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 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, Paul and Marriage, as we pick up in 1st Corinthians chapter 7 verse 1.

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

Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the seventh chapter of 1st Corinthians?

The Corinthian church was a mess. There were just a lot of problems, a problem with carnality.

There were divisions in the church.

Some saying they were of Cephas or Peter, others saying they were of Paul.

Some saying they were of Apollus.

They were suing each other at law, going to the earthly courts.

And Paul had received the report, and so he wrote to them about these things.

But basically, his purpose of writing was to answer a letter that they had sent to him

with certain questions. And so Paul, beginning with Chapter 7, is responding now to their letter

and the questions that they had asked in their letter to him.

Now it is important that we understand really the background of this situation in Corinth.

Corinth was an extremely pagan city.

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