We need to be close to folks who want to give us Jesus' perspective, even if they don't have your money, your car, your house, and your clothes.

Dr Tony Evans says no matter who we are, where we've been, or what we've done, there's no escaping our common dependency.

We're all in need of the same grace.

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 us go to great lengths to give the impression that everything is okay and we've got it all together.

But Dr. Evans says time spent trying to fake it till you make it is meaningless when there's no connection with God and

eternity. Let's join him in the book of revelation as he challenges us to be

authentic in our faith. Leo Decea was a wealthy city known Faith. industry, its banking industry. It would be akin to our common day Wall Street. It

was a very wealthy place to live, work, and raise a family. It was also known for its fashion industry where they made

fancy clothes. Not only was it a financial district and a fashion district, but the city of Leodicea

was a pharmaceutical district. It was known for its medical industry, particularly when it came to eye diseases.

It was specializing in this sad for the eyes to improve the sight of those struggling with seeing.

That is why you will see three areas, finance, fashion, and pharmaceuticals, referred to in Revelation Chapter 3,

v. 14 to the end of the chapter. Jesus as he does in each one of these

churches introduces himself as he wants you to see him now the ruling king and head of the church. And he says in verse 14 to the

angel of the church at Leodicea, right. The Amen, the faithful, and the true witness, the beginning of the creation

of God says this. So before he gets into what he wants to say, he wants you to know who's doing the talking.

He says to the church at Leo Deceia and our church today, I am the Amen. Amen means so be it. It is so. Amen means the final word on the subject.

He says in verse 15, I know your deeds.

That you are neither hot nor cold.

I wish you were hot or cold.

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