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,

Born of the Spirit, as we pick up in John chapter 3, verse 7.

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

When a person is born of the spirit, that which is born of the spirit is spirit.

Then the spirit becomes alive and begins to rule within my life.

And now my mind is occupied with the things of the Spirit, with how I might please God,

in the worship of God, in the opening up of my life and my heart unto the things of God and of His Spirit,

and these are the things that now dominate my mind. A mind dominated by the Spirit is called the

mind of the Spirit, which is life and peace and joy. So Jesus said, don't marvel when I said,

you must be born again.

The word must again is one of those words you've got to pay careful attention to

because there you're coming to the heart of the issue

when a person says I must.

When God said you must, it is something that you need to pay careful heed to,

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