The very thing you may be doing to make yourself free, may be the very thing keeping you behind bars.

Dr. Tony Evans says freedom in Christ isn't about the religious things we do.

And nothing will destroy your spiritual progress, like a self-sufficient, flesh-based approach to life.

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

The Lord didn't set us free from sin just to become slaves to a set of religious rules.

But today, Dr. Evans examines why so many Christians do exactly

that, thinking they're doing it for God. Let's join him, as he explains. A man from a foreign

country living under an oppressive regime was able to get away and come to the United States

of America to live.

When he arrived, his first day in America, and as he looked around and saw all of the things that were part of this new environment,

he looked at his watch and noticed that it was almost 7 o'clock.

He panicked.

He found a stranger on the street and he said, please, sir, help me.

The man said, well, what's wrong?

He says, it's almost 7 o'clock.

The man said, well, so?

I've got to get back. I've got to get back to my room. It's almost 7 o'clock. The man said, well, so? I've got to get back. I've got to get back to my room.

It's almost 7 o'clock. He says, well, why do you have to get back to your room? Because it's almost 7 o'clock.

He says, because curfew is at 7. The gentleman is really confused now. He says, well, what do you mean? Curfew is at seven? The gentleman is really confused now.

He says, well, what do you mean?

Curfew, is it seven?

He says, well, where I'm from, you have to be in by seven,

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