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, the ego and the super ego, as we pick up in First Thessalonians chapter

four, verse eight. And now with today's study here's pastor chuck psychologists tell us that

a person's mental equilibrium or well-balanced life depends upon the difference between their ego and their super ego.

Your ego being your real self and your super ego being your ideal self.

And if there is a vast difference between your ego and your super ego,

then you are mentally disturbed because of this difference

that exists between the two. And the closer a person's ego is to their super ego, the more

well-adjusted that person is mentally. And so when a person is having a conflict,

and he has very high ideals, the superego,

this is me as I really, you know, am within my heart and all.

This is the way I really know I should live and want to live,

but this is the way I'm living.

And if there's a vast difference between the two, then I have real mental problems and I go

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