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. Our works will be judged as we pick up in 2 Corinthians chapter 5,

verse 10. And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

There are two ways of praying.

One is to pray to be heard of men and to be known by men as a man of prayer.

To receive the approval, favor, awe of men because I am a godly man of prayer.

Or there are prayers that are unto God.

Prayers in the closet, the secret prayers, and I'm not really concerned about man hearing me pray,

but about God. Now, if I'm praying for the effect that it will have on men, so men will say, oh, my, what a wonderful man of prayer, then Jesus said you have your reward.

Everybody knows what a wonderful man of prayer you are.

But you should rather pray to your father which sees in secret, and then your father, which sees in secret, will reward you.

Now, it all depends on where you want to get your perks.

If you want to get them from man now, then you can go ahead and live your religious life in such a way

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