God wants to change our character, not just our circumstances.

Dr. Tony Evans says that's why you won't find a shortcut through difficult times.

God will not skip your development to give you destiny or to let you experience his promise.

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

A steadfast faith, a promise you can count on, an encouragement to persevere. These are the

life-changing principles Dr. Evans talks about today as he takes us further in our study of the book of Hebrews.

Let's join him now in Chapter 10 in a message he calls The Story of Faith.

These Jewish Christians were considering returning to their old Jewish background,

worship because they were now running into difficulties being a Christian.

They were being abused,

ridiculed, rejected.

And they raised the question that many have raised,

many here tonight have raised.

Is it worth it?

Is it worth the cost I'm paying? Is it worth the

price I'm paying? The inconvenience I'm paying? The rejection I'm paying. It would be a lot

easier to go back. And so God authorized the writing of the book of Hebrews to tell those Jewish Christians and to tell us today, to keep going, don't go back.

As difficult as it may be, as challenging as it may be, if you go back, you're reneging on something that you're going back to the lesser.

You're not moving forward to the greater, even though it may not appear that way right now.

Then I said, Behold, I have come, verse 7, in the scroll of the book, it is written of me to do thy will, oh God.

So now he speaks of Jesus Christ coming in order to do what the Old Testament covenant could not do,

and what no priest could do, which was to fully satisfy the demands of

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