"If I Do Not Wash You"

The occasion was the last supper Jesus had with his disciples before Judas betrayed him to the death, and before Jesus was taken away by his enemies to be crucified on a cross for our sins. The supper was now over, and Jesus took it upon himself to wash his disciples feet. But when he got to Peter:

 

John 13:8-11 NKJV

 

Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!”

 

Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”

 

9Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”

 

10Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.” 11For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, “You are not all clean.”

 

Our Walks of Faith

 

Now, if we pay close attention to Jesus’ words here we will see that this was not just about Jesus washing his disciples feet in a physical sense. For when he spoke of who was clean and who was not clean, he was speaking in a spiritual, not in a physical sense. So, what do our feet represent on a spiritual level? They have to do with our walks of faith, or the lack thereof. They have to do with how we live and what we speak and the things that we do each day, either in honor of God or in dishonor of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

And when Jesus spoke of someone being bathed needing only to wash his feet, he was speaking again in a spiritual, not in a physical sense. He was speaking of those who are of genuine faith in Jesus Christ as those who have bathed. They have been washed in the blood of Jesus Christ via dying with Christ to sin and living to him and to his righteousness, in the power of God, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in our Lord. He was speaking of those whose lives were surrendered to the Lord who were following him.

 

Not Lip Service Only

 

But a profession of faith in Jesus Christ alone is not enough to deliver us from all sins and to promise us eternal life with God in heaven. And that is where the feet come into play. For Jesus told Peter if Peter did not let him wash his feet that Peter had no part with Jesus. So, we can’t just “get saved” and now we get to go to heaven when we die. We have to walk the walk and not just talk it. We have to die daily to sin and deny self and follow our Lord in obedience to his commands if we want to have eternal life with God.

 

So, why was one of them not clean? Because, rather than submitting to Christ as Lord, Judas gave into the devil, and he decided to betray Jesus, instead. He was the one who was not clean morally and spiritually for, although he made a pretense outwardly of being a disciple of Christ, inwardly he was not one of Jesus’ true followers. So his commitment was outward only and in words only, but not in practice. He did not walk the walk but he just talked it, for a time, before his real intentions became clear.

 

We Must Live It!

 

So the Christian life is not one of words only. We must live what we say we believe. Daily we must surrender our all to our Lord and walk in his ways, in his righteousness and holiness, in submission to his will, and no longer as slaves to sin. We must seek him with our whole being to find out what all he has for us to do in this life, to know what gifts we have been given, and how we are to use them, and to know God’s calling on our lives, so that we do his will in serving him in ministry and in sharing the gospel with other people.

 

And we must no longer live as slaves to sin and to self just doing what pleases us each day. For faith in Jesus is not just spoken with words but it must be lived out in our daily lives in surrender of our wills to the will of God and in walks of obedience to his commands. Jesus is not to just be our Savior, but he is to be our life. He is not someone we spend time with for a few minutes each day, but we are to be walking with him where he leads us throughout the day every day, doing his will, surrendering all to him.

 

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

 

Seek the Lord 

 

Based off Isaiah 55

Musical Instrumentation by Mark Bradley

An Original Work / July 20, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

“Come to Me all you who thirst; come to waters.

Listen to Me, and eat what’s good today,

And your soul will delight in richest of fare.

Give ear to Me, and you will live.

I have made an eternal covenant with you.

Wash in the blood of the Lamb.”

 

Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him.

Let the wicked forsake his way, in truth.

Let him turn to the Lord, and he will receive mercy.

Freely, God pardons him.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways,”

declares the Lord, our God.

 

“My word that goes out of My mouth is truthful.

It will not return to Me unfulfilled.

My word will accomplish all that I desire,

And achieve the goal I intend.

You will go in joy and be led forth in peace.

The mountains will burst into song… before you,

And all of the trees clap their hands.”

 

https://vimeo.com/379408296

 

“If I Do Not Wash You”

An Original Work / May 19, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

But For This Purpose

John 12:27-28 NKJV

 

Jesus speaking: 27“Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. 28Father, glorify Your name.”

 

Earlier this morning the Lord led me to write a devotional titled, “Put Your House in Order,” which was a reminder and a warning with regard to the days that we now live in, that we should not take time for granted, and we should not ignore the prophesies of the Scriptures with regard to these last days which are apparently being fulfilled in our day and time right before our eyes, on a daily basis. And this we can see if we have eyes to see and ears to hear, and if we are listening to the counsel of our Lord in obeying what he says we must be doing if we are true followers of Jesus Christ, our Lord.

 

And Jesus’ words here regarding what he knew was going to happen to him may also apply to us who are following Jesus with our lives today. For Jesus did not put us on this earth, and call us to faith in him, and to his service, so that we could escape Christian persecution and death for our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord. He called us to deny self, to die to sin, and to obey him, in practice, and to suffer for the sake of the gospel, and for the sake of righteousness, and for the sake of our testimonies for Jesus Christ. If we obey our Lord, and we speak his truth, we will be hated and persecuted.

 

I know for myself personally that when I accepted God’s call on my life 22 years ago that I was risking it all to follow Jesus where he was leading me. I knew I was being rejected and that I would be rebuffed and cast aside by many, that I would be attacked, that I would be falsely accused of what I did not do, and that I would be persecuted. But I knew this was God’s calling on my life and that God had this planned for my life from before I was born. So, I accept that I will not be well liked and received by the many, that I might serve the Lord in sharing what he gives me to share each day from his word.

 

John 12:35-36 NKJV

 

35Then Jesus said to them, “A little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. 36While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” These things Jesus spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.

 

“The light” Jesus spoke of here was two-fold, I believe. For he himself was and is “The Light.” And the words he spoke, which are recorded for us in the Scriptures, especially with regard to the gospel message, are also “the light.” But not just his words, but those of his New Testament apostles, as well, with regard to the teachings on the gospel of our salvation and faith in Jesus Christ, and what that looks like. The light is the truth of God’s word to us regarding our salvation and our need to deny self, die to sin, and obey our Lord in practice, in his power, as led by the Holy Spirit living within us.

 

And we now live in an era when the truth of the gospel as Christ taught it has been disappearing from sight, and it is largely being replaced with the lies of the enemy. So it is already fading away, and it seems very few are teaching it as Jesus and his apostles taught it. So darkness is already overtaking many people who profess to believe in Jesus because they have believed the lie and not the truth. So many are being taught that God does not require repentance, that they forsake their sins, and that he does not require obedience to his commands. But that is a lie from hell! Don’t buy!

 

Please know that Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin and to self), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God. So don’t ignore this. Not one of us is assured that we have today, let alone tomorrow.

 

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

 

The Spirit Calling

 

An Original Work / November 12, 2019

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Hear the Spirit calling. He’ll keep you from falling.

Tenderly He’s calling, “Come and follow Him.”

 

Walk with Jesus daily. Don’t give in to lazy.

Folks may call you crazy. Fellowship with Him.

 

Follow where He leads you. Eat what Jesus feeds you.

His love will renew you if you follow Him.

 

Do what Jesus tells you. Don’t let your faith fail you.

His love will avail you if you walk with Him.

 

Jesus, Lord and Savior, reigneth now forever.

He gave us His favor so we’d live with Him.

 

Turning now from our sin, Holy Spirit live-in.

Holiness we walk in, purified by Him.

 

https://vimeo.com/373006449

 

But For This Purpose

An Original Work / May 19, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Put Your House in Order

John 11:45-48 NKJV

 

45Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in Him. 46But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things Jesus did. 47Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, “What shall we do? For this Man works many signs. 48If we let Him alone like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.”

 

An Evil Plot

 

The governmental authorities (rulers) within the temple in the days when Jesus lived on the earth hated Jesus for many reasons, but one of which was that he was gaining a huge following among the people and they believed that their own positions of rule and authority would be taken away from them by the Romans who were in authority over them. So, they believed that if they could have him put to death that would be the end of it all and they would no longer be faced with that competition for the hearts of the people. Then they would have full control over the people once again.

 

And in our day and time there is a similar plot afoot, I believe, but with a different twist to it. Now, it was the Jews who had Jesus put to death, but via the Romans, and there are Judaizers today who are working to put Christianity to death as well, I believe, in order to bring us all under the rule of The Beast and into a one world religion, of sorts. But this is being accomplished in a different way. For they are pushing both Christianity and Judaism on the people, I believe especially to make people hate Christianity and Christians so that the people will call for an end to us sharing our faith.

 

False Representation

 

For the people who are trying to make my nation (USA) Christian only are not necessarily people who represent the Christian faith and practice as taught in the Scriptures. For one, Jesus never forced himself on anyone. He spoke truth to the people about himself and why he came to the earth and regarding his mission and the plans of God for the people of the earth. He shared the message of the gospel with the people openly, and out in public, but he did not force himself on anyone who chose not to believe in him and in what he was teaching. He let them walk away if that is what they chose.

 

And also Jesus taught the Christian faith and practice as submission to him as Lord, in surrender of our wills to the will of God, and as us denying self, dying to sin, and walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands in holy living, in daily practice. He taught that we are to put behind us the misdeeds of the flesh and that we are now to live upright, godly, morally pure, and self-controlled lives in keeping with biblical repentance and with holy living. And he taught that we are to love one another, and to do good to others, and that we are not to hate, take revenge, and/or murder people.

 

Hypocrisy at its Worst

 

So, when we hear certain people in positions of rule and authority over us pushing Christianity (their version, not God’s version) on the people of this nation, when not everyone in my nation believes in Jesus, but while they murder the innocents, and they thirst for the blood of those they call their “enemies,” and while they promote idol worship and they blaspheme the God they claim to worship by promoting themselves as “gods” to be worshipped, while they do not represent what is godly, holy, and righteous, but they are crude and hateful, then they ignite hate for those called “Christians.”

 

But that is their goal, I believe. And I believe this is fulfilling the prophesies of Scripture regarding the last days before the return of our Lord, and with regard to the rise and the rule of “The Beast” one world order and its one world religion. And all of this is leading up to the severe persecution of Christians in my nation and in other nations which have not yet had to face such cruelty and martyrdom as many other people have had to suffer down through the generations in many other nations (see Revelation 13). So we need to get ourselves ready, for this is surely on its way, in its time.

 

A Call of God

 

So, the Lord gave me the title of this writing, “Put Your House in Order,” which means to be prepared for this which is most certainly coming, because the Scriptures prophesy that these things are coming, and we can see the evidence of this taking place right before our eyes on a daily basis. So, this is a call to repentance, to walks of obedience to our Lord’s commands, and to submission to God’s will and purpose for our lives. It is a call to forgive enemies and to reconcile broken relationships, too. Time is not on our side. So, don’t be idle. Revelation 13 is being played out in real time now.

 

So, please know that Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God. So don’t ignore this. Not one of us is assured that we have today, let alone tomorrow.

 

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

 

For Our Nation 

 

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Recording Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger

 

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Trust Him with your life today.

Make Him your Lord and your Savior.

Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.

He will forgive you of your sin;

Cleanse your heart, made new within.

 

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.

On our knees to God we’re praying,

Seeking God to give us answers

That are only found in Him.

God is sovereign over all things.

Nothing from His mind escaping.

He has all things under His command,

And will work all for good.

 

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

 

Men deceiving: We’re believing

In our Lord, and interceding

For our nation and its people

To obey their God today.

He is our hope for our future.

For our wounds He offers suture.

He is all we need for this life.

Trust Him with your life today.

 

https://vimeo.com/379406352

 

Put Your House in Order

An Original Work / May 19, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

One Shepherd One Flock

John 10:11-16 NKJV

 

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. 12But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. 13The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. 14I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. 15As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. 16And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.”

 

We who believe in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives, who have denied self, died with Christ to sin, and are now living in obedience to his commands, in practice, in the power of God, are Jesus’ sheep. And he is our shepherd. And we follow him wherever he leads us in doing what he has for us to do as his followers. And he leads us in the way that we should go. He tells us that to be his followers we must deny self, die to sin, and obey him. So we must forfeit our former lives of living in sin and for self to follow him.

 

The Hirelings

 

We now have pastors (elders, shepherds) who are over the sheep within the gatherings of the church, or what are falsely being called “the church.” Many of them are being paid to be over the sheep (the Christians) in leadership, so they are hirelings. But not all who are pastors of church congregations are dedicated to leading the sheep in the right direction, which is for their good. Not many of them would literally lay down their lives for the welfare of the sheep. Many are looking at what’s in it for them, for what they can gain.

 

So many of them today have been trained in marketing schemes and in business techniques on how to “grow their churches,” i.e. on how to draw in large crowds of people from the world into their gatherings. And they have been trained in who they want in their gatherings and who they want to get rid of, too, and on how to attract the world to their gatherings. And so they dilute the gospel and entertain the world, and many preach canned sermons which are intended to attract the world so that the world will like them.

 

So, they are not thinking of the welfare of the sheep. But they are thinking about how they can grow their businesses and be successful in drawing in large crowds of people from the world into their gatherings. And they are more interested in people liking them than they care about whether or not anyone who professes faith in Jesus Christ is literally living for the Lord in submission to his will, in obedience to his commands. So they would rather do what is popular even if it sends people to hell on the promise of heaven.

 

The Good Shepherd

 

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who is God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – loved us so much that he literally gave his life up for us on a cross so as to put our sins to death with him. And he was raised victorious over the grave in victory over sin, death, hell and Satan. And all of this was on our behalf that we might deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in obedience to his commands so that, by faith in him, we might have the hope of salvation from sin and eternal life with God.

 

Then he gave us the Holy Spirit to live within us to teach us all things pertaining to Jesus Christ and to his will and purpose for our lives. And he gave us his written word in the Scriptures to teach us his ways so we will now walk in his truth and righteousness in holy living. And he counsels us in the ways of the Lord, and in the ways that we should go, and he warns us against Satan’s lies and his tricks, and against false shepherds who lie to the people, so that we will not fall for the lies but so we will obey the truth.

 

One Flock One Shepherd

 

And he also taught us that, since his death on that cross, there is no longer any division between Jew and Gentile. For we are one people of God by faith in Jesus Christ. And all who do not believe in Jesus are one people, too, but they are not God’s people, but they are antichrist. So all Jews who do not believe in Jesus are not God’s chosen people, and all Gentiles who believe in Jesus are one people with believing Jews as one nation, one sheep fold, and one flock under one shepherd, no longer two different groups of people.

 

So, not every pastor of a church congregation is a man of God preaching the truth that Jesus taught, leading the people to follow Jesus Christ in obedience to his commands. And not every “church” congregation is the body of Christ, the people of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ, God’s true church, following Jesus in obedience, doing what he commands us to do. Many of them are just businesses incorporated under the state being marketed to the people of the world just like any other worldly business.

 

And not all Jews are God’s chosen people. Only those who believe in Jesus Christ. And the physical and political nation called “Israel” is also not God’s chosen people, because, as a nation, they have denied Jesus as the Christ, their Messiah, and so they are antichrist (1 John 2:22). So only those who are followers of Jesus Christ are biblical Israel and are God’s chosen people, and we are not two separate groups. We are one flock with one shepherd, Jesus Christ, who follow our shepherd in obedience to his commands.

 

[Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19; Matthew 21:43; John 8:18-19,38-47; John 10:16; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:4-8,25-28; Romans 11:1-36; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:1-6; Colossians 3:12-15; Titus 2:14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13; 1 Peter 2:9-10,24; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9]   

 

Here is Your God! 

 

Based off Isaiah 40:9-31 NIV

An Original Work / July 18, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

You who bring good tidings to Zion,

Lift up your voice; raise with a shout,

And do not be afraid of the people.

Say, “Here is your God!”

See how the Lord God comes now with power.

His arm rules for Him; His reward with Him.

He tends His flock just like a shepherd,

His lambs in His arms.

 

Do you not know? Have you not heard?

Has it not been told you from beginning?

Our Lord sits enthroned above all things.

None to Him compare.

Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens.

Who made all of these? Who calls them by name?

Because of His great power and strength,

All accounted for.

 

Why do you say, “My way is hidden

From the Lord, and my cause forgotten”?

Do you not know? Have you not heard?

The Lord, He is your God.

He will not weary. He gives us power.

Those who trust in Him will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings just like eagles;

Walk and do faint not.

 

https://vimeo.com/125488095

 

One Shepherd One Flock

An Original Work / May 18, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

If I Tell You The Truth

John 8:42-47 NKJV

 

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. 45But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. 46Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? 47He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”

 

On Paper, Not in Practice

 

Many people profess faith in Jesus Christ with their lips but their hearts are far from God. They do not obey God, but they obey the flesh, instead, because they do not love God. Actually, the Scriptures teach our relationship with Jesus Christ, by faith in him, as a marriage relationship. Yet on paper a couple may be married to each other, but if one or the other of them is not faithful to their spouse, but they cheat on their spouse, instead, then that is not a marriage, and that says, “I don’t love you, but I love myself, instead.”

 

Well, that is how many people treat God, too. They profess faith in Jesus Christ with their lips, but it is in form only, and not in practice. For they do not follow the Lord where he leads them. They do not go with God but they remain trapped in their sin still living to please the flesh and not God. So they are not listening to the Lord, for they shut him out. For listening should be followed by obeying if we are truly listening to our Lord (John 10:27-30). But they ignore the call of our Lord to repent and to obey God in practice.

 

The Deity of Jesus Christ

 

The Scriptures teach us that God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit. Jesus is not only the only Begotten Son of God, birthed of woman, and conceived of the Holy Spirit, and born without sin, but he was and is God, our creator God who always was God and with God. And when he lived on the earth as man, he was fully human and he was fully God (God-incarnate), in the flesh. So to reject Jesus was and is to reject the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the only true God.

 

Deity of Jesus Christ: [John 1:1-36; John 8:24,58; John 10:30-33; John 20:28-29; Romans 9:5; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 2:9; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:8-9; 1 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Peter 1:1]

 

Reject Jesus? Reject God!

 

So, this is why Jesus said to the Jews that if God truly was their Father, that they would love Jesus, because Jesus is God. So what this also means is that all Jews who claim to worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, if they do not believe in Jesus, they do not believe in the God they claim as their God. So the Jews (the Israel of the Old Covenant) who reject Jesus Christ as their Messiah and Lord also reject the God of their fathers. So they do not believe in the same God as Christians do, as many proclaim that they do.

 

But what this is also teaching is that all who do not believe in Jesus, and therefore do not believe in the one true God, they are not of God, but they are of the devil. But this also applies to many who profess faith in Jesus Christ but who do not obey God, in practice, because they don’t truly love God, and so they are not of God, but are of the devil (see 1 John 3:4-10). They may give lip service to the Lord, as the Jews did to God, but they are still living to please the flesh, and not God, still obeying sin and not God.

 

Of the Devil, Not of God

 

So, to all who profess to believe in Jesus Christ, but who deliberately and habitually continue in sinful practices, and who do not obey God in practice, for you have never surrendered your life to Jesus, but you remained lord of your own life (for you still have not denied self, died to sin, and obeyed God in life practice), to you the Bible teaches that you are antichrist and of the devil, and not of God. And you do not and cannot love God because you love your flesh more, and so you do not obey God. And he is not Lord of your life.

 

But so many people who are in this place will fake it. They will speak lies and pretend that they are in a right relationship with the Lord, and that they are in communion with him, and that God hears their prayers. Although they largely ignore God and his commandments, and they chart their own life course, instead, they are convinced that heaven is their destiny. But it isn’t God they are listening to, because they reject his commands, and sin is their practice. For it is the desires of the devil that they are obeying, instead.

 

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6,22; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

 

Give Me Jesus

 

Oh, What Gladness!

An Original Work / December 2, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Give me Jesus. He’s my Savior.

I’ll walk with Him in His favor.

I’ll abide in His love always;

Follow His ways to the end.

 

Jesus is the Son of God.

He died upon a cruel cross.

He’s forgiven all my failures

By His mercy and His love.

 

Give me Jesus – His compassion,

And His mercy; loving kindness.

Let Him teach me how to love Him,

And to please Him. He’s my friend.

 

Jesus died for all our sin

So we could have eternal life.

He will free you from your bondage

If you trust Him with your life.

 

Give me Jesus. Let me trust Him.

May I listen to His teachings.

May I follow where He leads me

In His service. He’s my Lord.

 

Jesus Christ will come again

To take His bride to be with Him.

Oh, what gladness; free from sadness

When I meet Him in the air.

 

https://vimeo.com/113054381

 

If I Tell You The Truth

An Original Work / May 18, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

A Great Wind Blowing

John 6:16-21 NKJV

 

Now when evening came, His disciples went down to the sea, 17got into the boat, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was already dark, and Jesus had not come to them. 18Then the sea arose because a great wind was blowing. 19So when they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near the boat; and they were afraid. 20But He said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.” 21Then they willingly received Him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.

 

In this life we will have trouble. We will face difficulties. And the closer that it gets to our Lord’s return, the worse it will get. And I believe we are already seeing a “great wind blowing” in the world, and in our nations. We are already witnessing a “ripple effect” from the bad decisions that many of our leaders have made throughout the years, but especially recently, but which I believe are deliberate for the full purpose to destroy us as the nations of the world in order to bring us all under the rule of “The Beast” New World Order.

 

But the “great wind blowing” isn’t just taking place on a national or a political level, but also within the gatherings of the church, or what are falsely being referred to as “the church.” So much of what is called “church” are institutions of human making being marketed to the people of the world which have then altered both the meaning of “church” and the gospel of Christ in order to attract the world to their gatherings. But “the church” is the people of faith, not these institutions of the flesh of human making.

 

But this “great wind blowing” is also taking place in people’s individual lives. For we live in an era of great deception where so many people are being lied to or who are lying to themselves. And so many are believing and following after the lies and are rejecting and/or ignoring the truth taught us in the Scriptures, in their appropriate biblical context. And so many people, many who call themselves “Christians,” are living in addiction to sinful practices and are lying to themselves that there is no way out for them from their sin.

 

And then this “great wind blowing” is taking place in families and in marriages, for so many people are believing the lies of Satan and they are being captivated by the trappings of the world and of the flesh. And so many are addicted to sexual immorality, largely because of the easy access via these Smart Phones, but because that is what is in their hearts. And that is what they desire more than anything else. And marriages are falling apart, and families are separating, and children are being taken advantage of.

But we are not to be afraid. We should fear (honor, respect, obey) God, but we should not tremble in fear over humans and their devices. We should pray for all people who are being taken captive to sin and to the flesh and to worldly and fleshly and wicked desires, that they would repent (biblically) of their sin, turn from it, and now follow Jesus with their lives in surrender to his will. And we should pray for those who are being mistreated and taken advantage of, for their safety and deliverance, and for their salvation.

 

But the Scriptures promised us that the kinds of things we are witnessing today in our nations, in our governments, in our households and families, and in “the church,” will take place in these last days before the return of Christ. We are not promised that things are going to get better, but only worse. But as things continue to get much worse I pray for people’s eyes to be opened to the truth, and that they will see the lies for what they are and that they will turn from the lies and now follow after the Lord and his truth.

 

I pray that they will see Jesus for who he is and for what he did for us in his death on that cross, and in his resurrection, which was to deliver us out of our addiction to sin so we will now surrender our lives to him and walk in obedience to his commands, in the power of God. I pray that they will turn from their sins and commit their lives to the Lord and to his service, and that they will now follow Jesus wherever he leads them, in doing what he has for us to do as those who profess his name, that they may have life in Him.

 

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

 

The following is a secular song but with a message that encourages us to not give up the fight when we are called upon to have to walk through the storms of life because of our faith and our testimonies for Jesus Christ and for his gospel. For if we are following Jesus, we’ll never walk alone. Amen!

 

You’ll Never Walk Alone 

 

By Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rodgers

 

When you walk through a storm

Hold your head up high

And don't be afraid of the dark

At the end of a storm

There's a golden sky

And the sweet silver song of a lark

 

Walk on through the wind

Walk on through the rain

Though your dreams be tossed and blown

Walk on, walk on

With hope in your heart

And you'll never walk alone

You'll never walk alone

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7du-RHGrJrA

 

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A Great Wind Blowing

An Original Work / May 17, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Make Straight the Way of The Lord

John 1:22-23 NKJV

 

Then they said to him (to John the Baptist), “Who are you, that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?” He said: “I am ‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Make straight the way of the Lord,” ’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”

 

And you know what? Essentially this is the calling of all of us who are genuine disciples of Jesus Christ, not in all the same ways in which John the Baptist was called of God, but still we are called to do the same.

 

The Wilderness

 

A wilderness is a wasteland, a desert, the wilds, desolate, and uncultivated. And/or it is a way of life that is spiritually lacking, empty, unproductive, and unfit for good use. And with whom should we be sharing the truth of the gospel? Well, we should be sharing it with all people, for we don’t know everyone’s hearts or where they stand in relation to God/Jesus Christ, and whether or not they are of true faith, and whether or not they are living by that faith or if they are just pretending to be those who believe in Christ.

 

The wilderness can also be representative of this sinful world in which all of us live, not meaning that we all are living in sin, for all of us are not, but that we physically reside in this world which is captivated to sin. And it is representative of the wandering people of God of old who were idolatrous, adulterous, drunkards, revelers, disobedient, sexually immoral, full of lust, and who lusted after what was evil, and who came against God and his commands. So God put them to death. So they did not have eternal life.

 

Make it Straight

 

So, when we read about that in 1 Corinthians 10:1-22, we should also take note that these things happened as examples for us, and they were written down for us as examples so that we should not follow in their footsteps, so that we should not lust after evil things such as they did, and make such sins as these our practice, with the same result. And all throughout the New Testament Scriptures we are taught that we must now die to sin and walk in obedience to God’s commands, or we will not inherit eternal life with God.

 

For if we make straight the way of the Lord, not only by the words that we speak, but by how we live, in practice, we are teaching and we are living what is honest, upright, trustworthy, morally pure, faithful, honorable, decent, righteous, godly, and submissive and obedient to God and to his New Covenant commandments. So we are teaching that to follow Jesus we must deny self, die to sin daily (by the Spirit), and walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands as required of God for salvation and eternal life with God.

 

Of One Crying

 

So this is not light and fluffy stuff we are talking about here. It is not making the way of the Lord nice and friendly and comfortable and relaxed so that we don’t feel bad about our sins. It is not speaking to the people the words they want to hear so that they will like us, but it is speaking to them the words they need to hear, so that they will love God, and so they will surrender their lives to him, and so they will deny self, die to sin, and obey his commands, as a matter of life practice, in the power of God, by the grace of God.

 

When we do this, and we speak truth to the people that many do not want to hear, because it is not the “light and fluffy feel good stuff” that makes them happy, we should expect that we will be hated, forsaken, forgotten, cast aside as unwanted and as unnecessary, ridiculed, called “crazy,” mocked, falsely accused, mistreated, and persecuted for the sake of the truth of the gospel, and for the sake of righteousness. And because we are crying out to the people to believe and obey the truth, or face God’s wrath.

 

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

 

Should I Not Preach Jesus

 

Based off 1 Corinthians 9:16-10:13

An Original Work / July 4, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Woe to me should I not preach Jesus.

I’m compelled to preach the full gospel.

I make myself a slave to ev’ryone

To win their hearts to Christ.

All this I do for my Lord Jesus,

And for the sake of His Name;

Do it for the sake of His gospel,

So that I, its blessings gain.

 

Scripture notates the sins of others;

Written down for us as examples

To keep us from setting our hearts

On evil as did those of old.

Do not worship other gods of man;

Do not give your hearts to them;

Not partake in immorality.

Do not test your Lord and King.

 

So, be careful if you think you are

Standing firm in your faith in Jesus.                        

God has given his word to warn us,

So through faith we will not fall.

No temptation has o’ertaken you

Except what is commonplace.

God is faithful to not let you be

Tempted past what you can bear.

He gives the way of escape.

 

https://vimeo.com/116057811

 

Make Straight the Way of The Lord

An Original Work / May 17, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love