Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calbury Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with the motivation

for serving God as we pick up in Genesis chapter 22 verse 1.

And now with today's message, here's Pastor Chapp.

Much of what we do for God, again in quotes, is really done for our own glory or honor or benefit or recognition.

God does not recognize your works of the flesh.

That. your works to the flesh. That means that a lot of people are going to be totally wiped out as far as rewards go for the motivation behind their works or service for God was all wrong.

Now it is tragic that so many times we are motivated by ministers to works of the flesh. I was in a conference in the denomination where I was once serving the Lord,

were the supervisor came before the ministers and he said,

now we know that motivating people through competition is carnal.

But it's time we face the fact that the majority of the people

we minister to are carnal and thus we must use carnal motivation.

And so we're going to have a great contest in which we want each of you pastors to challenge another pastor in his church to an attendance contest

and get this competitive thing going. Put up a comparative kind of a graph on the platform and at 10 o'clock one church calls the

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