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, Paul's tearful letter.

As we pick up in 2 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 1.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck. But I determined this with

myself that I would not come again unto you in heaviness. I wrote a heavy letter to you,

but I was determined that I wasn't going to come again in heaviness. For if I make you sorry

by having to rebuke you and deal with those issues, who is it then

that makes me glad but the same ones that I made sorry?

You rejoice me, you cause my heart to rejoice when I see your faithfulness and all, but here

I am rejoicing in the very same persons,

they're causing me to rejoice the very same persons that I had to make sorry.

So I wrote this same unto you lest that when I came I should have sorrow from them

of whom I ought to rejoice. Having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

So I didn't want to have sorrow when I came. I wanted it to be a joyful experience when I

come. I want us both to be able to rejoice. For out of much affliction and

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