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 Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and president of the Urban Alternative.

Whether a car gets a and president of the Urban Alternative.

Whether a car gets its power from gas or electricity,

once it leaves the filling station, it's going to eventually come to a stop,

unless it's refilled. Well, the same holds true for each of us

spiritually in order to 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

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