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

verse study through the entire Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today, Pastor Chuck

continues his message, the spiritual body as we pick up in Acts 24, verse 15. And now with today's study,

here's Pastor Chuck. Jesus said in my father's house are many

mansions. Now people, I'm sure, have a wrong concept of that. As you think of some beautiful estate

on 10 acres with beautiful gardens and a 10-bedroom mansion, you know.

Big columns in the front and, you know, you each have your dream mansion.

I really believe that Jesus was referring to the building of God not made with hands,

that new body that he has for me.

He said, I'm going to prepare a place for you.

And if I go and prepare a place, I'm going to come again and receive you unto myself

that where I am there you may be also.

You see, in my new body, I'm not going to need a bathroom or a bedroom.

So he's talking about the building of God, not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Notice the contrast, a bedroom. So he's talking about the building of God

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