You can take notes on every sermon you've ever heard and not be transformed by it.

Dr. Tony Evans says change begins when we allow scripture to shine its light on our lives.

Illumination is where God takes the truth of his word and gets deep down in the core of your being.

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

Tony Evans.

Have you ever read something over and over, and then one day it just clicks?

That aha moment doesn't come from us.

It's the Holy Spirit opening our eyes to understand God's truth.

Today, Dr. Evans explains how the Spirit brings Scripture to life, helping us grasp things our

natural minds could never comprehend. Join him as he reveals why real understanding of the Bible

always starts with divine illumination. Turn your Bible is the First Corinthians chapter

two, and I want to talk to you about illumination. I want to talk to you about having a face-to-face

with God. When I'm talking about illumination, it is the work of the Holy Spirit through the Word of God,

which opens up the mind of the Christian, causing them to learn, understand, and perceive God beyond the natural into the realm of the supernatural.

God is not giving new revelation today.

He has already told us time and time again that nobody is to add to his words.

If he wanted to say more, he would have said it. You've got Genesis,

the beginning. You've got revelation the end. That's it. All God wanted revealed has been

inspired in the Bible. But there is plenty of new illumination, which is where God takes when he is written

and in a multiplicity of ways, all over the world every day, he illumines believers to its reality

and their experience. In 1 Corinthians chapter 2, we're introduced to illumination, verse 9, as it is written,

things which I have not seen, ear have not heard, and which has not entered into the

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