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, God will give you the ability as we pick up in John

chapter 5 verse 9. And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

Many times the Lord gives to us commands that to us seem like impossible commands.

Maybe there's an area of weakness in our life that we have struggled with for years.

It has kept us in a defeated state. And the Lord says,

all right. Now don't do that again. I say, oh, Lord, you don't know how I'd like to quit. Oh, you don't

know how miserable I am when I do this. I don't get any joy out of it. And we argue with Jesus.

And we tell them all the times we've tried. We told them all of the programs that we've been on, all of the books we've read,

all of the money we've spent trying to change our behavioral patterns. And I'm still the same.

And we're arguing with him, rather than willing to obey.

Now, one thing we must learn, and that is, though Jesus gives to us what seems to be an

impossible command, that Jesus never commands us to do anything, but if we will

but will to do it, he will in that moment give to us all of the capacity, all of the power,

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