People want the sermon without the cross and wonder why they're not free.

Dr. Tony Evans says knowing about Christ is no substitute for actually knowing Christ.

Your relationship spiritually will determine your freedom in all the dimensions of your life.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

On January 1st, 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in the Confederate States of America were freed.

But it wasn't until six months later,

on June 19th, that people in Texas received that news. Well, today Dr. Evans points out that

Christians are free from spiritual bondage because Christ has declared his followers free. And it's

time we received and act upon that good news. Let's join

him in Luke chapter four as he begins. Jesus Christ has now gone public. He is now asserting

who he is as the son of God and the son of man, all God, all man, and one person.

The most unique person who has ever entered history, there is nobody like Jesus Christ.

He is not one among many. He is to be compared with no one because there's no other name other than the name of Jesus

that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of the

Father. He is in a class by himself. He is fully God, but he's also fully man.

As a man, his job was to represent God in history.

And so he got hungry because he was a man.

He said, I thirst because he was a man.

He had to sleep because he was a man.

But he could walk on water because he was God. He could raise the dead because he was God. He could move in his humanity

based on his relationship to deity. He comes to the synagogue in the neighborhood where he grew up,

Nazareth, and they hand him the book of Isaiah,

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