{"id":3831,"date":"2008-12-03T00:24:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T05:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/os-chambers\/the-law-of-antagonism"},"modified":"2008-12-03T00:24:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T05:24:32","slug":"the-law-of-antagonism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2008\/12\/03\/the-law-of-antagonism\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LAW OF ANTAGONISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To him that overcometh&#8230; .  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212; Revelation 2:7<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Life without war is impossible either in nature or in grace. The<br \/>basis of physical, mental, moral, and spiritual life is antagonism.<br \/>This is the open fact of life. <\/p>\n<p>Health is the balance between physical life and external nature, and<br \/>it is maintained only by sufficient vitality on the inside against<br \/>things on the outside. Everything outside my physical life is<br \/>designed to put me to death. Things which keep me going when I am<br \/>alive, disintegrate me when I am dead. If I have enough fighting<br \/>power, I produce the balance of health. The same is true of the<br \/>mental life. If I want to maintain a vigorous mental life, I have to<br \/>fight, and in that way the mental balance called thought is produced.  <\/p>\n<p>Morally it is the same. Everything that does not partake of the<br \/>nature of virtue is the enemy of virtue in me, and it depends on what<br \/>moral calibre I have whether I overcome and produce virtue.<br \/>Immediately I fight, I am moral in that particular. No man is<br \/>virtuous because he cannot help it; virtue is acquired.  <\/p>\n<p>And spiritually it is the same. Jesus said, &#8220;In the world ye shall<br \/>have tribulation,&#8221; i.e., every thing that is not spiritual makes for<br \/>my undoing, but &#8211; &#8220;Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.&#8221; I<br \/>have to learn to score off the things that come against me, and in<br \/>that way produce the balance of holiness; then it becomes a delight<br \/>to meet opposition.  <\/p>\n<p>Holiness is the balance between my disposition and the law of God as<br \/>expressed in Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To him that overcometh&#8230; . &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212; Revelation 2:7 Life without war is impossible either in nature or in grace. Thebasis of physical, mental, moral, and spiritual life is antagonism.This is the open fact of life. Health is the balance between physical life and external nature, andit is maintained only by sufficient vitality on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-3831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}