{"id":1452,"date":"2010-01-24T09:48:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T09:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=860"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:28:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:28:54","slug":"the-working-of-complete-obedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=1452","title":{"rendered":"The Working Of Complete Obedience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Let us muse again today from James 1:25 and our Encounter With Truth on the road to God&#8217;s Blessings. We have looked at the &#8216;Warning Of\u00a0A casual\u00a0Observation Of The Word&#8217;. Let us begin today to look at the <em>&#8216;Working Of Complete Obedience Through The Word<\/em>&#8216;. Look with me in verse 25 at the phrase <em>&#8216;perfect law of liberty&#8217;<\/em>. The two words &#8216;law&#8217; and &#8216;liberty&#8217; are diametrically opposed unless there is the <em>&#8216;look of discernment&#8217;<\/em>. To live under the law is to build my life on a system of religious rules and not the Word of God. Romans says, &#8216;When the law entered, sin abounded.&#8217; It also says &#8216;Christ hath made me free from the law, by the law of Christ&#8217;. To have a proper balance between law and liberty is to spend much time in the pure Word of God. This time spent will begin to produce a great love for Christ likeness. Augustine said of rules and standards, &#8216;Love God with all your heart and then do as you please.&#8217; When our love for Him reaches this level our doings will certainly please Christ. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from James 1:25 and our Encounter With Truth on the road to God&#8217;s Blessings. We have looked at the &#8216;Warning Of\u00a0A casual\u00a0Observation Of The Word&#8217;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6272,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions\/6272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}