Grace is the goodness of God that He displays to you and for you and on you, whether or not He changes the service age.

Dr. Tony Evans says our response to God's grace will determine our satisfaction and contentment in life.

Because contentment is not tied to conditions.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas and president of the Urban Alternative.

The Bible calls Satan a liar, a deceiver, and the evil one. But can his actions backfire and actually benefit the people he's trying to destroy?

Today, Dr. Evans takes a look at how God uses the enemy's efforts to heaven's advantage in the life of the believer.

Let's join him in second Corinthians as he explains.

In these verses and second Corinthians chapter 12, Paul has just come out of a high.

When you reach the first six verses, he talks about an experience that he had that would blow your mind.

He got to go to the third heaven.

He's the only person human being who got to visit heaven, see what was there and come back to talk about it.

He said, I saw things there that were unlawful to other.

He said, I can't even, I don't have the words to talk about what I saw when God let me go visit the third heaven.

I don't know all that heaven is going to offer.

And I know the Bible only gives us glimpses.

But in the words of a famous song, when Paul came from the third heaven, God could sing, didn't I blow your mind this time, didn't I?

He said, I can't even talk about what I saw.

After coming off of this high, he says in verse seven, because of the surpassing greatness, the unique privilege of the revelation, for this reason to keep me from exalting myself.

That was giving me a phone and a flash.

I wonder if anybody knows anybody who thinks wrong about themselves.

You got a little money now, you got a little job now, you drive a nice car now, you're living a nice home now, people put a title in front of you, name now, and they got the wrong idea.

So what God has to do is he has to bring things into our lives.

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