{"id":27,"date":"2009-05-05T12:53:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T16:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/200\/?p=27"},"modified":"2010-12-21T00:11:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T05:11:46","slug":"obedience-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/05\/05\/obedience-2\/","title":{"rendered":"OBEDIENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>His servants ye are to whom ye obey.<\/p>\n<p>     &#8212; Romans 6:16<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first thing to do in examining the power that dominates me is to<br \/>\ntake hold of the unwelcome fact that I am responsible for being thus<br \/>\ndominated. If I am a slave to myself, I am to blame because at a<br \/>\npoint away back I yielded to myself. Likewise, if I obey God I do so<br \/>\nbecause I have yielded myself to Him.<\/p>\n<p>Yield in childhood to selfishness, and you will find it the most<br \/>\nenchaining tyranny on earth. There is no power in the human soul of<br \/>\nitself to break the bondage of a disposition formed by yielding.<br \/>\nYield for one second to anything in the nature of lust (remember what<br \/>\nlust is: &#8220;I must have it at once,&#8221; whether it be the lust of the<br \/>\nflesh or the lust of the mind) &#8211; once yield and though you may hate<br \/>\nyourself for having yielded, you are a bondslave to that thing. There<br \/>\nis no release in human power at all but only in the Redemption. You<br \/>\nmust yield yourself in utter humiliation to the only One Who can<br \/>\nbreak the dominating power viz., the Lord Jesus Christ &#8211; &#8220;He hath<br \/>\nanointed me&#8230;to preach deliverance to all captives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You find this out in the most ridiculously small ways &#8211; &#8220;Oh, I can<br \/>\ngive that habit up when I like.&#8221; You cannot, you will find that the<br \/>\nhabit absolutely dominates you because you yielded to it willingly.<br \/>\nIt is easy to sing &#8211; &#8220;He will break every fetter&#8221; and at the same<br \/>\ntime be living a life of obvious slavery to yourself. Yielding to<br \/>\nJesus will break every form of slavery in any human life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His servants ye are to whom ye obey. &#8212; Romans 6:16 The first thing to do in examining the power that dominates me is to take hold of the unwelcome fact that I am responsible for being thus dominated. If I am a slave to myself, I am to blame because at a point away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}