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,

what has God called you to be as we pick up in 2 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 1.

And now with today's study, here pastor chuck tonight let's turn to second

corinthians chapter one the church of corin had been a divided church there was a lot of carnality

a lot of problems in their doctrines.

That prompted Paul's first epistle, which is a rather stern epistle, and was a

corrective epistle, seeking to correct a lot of the doctrinal errors that did exist,

seeking to bring them from their carnality into a real spiritual walk.

A mark of their carnality, one of the marks of their carnality,

was the party spirit that existed.

For some were saying, I'm Baptist, and others were saying I'm Presbyterian,

and others were saying I'm Nazarene.

Or they were actually saying, I'm of Paulus, I'm of Cephas, I'm of Paul, I'm of Christ. And these little party spirits dividing

the body of Christ. And so Paul wrote to rebuke this party spirit. He wrote to correct their carnality, their doctrinal errors.

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