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, do it willingly as we pick up in Philemon chapter 1 verse 13. And now with

today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

God does not want anything we do for him or give to him to be given out of necessity or out of pressure.

God never uses pressure tactics on man. Now, man often uses pressure tactics. I get some extremely high-pressured

letters filled with hype from a lot of these evangelists who would have me to believe that God is broke.

And they are telling me how much money to send and to send it immediately.

And even suggesting that if I don't have it immediately available

to go down to the bank and borrow it and send it to them,

to bail God out of the jam that he's in, because he overspent again last month.

Pressure.

Paul said, I don't want to receive anything from you by anything. pressure.

Paul said, I don't want to receive anything from you by necessity, by pressure, by manipulation.

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