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- verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message,

the end of Satan's rebellion as we pick up in 1st Corinthians chapter 15, verse 25.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

There was only one government in the universe.

The government of God, a government of light and life,

and all of the created beings within the universe were subject to that government.

But one day a brilliant, beautiful creature of God,

with the name Son of the Morning, Lucifer, who was perfect in beauty and perfect in wisdom and perfect in all of his ways until iniquity was found in him,

said in his heart, I'm going to exalt my throne above the stars of God.

I'm going to ascend into the mount, into the congregation, the sides of the north.

I'm going to be like the most high.

And Satan, Lucifer, rebelled against the authority of God

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