When the relationship becomes secondary to the program you're living in sin.

Dr Tony Evans says Christian activity alone can't guard against letting the world crowd out Christ.

There's pressure not to put him first.

So you've got to overcome that pressure.

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.

Dr Evans says what we do with Christ is even more important than what we do for him.

Today he talks about the importance of keeping that love at the top of our priority list.

Let's join him.

God wants you to win, which means there's something that you need to overcome.

Something that is seeking to defeat, oppress, to make you a victim and not allow you to be a victor. The number seven

in the scripture means to come to completion. So when we unpack each one of these seven messages to the seven

churches, you will have enough to overcome. You can overcome in a number of different ways, but the principle should be operating

in your heart and in your life. The first church we come to is the church at Ephesus.

To appreciate and understand Ephesus, all you have to do is understand New York.

Ephesus was the New York of Asia Minor, now known as Turkey. But here in the Book of

of Revelation, he is not writing because all is well. He is writing because of a situation that

needed to be addressed for people who wanted to be overcomers as I hope that we do.

He makes it clear in the first verse that this was written

for the angel of that house that is God's messenger the word angel from the Greek

word Angalas means messenger that the messenger the pastor you will, was to proclaim this message to the congregation

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