When you in your own independence, in your own humanness, are able to live life in your own way,

you just lost the blessing.

Dr. Tony Evans says there's a difference between living a blessed life and just receiving physical

or material blessings.

God promises the blessings with stuff, but stuff is supposed to be the bone. It's not the essence.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr.

Tony Evans.

At one point in the musical fiddler on the roof, the main character declares, it's no shame to be poor. But it's no great honor either.

Well, today Dr. Evans talks about one kind of poverty

that has some divine advantages

as he takes us to Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in Matthew Chapter 5.

If you were to go to Universal Studios,

as many of you have,

either in Florida or in California.

And in these movie lots, you'll see towns and western towns and modern-day towns

where films are done. They will explain to you as you drive through these lots.

What you are looking at, they will tell you, is the facade.

That is where the external looks like it's a town or a city.

But if you were to go on the other side, there's nothing there.

In other words, there's no reality behind what you see.

It looks good, but there's nothing else there.

It's simply to create an impression of a town or a city for the purposes of the film.

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