{"id":4328,"date":"2009-04-22T18:30:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T22:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=100"},"modified":"2009-04-22T18:30:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T22:30:17","slug":"do-ye-now-believe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/04\/22\/do-ye-now-believe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DO YE NOW BELIEVE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>By this we believe &#8230; Jesus answered, Do ye now<br \/>\n     believe?<\/p>\n<p>     &#8212; John 16:30-31<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now we believe. Jesus says &#8211; Do you? The time is coming when you will<br \/>\nleave Me alone. Many a Christian worker has left Jesus Christ alone<br \/>\nand gone into work from a sense of duty, or from a sense of need<br \/>\narising out of his own particular discernment. The reason for this is<br \/>\nthe absence of the resurrection life of Jesus. The soul has got out<br \/>\nof intimate contact with God by leaning to its own religious<br \/>\nunderstanding. There is no sin in it, and no punishment attached to<br \/>\nit; but when the soul realizes how he has hindered his understanding<br \/>\nof Jesus Christ, and produced for himself perplexities and sorrows<br \/>\nand difficulties, it is with shame and contrition he has to come<br \/>\nback.<\/p>\n<p>We need to rely on the resurrection life of Jesus much deeper down<br \/>\nthan we do, to get into the habit of steadily referring everything<br \/>\nback to Him; instead of this we make our common &#8211; sense decisions and<br \/>\nask God to bless them. He cannot, it is not in His domain, it is<br \/>\nsevered from reality. If we do a thing from a sense of duty, we are<br \/>\nputting up a standard in competition with Jesus Christ. We become a<br \/>\n&#8220;superior person,&#8221; and say &#8211; &#8220;Now in this matter I must do this and<br \/>\nthat.&#8221; We have put our sense of duty on the throne instead of the<br \/>\nresurrection life of Jesus. We are not told to walk in the light of<br \/>\nconscience or of a sense of duty, but to walk in the light as God is<br \/>\nin the light. When we do anything from a sense of duty, we can back<br \/>\nit up by argument; when we do anything in obedience to the Lord,<br \/>\nthere is no argument possible; that is why a saint can be easily<br \/>\nridiculed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By this we believe &#8230; Jesus answered, Do ye now believe? &#8212; John 16:30-31 Now we believe. Jesus says &#8211; Do you? The time is coming when you will leave Me alone. Many a Christian worker has left Jesus Christ alone and gone into work from a sense of duty, or from a sense of&#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-4328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328","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=4328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}