. He said, oh, he really doesn't believe that. Why? Because

my actions are not consistent with what I am saying. You see, if I really believe, I say, hey, let's get out of here.

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