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-ch 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 giving of the Macedonia Church, as we pick up in 2 Corinthians chapter 7, verse 16.

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

Paul being an apostle to the Gentile is desiring to take to Jerusalem to the Jewish

believers a good, healthy sum of money to help them in their poverty to sort of break down the feelings that existed in the

Jewish believers towards the Gentile believers.

He felt that he could bring to them a generous offering from the Gentiles that this wall of partition that more or less existed between them could be broken down and they would realize the oneness of the family of God as they received help and support from the Gentile believers, a token of their love and esteem for Jerusalem.

Now it was from the Church in Jerusalem that the gospel went out.

And so there was a debt in a sense of the Gentile believers to the Church in Jerusalem,

for it was the result of the church in Jerusalem sending out

the apostles and all that they receive the gospel. So Paul comes back now and spends the

eighth chapter in the issue over the offering that he wanted them to take for the church in

Jerusalem. And in encouraging them to give for the church in Jerusalem.

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