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 receive 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, the most unique person

who has ever entered history. There is nobody like Jesus Christ.

He is fully God, but he's also fully man. As a man, his job was to represent God in history.

He comes to the synagogue in the neighborhood where he grew up, Nazareth,

and they hand him the book of Isaiah and he turns the pages and comes to Isaiah chapter 61

and then he quotes it or reads it. He says in verse 18 of Luke 4 as he's reading Isaiah 61,

The Spirit of the Lord is on me.

And he has anointed me to preach good news.

The gospel.

The word gospel means good news.

And it was good news about freedom.

He says, I have good news for poor people.

He says, I've got good news to captives.

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