{"id":354,"date":"2009-10-04T20:25:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T03:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2009-10-04T20:25:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T03:25:06","slug":"boyd-k-packer-freedom-through-obedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Boyd K. Packer: Freedom Through Obedience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsroom.lds.org\/ldsnewsroom\/eng\/background-information\/leader-biographies\/president-boyd-k-packer\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsroom.lds.org\/Static Images\/Newsroom\/photo\/Background Information\/Leader\/Quorum of the Twelve\/Packer_medium.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a> &quot;Obedience to God can be the very highest expression of independence.&#160; Just think of giving to Him the one thing, the one gift, that He would never take.&#160; Obedience &#8212; that which God will never take by force &#8212; He will accept when freely given.&#160; He will then return to you freedom that you can hardly dream of &#8212; the freedom to feel and to know, the freedom to do, and the freedom to be, at least a thousand fold more than we offer him.&#160; Strangely enough, the key to freedom is obedience.&quot; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsroom.lds.org\/ldsnewsroom\/eng\/background-information\/leader-biographies\/president-boyd-k-packer\" target=\"_blank\">Boyd K. Packer<\/a>, President of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, <a href=\"http:\/\/lds.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a>. BYU Speeches of the Year, Provo, 7 Dec. 1971, p. 4, Quoted by Janet G. Lee, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/lds.org\/ldsorg\/v\/index.jsp?hideNav=1&amp;locale=0&amp;sourceId=cf9c4e8a880fb010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&amp;vgnextoid=024644f8f206c010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD\" target=\"_blank\">Look Both Ways<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, New Era, February 1994.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:49d60bdf-c5bd-4653-849b-ae7c8f8d8135\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Del.icio.us Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Freedom\" rel=\"tag\">Freedom<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Obedience\" rel=\"tag\">Obedience<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Independence\" rel=\"tag\">Independence<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Obedience to God can be the very highest expression of independence.&#160; Just think of giving to Him the one thing, the one gift, that He would never take.&#160; Obedience &#8212; that which God will never take by force &#8212; He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=354\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28,52,67],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-quote","tag-freedom","tag-independence","tag-obedience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}