Deliverance is not the same as freedom.

All deliverance does is gain you the opportunity to pursue freedom.

But Dr. Tony Evans says the freedom we're pursuing needs to be kept in balance.

And the price tag of freedom is responsibility.

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

Most of us love doing things for our kids, but we also know it's important to teach them responsibility.

Let's join Dr. Evans right now as he explains how God maintains that essential balance with us.

Freedom is released from illegitimate bondage so that you can experience what you were

created and redeemed to be. It is the clarion word of mankind. It was in the mind of the Creator

that freedom would be your normative experience in life.

But freedom carries a very expensive price tag.

And the price tag of freedom is responsibility. If freedom is your desire and freedom is your goal,

if you wish to experience what you are created to be, it will require you paying the price of

responsibility. We live in a day when so many want the benefits of freedom without the concurring responsibility

that accompanied it. You hear it so much today in everybody blaming everyone but themselves

for the predicament that they're in. Kids will blame parents for the way they are today.

Folks with lung cancer will blame cigarettes for their disease.

That is certainly not to suggest that there are not elements of truth,

that they have been contributing circumstances to my circumstance today.

But if our discussion is freedom, if you spend all your time blaming, the influences that

have put you in the situation today, you'll never get around to taking responsibility

for getting out of it.

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