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-ch chapter verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

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

Not by Works, as we pick up in Titus chapter 3 verse 3.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

Final listing is in the lifestyle, living. What is your lifestyle?

Living in malice and envy. The world around you. James said, from whence come the fightings and the wars among you,

come they not from your own desires, your lust, you desire and you have not. You envy those that do

have. This envy, how hateful it is and how hateful it makes you.

And so hateful and being hated. The world around us.

Paul said, that's the way we were. At one time, we were foolish.

We were slaves, living a miserable lifestyle filled with malice and envy,

hateful and being hated.

Even as he gave the black picture in Ephesians, concluding with by nature the children of wrath,

he began the next verse with the word but, which is a disassociative conjunction.

How I thank God for that disassociative conjunction.

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