You cannot love the invisible God and hate the visible brother.

Dr Tony Evans talks about the sin of discrimination and what it says about the firmness of our faith.

If you want to measure how close you and God are, measure

how close you and your brothers are. This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible

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

Dr. Evans a moment ago, I heard you say that if we want to measure how close we are to God,

we should take a look at how close we are to others.

In your message today, you're going to talk about discrimination, not just as a problem, but as a stronghold.

What's the difference?

Well, Dave, a problem is something challenging in your life that you have the capacity to address.

A stronghold is something that holds you hostage

and you don't have the capacity to address it.

You're too weak, it's too ingrained, it's too deep for you to change on your own.

Obviously racism and discrimination is one of those strongholds that is holding people hostage for generations.

It's passed down from community to

community from parents to children and it's engulfed our nation since its

inception. And so it is time now that we recognize strongholds can only be broken spiritually.

There's no legislation you can pass to break a stronghold, there's no group meeting that you can

have to break a stronghold unless God gets involved, the

stronghold because it's spiritual in nature keeps you wrapped up, tied up, and confined to your

cell of discrimination.

So it's time now to look at the spiritual issues that are

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