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 overflowing of the Holy Spirit as we pick up in Acts chapter 19 verse 2.

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

Norman Grub in his book, The Deep Things of God, declares that man's greatest capacity

is that of a vessel. For God has created man with the capacity to contain God.

We have this treasure in earthen vessels.

And so he declares that the greatest capacity of man is that of a vessel that can contain God.

And he goes on and he got me quite excited one day when I was listening to him at Forest

Home about being a vessel containing the eternal God, the creator of the universe. Oh, how glorious.

But as I began to study it, I realized that Norman Grubb came short.

And as I was reading the book having listened to him,

and I came again to this concept, I said, Norman, you're wrong.

The greatest capacity of man is not that of being a vessel to contain God,

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