The spiritual moves ahead. The material is left behind.

Dr. Tony Evans talks about how easily our perspective on possessions can become warped until time forces us to face our mortality. on That's going to matter. This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliff

Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative.

Life can present us with some pretty difficult realities,

especially if we had some disadvantages to begin with.

Today, Dr Evans talks about those biblical principles that can help turn our

situation around and empower us to offer hope to others. Let's join him in the

book of Ecclesiasties. He says in chapter 4 I looked again at all the acts of oppression which are being

done under the sun and we got plenty of it today you look at the oppression people have

to live in fear their lives fear of their children you know

He said I look I look at what is being done under the sun and behold I saw the tears of the

oppressed and that they have no one to comfort them and behold I saw the tears of the oppressed.

And that they have no one to comfort them and on the side of the oppressors was power,

but they had no one to comfort them.

He says, I look out there and I see the pain and it's everywhere with television and computer,

social media you see the you see the pain

of people

sometimes at pain and your coworkers you see the pain

and it's double pain when you're in pain and there's nobody to comfort you in it. He says, I've even seen the oppressors and nobody to comfort them.

So what they do is they go out and do other things to try to find artificial comfort.

So I congratulated the dead which are

already dead more than the living who are still living. Why? Because it's better

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