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, speaking in tongues as we pick up in Acts chapter 2 verse 4. And now with today's study,

here's Pastor Chuck. i am tired of trying to formulate

god i think that god defies any formulation by man but people are always trying to put together a

formula and i guess it's only natural. You know, when you pray for someone

in their healed, you try to think, now, how did I pray, you know, what did I do, you know,

and, you know, something happened here, who, that's great, you know, now how did I do it, you know,

and you're immediately wanting to formulate it. What did I say? Magic words, magic movements, or whatever.

But God defies being formulated by man.

And so they were sitting in this particular case.

And there appeared unto them these cloven tongues like fire, and it was above or upon each of them.

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit.

And in this case, began to speak Glossialia, other tongues, as the Spirit gave them the ability and was prompting their speech.

Now, there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, who were devout men out of every nation under heaven.

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