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Tony Evans' Podcast

The Meaning of Godliness, Part 1

Tony Evans' Podcast

Tony Evans

Religion & Spirituality

4.78.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A student may hand in a first-rate book report, but the teacher probably won’t give any credit if the report is on the wrong book. In this message, Dr. Tony Evans will explain why the same is true for believers who have their God-given assignments all mixed up. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/222/29

Transcript

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0:00.0

Going to church in and of itself will not have the power to make you more godly.

0:05.7

Dr. Tony Evans says we make a mistake, we only consider God once a week and in one location.

0:11.9

That's why people are not experiencing more of God

0:15.2

because they don't live in his presence.

0:17.2

They visit his presence.

0:19.7

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship

0:26.8

in Dallas, Texas and president of the Urban Alternative.

0:32.2

A student for employee can complete a first-rate project for their teacher or boss, but they're

0:37.7

unlikely to receive credit if what they did was not the assigned task.

0:41.8

Today, Dr Evans points out the failures we experience in life

0:45.2

may be the result of working on the wrong assignment. Let's join him as he

0:49.3

directs us to the task at hand. It was about the third year of seminary.

0:54.7

I got a major paper back with a big fat F on it.

0:59.7

Now you have to understand what that did to me. My goal was to make nothing but A's. I wanted to make

1:07.4

sure every paper was done at the level. I was excited about what I was studying and I poured everything I had into this assignment

1:19.8

because I wanted to make an A but not only did I not make an A, I made an F.

1:27.0

I wasn't even in the ballpark.

1:32.0

Shocked as I looked at my paper, I read underneath the failure sign, a note from the professor, right

1:41.5

under the F. The note said great paper. But underneath the phrase

1:49.2

great paper was the phrase wrong assignment. I had misread the assignment. I had done the wrong

1:59.2

thing with a lot of effort but a lot of work on the wrong thing still gave me an F.

2:09.9

A lot of Christians today are working on the wrong assignment.

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