You cannot please men and please God when the two disagree.

Dr. Tony Evans says when human opinions clash with God's truth, only one stands unshakable.

God not only speaks truth, he is truth.

So when men disagree with God, it doesn't matter who the man is.

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

of Dr. Tony Evans.

Some people water down the truth. Others try to replace it altogether. That's why the

Apostle Paul was so passionate about defending the gospel, and why Dr. Evans

digs deep into the first chapter of Galatians today. Let's listen to discover more about

God's grace, the foundation of our salvation, and the source of our spiritual growth.

We live our lives by what we earn. We earn people's favor. We earn our income. When you go to work and your boss

pays you at the end of the week or the month, he is not giving you a gift. When it's our birthday,

people bring us gifts. It would actually be insulting to offer to pay somebody on your birthday

for a gift they bring you. Because the whole point of a birthday gift is that it is being given at no

cost to you. All you do is receive it. You don't earn it. And so it is with grace. It is a gift. The Bible calls it the gift of God. It's what God

gives away, not what you work to earn. You do what you do, not because you're earning

his favor, you're doing what you're doing because you appreciate his favor. Now, many of us understand or

remember the history of the Apostle Paul. His former name was Saul. His pre-conversion days, he was Saul,

and he was an up-and-coming Pharisee, an up-and-coming part of the Sanhedron.

And he was given, he was so tenacious for Judaism and so much of an enemy of this new thing called Christianity

that he was the one that the Sanhedron, the Jewish Council,

chose to get rid of the church,

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