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, true faith,

as we pick up in First Thessalonians chapter 1, verse 3.

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

If you have true faith, there is that work that is the natural result of faith.

And if the faith does not affect your actions, then it is not a true faith.

A person with true faith, that faith will affect what they do.

It has an effect upon their actions, upon their works.

It is producing a work in their life.

And so the work of faith, faith is not a work, but faith does produce a certain result in us, the work of faith. The labor of love. Now, the word labor,

as we pointed out to you last Thursday night as we studied this word in the message of Jesus

to the Church of Ephesus in Revelation 2. The word means to labor to the point

of weariness or exhaustion. And only love can bring that kind of labor. And how many times do we see this exemplified in a mother going

around the house laboring to the point of exhaustion, especially when the children are little,

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