What a lot of folk call blessing, what they really mean is happiness.

Dr. Tony Evans says happiness comes and goes with our circumstances, but what the Lord wants to offer is something deeper.

What God says, if I come to give you life, and when that runs out, life more abundantly overflow.

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

Dr. Tony Evans.

People think of a blessing as a little extra something we get from God.

But today, Dr. Evans explains that it's really intended to be more of a lifestyle than an event.

Let's turn to Matthew Chapter 5, as he explains.

We've called this series, which we conclude today, how to be truly blessed.

We have tried to explain blessing beyond a lot of the external emphasis it is given today to its real essence.

That's why we put in the word truly, because we've already emphasized you can have stuff and it not be a blessing.

The beatitudes have lined up for us the character of God's kingdom people and the blessings that accrue to those who are in fact authentically blessed.

He says you've got to start off by declaring spiritual bankruptcy, verse three.

Your inability to fix yourself

because then heaven will come to your aid. And then you've got to be mournful over your sin

so that God can comfort you with his forgiveness. Then you've got to be meek or gentle,

willing to submit yourself to the will of God

because then God can trust you with the inheritance that he has for you.

Then you've got to have an insatiable desire for righteousness

because that's the only hunger God is interested in satisfying.

And then when God does satisfy you,

you've got to be willing to come and satisfy somebody else.

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