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.

The price tag of freedom is responsibility.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans.

Author, speaker, senior pastor of Oaklef Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas

and president of the Urban Alternative.

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.

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 were 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 comparing 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.

Blacks will blame whites or vice versa.

Paul will blame the rich.

And all of us join Flip Wilson in blaming the devil.

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,

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