{"id":2263,"date":"2026-04-26T13:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2026-04-26T13:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:02:37","slug":"obedience-the-pathway-to-freedom-philippians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=2263","title":{"rendered":"Obedience The Pathway to Freedom  ::  PHILIPPIANS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presented at Curwensville Alliance on 4\/19\/26 by Pastor Steve Shields. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SermonOnlySlide-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SermonOnlySlide-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SermonOnlySlide-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SermonOnlySlide-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SermonOnlySlide-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SermonOnlySlide-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Listen as Pastor Steve goes through Philippians 2:12-18 and shows how obedience is the pathway to freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are some counterintuitive realities. <strong>If you want someone to like you, ask them to do something nice for you.<\/strong> <strong>If you are feeling down, give a blessing to someone else. If you want to find freedom, follow the pathway of obedience. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are the things that keep us from shining?<\/strong>  <strong>The trap of private sin. <\/strong> You only find freedom to shine when you are on the pathway of obedience.  <strong>The bondage of self reliance.  <\/strong>Nothing takes away shine more than a self righteous heart.  <strong>The captivity to the fear of insignificance. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We walk with personal allegiance.  Obedience that is rooted in allegiance is inseparable from freedom.  Because we love the One we are obeying.  Because of Christ&#8217;s constant love for us.  Because of our knowledge of the Person &#8211; Christ.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9712\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2263-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2026\/20260419ObedienceThePathwayToFreedomPHILIPPIANS.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2026\/20260419ObedienceThePathwayToFreedomPHILIPPIANS.mp3\">https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2026\/20260419ObedienceThePathwayToFreedomPHILIPPIANS.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2026\/20260419ObedienceThePathwayToFreedomPHILIPPIANS.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?powerpress_pinw=2263-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2026\/20260419ObedienceThePathwayToFreedomPHILIPPIANS.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20260419ObedienceThePathwayToFreedomPHILIPPIANS.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented at Curwensville Alliance on 4\/19\/26 by Pastor Steve Shields. Listen as Pastor Steve goes through Philippians 2:12-18 and shows how obedience is the pathway to freedom. There are some counterintuitive realities. If you want someone to like you, ask them to do something nice for you. If you are feeling down, give a blessing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=2263\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obedience The Pathway to Freedom  ::  PHILIPPIANS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[450,440],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-obedience","tag-philippians"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvIY-Av","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}