Even though you're converted, your soul is living in the flesh, which still produces

ungodly thinking, ungodly appetites, and ungodly actions.

And that's why Dr. Tony Evans insists ongoing discipline and

cleansing is so vital. The cleansing occurs through the exercise and training in

the gym for our move toward Godliness.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans,

author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and President of the Urban Alternative.

Occasional workouts can provide some health benefits, but consistent exercises necessary to achieve and maintain physical

well-being.

Today, Dr Evans points out that spiritual fitness, like physical fitness, is attained with

regular exercise. Let's join him as he explains.

First Timothy 316, the mystery of godliness, that is, this transfer that has occurred

from the Old Testament to the New Testament, a mystery is something

that was hidden in the old that has now been exposed or revealed in the new.

And this mystery is the person of Jesus Christ in you the hope of glory.

This mystery is that in the Old Testament God was with them.

In the Gospels Jesus was among them,

but you and I now have Jesus in us.

And the goal of this mystery, the goal of this reality is the production of godliness in the life of God's children.

That the whole point of this salvation experience is to make us godly men and women.

We define godliness as a lifestyle consistent with the character of God.

Godlessness is a lifestyle inconsistent

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