You don't move forward by focusing on a rearview mirror. You move forward by focusing on a windshield.

Dr. Tony Evans says if you won't take your eyes off the past, you can't see when you're headed for a crash.

Don't stand too long in your rear view mirror.

Because if you spend too much time in your rear view mirror,

your windshield will do you no good.

This is the alternative broadcast

featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr Tony Evans.

Is there a connection between a church's history and its health?

Dr Evans answers that question in today's message. is Let's listen in. John is on the Isle of Patmus on his final days, and he gets a vision from God, and it is the book of

revelation.

Unlike any other book in the New Testament, this book offers a special blessing to those who read it.

Verse 3.

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy and heed the things which are written in it for the time is near.

It's a hard book to understand but a powerful book to read because when you've read it you

come to understand God is not playing games.

He is dead serious.

And while it's a book about the prophecy of the future,

it's a book written to the church in the present.

Verse 11 says God tells John write a book of what you see and send it to the seven churches. So what's the point of the message to the

seven churches? It's simply this. Jesus and only Jesus is the standard by

which the people of God function. Then the church is the

church,

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