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 unbelieving spouse, as we pick up in 1st Corinthians chapter 7,

verse 12. And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck. But to the rest, I speak and not the

Lord, dealing now with the special situations. If a brother has a wife that does not believe,

and she's content to dwell with him, let him not put her away. And if the woman which has a husband that believes not,

and if he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. For the unbelieving husband is

sanctified by the wife and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband, else were your children unclean, but now are they holy.

So either the husband or the wife believing,

bring into the home a holy environment by which the children are covered.

Many times I am questioned as to the fate of children who die.

Or more often, the question arises if the church is raptured, or when the church is raptured, will the little children all go up in the rapture?

I can speak for surety on the children of a saved parent, either one or both, that they are protected and covered by the believing parent.

I do not have that same surety where the parents are unbelievers. I personally feel that

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