Where you get the power to say no to sin and yes to write is by the instruction of grace

Dr Tony Evans revealing the origin of goodness Jesus Christ brought grace out of the shadows

and into the public square for the purpose of transforming us.

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.

We all love a good mystery, especially that moment when everything clicks into place.

Today Dr. Evans shines some light from the Bible on the mystery of Godliness, revealing the key to living a godly life.

Let's join him as he begins.

Paul tells Timothy the pastor of Ephesus Bible Fellowship,

I want you to teach the congregation how men ought to conduct themselves, how men ought to live their lives, who are part of the household of God, part of the family of God.

And I want you to do that but I want you to explain to them the

mystery of Godliness. He says this mystery is by common confession, meaning everybody ought to agree with it. Common

confession means everybody's saying the same thing. Everybody understanding it the same way.

It's common to everybody. Now in the Bible a mystery

refers to something concealed in the Old Testament that's revealed in the New Testament.

He says there is a mystery about Godliness

that was unclear in the Old Testament

that now has been made clear in the New Testament.

Now in order to understand this mystery,

you have to understand that a shift occurred when God moved from the Old Testament to the New Testament.

A shift occurred.

The mystery between the two covenants, Old Testament, New Testament,

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