Robert Sharpe discusses living in greater victory through obedience. While obedience doesn't affect your standing with God, it does affect experience with Him. While we may believe that God is always with us, or we may say we have the evidence of the Holy Spirit because we speak in tongues, there is more fruit to bear, there is more power to move in, and this comes through obedience. Sometimes your own thinking, your own pride, or thinking you know everything keeps you under the law of Mechilzedek. We dress up our own problems so they don't look bad instead of confronting them head on to be free from them.