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 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 Simple Things, as we pick up in 1st Corinthians chapter 1, verse 28.

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

The base things of the world and the things which are despised hath God chosen.

Yea, the things which are not, to bring to not the things which are. God uses simple things.

And the purpose is that no flesh should glory in his sight.

Now, if God would use mighty men and noble men and all,

then these men would glory in his sight.

People would glory in the men that God was using.

God doesn't want any flesh to glory in his sight, and so he uses the foolishness of preaching.

And he uses simple people, base people, not many wise, not many mighty, not many noble, to do his work.

Because he wants the glory for the work that he does.

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.

These are the things that we find in Jesus and in the preaching of the cross of Jesus Christ, the wisdom of God.

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