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,

trust in God, as we pick up in 2 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 8.

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

Paul was in Ephesus, and many people were turning to Christ.

And so Demetrius, the silversmith, called together all of those of his trade.

And he said, fellas, do you realize that this new sect that is being preached here

in Ephesus is destroying our business? We've made our livelihood selling all of these relics

of the goddess Diana. Now they are teaching that Diana isn't a

goddess. Our business is suffering. Our profits are down. If this gospel continues to spread,

we could be out of business.

We've got to do something.

And so they grabbed a couple of the disciples who had been working with Paul, who were from Macedonia.

And they drug them into the big arena.

They're in Ephesus.

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