If you reject anyone based on illegitimate criteria, you have rejected God.

Dr. Tony Evans explains that passionate believers are peacemakers.

And what greater test is there for how hungry you are for God, then your willingness to receive grace,

and then at the same time to give it to somebody else.

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

of Dr. Tony Evans.

Like electricity flows through a power line, God's grace is intended to flow through us to others.

Today, Dr. Evans explains what needs to happen if something's blocking

that flow. Let's turn to Ephesians chapter two as he begins. Jesus prayed a prayer

prior to his crucifixion in light of the fact that he would be crucified. In John 17, he says

these words in the midst of his prayer in verse 21.

He says to his father, and I pray that they all may be one.

Even as thou father art in me and I in them, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that thou did send me.

Jesus praised this prayer prior to his death that his children, the church,

would no longer be divided by the evil one, but would be one.

Another word for unity.

Unity is not uniformity.

Unity is uniqueness moving to a common goal.

For the father is not the son and the son is not the spirit, they just all have the same

essence, the essence of deity.

He says that they might be like us.

When Jesus Christ said, on the cross, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?

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