You have to be in opposition to your past.

You have to be an opposition to yourself to take up your cross and follow Jesus.

Pastor Jonathan Evans says, if you want to share in the authority of Jesus,

you have to move past self-reliance.

You got to roll with him in order to piggyback on who he is and what he has.

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

Life's biggest questions often revolve around purpose, why we're here and what we're meant to do.

In today's message, special guest Pastor Jonathan Evans

explores how Jesus answered those questions for his followers,

giving them a mission that still applies to us today.

Let's join him in Matthew 28 as he unpacks how to carry out that mission

with purpose and impact.

I don't know if you know it or not, but Jesus has given the church marching orders.

So if you're confused on what your calling is, if you're trying to figure out what God is

telling you to do, if you're praying about your purpose in this life, he's already given it. He gave

marching orders to the disciples. And the reason why this is so important is because there were a group

of people at the same time that had opposing marching orders. See, if you

understand the context of Matthew 28, you understand that here Jesus has risen and there were some

guards that were there at the tomb. After what had happened at the tomb, the guards went and told the chief priests.

The chief priests and the elders came together and said, let me give you a payoff, and I want you

to tell everybody that while you were sleeping, the disciples came and stole the body. Translation,

the resurrection is not real. I need you to go proliferate a lie in the culture, that he has not

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