Truth takes the guesswork out of life because you're operating on an absolute standard that sits outside of you.

Dr. Tony Evans talks about the problems that result when truth becomes nothing more than a matter of opinion.

When you got everybody with their own direction, you don't have unity. And when you don't have unity, you don't have God.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oaklef Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas.

And president of the Urban Alternative.

In modern culture, the truth has been replaced by my truth or your truth.

But today, Dr. Evans explains why the path to unity begins when we recognize the authority of God's truth.

Let's join him as he explains.

America's desire to be one nation under God is quickly becoming instead of being the United States, the divided states.

And everywhere you look, division is a caring. We know all are aware of the ongoing racial divide.

The divisions within our own homes and families. Jesus Christ prayed a prayer.

The longest recorded prayer in the Bible that He prayed. Found in Saint John chapter 17.

And in that prayer, He's going to give you and me a secret.

He's going to tell us something that will be life transforming in light of all the divides that we're facing today, all the schisms and the fissures that are separating us.

In Jesus' discourse, He is about to be arrested. They're getting ready to come and arrest Him within 24 hours and begin the process of taking Him to the cross.

On this day before His arrest, He gathers His disciples together and gives them final words before His departure, knowing what was to come.

And as He concluded His time with them, knowing that the moment of His arrest and crucifixion was, was nigh. He prayed for them.

Chapter 17 of John is that prayer, but He says, I'm not only praying for you, I'm praying for all of those who will come after you who believe on me because of your word.

So in other words, the prayer wasn't just for them, it was for all Christians.

So Jesus' prayer is for you and me, and tucked in that prayer is a secret. I call it a secret because I don't think we've fully gotten the impact of what Jesus shares with them and with us.

Because the secret He is going to disclose in His prayer to His Father about His disciples is about the power of unity.

Please notice with me, to some of the references. For example, in verse 11, it says, at the end of the verse that they may be one even as we are.

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