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

study through the entire Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck continues

his message, strive for spiritual things as we pick up in John chapter 6 verse 26. And now with today's study,

here's Pastor Chuck.

There are many ministers who encourage people to seek Jesus, encouraging them with wrong

motivations. Encouraging people to do the work of God with wrong motivations.

Now we're going to give a bicycle to the one who brings the most new members into the Sunday

school in the next, you know, five months.

And so we're motivating all these little kids with carnal motivation, teaching them to do

the work of God through the carnal rewards.

God help us how far we've come from the straight and narrow.

He said, don't labor for that meat which perishes,

but for that meat which endures to everlasting life. Don't labor for the material things. Don't strive

for material things, but strive for spiritual things. The spiritual is superior to the material.

That was the constant claim that Jesus made, and that is what men are constantly challenging today.

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