{"id":3016,"date":"2016-10-01T17:46:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T17:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2016-10-01T17:46:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T17:46:35","slug":"cause-and-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/01\/cause-and-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause and effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;orphans:2;widows:2;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do&nbsp;<\/span><i style=\"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;orphans:2;widows:2;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">them. &#8211; <\/i><span style=\"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;orphans:2;widows:2;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Ezekiel 36:27<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">The tyranny of Religion is that it looks at the effects &#8211; being moral, doing good, observing special days, helping others, following the rules etc &#8211; and then <i>obsesses <\/i>over convincing you that the cause of these effects&#8230;is you.&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">Your efforts, your discipline, your diligence, your &#8220;being a good person&#8221; or &#8220;doing more good than bad&#8221;.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">But the great liberating news of the Gospel is that the Cause and Effect of your life&#8230;.is God.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">Instead of simply <i>expecting <\/i>you to walk in His ways, He <i>causes <\/i>you to walk in His ways. And He does that by putting His Spirit in you &#8211; His nature, His DNA &#8211; and then this nature replicates itself within you and translates itself into the expressions of walking like God.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">You don&#8217;t observe God&#8217;s statutes\/laws\/principles in order to get close to God.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">Instead, it starts with God putting His nature in you, transforming you back into your true nature&#8230;and then that nature causes you to do all the things you&#8217;ve been striving to do in your own strength.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">Your work is <i style=\"font-weight:bold;\">not <\/i>to try and do.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">Your work is to receive the Word &#8211; the sperma of God &#8211; and then simply allow that Word to transform you and align you with the nature of God that you carry.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"orphans:2;widows:2;\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">The external works will then just happen automatically. Because the nature you carry will do them as effortlessly and as unconsciously as your heart beating while you sleep.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do&nbsp;them. &#8211; Ezekiel 36:27 The tyranny of Religion is that it looks at the effects &#8211; being moral, doing good, observing special days, helping others, following the rules etc &#8211; and then obsesses &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/01\/cause-and-effect\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cause and effect&#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-3016","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\/3016","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=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}