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,

You Can't Save Yourself as we pick up in 1 Timothy chapter 2 verse 6.

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

God touched man through Jesus, and in turn, man can touch God through Jesus. One God,

one mediator, who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time.

You see, we were all sinners, and as a sinner I was totally unable to redeem myself. Nothing I could do to redeem myself.

Nothing I could do to save myself.

Nothing I could do to make myself righteous.

There's nothing that I could do that could atone for my past guilt.

Now you might say that there are high sinners and there are low sinners.

There are good sinners and there are bad sinners.

But they're all sinners.

And really it doesn't matter if you're a good sinner or a bad sinner.

None of us can redeem ourselves. But Jesus

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