You are the salt of the earth, but if you get some mixed up with the world and the culture,

you become a good for nothing, Christian, and a useless saint.

Dr. Tony Evans says believers should be compassionate and loving, but need to remember.

Our first commitment is not to the culture, it's to the kingdom.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans.

Author, speaker, senior pastor of Oaklef Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas,

and president of the Urban Alternative.

Serving isn't just something we were commanded to do, it's something we were created to do.

Today, Dr. Evans looks at the importance of living a life characterized by helping others,

and the greatest reason for doing so.

Let's join him as he begins.

In the Great Sermon, the greatest sermon ever preached by the greatest preacher who ever lived,

the sermon on the mountain in which Jesus Christ calls His disciples.

In Matthew chapter 5, beginning in verse 1,

He gathers His disciples to kingdomize them,

to orient them to a kingdom worldview for their living and their lives.

One of the central verses of the sermon would be,

Matthew 6.33, Seaky first the kingdom of God,

that His kingdom, His rule, His authority was to govern this group of people

who would infiltrate the culture on His behalf.

He starts off in chapter 5 with the Beatitudes, the blessings,

that come to people who have been kingdomized,

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