One of the reasons many believers are not seeing God come through, they do not keep His word and or they deny His name.

Dr Tony Evans talks about how the Lord uses his keys to the kingdom to unlock doors for obedient

believers. He wants to know that you are a full-time Christian, not a part-time saint.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior

pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas and president of the Urban

Alternative.

A lot of people want to take what Jesus offers,

but don't want to follow what he says.

Dr Evans takes us to Revelation 3.7 today

as he explains why that strategy doesn't work.

Let's join him.

When you audit a course in college,

what you are saying is I want the information without the responsibility.

I want to learn whatever the course is seeking to teach, but don't give me homework and don't give me exams.

Well, in college, you need to know that when you audit a course, you don't get credit for it,

because you didn't put in what the course required. And when you

audit the Christian life by coming to hear the word to be inspired and encouraged by the word, but to not act on the word that you've heard,

you may have more knowledge and you may be more inspired, but you won't be changed.

Because the transformation in the life

through the word has to be activated by obedience. Without that, it becomes information with no

credit that is no transforming value.

We're now at the sixth church that the Apostle John is written,

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