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- verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

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

in the world, not of the world, as we pick up in 1st Corinthians chapter 5, verse 9.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck. Paul refers to an epistle that he wrote

to the Corinthians, which we do not possess. So we call this 1st Corinthians, but it really is

2nd Corinthians, or maybe even more. We do not know how many letters Paul wrote to them, but he does

refer to a letter that he had already

written to them. I wrote unto you in an epistle not to keep company with fornicators. Yet not

all together with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous or the extortioners, or with idolaters, for then must ye needs go out of the world.

Paul now here is making a definite separation and distinction between our fellowship in the church

and our life in the world. Within the church, we are not to have fellowship with fornicators,

nor with the covetous or with idolaters. Outside of the church, we live in a world that is filled

with fornicators, filled with covetous people, filled with idolaters. And the Christian life is never

intended to be a monastic existence.

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