You cannot be full of the spirit if you are full of yourself.

Dr. Tony Evans says there's only so much influence, good or bad we can pack into our lives.

If you are self-sufficient, you will have blocked the Holy Spirit from filling you.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans.

Author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakcliffe Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative.

Whether a car is driven by gas or electricity, once that vehicle leaves its filling station, power ebbs,

and a refilling is essential in order to avoid eventually becoming stranded.

Well, the same holds true for each of us spiritually.

In order to continually experience the fullness of God's Spirit, we need to be regularly connected to Him.

Let's join Dr. Evans as he explores this important principle today.

Paul had a concern.

It was a concern that the Christians in the church at Ephesus needed to wake up.

Wake up to the new spiritual reality in which they lived and in which they functioned.

You see, the Christians at Ephesus were in a pagan environment.

They were in an anti-God culture.

They were in a culture that did not respect their values, that did not operate according to divine guidelines.

But these believers had come to Christ.

They had trusted Christ and had been radically transformed.

But unfortunately, they had begun to enter into a spiritual stupa.

That's why throughout the book of Ephesians, he keeps wanting them to know that their new place of operating was heavenly places.

A spiritual sphere that they needed to learn to live in, function in and operate from the perception and perspective of.

So he calls on them in Ephesians chapter 5.

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