We fear folk because they got a name. We fear folk because they got some money. We fear

because they got some power. But Dr. Tony Evans says the Lord can unlock the power we

need to prevail. When you're using God's keys, people do not have the last say so.

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.

To us, the situation may look hopeless.

It may feel like there's nothing left to do but give up.

But Dr. Evans says God sees a completely different picture and he'll help us catch a glimpse of it today.

Let's join him.

When you audit a course in college, what you are saying is I want the information

without the responsibility. I want to learn whatever the course is seeking to teach, but don't

give me homework and don't give me exams. I don't want the work of it. I just want the knowledge about it.

You may be able to do that with college, but you cannot do that with the Christian life.

You cannot audit it.

What many people do is they come to church to hear the word,

to be inspired by the word, but who don't plan to do any of the work. They don't want to incur

any of the responsibility of it, but they like the learning about it. Well in

college you need to know that when you audit a course you don't get credit for it

because you didn't put in what the course required and when you audit the Christian life by coming to hear the word, to be inspired and encouraged by the word, but to not act on the word that you've heard, you may have more knowledge and you may be more inspired, but you won't be changed.

Because the transformation in the life through the word has to be activated by

obedience. Without that it becomes information with no credits that is no transforming value.

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