Be An Effective Doer!

James 1:19-25 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“19My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger, 20for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires. 21Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.

 

22Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves. 23For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, 24and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.”

 

Sin, a Heart Issue

 

Why do so many people who profess faith in Jesus Christ continue in moral filth and in so many expressions of evil and not in submission to Christ as Lord in holy living? What lies within their hearts that drives them to keep repeating the same sins over again with no genuine repentance in sight? Well the Scriptures teach that it is out of what is stored up in the heart that comes evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, and slander, etc. (see Matthew 15:17-20; Luke 6:45).

 

So sin is really a heart issue. And there are many people in this world, professing Christians and not, who are living in addiction to sin who are selfish, self-indulgent, malicious, morally unclean, egocentric, liars, angry, manipulators, and deceivers, many of whom fake their Christianity to try to appear righteous on the outside but while they continue living in addiction to sin in secret. For they are those who are wandering far from God, choosing their sin over and above God, who are unfaithful to what their lips profess.

 

False Teachers

 

And then we have so many false teachers of the gospel in so many of the gatherings of what are at least called “churches,” who are teaching the people that all they have to do is to make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and now all their sins are forgiven and they are on their way to heaven guaranteed but regardless of how they live. So many are teaching that faith does not require death to sin and obedience to God’s commands, or else they make them optional, which is a lie of the devil and not of God.

 

For the Scriptures make it quite clear that faith in Jesus, if it is genuine, and if it is biblical, requires that we repent of (turn from) our sins and that we now walk in obedience to our Lord and to His commands. We must be doers of the Word and not hearers only. How is it that so many are not seeing that in the Scriptures? It is all throughout the New Testament teachings under the New Covenant. And yet I hear so many say, “I don’t have to obey God. I don’t have to repent of sin.” For they call that “works salvation.” It isn’t!!

 

Self-Deception

 

Many people today are being self-deceived, for they look to other humans to tell them the truth they want to hear while they ignore the multitude of Scriptures which teach us that we must, by faith in Jesus Christ, deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in walks of obedience to His commands. For if we refuse, we will not inherit eternal life with God. NOT MY WORDS! I nearly always include Scripture references here so you can look them up and read them for yourselves. There is no way around this. Please know the truth!

 

[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]

 

We must be doers of the Word and not hearers only or we will not be blessed of God. We must not be those who see ourselves for who we really are, and then if we see that something is wrong, that it is out of place, or that it is sinful or antibiblical, that we just walk away and we ignore what we were shown. Instead, we are to be those who look at our hearts with all honesty to see what God sees is in our hearts who then make the necessary changes in our lifestyles and attitudes in order to now please God with our lives.

 

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).

 

Be An Effective Doer

An Original Work / September 27, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Your Life

 

Based off of Colossians 3:1-17

An Original Work / October 22, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Set your hearts and minds on things up above

Where Christ sits with God; not on earthly things.

For you died and your life is now hidd’n with Christ.

When Christ, who is your life, is seen, you will be with Him.

 

Your sins, put to death. Don’t walk in these ways.

Don’t lie to yourselves or to others, too.

Since you have taken off your old sinful past,

Put on the new self in Jesus. Get rid of such things.

 

Therefore, holy ones, put on gentleness;

Kindness; patience, too. Be compassionate.

Bear with one another. Forgive others, too.

Forgive as the Lord forgave you. O’er all, put on love.

 

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts now.

You were called to peace. Be ye so thankful.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly now

As you teach and instruct others. Sing songs unto Christ.

 

Spoken: “And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him” (Col. 3:17 NIV 1984).

 

https://vimeo.com/125740353

Choosing the Flesh Over God

Isaac was the firstborn son of Abraham and Sarah. He married Rebekah, and Isaac and Rebekah had twin sons, Esau and Jacob, in that order.

 

Genesis 25:29-34 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

27When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home. 28Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

 

29One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished. 30He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.) 31“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied. 32“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?” 33“Swear to me first,” Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright. 34Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

 

An Observation

 

Was Jacob right in what he did to his brother Esau? No! He wasn’t. Why? Esau was his twin brother. His brother was hungry. So he should have given his brother something to eat free of charge. But he took advantage of his brother’s weakened condition and he used that to take from his brother his brother’s birthright as the first born son. But did Esau do right in giving up his birthright for a bowl of stew? No! He didn’t do right either. For he was to be the one to assume his father’s authority and responsibilities once his father died, i.e. he was to assume the leadership role in the family.

 

A New Testament Perspective

 

Hebrews 12:14-17 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“14Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. 15See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many. 16See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright. 17For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected. He could find no ground for repentance, though he sought the blessing with tears.”

 

Esau’s failure is being used in this context, not for the purpose to discuss his actions of surrendering his birthright for a bowl of stew, but as an illustration to describe what it looks like when those who profess faith in Jesus Christ give up the inheritance that could be theirs, by faith in Jesus Christ, in order to satisfy and to gratify the lusts of the flesh, instead. For without holiness, no one will see the Lord. Those who give lip service to God but who continue in deliberate and habitual sin against God will not inherit eternal life with God. For their sins are more important to them than retaining the blessing.

 

Sadly, that is where many people are today who profess faith in Christ and who are holding on to the hope that they will receive the blessing while they choose the lusts of the flesh over that blessing. Many of them are still living in addiction to sin in sexual immorality, idolatry, adultery, lying, cheating, stealing, etc. while faking good, while they habitually continue to commit sin against God and against those they are supposed to love. If they are men, they give up the spiritual leadership role in the family in order to engage willfully in their addiction, which they keep hidden, but not from God.

 

Then there is the example of Jacob who took advantage of his own brother’s weakness in order to steal from him something which was not rightfully his to have. And this reminds me of these teachers and preachers of “the gospel” who are speaking lies to the people, and who are taking advantage of people’s weaknesses, and they are feeding them lies disguised as truth. And while being promised forgiveness of all sins and heaven as their eternal destiny, those who believe them are headed straight for hell because they have not repented of their sin, and they don’t obey God 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]

 

Choosing the Flesh Over God

An Original Work / September 27, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

In Keeping Them

 

Based off Psalm 111:10; Psalm 19:7-11

An Original Work / June 3, 2014

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Stand in awe of your Lord. Harken to His teachings.

Follow where He leads you. Live for Him today.

Through Him you gain wisdom; knowledge; understanding.

To my Lord belongs all worship and my praise.

 

Perfect is the Word, refreshing souls in His love.

His commands are faithful, guiding us each day.

Joy comes to the heart of those who love His teachings;

Follow His instructions. He will light their way.

 

Abide in the Lord, and obey His commandments.

His Word is more precious than all of our gold.

By His Word He warns us, comforts, and implores us.

When we follow His Word, there is great reward.

 

https://vimeo.com/97324081

Called of God to Go

Hebrews 11:8-10 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going. 9By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.”

 

Abraham, Called of God

 

I am actually reading in the book of Genesis, but the story of Abraham covers chapters 13-25, so that is a lot of ground to cover in one writing. So I am quoting from Hebrews 11 for it simplifies the message without all the historical records and details. But let me say up front that, even though Abraham was a man of God, called of God, who followed the leading of the Lord in where to go and in what to do, he was not a perfect man. He didn’t get everything right. But he was not living in rebellion against the Lord. Mostly he was following the leading of the Lord, and the Lord blessed him.

 

Qualifications for Ministry

 

For all of us throughout the world who have surrendered our lives to Jesus Christ, who have denied self, died to sin, and who are walking in obedience to our Lord in holy living, by the grace of God, by God-persuaded faith in the Lord Jesus, God has a plan and a purpose for our lives. He has a calling on our lives to go where He sends us and to do what He has called us to do. For He did not save us just to forgive us our sins so that we can go to heaven when we die. He has a plan and a purpose for each of our lives, and it may be something we had never considered before or even ever dreamed of.

 

But what qualifies us for service to the Lord is not a piece of paper that says we are now qualified to serve God in ministry. A Bible college or a seminary degree does not make anyone qualified for ministry. What qualifies us is our walk of faith in obedience to our Lord, and our willingness to go wherever He sends us and to do what He is calling us to do, even if it is to go somewhere we have never been before and to do something we have never done before. Our surrender to the Lord, and our willingness to obey Him, and our faith to step out into the unknown to follow Him is what qualifies us for ministry.

 

A Personal Illustration

 

Throughout my life on this earth (nearly 77 years) there have been times when God has called me to do something I never did before or to do something I felt unqualified and ill equipped to do. I was terrified of people in positions of authority for the longest time, and several times in my life He has placed me in situations where I had to stand up to people in authority over me and to speak the truth against their lies. Sometimes I resisted doing that, and then the Lord would encourage me to go and that He would give me the courage to speak, and He would give me the words to speak. He did!

 

Now, I graduated high school with a 1.4 GPA (D average), near flunking. When I applied to college I was tested at reading on a 4^th grade level. I always had a reading comprehension issue that no one ever dealt with. At the end of my first 3 years of college I had a 2.5 GPA (C average), but that was only because I was a music education major and I was good at music and so my music classes brought up my GPA, but I still had trouble with reading comprehension. I did get up to reading on a 7^th grade level. But anything that involved reading comprehension was hard for me to do.

 

Then there was the time God called me to go back to college at the age of 52. I figured I would not even pass the entrance exam, but I did well on it. I had all day to take the test, so that helped. I have always been slow. But there the Lord helped me overcome my fear of learning and He gave me the courage to believe that I could learn, and I did well. All glory to God! And I did not know this at that time, but all of this was preparation for what God was about to call me to do 2 years later, at the age of 54. I needed to believe that I could learn, for God has had me reading and learning much!

 

So God had to get me past this fear of people in positions of authority, and He had to get me past my fear of learning, believing that I could not learn most things, and He had to get me past my fear of being mistreated and my vulnerability to retreat when facing difficult circumstances. And He took me through A LOT of trials and tribulations to get me there, too. And then He called me to something I would never have ever imagined. He called me to follow Him, destination unknown, and then to write down what I was learning each day and to post these writings on the internet. That was new!

 

And then He decided to add on to that song writing in 2011, which I had not ever really done before, although I was educated in music. But I had so much to learn to know what to do and how to do it. And then He added on writing poems, which I had done a little of in my younger years, but not like He has had me writing since 2018. And then He added on video talks in 2020, which I had never done before, and then Christian memes a year or two after that. So all of this required that I step out in faith and that I go where He sends me and that I believe He will provide what I need. He has!

 

Oh, and He did have me write two short books of testimony of my life and my life circumstances and my personal challenges, and of the things which He helped me to overcome. But through all of this that I was learning and experiencing and overcoming, and through all the challenges and heartaches and tears and disappointments, He was growing me in my walk of faith, and He was making me strong, and He was helping me to overcome life’s challenges and to keep persevering no matter what I faced along the way. And I am who I am doing what I am doing all because of God. Glory to God!

 

Be Encouraged

 

And I know that was long. But I want to encourage every Christian reading this that our God is the God of impossible situations, and He can do in us and through us what He had planned for us from even before we were born. If He calls us, He will equip us. We just have to believe Him. And we have to step out in faith and do what we think is the impossible for us with our human limitations, now in the power of God. I would not have done all that He has had me doing these past 22 years if I was not relying on Him for the courage and the wisdom and the faith to go wherever He sends me.

 

P.S. While I was writing this, one of our power breakers popped and it turned off my screen and all my lights so I could not write. My husband, who is skilled in so many different areas, turned the breaker back on. But then the screens went out again. My husband came to the rescue again and he figured out that my power strip had died. He just happened to have extras on hand, so he replaced it for me, and now everything is working. I believe Satan was trying to hinder me from writing this but God had other plans. But I am thankful I have a highly technological husband to rescue me, too.

 

Called of God to Go

An Original Work / September 26, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

It All Depends

 

Jerry Nelson / Don Marsh

 

Would I leave the place

Where I have lived and settled down?

It all depends.

Break with my attachments,

Sentimental though they be?

It all depends.

Would I find myself uprooting

All the stakes I’ve driven down,

Leaving friends and loved ones far behind,

Captive to the call of some far off distant land?

I can only answer, that depends.

 

It all depends on where He needs me,

For where He leads me my feet must go.

It may be down an unfamiliar pathway

Or cross the mountains so bleak with snow.

His faithful hand will always guide me.

He’ll walk beside me, let come what may.

Why should I dread the night?

My faith has found its sight.

I’ll do His will through the rest of my life.

 

[I cannot find a recording of this song anywhere.]

Danger's Lurking

Danger’s lurking, humans squirreling,

Minds are filled with garbage hurling,

Life’s disaster going faster,

Sin is now their Lord and Master.

Open letter to the hurting,

Sin is danger, don’t be flirting.

Don’t escape in what is magic

Or life can turn and be tragic.

Time on earth not without limits,

Time is ticking hours and minutes,

No one knows the final hour

When his life will have no power.

Life is not for sinful pleasure,

Life is gift of God in measure

Given us to live for Jesus,

Not to do just what will please us.

Turn from your sin, follow your Lord,

Forsake idols, do not them hoard.

Make the Lord your Lord and Master,

Life will not end in disaster.

Please take this to heart and do it,

Give your sins up, now be through it.

Surrender your life to Jesus,

For from our sins He does free us.

An Original Work / June 6, 2022

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

One World Tower

Genesis 11:1-9 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

1Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech. 2And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar. 4“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

 

5Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building. 6And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them. 7Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” 8So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

 

In Our World Today

 

As I contemplated what this might look like in our world today I was reminded of the One World Trade Center building located in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, which replaced the two World Trade Center buildings which were destroyed on September 11, 2001. The building in total height is 1776 feet tall, which includes a spire of 408 feet at the top of the building. It is the 7^th tallest building in the world and it is the tallest building in the USA. And, according to our history books, 1776 is the year that the United States of America became an independent nation.

 

The Spire

 

Back in 2013, when the spire was in the process of being placed at the top of the One World Trade Center building, the Lord led me to write about the spire. I didn’t know what a spire was, so I looked it up. Now my resources back then may not be what they are today, for I used Wikipedia, and those articles don’t always remain the same. And the internet has also changed so much since back then. Thus, information which appeared so readily available back then is harder to find today. So all I can do is share what I discovered back then. But right now I am looking up “spire” in the MW Dictionary.

 

So, a spire is a pinnacle which is “the highest point of development or achievement.” Interesting! Other words such as this are “summit, peak, climax, apex, acme, and culmination (which means finale, termination, end). That is also interesting, since this is on top of the “One World Tower.” And what does “one world” remind you of? And what I read in 2013 said that “Symbolically spires have two functions. The first is to proclaim a martial power. The second is to reach up toward the skies.” And a spire on top of a “church” is “a symbol of the wealth and prestige of the order.” Interesting!

 

The One World Order

 

This sounds a whole lot like the One World Order which is presently taking over the world, one nation at a time. And that definitely fits with “martial power” and with “a symbol of the wealth and prestige of the order,” for it is the wealthy and powerful people of the world who are bringing the nations of this world into this One World Order of The Beast; into this new “Tower of Babel” which God will one day destroy. And the USA serves this “beast” as “the harlot” who rides the beast who is taking down one nation at a time. Interesting that our presidents literally ride in a vehicle called “The Beast.”

 

Anyway, although God let us know in advance that these things would take place, and although He has allowed for this “rule of the beast” to come upon us, the people of the world, once God accomplishes His purposes in letting this happen, (which I believe is God’s judgment on the people of the world, but which I believe will lead many to faith in Jesus Christ and to repentance and to obedience to God before they are killed for their faith in Jesus Christ), He will punish the beast and its one world order, and God/Jesus will judge the people of the earth, and God’s faithful ones will go to be with Jesus.

 

The Gospel Message

 

So we need to be spiritually prepared for what is coming upon us, the people of the world, for the signs of the times are all over everywhere we look these days. 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]

 

One World Tower

An Original Work / September 26, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Living Water

 

Based off Various Scriptures

An Original Work / November 21, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

My people have forsaken Me,

Their Savior, who died on a tree;

Made idols, and they worshipped them;

So empty, they will ne’er fulfill.

 

Lord, You are the hope of Your chosen ones.

Those who turn away from You will be shamed;

The Spring of Living Water left behind.

 

Living Water satisfies.

 

The thirsty, let them come and drink;

Believe in Jesus as their King;

The gift of Jesus given them,

So they will never thirst again.

 

Indeed, the Living Water flows within.

It springs up like a fountain cleansing sin.

Eternal life in heaven promised them.

 

Living Water glorifies.

                                                                                    

Oh people, won’t you come to Him?

Obey Him and repent of sin.

Let Jesus come and live within.

Surrender all your life to Him.

 

My people, won’t you turn your hearts to Me?

Forsake your idols and then you’ll be free.

Won’t you come now to Me on bended knee?

 

Living Water sanctifies.

 

https://vimeo.com/379511565

The Wickedness of Man is Great

Genesis 6:5-13 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time. 6And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.” Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

 

9This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God. 10And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence. 12And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways. 13Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.”

 

Noah Obeyed God

 

Noah was about 500 years old at this time when God called him to build an ark, a very large boat which was to house his family and two of every kind of living creature on the earth. For God was going to bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life, and he did. Only those within the ark would be saved. And Noah, at the age of 600 years old, and his family and the living creatures God designated to be included in the ark, they all entered the ark where they remained safe.

 

The waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days. Eventually the waters dried up from the earth. Then God called Noah to come out of the ark, along with his family and with all the creatures who were in the ark with them. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. And the Lord said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done” (see Genesis 8:21-22 and Genesis 9:1-17).

 

Our World Today

 

I believe we are in “The days of Noah” in our present day and time, not that Noah is living and building an ark today or that God is going to send a flood, but that we are living in days like then where so many people are giving no heed to God’s teachings and warnings, but they are living for the flesh, to please the flesh, and not to please God. Even so many who profess faith in Jesus Christ are living very worldly lives, for their own pleasure, and not to please God, and not in obedience to God and to His commandments.

 

So many are worshiping that which is not God but which of the flesh of man, including certain people who are being raised up to God-like status and who are being followed as though they are gods to be worshiped and believed without consideration that they may be working for the devil, and that they may be feeding us a pack of lies, and that their goal may be to trap us in their schemes or to put us to death, and not to do us good as they promise. So many people are lacking in true biblical discernment in these matters.

 

The False Church

 

So much of what is called “church” these days are creations of human beings, and they are businesses incorporated (merged, combined) with the state (the ungodly), which are being marketed to the world just like any other businesses. And God demands that we come out from among them so that we don’t share in their sins and in their punishment. For so many of these “churches” are being led by the flesh, and not by God, and with the goal to appease human flesh, and not to please and obey Our God.

 

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

 

The Biblical Church

 

But the biblical church is not these man-made businesses being marketed to the world. The church is the people of God, the body of Christ, made up of all who are of genuine faith in Jesus Christ, who have died with Christ to sin and who are walking in obedience to His commands, and no longer in sin. And Jesus Christ is to be our head, not human flesh, and the Scriptures are to be our guide, not marketing schemes and tricks which are being used to attract the ungodly to the gatherings of these “churches” (businesses).

 

“Churches” Not of God

 

But these “churches,” which are institutions of man, and not of God, are very popular among the people. And so many of them are teaching a very diluted gospel which permits their adherents to continue living in sin and in disobedience to God without consequence just because they “prayed the prayer,” or just because they made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ. And many are teaching their people that they do not have to repent of their sins and that they do not have to obey God, for they call that “works salvation.”

 

So what we have are a whole lot of people professing faith in Jesus Christ who have not died with Christ to sin, and so they were not raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness. And so they are not “in Christ” by God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ. And so they are not saved from their sins, and heaven is not their eternal destiny, because they deny Christ by how they live their lives for the sinful pleasures of the flesh and not for God.

 

The Days of Noah

 

And since “the church” is now mostly undistinguishable from the world, as are many “Christians” who say they believe in Jesus Christ. And since so many are living worldly lives for the pleasures of the flesh, and not for God nor according to the teachings of the Scriptures taught in their appropriate context, and so many people are following the ways of the world, and not the ways of God, then we are living in “The Days of Noah,” which will be followed by the judgment of God on His adulterous and idolatrous people.

 

Surrender to Jesus Christ

 

So, while you still have today, because tomorrow is not guaranteed, surrender your lives to Jesus Christ. Die with Him to sin, and now walk in obedience to His commands, by the grace of God, in the power of God. For if you do not do this, and if you keep on living for the pleasures of the flesh, you will not inherit eternal life with God, regardless of what your lips profess.

 

[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 Wickedness of Man is Great

An Original Work / September 25, 2026

Taken in part from The Days of Noah

An Original Work / July 6, 2025

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

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.

 

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Religion vs Relationship

Religion is based in the teachings of man,

In forms and traditions in which they now stand.

Their customs, their idols, are what they now serve,

And from their procedures they barely will swerve.

The writings of man are the bibles they read,

While God’s word, the Scriptures, they rarely will heed.

For men tell nice stories that make them feel good.

They don’t tell the people the things that they should.

Religion leads one to feel good about self,

While sacrifice to the Lord – put on the shelf.

Commitment to Christ as Lord, not in the plan:

“Go through the motions, forget the ‘I AM’.”

Relationship diff’rent, now based in The Word,

In sacrifice of one’s life now to the Lord.

All because Jesus, His life up for us gave,

Our sins are forgiven; from sin we’re now saved.

Believing in Jesus, die with Him to sin,

Our new lives in Jesus now surely begin.

His Spirit now comes to live inside our hearts,

Now from our Lord Jesus, we do not depart.

We want to walk daily in fellowship with Him,

We want to obey Him and turn from our sin.

We want to walk with Him wherever He leads.

We want that now, on His Word, we’d surely feed.

We want that now, Christ our Lord, is all we need.

An Original Work / April 24, 2022

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love