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, discernment,

as we pick up in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 12.

And now with today's study, here's chuck paul tells us in romans chapter 1

that it was when man did not want to retain god in his mind god gave him over to a mind that was

empty of god because they didn't want the truth of god, then God allowed them to believe a lie.

Here the same thing is declared.

They don't want to believe the truth, so what does God do?

He says, all right, you don't want to believe the truth.

Then go ahead and believe the lie.

And he allows them to be deceived into believing a lie.

Now, as a child of God, God won't let you believe a lie. God's spirit

will warn you. I'm thrilled. When some of these new babes in Christ come to me and they say,

Chuck, I was watching someone on TV the other day, but it just didn't seem

right to me. All right, Lord. You won't let him believe the deception and the lies that these

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