Oppression in any form is against the will of God, no matter how legitimate it's been made to sound.

Dr. Tony Evans says some of us have gotten so used to being dominated, we've forgotten that we've been set free to serve God.

You have been created and you have been redeemed to be free.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives

of Dr. Tony Evans.

Most people associate oppression with demonic activity, slavery, or life under a dictatorship.

But Dr. Evans says it can take many forms.

Let's join him as he talks about how we can find our way

out of oppression and into freedom.

Today I want to talk to you about freedom from oppression.

What do we mean by oppression?

Oppression is imposed domination of another person or a group of people in order to control them mentally, physically, emotionally, and the worst of all, spiritually, in order to stifle their aspirations and limit their potential.

To be oppressed is to be dominated or held down or suppressed in such a way as to cancel or control or to limit your divinely ordained potential.

Everyone here who has been created by God, which is everyone here, was created with potential. Things that God has endowed you with

in order to realize your maximum abilities to be used under God. Your potential. A baby is a

potential adult. It has to get there, but the potential for adulthood is resonant in the baby. That's where they're going.

Oppression seeks to hold that down, to limit you, to stifle you, to control you so you don't reach your potential.

So that you're stopped from maximizing your divinely ordained reason for even being here.

It involves restricting your God-given human potential so that it can stop God's plan for your life.

It's called oppression.

Now, oppression can take many forms on many levels.

There is political oppression.

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