Giving People False Hopes

Jeremiah 29:10-14 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

10For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place. 11For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope. 12Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. 14I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”

 

Introduction

 

The children of Israel of the Old Testament were living in exile in Babylon as a punishment from God for their rebellion against the Lord and for their unwillingness to heed His commands. And God promised them 70 years of exile before He would deliver them. But they had prophets in their midst who were deceiving the people into thinking that they would not have to be in exile the whole 70 years. So, they were not to listen to the prophets who were speaking lies to them, for they prophesied falsely in the name of God.

 

False Prophets

 

What this brings to mind are the teachings of the Scriptures on the gospel of Christ and what it means to be “in Christ,” and what it looks like if we are not “in Christ” by biblical faith in Him. All throughout the New Testament writings we are taught that faith in Jesus Christ, which comes from God, and which is not of human flesh, will result in the believers in Christ denying self, dying to sin (repenting of sin) and obeying our Lord and His commands, as a matter of life practice, yet not necessarily in absolute sinless perfection.

 

However, we are taught that if sin remains our practice, and not obedience to our Lord and to His commands, that we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. But we have prophets and preachers and teachers among us who are teaching lies to the people, and they are telling them that they do not have to repent (die to sin) and obey God and His commands as required of God for believing faith which saves. And they are telling them that God will not judge them for their sins if they say, “I believe in Christ.”

 

Speaking Lies

 

So, in essence, they are doing the same thing these prophets of old did. They are speaking lies to the people. And they are putting words in the mouth of God He did not say. They are saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace, for they are promising all who give lip service to the Lord that they are saved from their sins, and heaven is guaranteed them when they die, and that nothing can take that away from them, not even their continued deliberate and habitual sinning against God via no repentance.

 

They are teaching a false gospel and a false grace of God which permits the sinners to keep on in their sin, with no requirement for obedience to God’s commands (New Covenant), while promising them that God will not judge them, that he will not punish them for their rebellion against Him and for their refusal to surrender their lives to Him. So they are giving the people false hopes of safety and security. And many are teaching that God can no longer see when we sin but He only sees Jesus when He looks at us. Lie!

 

God’s Words

 

But the teachings of the Scriptures do not agree with what the false prophets are telling the people. They teach us that we must deny self, die to sin, and obey God and His commands in life practice for our faith in Jesus Christ to be genuine biblical faith. We must turn from our sins and now surrender our lives to the Lord to doing His will His way from this day forward. Sin must no longer be what we practice or we will not have salvation from sin, and we will not have eternal life with God.

 

For God’s plans for us via Jesus’ death and resurrection are that we must die with Him to sin and now obey Him and His commands in life practice. His plans to prosper us have to do with us living in Him, growing in our walks of obedience to our Lord, succeeding in doing His will. And the future and the hope that He has for us is that we will leave our lives of sin behind us and that we will follow Him wherever He leads us in doing all that He commands, and that we will be a blessing to others as He has been a blessing to us.

 

Call Upon Him

 

But all this is not the result of lip service only. We cannot just “claim who you are in Christ” while continuing to live in sin. We must come to the Lord in humility, seeking to know Him and to do His will. We must bow before Him in genuine repentance and in surrender of our lives to Him. And then we must follow Him in obedience to His commands. And we may not do this perfectly, but lack of perfection is never to be used as an excuse for deliberate and habitual sin, or we will not have salvation from sin.

 

[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]

 

Giving People False Hopes

An Original Work / August 19, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

My Prayer 

 

An Original Work / May 30, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

“Fill me with Your Spirit; help me to love others;

Let me know Your power; be an overcomer.

Show me how to follow Jesus Christ, my Savior;

Be His faithful servant to obey Him always.

 

“Lead me with Your presence; help me know the right way;

Teach me love and kindness, generous compassion.

Give me grace and courage to be Jesus’ witness,

Teaching His salvation to a world who needs Him.”

 

Won’t you come and follow Jesus Christ, your Savior?

He died so you’d be free of control of your sin;

Free to follow His ways in complete surrender;

Living sacrifices – let His grace transform you.

 

https://vimeo.com/122052093

Old Cross, New Cross

The old cross is the cross

On which our Savior died.

He took our sins upon Himself,

And He was crucified.

 

He died upon that cross

To put our sins to death,

That we might die with Him to sin

And live to righteousness.

 

The new cross, not the same.

On sin it puts no blame.

It satisfies the flesh of man.

He does not have to change.

 

Its god does not require

We leave our flesh’s desire.

It modifies and pacifies.

It strives to not offend.

 

But where, in all, lies truth?

It’s found in Jesus Christ.

He said that we must die to sin,

Live to His righteousness.

 

His Holy Spirit, gave,

To live within our lives,

To take away the pow’r of sin.

We live victorious!

 

So, no one has to sin.

Our Lord has made a way

That we can walk in holiness

And live for Him each day.

 

In truth, we must believe,

By faith, our Lord receive.

Accept Him now to be your Lord,

And walk in victory!

 

An Original Work / March 3, 2018

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

What Is The Sin?

I am reading through the book of Jeremiah, much of which is God using Jeremiah to speak to the people and to let them know God’s charges against the people for their sinful rebellion against the Lord. So not everything written in this book is going to apply to us today, but some of it is very applicable to our lives today, as so much of what was happening then is being repeated today, only now during the time of the New Covenant with God we have through faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.

 

Jeremiah 16:9-13 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“9For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.

 

“10When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’

 

“11Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction. 12And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me. 13So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’”

 

“In The Toilet”

 

Now, I live in the USA, which is what I know and understand, and I definitely see how this could be applying to my nation today, which has been sinking down in the toilet for some time now, which has to do with moral failure. But it isn’t just our heads of government who are “in the toilet,” but it is so much of what is called “church” which is catering to the world and to human flesh, and which is pacifying sin in sinful humans who call themselves Christians, and which is diluting the gospel to make it less offensive to the world.

 

This is about those who make professions of faith in Jesus Christ and who claim heaven as their eternal destiny but who are still living in deliberate and habitual sin against God, still catering to their sinful cravings, still doing what their flesh craves while ignoring God’s commands. Many of them are malicious, morally unclean, deceivers, manipulators, liars, untrustworthy, egocentric and fakes who fake their Christianity. They are also the selfish and the self-indulgent who deliberately and habitually sin against the Lord.

 

Judgment of God

 

God is getting ready to judge my nation, I believe, but only God knows the timing for that. But I can see it coming in the things which are happening in the government and in so much of what is called “the church” but which is being led by the flesh of men, instead. My nation appears to be “sinking down in the toilet” more and more each day, looking more and more like we are coming to a terrible end, as a nation. And so many people are following after the lies and are rejecting the truth because they love their sin more.

 

But if you don’t see it coming, and if you wonder why it might be coming, and soon, the answer given here to Jeremiah to give to the people fits so well with my nation and its people, too. And it truly goes back to our forefathers who began this nation under false pretenses, and those who sent them to conquer and to take this land for themselves, too, I believe. And many of them, under the guise of Christianity, were those who served other gods, the gods of this world, which is still the case today in my nation.

 

The False Church

 

So much of what is called “church” here in the USA is not the biblical body of believers in Jesus Christ, but they are conglomerates of human making partnered with the world and united with the state (the government) and with big business being marketed to the world just like other businesses. Most do not seem to operate as the biblical body of Christ, where each part does its work and where we minister to one another for the encouragement of the body of Christ in walks of obedience to God’s commands.

 

And so many of them today are teaching that we do not have to obey God’s commands, and that we do not have to repent of (turn away from) our sins as part of faith which saves, or they make these optional. And so many of them are continuing in deliberate and habitual sin, with sexual immorality appearing as the predominant sin among those living in addiction to sin. And so they are following the stubbornness of their evil hearts instead of obeying God because they are being given permission to do so by so many pastors.

 

Needing a Change

 

So something needs to happen to change all that. Sadly, it will probably take something tragic to bring many people to their knees in genuine biblical repentance where they will now cease to make sin their practice, and where now, by the grace of God, righteous living and moral purity and obeying our Lord’s commands will now be their practice. But sadly, even then, many will not turn from their sins, and they will not obey God, but they will continue to serve the gods of this world, and they will not have eternal life with God.

 

So, don’t be one of them. Repent of your sins today if you have not already done so, and begin today to follow Jesus Christ wherever He leads you in doing all that He commands. For the Scriptures teach that to have genuine faith which saves, by the grace of God, that we must deny self, die to sin, and obey our Lord as a matter of life practice (not necessarily in absolute perfection). And they teach that if we continue in deliberate and habitual sin, and not in walks of obedience to our Lord, we will not be saved from our sin.

 

[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]

 

What Is The Sin?

An Original Work / August 18, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Only in Him 

 

Based off Isaiah 30

An Original Work / February 19, 2014

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Woe to those who look to man’s help;

Who turn away from Jesus Christ;

Forming an alliance not in step with God;

Making their own plans, and praying not.

 

Willing not to listen to truth,

They close their ears to what is right.

Pleasing words are all that they’ll hear;

Feel good messages that bring cheer.

 

Trust in your Lord; turn from your sin.

Put your faith now ONLY IN HIM.

Do not turn to idols. They’ll not satisfy.

Jesus will save you. That’s why He died.

 

Your Lord will be gracious to you.

He cares all about you, ‘tis true.

He forgives you all of your sin

When you give your life up to Him.

 

Oh, how truly gracious He’ll be

When you bow to Him on your knees;

Turning now from your sin; walking in his ways.

He’ll lead and guide you all of your days.

 

Now you will sing praises to Him.

He delivered you from your sin.

You’ll tell others now of His grace,

So they may see Christ face-to-face.

 

https://vimeo.com/87181019

Disheartened and Discouraged

Jeremiah was a prophet of God, a man of God who loved the Lord and whose life was committed to the service of the Lord, to going to the people, and to saying to the people whatever God commanded him to say. But he was also human, like we are, and he did experience a great deal of flack (assault) and persecution from the people, so there were times when he got disheartened and discouraged. And this was one of those times. And this is what he said:

 

Jeremiah 15:10,18 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“10Woe to me, my mother,

that you have borne me,

a man of strife and conflict

in all the land.

I have neither lent nor borrowed,

yet everyone curses me.”

 

And to God He said:

 

“18Why is my pain unending,

and my wound incurable,

refusing to be healed?

You have indeed become like a mirage to me—

water that is not there.”

 

Have you ever felt or expressed anything like that yourself during a time of being persecuted for righteousness’ sake? I have. I once went through this period of time when I kept getting knocked down (not physically, but mentally, emotionally) and treated with disdain, lied about, falsely accused of what I did not do or of attitudes I did not have, usually by others who did not even know me, but who made false judgments of me anyway, from very surface level evaluations or based on things they had been taught wrongly.

 

And I was not claiming that I was perfect in every respect, but that their accusations of me were lies, unfair, unjust, unkind, and without cause. And usually they were judging me by their own selves, by their own thoughts and personalities and ways of thinking, but not according to the Scriptures, and not according to the truth. And I did feel like I was drowning or like I was a basketball being slam dunked in the net over and over again. And I am most certain that I did cry out to God in my distress at those times.

 

I cannot recall exactly what the Lord said to me in every instance, but I am most certain that He was preparing me for “such a time as this” when He would call me to write down what I was learning from Him during my times spent daily with Him daily in His word, and to post these writings on the internet, so that “a herald may run with it,” “Run With It” then becoming the name of my blogs. All of this was in preparation to get me ready for what God had planned for my life that I didn’t yet know about, but I do now.

 

But this was God’s response to Jeremiah in his time of distress:

 

Jeremiah 15:19-21 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

Therefore this is what the LORD says:

“If you return, I will restore you;

you will stand in My presence.

And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless,

you will be My spokesman.

It is they who must turn to you,

but you must not turn to them.

20Then I will make you a wall to this people,

a fortified wall of bronze;

they will fight against you

but will not overcome you,

for I am with you to save and deliver you,

declares the LORD.

21I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked

and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.”

 

Now, if we read through the whole chapter, we will see that Jeremiah was not turning away from the Lord, but that he was lamenting his own suffering. He was discouraged. He was disheartened. And his strength was failing him. So he needed to return to fully putting his trust in the Lord, resting in Him, believing that God had called him to this ministry, and for a good purpose, and that God would give him all that he needed to do the will of God despite being mistreated and persecuted for righteousness’ sake.

 

And God may be now speaking to some of us who are serving Him with our lives who are feeling disheartened, and in order to encourage us to keep the faith, to stand strong, and to keep going in the strength of the Lord, even when things look hopeless. For believe me when I tell you that speaking the words of God from the Scriptures, in their correct biblical context, at a time when so many are teaching lies, and when so many are believing the lies, will not normally gain you popularity. You may rather be largely ignored.

 

No matter how we are treated by others, we are to obey God’s callings on our individual lives. And all of us who are of faith in Jesus Christ are to be the Lord’s servants and messengers in taking the true gospel message to the people of the world. We must not compromise the truth of the gospel just so that people will like us. But we must keep speaking the truth even if most of them hate us or just don’t like us or they just ignore us. For this is about the salvation of human lives out from slavery to sin so that they will now obey God with their lives and have salvation from sin and eternal life with God.

 

[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]

 

Disheartened and Discouraged

An Original Work / August 18, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

My Prayer 

 

An Original Work / May 30, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

“Fill me with Your Spirit; help me to love others;

Let me know Your power; be an overcomer.

Show me how to follow Jesus Christ, my Savior;

Be His faithful servant to obey Him always.

 

“Lead me with Your presence; help me know the right way;

Teach me love and kindness, generous compassion.

Give me grace and courage to be Jesus’ witness,

Teaching His salvation to a world who needs Him.”

 

Won’t you come and follow Jesus Christ, your Savior?

He died so you’d be free of control of your sin;

Free to follow His ways in complete surrender;

Living sacrifices – let His grace transform you.

 

https://vimeo.com/122052093

Those Who are Greedy for Gain

Jeremiah 8:4-7 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

4So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says:

“Do men fall and not get up again?

Does one turn away and not return?

5Why then have these people turned away?

Why does Jerusalem always turn away?

They cling to deceit;

they refuse to return.

6I have listened and heard;

they do not speak what is right.

No one repents of his wickedness,

asking, ‘What have I done?’

Everyone has pursued his own course

like a horse charging into battle.

7Even the stork in the sky

knows her appointed seasons.

The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush

keep their time of migration,

but My people do not know

the requirements of the LORD.

 

I live in the USA, so I can only speak of what I know of what is going on within my nation, and I do not know everything. But I have been part of the body of Christ since age 7, and I am now age 76, four months away from turning age 77. And I have lived in many US states and cities, and I have participated in ministry in many different church gatherings, of at least 4 different church denominations (Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, and Christian & Missionary Alliance), so I have a pretty fair pulse on it all.

 

And what I have witnessed, and had confirmed by many other followers of Christ who have observed the same, is that the vast majority of what is called “church” in my nation has gone the way of the world. They have joined forces with the government (merged with the state) and with the world and they have turned their gatherings into places of business to be marketed to the people of the world, all of which God forbids. Thus, many have altered the gospel of Christ to make it more acceptable to the world.

 

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

 

So many of them now are teaching a very diluted gospel message which does not require repentance (death to sin) and obedience to God’s commands as critical components of faith which saves. Or if they do teach these, often they will teach them as recommended, but not as required. And so we have many professing Christians who have not denied self and died to sin, and for whom obedience to God’s commands is not what they practice, but who still live life their way, doing what pleases the flesh and not God.

 

Jeremiah 8:8-9 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

8How can you say, ‘We are wise,

and the Law of the LORD is with us,’

when in fact the lying pen of the scribes

has produced a deception?

9The wise will be put to shame;

they will be dismayed and trapped.

Since they have rejected the word of the LORD,

what wisdom do they really have?

 

But while so many of what are called “churches” are partnered with the state and with the world, and are following the ways of man, and not of God, in order to win the world to their gatherings, they are promoting themselves as the true church, the one under the authority of God, teaching the truths of the Scriptures. But these businesses called “church” are not the church. We who by faith in Jesus Christ who have denied self, died to sin, and who are walking in obedience to our Lord’s commands, in practice, are His church.

 

And this does not mean we are all perfect. But none of us should be living according to the flesh and not according to our Lord and to the teachings of the Scriptures. All of us who profess faith in Jesus Christ are to be living in submission to the will of God for our lives, in holy living, according to God’s expressed will and purpose for our lives. All of us should have our lives surrendered to the Lord, walking in His ways, doing what He commands, living morally pure, upright, and godly lives until our Lord returns.

 

Jeremiah 8:10-12 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

10..For from the least of them to the greatest,

all are greedy for gain;

from prophet to priest,

all practice deceit.

11They dress the wound of the daughter of My people

with very little care,

saying, ‘Peace, peace,’

when there is no peace at all.

12Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed?

No, they have no shame at all;

they do not even know how to blush.

So they will fall among the fallen;

when I punish them, they will collapse,

says the LORD.

 

Sadly, so many who profess faith in Jesus Christ who are serving as pastors and elders of church congregations (or of what are falsely being called “churches”) are worldly men, living to please the flesh, following after the ways of the world, teaching lies to the people. They are mainly focused on doing what will attract the world to their gatherings in order to grow their numbers, and so they willfully teach half-truths (lies) in order to appease human flesh and to not offend the people they want in their gatherings.

 

So, they will treat those in their congregations who are willfully, deliberately, and habitually living in sin, addicted to immorality and all sorts of other sins, with “kid gloves,” pacifying them in their sins. And they will lie to them and tell them that if they made a confession of Christ as Savior that they are now guaranteed salvation from sin and eternal life with God, regardless of how they live. And so they say, “Peace, peace” to them when there is no peace, because they are not at peace with God if they habitually sin.

 

But they are not ashamed of what they are doing to the people in teaching them lies and appeasing them in their habitual and deliberate sins. But it isn’t just that. They also attack those of us who are teaching the truth of the gospel, and they try to convince the people that we are the liars, even though the Scriptures clearly teach we must deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in obedience to His commands, in life practice, in the power of God, by His grace, if we are to have salvation from sin and eternal life with God.

 

[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]

 

Those Who are Greedy for Gain

An Original Work / August 18, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

The Heart of Man 

 

Based off Matthew 15:1-20; Mark 7:1-23

An Original Work / April 4, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Listen to me ev’ryone and

Understand this teaching of Christ:

Why do you break the commands

Of God for the sake of tradition?

When you follow the ways of man,

And don’t obey the words of Christ,

You nullify the words of God,

And you hold to the ways of man.

 

What comes out of a man’s mouth is

What makes him unclean and dirty.

The things that come out of the mouth

Come from the heart, from within him.

The heart of man is so sinful;

From his nature, out comes evil:

Lying, cursing, greed and malice,

Lust and lewdness, deceit, slander.

 

Jesus calls us to obey Him;

Turn from our sins; follow His ways.

Yet, His people honor Him with their lips,

but their hearts not with Him.

Their worship of God is in vain.

Their teachings are rules taught by man.

Jesus calls us; gently leads us

To return and follow His truth.

 

https://vimeo.com/125490002

Do Not Believe the Liars

Jeremiah 7:1-7 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2“Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD. 3Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place. 4Do not trust in deceptive words, saying:

 

‘This is the temple of the LORD,

the temple of the LORD,

the temple of the LORD.’

 

5For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another, 6if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm, 7then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.”

 

Translated to the times in which we live today, under the New Covenant with God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – the temple of the Lord is no longer a physical building in a particular physical location. We, the people of God, who are of faith in Jesus Christ, are now that temple, the temple of God. And the gate of the house of the Lord is not a physical gate but it is the way into relationship with Jesus Christ by faith in Him in denying self, dying to sin, and in following the Lord in obedience to His commands, by His grace.

 

So, also translated to today, this would be speaking to all who have professed faith in Jesus Christ. And the message is to call out hypocrisy and false forms of worship, perhaps even done in front of others to give a false impression of genuine faith in the Lord, or to promote a particular institutional church gathering in order to increase its attendance. And it was to call them to genuine repentance, to leave their sins behind them and to follow the Lord where they will then be accepted into the family of God.

 

Jeremiah 7:8-11 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“8But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail. 9Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, 10and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’? 11Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.”

 

But the problem was that the people kept listening to deceptive words, and that is actually where so many who profess Christ as Lord are today. For so many men serving as “pastors” of church congregations are not godly men, being led of the Spirit of God in what to teach, but they are cult leaders and business men who are following the ways of the flesh, and who are following after lies, who are following the ways of marketing schemes and business plans on how to “grow their churches,” rather than being led by the Spirit.

 

So many of them have, thus, diluted and altered the message of the gospel of our salvation in order to be less offensive and more pleasing to the people of the world who they are trying to attract to their gatherings. And so many of them are now teaching that God does not require repentance (death to sin) and obedience to His commands as part of faith which saves. And so they are giving the people permission to keep on in deliberate and habitual sin, in stealing, murdering, committing adultery, perjury and idol worship.

 

Jeremiah 7:12-15 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“12But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel. 13And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer, 14therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers. 15And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.”

 

So, what the Lord is saying to those who profess His name today is that we must all live the life God has called us to live, in practice, for us to have salvation from sin and eternal life with God. And this is not a one time thing we do and now we are good to go for eternity. Our salvation, although it has a beginning, is progressive. We must deny self, die to sin, and obey God as a matter of life practice, not just in profession with one’s lips. And this does not mean we will never fail (1 John 2:1-2) but sin must not be our practice.

 

For there is a warning for us here that if sin is what we continue in, because we have been convinced by the liars that God is okay with that, which He is definitely not, that when the time comes for God to judge, and we stand before Him, He will deny that He knew us, and He will cast us out of His presence. We will not have salvation from sin and we will not have eternal life with God if we do not repent of (turn from) our sins and now obey God in life practice. So we need to believe this and obey God and not the flesh.

 

[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]

 

Do Not Believe the Liars

An Original Work / August 17, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Just Are You 

 

Based off Revelation 15-16

An Original Work / August 26, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Great and marvelous are Your deeds, O God.

Just and true Your ways, King of all the earth.

Who will not fear You; glorify Your name?

You are righteousness. Praise Your Name!

 

Just are You, O Lord, our Eternal ONE,

For You judge the earth in Your righteousness.

They have shed the blood of Your righteous ones.

You give their reward. They’re to blame!

 

Kings of all the earth gather, one accord;

Make haste to engage in a mighty war.

They oppose the Lord and His holy saints.

They serve wickedness, to their shame!

 

Jesus comes again, to some unforeseen.

Blessed are those who wait for Him at the gate.

They’ll not be ashamed. “Glad” be their refrain.

When He comes again, He’ll remain!

 

https://vimeo.com/115579013

Where is The Good Way?

At the time this was written by Jeremiah, under the inspiration of the Spirit of God, the Jews only (biblical Israel of that time) were God’s chosen people. Today God’s chosen people are all who are of genuine biblical faith in Christ, whether Jew or Gentile by physical birth. And all Jews who have rejected Jesus Christ as their Messiah are no longer God’s chosen people. But not all Israel of that time were of genuine biblical faith in the Lord God, just as not all who profess faith in Jesus Christ today are truly part of God’s family.

 

Israel Today: [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; see also Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19]

 

Jeremiah 6:10-11 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

This is what the Lord of Hosts says:

 

“10To whom can I give this warning?

Who will listen to me?

Look, their ears are closed,

so they cannot hear.

See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them;

they find no pleasure in it.

11But I am full of the LORD’s wrath;

I am tired of holding it back.”

 

Now, in this writing, this will be addressed to all who profess faith in Jesus Christ but who are not living the faith which they profess. For so many are listening to the teachings of man (humans) and they are ignoring the teachings of God in the New Testament under the New Covenant God has with His people Israel (Jew and Gentile by faith in Jesus Christ). Thus, many are believing lies taught by humans while they are also being taught to reject the truth of the gospel taught by Jesus and by his NT apostles.

 

So many prospective or professing Christians are being taught that they do not have to deny self, die to sin (repent), and obey God in life practice. They are being taught that all they have to do is “believe,” which is not usually biblically defined. But the faith to believe in Jesus is not of our own doing, but it is of God, and it is gifted to us by God, and it is persuaded of God as to His righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of God’s requirement that we must turn from our sins and obey God in practice.

 

Jeremiah 6:13-15 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“13For from the least of them to the greatest,

all are greedy for gain;

from prophet to priest,

all practice deceit.

14They dress the wound of My people

with very little care,

saying, ‘Peace, peace,’

when there is no peace at all.

15Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed?

No, they have no shame at all;

they do not even know how to blush.

So they will fall among the fallen;

when I punish them, they will collapse,”

says the LORD.

 

Now this does not apply to everyone who professes faith in Jesus Christ today. But it could very well describe the majority of those calling themselves Christians today. For it appears that the majority are now buying into an altered “gospel” message, which is not the gospel taught by Jesus and by His apostles. And they are being taught to just enjoy life, to go the easy way, that God can’t even see when they sin anymore, and if they feel guilty for sinning that they should just claim “who you are in Christ.”

 

But we are not “in Christ” by faith in Him unless, by that faith we have denied self, died to sin, and we are now walking (in conduct) in obedience to our Lord and to His commands, as a matter of life practice. And this is not to say that we will never sin (1 John 2:1-2), but that sin must no longer be our habit, our practice, i.e. what we keep going back to over and over again with the same results, and without biblical repentance. But there is no “peace” for those who continue in sin and who do not obey God in life practice.

 

Jeremiah 6:16-19 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

16This is what the LORD says:

 

“Stand at the crossroads and look.

Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’

Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.

But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’

17I appointed watchmen over you and said,

‘Listen for the sound of the ram’s horn.’

But they answered, ‘We will not listen!’

18Therefore hear, O nations,

and learn, O congregations,

what will happen to them.

19Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people,

the fruit of their own schemes,

because they have paid no attention to My word

and have rejected My instruction.”

 

This happens to be one of my most favorite Old Testament passages of Scripture. So, what are crossroads? They can be a physical place where two roads meet and cross, or they can have to do with a critical point in anyone’s life where a major choice must be made as to which direction to go, i.e. which path to take, but not just physically, but morally and spiritually. And the latter is what is intended here. We all must make the choice to either follow God in obedience or to keep doing things “our way,” by the flesh.

 

So, what are “the ancient paths”? Where is “the good way”? They are the truths of the Scriptures which teach us that we must die to sin and live for God, and that daily we must die to sin and walk in obedience to the Lord. And we are not talking Old Covenant here. We are talking New Covenant teachings which were also taught in the Old Testament. If we do not die to sin and obey our Lord, in the power of God, by biblical faith in Him, which comes from God, we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life in him.

 

And who are the “watchmen” of God today? They can be man or woman, but they must be those whose lives are surrendered to the will and purpose of God for our lives, as taught in the Scriptures in the correct biblical context. And our assignment from God is to share with the people what the Scriptures teach about God/Christ and our salvation, and to warn the people against falling into sin and against believing the lies of the enemy, and to call the people to repentance and to obedience to our Lord and to His commands, and to warn of judgment if they choose their sins over God.

 

Sadly, so many are not listening to the watchmen and to the Scriptures and to the Word of God written for us in the Scriptures, but they are listening to human flesh and to the teachings of man (humans) which are of the flesh and not of God, and not in agreement with the Scriptures taught in their correct biblical context. And they are listening to the “feel good” preaching which tells them that they can keep on in their sin and that God will not judge them since they professed faith in Jesus Christ. But they are listening to lies, and that will not end well for them. For hell will be their destiny.

 

[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]

 

Where is The Good Way?

An Original Work / August 17, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Walking in The Light 

 

Based off 1 John 1-2

An Original Work / November 16, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

When I lift up my voice, and sing praise unto God,

I will fellowship with my Lord and Savior, King.

In Him there is no darkness. He is in the light of truth.

If we walk in His light, from sin He purifies.

 

If we repent of our sins, He’ll forgive us now,

When we humble ourselves, and before Jesus bow.

The man who says, “I know Him,” but does not obey His truth,

There is no truth in him. In darkness still he’s found.

 

Do not love the world of sin, for it is hell bound.

If you follow the world, you’ll not in Christ be found.

The world and its desires will not last; they’ll expire.

The one who does God’s will, receives eternal life.

 

See that what you have heard from Christ remains in you.

Then, you’ll remain in Christ, and in His Father, too.

This is what He promised us – His eternal life with God.

So, continue in Him, and you’ll receive a crown.

 

https://vimeo.com/114160122