Thursday, August 27, 2026
What Does God Hate?
Some People Hate Truth Tellers
Amos 5:10 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
“10There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate
and despise him who speaks with integrity.”
So, who do these people hate? They hate people like me who
speak the truth of God’s Word to the people, who call the people to genuine
biblical repentance, to putting sin to death in their lives, and who call them
to sincere walks of obedience to our Lord and to His commands, as a matter of
life practice (not necessarily in absolute perfection in every way). But lack
of perfection is never to be used as an excuse for deliberate and habitual sin
against God. For if sin is what we practice, we will not have life in God.
They do not hate all “preachers” of “the gospel” because
many of them are lying to the people, and they are diluting the gospel message
to make it more tolerable and acceptable to human flesh. Many of them are
telling the people that God does not require that they repent of their sin and
that they obey His commands, for they call that “works salvation.” Or if they
teach repentance and obedience, they make it more optional and do not teach
that how we live will impact where we spend eternity, either in heaven or in hell.
God Hates False Worship
Amos 5:21-24 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
“21I hate, I despise your feasts!
I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
22Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them;
for your peace offerings of fattened cattle
I will have no regard.
23Take away from Me the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24But let justice roll on like a river,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”
God hates fakery. He hates false worship of Himself. He
hates what is done in performance only, without
genuine submission to Him as Lord. And so much of what is called “church” today
are these “solemn assemblies” which God hates because they are just going
through the motions of religious practice, because it is a Sunday (or a Saturday).
So they sing the songs, and they listen to the sermons, but then they go home
and they live life as they choose all throughout the week. And God is not
really Lord of their lives.
Now, so many of what are being called “churches” are these
businesses of human origin which are in partnership with the government and
with the world which are marketing “the church” to the people of the world. And
so many of them are being led by marketing books and seminars on how to “grow
your churches,” and so they are doing things man’s ways and not God’s ways. Thus,
so many of them are teaching a false gospel which does not require repentance
and obedience to God for salvation from sin.
But God is not pleased with ritualistic and/or emotional
gatherings which get people all pumped up with lively music which they then
call “worship.” For biblical worship of God is via surrender of our lives to
the Lord in submission to Him as LORD (Owner-Master) of our lives, in walks of
obedience to His commands, in death to sin, and in following Him wherever He leads
us in being and in doing all that He has made us and called us to be, for His
purposes and glory, and for the salvation of people from bondage to sin.
[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]
God Hates Idolatry
Amos 5:25-27 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
“25Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings
forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
26You have taken along Sakkuth your king
and Kaiwan your star god,
the idols you made for yourselves.
27Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,”
says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
How did the majority of God’s people during their forty
years in the wilderness treat God? They were idolaters, and those who indulged
in revelry (wild, boisterous, uncontrolled partying, drunkenness and sensual
indulgence), who committed sexual immorality, who put Christ to the test and
who grumbled against God. And these things took place as examples to us and they
were written down for us to keep us from craving evil things as they did
resulting in eternal death as a judgment of God against us.
If You Hear His Voice
Hebrews 3:7-11 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:
“Today, if you hear His voice,
8do not harden your hearts,
as you did in the rebellion,
in the day of testing in the wilderness,
9where your fathers tested and tried Me,
and for forty years saw My works.
10Therefore I was angry with that generation,
and I said,
‘Their hearts are always going astray,
and they have not known My ways.’
11So I swore on oath in My anger,
‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
[1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13]
For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our
own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ
to walk in newness of life in Him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as
slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no
longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires.
For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is
what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with
God (see Romans 6:1-23).
[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; 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 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 Does God Hate?
An Original Work / August 27, 2026
Christ’s
Free Servant, Sue J Love
Arise and Shine
Based off Isaiah 60
An Original Work /
March 6, 2014
Christ’s Free
Servant, Sue J Love
Arise and shine;
your Lord has come.
Allow His light to
flow through you,
For many walk in
wickedness.
Show them the way to
life anew.
Arise and shine.
Your Lord loves you.
Lift up your eyes,
and look about.
Some do believe,
while others doubt.
Believe in all God’s
promises.
The many will, in
Christ, find rest.
Lift up your eyes,
and you’ll be blessed.
Arise and shine;
salvation comes
To all who trust in
Christ, God’s Son.
Forgiven of their
sins, they’ll be,
When they repent on
bended knee.
Arise and shine, so
all will see.
Lift up your eyes,
and see your Lord.
He will revive His
church, forlorn.
Though humans have
forsaken you,
They will find
Christ, and walk in truth.
Lift up your eyes;
God honors you.
Love Pursuing
Time is ticking, running out.
Where is your faith? Do you doubt?
What’s your practice? Where’s your life?
Who’s your idol for tonight?
Making noises, sing your songs.
Blow your trumpets. Clang your gongs.
Throw your parties. Chat with friends.
Entertainment never ends.
Love pursuing. Never find.
Sin’s addictions not rewind.
Going nowhere. Spin your wheels.
Lust and lewdness are the thrill.
Jesus Christ is not your life.
You profess Him. That’s not right.
Make Him your Lord, King today.
Humble yourself. Bow and pray.
Turn from your sin. Flesh depart.
Let Him now live in your heart.
You will be glad that you did.
Your life now in Him be hid.
An Original Work / April 14, 2018
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Prepare to Meet The Lord
The Israelites of the Old Testament times were sinning against the Lord deliberately and habitually. And so God was warning them of a judgement of God to come against them. And their sin wasn’t just about all the evil that they did, but it was about the hypocrisy that they performed, as well.
Religious Hypocrites
Amos 4:4-5 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
“4Go to Bethel and transgress;
rebel even more at Gilgal!
Bring your sacrifices every morning,
your tithes every three days.
5Offer leavened bread as a thank offering,
and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings.
For that is what you children of Israel love to do,”
declares the Lord GOD.
So, today, this might be like those who profess faith in
Jesus Christ, who regularly attend what are considered by most to be “church
services,” who sit through the weekly services, sing the songs, listen to the
sermons, put their offerings in the collection plate (or however it is being
done today), and who volunteer for various projects or social activities or
ministries. But then they live for themselves, for their sinful pleasures,
doing what pleases the flesh but not what pleases God. And the next week they
repeat the same.
But it isn’t just that they are religious hypocrites, but
that they brag about their religiosity, i.e. they boast loudly about their
offerings or their other “good works” that they believe that they did, because
they want the applause of other humans. They want human approval. Privately (or
publicly) they are sinning against God habitually, but then they put on a show
of righteousness, and they act as though they are godly because of the
religious rituals which they perform. But they do so hypocritically.
They Did Not Return
Then, in verses 6-11 we read how God had cast judgments
against them, and against their cities. He afflicted them with lack of bread.
And He withheld rain from them. People staggered from city to city for water to
drink, but they were not satisfied. And He struck their gardens with blight and
mildew, and the locust devoured their trees. And He sent plagues among them.
And He killed their young men and their horses, and He overthrew some, yet in
all of this they did not return to the Lord.
God Will Judge
Amos 4:12-13 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
“12Therefore, that is what I will do
to you, O Israel,
and since I will do this to you,
prepare to meet your God, O Israel!
13For behold, He who forms the mountains,
who creates the wind
and reveals His thoughts to man,
who turns the dawn to darkness
and strides on the heights of the earth—
the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
God was letting the people know then, and He is still
letting all who profess His name today, but not in truth, and not in
righteousness, know that judgment is what awaits them. God is going to judge
them for their lies, their adulteries, their deceptions, their hypocrisies, and
their false worship of God. He will judge them for their idolatrous worship of
false gods and for their loyalty and devotion to hypocritical liars who portend
to be righteous. Religious performances mean nothing to Him. He requires our
obedience.
For 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 (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew
7:21-23).
[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]
Prepare to Meet The Lord
An Original Work / August 27, 2026
Christ’s
Free Servant, Sue J Love
In Harmony
Based off Romans 12:9-21; 1 Peter
3:8-17
An Original Work / September 2, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Love each other
truly. Cling to what is good.
Hate all that is
evil. Never lack in zeal.
Serve the Lord with
fervor. Joyful in hope be;
Patient in
affliction; Praying faithfully.
Honor one another.
Live in harmony.
Share with all God’s
people who are found in need.
Do not be conceited.
Sympathetic be.
Love, and show
compassion in humility.
Keep your tongue
from evil. Peaceful you must be.
Honor one another.
Live in harmony.
God sees who are
righteous; listens to their prayers.
But He’s against
evil – is His to avenge.
Do not fear what
they fear. Suffer patiently.
In your hearts, make
Christ Lord. Serve Him faithfully.
Honor one another.
Live in harmony.
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
A Case Against The People
Hosea 4:1-2 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
The People’s Sins
1Hear the word of the LORD,
O children of Israel,
for the LORD has a case
against the people of the land:
“There is no truth, no loving devotion,
and no knowledge of God in the land!
2Cursing and lying,
murder and stealing,
and adultery are rampant;
one act of bloodshed follows another.”
Now I am going to relate this to our world and church (the
people of God) today, focusing on mainly my own nation (the USA), which is what
I know and understand. Now, under the Old Covenant God’s people were the Jews,
Israel of that time, so they were God’s people by physical heritage, because
they were descendants of Abraham. Today God’s people are all people (Jew and
Gentile by physical birth) who have by faith in Jesus Christ denied self, died
to sin, and chosen a path of obedience to the Lord, by the grace of God.
But not everyone who has received Jesus Christ into their
lives by biblical faith in Him is presently living for the Lord in obedience to
His commands. Many have returned to their sins and are living to please the
flesh. And not everyone who professes faith in Jesus Christ ever did become
true followers of Christ, for they immediately continued on in their sins and
not in obedience to the Lord, because they were led to believe that God does
not require of us repentance (turning from sin) and obedience to His commands.
Therefore, we have many people in my nation, and perhaps in
the world as a whole, who are giving lip service to the Lord but by their
actions they deny Him. Sin is still their practice, and not obedience to our
Lord’s commands. So they have no loving devotion to God, for to love God is to
obey His commands. And many of them will lie to whomever in order to cover up
their sins. And adultery is definitely running rampant!! With the invention of
home computers, the internet, but especially smart phones, many are adulterers.
So many professing Christians today are living in addiction
to sexual immorality via the use of pornography coupled with self-gratification.
So they hide what they do in secret, and they lie about it, or perhaps they are
bold about what they do, but there is no indication of true remorse, and there
is no genuine repentance because they keep repeating the same sinful patterns
over and over, some of them their entire lives or most all of their lives. And
many of them just keep making excuses for why they do that.
Hosea 4:6-9 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
The Shepherd’s Sins
“6My people are destroyed
for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I will also reject you as My priests.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I will also forget your children.
7The more they multiplied,
the more they sinned against Me;
they exchanged their Glory
for a thing of disgrace.
8They feed on the sins of My people
and set their hearts on iniquity.
9And it shall be
like people, like priest.
I will punish both of them for their ways
and repay them for their deeds.”
We have many people (mostly men) serving as pastors and
elders or bishops in today’s modern market-driven institutional “churches” who
are charlatans and wolves in sheep’s clothing who are feeding lies to the
people, saying what itching ears want to hear. They may teach some of the
gospel, but not all of it. And many of them are telling the people that they do
not have to repent and obey God to be saved. Or if they do teach that, it is
more like a suggestion or a recommendation, but not as a requirement for
salvation.
But the Scriptures teach that by faith in Jesus Christ, a
faith which comes from God, and is gifted to us by God, and is persuaded of
God, we must deny self, die to sin, and obey God as a matter of life practice,
not necessarily in absolute sinless perfection. But lack of perfection is never
to be used as an excuse for deliberate and habitual sin against God and for deliberate
disobedience to His commands. For if sin is our practice, and not obedience to
God, we will not inherit eternal life with God.
Hosea 5:4-7 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
A Spirit of Prostitution
“4Their deeds do not permit them
to return to their God,
for a spirit of prostitution is within them,
and they do not know the LORD.
5Israel’s arrogance testifies against them;
Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;
even Judah stumbles with them.
6They go with their flocks and herds
to seek the LORD,
but they do not find Him;
He has withdrawn Himself from them.
7They have been unfaithful to the LORD;
for they have borne illegitimate children.
Now the New Moon will devour them
along with their land.”
I have heard many Christians excuse away habitual and
deliberate sexual sin, claiming that the one addicted to sin just can’t help
what they are doing. But is that biblical? Absolutely not! Or they will suggest
counseling for them, much of which is psychological garbage they are feeding
the addicts while pacifying them in their sins of idolatry and adultery. But
the addicts’ deeds do not permit them to return to God, for an evil spirit of
prostitution is within them, and they are not genuinely saved, i.e. they don’t
know God.
But this is not to say that it is impossible for them to be
saved and to be delivered out of their addiction to sin. But addiction does
have a strong control on people’s minds, hearts, and behaviors. But addiction
to sin and Christianity do not mix together. For Jesus said that many will call
Him, “Lord,” but they do not obey God, but they obey their sins, instead. And
so they will not have eternal life with God unless they genuinely repent and
die to addiction to sin and now walk faithfully in obedience to God’s commands.
[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]
A Case Against The People
An Original Work / August 26, 2026
Christ’s
Free Servant, Sue J Love
As the Deer
By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1
As the deer panteth
for the water
So my soul longeth
after You
You alone are my
heart's desire
And I long to
worship You
You alone are my
strength, my shield
To You alone may my
spirit yield
You alone are my
heart's desire
And I long to
worship You
[A Prayer of Devotion to God Alone]
Lying Tongues
You say one thing, but you do another.
You say you’re pure, but have another lover.
Your talk is cheap and your walk is failing.
You’re not sincere, so you can stop your railing.
You play your games, and your lips do conquer.
You may fool some, but I have got your number.
You plead your case, and say you’re innocent.
Your sin declares, though, you must, in truth, repent.
You now can stop with all of your charades.
Your God knows all, which He surely can display.
In pride, you’ll fall from all you don’t repent;
If you keep on sinning, and you don’t relent.
So, give your all to Me, Your Lord, today,
And I will wipe all your guilt and sins away.
And you will walk in freedom from your sin
When you invite Me to come and live within.
An Original Work / April 9, 2018
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Christ Died to Free us From Slavery to Sin
Love and Sacrifice
Hosea 3:1-5 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
1Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols.”
2So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley. 3Then I said to her, “You must live with me for many days; you must not be promiscuous or belong to another, and I will do the same for you.”
4For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol. 5Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.
The Gospel of Christ
When I read this passage of Scripture today from the book of Hosea, I immediately saw the gospel of our salvation. I see Hosea representing Jesus Christ here. And his wife (or x-wife, i.e. not his wife) is representing the people who are living in adultery against the Lord Jesus, many of whom have made professions of faith in Jesus Christ but who never died to sin or obeyed God in practice, and so never were of genuine faith, and many who once did follow the Lord in obedience but had since fallen back into sin.
Jesus Christ loved us so much that He willingly gave up His throne in heaven, and came to earth, and let Himself be born as a human baby to a virgin woman, conceived of the Holy Spirit, and not of man. He allowed Himself to take on human flesh and to feel what we feel and to be tempted as we are tempted, yet without sin. He put himself out there among the people knowing that He would be hated and persecuted and ultimately put to death for speaking the truth of God’s Words for the people’s salvation.
And on that cross He bought us back for God out of our slavery to sin so we will now live for Him in obedience to His commands in holy living and no longer as slaves to sin (represented here by Hosea buying back the one who was his wife, but who was not his wife). Now Jesus gave His life up for the whole world, not just for the Jews who were His people but who were living in adultery against God. So this illustration is not going to be 100% “apples to apples,” i.e. an exact duplicate in every way to the book of Hosea.
But Jesus loved us even while we were yet sinners. And that is what God told Hosea to do. And Jesus bought us back for God with His blood shed for us on a cross, and Hosea bought his wife back for him. And Jesus redeemed us out of our lives of slavery to sin so we will now live for Him. And Hosea bought back his wife, and he instructed her that she must no longer be adulterous, but she must remain with her husband. And Jesus said if we are to come after Him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin and to self) and obey His commands, or we do not have life in Him.
And just as the Israelites of Hosea’s day were to give up their kings and their idolatries and their idols of worship and their adulteries, in order for God to be king of their lives, we who profess faith in Jesus Christ are required of God that we must deny self, die to sin, and obey God in life practice if we are to have eternal life with God. If we want to be saved from our sins, and to have Christ as our Lord, then we must submit to Christ as Lord, leave our lives of sin behind us, and obey God and His commands in life practice.
[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]
Christ Died to Free us From Slavery to Sin
An Original Work / August 26, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Seek the Lord
Based off Isaiah 55
An Original Work / July 20, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Musical Instrumentation by Mark Bradley
“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.”
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