Because it is popular doesn't make it right.

Because everybody else we know happens to do it doesn't mean we ought to be doing it.

Dr. Tony Evans says when culture becomes your compass, you lose your direction.

If you look too much like the culture, that means you don't look enough like Christ.

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

Dr. Tony Evans.

You can't walk in two directions at once, and the same is true spiritually.

Today, Dr. Evans calls us to leave behind our old way of living and step into the new identity

we've been given in Christ.

Let's listen as he takes us to Ephesians chapter 4 to explain what it means to walk

the heavenly walk.

There are four thoughts that I want to bring out of verses 17 through verse 32.

The first one is recorded for us in verse 17, and that is the contrast

of the Christian walk. Our focus is on the Christian walk, and you'll see why here in verse 17.

He says, this I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you walk no longer as the Gentiles walk in the

futility of their mind. The first thing he wants you to do is have a contrasting walk. That is if you're

going to be heavenly in your walk, then it must be contrasting the

walk of the world, or as he says, the walk of the Gentiles. Now, the phrase walking like the

Gentiles was a reference to walking like those who are outside of Christ.

The euphemism walk means conduct, how you carry yourself, what you do versus what you don't do.

It has to do with the direction of your spiritual life.

He says that now that you are in Christ, that you are no longer to conduct or act like

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