God has a kingdom. This kingdom is the joy of the Holy Ghost.

Dr. Tony Evans says getting close to God doesn't involve changing our external location, but our internal condition.

This kingdom goes beyond what you can get physically, and the joy of the Lord will be your strength.

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

A car without an engine can look good, but it's not going to take you very far.

Today, Dr. Evans explains that the same is true of a Christian without the power of the Holy Spirit in their life.

Let's join him as he begins. In your pursuit of God, in your desire for spiritual passion, the Holy Spirit is indispensable.

He is not a negotiable item.

No place points that out than when the Spirit was introduced to the inauguration of the church in Acts 1 and 2.

Four things come out of our thoughts today.

First of all, the purpose of the Spirit's power.

Jesus in Chapter 1, Luke is the one writing, but referring to Jesus Christ, in verse 2, until the day when he was taken up, after he had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles

whom we had chosen.

So Jesus now has given instruction to the apostles as to how they were to function while he leaves

and goes to heaven. In verse three, he says, to these he also presented himself alive,

written from the dead, after having suffered by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over

a period of 40 days between his resurrection and his

ascension, speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.

He was introducing his people through his leadership to a whole new orientation of life.

That new orientation is called in the Bible, the kingdom.

The kingdom are the new guidelines for how life is to be lived in this new realm that a

converted person becomes a part of when they become a Christian, and that new environment is

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