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,

The Earthen Vessel, as we pick up in 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 7.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor pastor chuck isn't it stupid for man to glory in

himself to glory in the clay pot rather than in the contents norman grub in his book the Things of God, makes the statement that man's highest capacity is that of being a vessel containing God.

The fact that God will dwell in you, man's highest capacity, a vessel that can contain the eternal God.

I read the book I was impressed by that statement.

I thrilled at his exposition of that concept.

But then I got to thinking about it. and I thought, no, he's wrong.

That is not the highest capacity of man.

There is one capacity that excels that.

And that is the capacity of being a channel through which God will flow to a world

around you. One thing to contain God, glorious, oh my yes. No underestimating of the glory,

of being able to contain God.

But, oh, one step further, when God through me pours forth his love to the world around me.

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