{"id":2913,"date":"2016-08-21T18:37:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T18:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2016-08-21T18:37:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T18:37:55","slug":"the-purpose-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/21\/the-purpose-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"The purpose of freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u200b<span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:22.8571px;orphans:2;widows:2;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Then the&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"small-caps\" style=\"box-sizing:border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;font-variant:small-caps;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:22.8571px;orphans:2;widows:2;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Lord<\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:22.8571px;orphans:2;widows:2;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">&nbsp;said to Moses, \u201cGo to Pharaoh and say to him, \u2018This is what the&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"small-caps\" style=\"box-sizing:border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;font-variant:small-caps;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:22.8571px;orphans:2;widows:2;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Lord&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:22.8571px;orphans:2;widows:2;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. &#8211; Exodus 8:1<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height:22.84375px;\">The purpose of freedom&#8230;is worship.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height:22.84375px;\">Ultimately, it&#8217;s worship of the Lord, Creator of everything.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height:22.84375px;\">But even in the shadows of thus Truth, we see countless people hustle their way from poverty to contentment to financial freedom&#8230;only to find that &#8220;freedom&#8221; is empty until they harness it the <i>worth-ship<\/i> of some ideal, cause or charity.&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height:22.84375px;\">Moses didn&#8217;t talk to Pharaoh about the Promised Land &#8220;flowing with milk and honey&#8221;, because that was not the purpose for liberating the Israelites.&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height:22.84375px;\">The purpose for their freedom was so that they could worship the Lord.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height:22.84375px;\">From God&#8217;s perspective, freedom and worship were 2 sides of the same coin. And He saw that in order for His people to worship Him, they needed to be liberated&#8230;carrying the wealth of Egypt on their backs.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height:22.84375px;\">So the Big Idea is that if you make worship a priority &#8211; regardless of circumstance &#8211; your active position as a worshipper will attract all the &#8220;Freedom Resources&#8221; you need to facilitate your life as a worshipper.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height:22.84375px;\">But far bigger than that is this truth.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height:22.84375px;\">You are wired to worship. That&#8217;s who you are, and that&#8217;s what you do.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height:22.84375px;\">Align yourself to this Truth and your life will align itself to the Realities of Freedom.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"line-height:22.84375px;\">Selah.&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThen the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;said to Moses, \u201cGo to Pharaoh and say to him, \u2018This is what the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. &#8211; Exodus 8:1 The purpose of freedom&#8230;is worship. Ultimately, it&#8217;s worship of the Lord, Creator of everything. But even in the shadows of thus Truth, we see countless people hustle &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/21\/the-purpose-of-freedom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The purpose of freedom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}