You can't complete what you are left here to do if you don't even know what you're here to do.

Dr. Tony Evans says when you know your divine purpose, the Lord will grant you the power to carry it out.

God will never reveal something to you that he knows you're not ready to do something with.

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

God designed human beings for more than just being.

Today, Dr. Evans takes us to Ephesians Chapter 2, where we'll discover what more than being ought to look like.

Let's join him. When God created Adam, he said, I'm going to let you rule. You get to rule the world.

And I'm going to start you off with a garden, your world, your plot of land.

And I'm going to give you two things with this rule. You're going to have authority,

because I'm going to let you rule. I am not going to rule independent of you. I'm not going to

rule in place of you. I'm going to rule through you. I'm going to let you rule. So I'm going to

give you authority to run your world for good or for bad. But I'm also going to let you rule. So I'm going to give you authority to run your world for good or for bad.

But I'm also going to give you, if you run your world like I want your world run,

I'm going to make provision for your world.

In other words, I'm going to take care of you as you run your world my way.

Now, if you run your world your way, then you have to take care of you as you run your world my way. Now, if you run your world your way, then you have to take care of yourself.

But if you run your world my way, I'm not going to only give you authority over it.

I'm going to make provision for it.

So God created Adam.

He created his world.

He said, be fruitful and multiply, replicate the image of God worldwide, and manage your garden, your world, and manage it under me if you want to see it be productive as it can be.

Of course, we know sin entered the picture

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