Blake Robert Templeton argues that spiritual freedom is easy to get but hard to keep because we cling to burdens and mistrust God. He uses the metaphor of holding weights to show how people manipulate sin to earn grace, creating a soul-damaging load. His solution: polarize the voices of God and the Slave Lord to cut off demonic attacks and fully trust God.
It's not hard to actually get free. We make it so difficult because we're actually wanting to hold the weights. We're actually wanting to— we're saying like, I still don't trust God fully, and the sin looks good. If I hold the weights, then I can kind of manipulate the weight, and I can do a little bit of the other bad stuff, but then I can like get grace from God again, and I'm back. But this is so heavy. It's burden-filled. It's so bad for the soul because you You literally have to actually be God, and you can't be God. So if you're not God, you're going to fall. And if you're gonna fall, then you have to buy into the ways of the world, the natural condition of man, where you fall asleep and become a machine. So my thesis to you today is that you can actually polarize the voices. And if you polarize the voices of the grandeur of the King of Kings and the Slave Lord, you literally remove the ability for the Slave Lord to attack.
