Bring Them Home

They are wand’ring far from home,

From the Lord their souls do roam.

Looking not to God above,

Trusting not in Jesus’ love.

 

Trusting in themselves alone,

Spending time on their Smart Phones

Doing what their flesh desires,

And do not what God requires.

 

Looking to the flesh of man,

Not on God’s grace do they stand.

Stand on intellect and flesh,

With the world they truly mesh.

 

Walking not by faith in Christ,

Taking God’s word now by heist,

They pervert the Word of God,

And on God’s grace they do trod.

 

They care not what God’s Word says,

They prefer the lies, instead.

They’re not instruments of grace,

Not see Jesus face to face.

 

They profess their faith in God,

To their idols, though, do nod.

God is calling to repent,

From their idols to relent.

 

But so many do not hear.

They put fingers in their ears.

Will not listen to the truth,

And can be now so uncouth.

 

So we pray to God above,

That they will respond to love,

Will repent of all their sins,

And obey the Lord and win.

 

An Original Work / January 29, 2022

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

We Need to Persevere

Hebrews 10:30-39 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

30For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge His people.” 31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

 

32Remember the early days that you were in the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in the face of suffering. 33Sometimes you were publicly exposed to ridicule and persecution; at other times you were partners with those who were so treated. 34You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.

 

35So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward. 36You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised. 37For,

“In just a little while,

He who is coming will come and will not delay.

38But My righteous one will live by faith;

and if he shrinks back,

I will take no pleasure in him.”

39But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

 

Our Purpose

 

We are not saved from our sins and have eternal life with God so that we can glide through life just doing what our flesh desires. God did not put us on this earth to serve ourselves, but to serve Him with our lives. We are not here for our own pleasure but that we might please God with our lives. Life is not to be easy and comfortable for us so that we never suffer for the sake of righteousness. So, as followers of Christ we are called of God to deny self, die to sin, suffer for the sake of righteousness, and to obey His commands.

 

Therefore, we cannot just make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and then continue to live for ourselves for our own sinful and/or selfish pleasures. By biblical faith in Jesus Christ, which comes from God and not from ourselves, 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 now as servants of righteousness in holy living, in the power of God, by His grace. And now we are to follow our Lord wherever He leads us in doing what He desires.

 

Changing Course

 

Some people professing faith in Jesus Christ never did change course. Outwardly they may have done some “good things,” but inwardly their hearts did not change, and so secretly they continued in deliberate and habitual sin against God. Others may have changed course, and they may have walked the walk for a period of time, but then they may have fallen back into sin and so they were or they are presently in need of repentance and renewed faith in the Lord in walks of obedience to His commands.

 

And then there are those who are like the church in Laodicea, neither on fire for the Lord nor totally against Him, but they are lukewarm. It isn’t that they are doing anything really bad, but they aren’t doing anything regarded as truly “good” in the eyes of the Lord, either. So we read in Revelation 3 that God was about to spit them out of His mouth. So maybe you are a “good person” and you are not deep into addiction to sin, but you are lazy and self-serving. God wants to light a fire under you to get you moving forward.

 

The Gospel

 

For, the gospel of Christ is not an invitation to make a profession of faith in the Lord Jesus while you ignore Him and His commands and while you chart your own course and go your own way. Jesus died on that cross to put our sins to death with him so we will die to sin and walk in obedience to our Lord and to His commands. “Faith” without obedience to God is not biblical faith which saves. For faith = obedience, and disobedience = unbelief. And if anyone convinces you otherwise, they are lying to you. Believe the truth!

 

So, what’s this teaching us? It is teaching us that we must live for the Lord, that we must obey His commands, that we must walk in His ways and follow Him wherever He leads us in doing whatever He has called us to do, as His followers. We must not get lazy and shrink back from doing the will of God. The New Testament Scriptures are filled with instructions for those who profess faith in Jesus Christ with regard to how we must conduct our lives. Our lives must be sold out to God to doing His will from now to the end.

 

[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 Need to Persevere

An Original Work / September 23, 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

God's Double-Edged Sword

In Context

 

In Hebrews 3-4 we are instructed in the ways of the Lord and in what it looks like to be people of genuine faith in the Lord Jesus and in what it looks like if our faith is not of God, but is of human flesh. And we are warned against hardening our hearts against the Lord and against His commands,  as did the majority of the Israelites when they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years, and so the majority of them were put to death. They did not enter into God’s eternal rest because of their disobedience (their unbelief).

 

And we have a parallel passage of Scripture in 1 Corinthians 10:1-22 where we learn that those things took place as examples to us to keep us from craving evil things as they did. We are not to be idolaters, drunkards, revelers, the sexually immoral, and those who put Christ to the test and who gripe and complain about God and about His commands. For those who did those things were killed. And these things happened as examples to us and were written down as warnings to us so we do not follow their example.

 

Hebrews 4:12-13 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“12For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.”

 

The Double-Minded

 

God knows us inside out. He knows our every thought, our every desire, and all of what we do. Nothing is hidden from God! Yet there are people who are living in addiction to sin who hide what they do from other people, but they cannot hide from God. They hide because what they are doing is evil and it is against God, and it is against other humans. Those who live like this, who make sin their practice, and not obedience to God, can be very conniving and manipulative people whose intention truly is to hurt other people.

 

Many of them are addicted to sexual immorality, but that is not their only sin. Many of them are also those who are habitually hating others, lying, deceiving, manipulating, tricking, gaslighting, and the like, which goes right along with addiction to sexual immorality. And so they also play mind games, and they feign ignorance, like they don’t know how to change, or that they are hearing something for the first time when they have heard it hundreds of times. And they keep repeating the same excuses over again.

 

People like this don’t usually take personal responsibility for their actions, and they will sometimes blame the ones they are habitually sinning against. So they might attempt to guilt-trip the one they are targeting to try to get the other person to believe it is their fault, when it is not their fault. And they will heap all sorts of abuse on the one they are targeting or the one who is trying to rescue them from their addiction. For they are the double-minded who teeter-totter back and forth, who are unstable in all their ways.

 

Some of them are like “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” one person with two separate personalities, one of which is kind, good, and respectable, and the other, which is cruel and hateful and full of trickery. It is all like an evil game they play. Many of them are abusers, but abuse isn’t just physical or only physical, or it doesn’t have to be physical at all. Abuse can be mainly verbal, and so they abuse others (or perhaps just their spouses) mentally and emotionally, and they can get hateful if their spouses do not take the bait.

 

And many of these sex addicts will play the victim when they are really the perpetrators for they try to get people to sympathize with them and to be on their side. And some of them will perform religiously for an audience and they may be greatly admired by people for character traits which they fake and which are not true to who they are in real life. And most people who know them will have no clue who they are with their spouses at home. For they are chameleons who know how to blend in with their environment.

 

The Double-Edged Sword

 

However, God sees all and He knows all. Nothing is hidden from God! So, whether you are the double-minded described above, thinking you are getting away with your tricks and with your lies, or you are the object of the addict’s hurtful behaviors, please know that nothing escapes God’s notice. And there isn’t anything that God does not have authority over and that He cannot step inside of and put a stop to anytime He is ready to act. But He allows us who follow Him to suffer unjustly for the sake of righteousness. And suffering is for our good to draw us closer in fellowship with our Lord.

 

If you are the double-minded, thinking you are getting away with your evil schemes, please know that God will judge you one day, and hell will be your eternal destiny, not heaven, even if you profess faith in Jesus Christ with your lips. What you are doing God can see it all! But if you are the one being targeted and sinned against and mistreated and lied to, give it over to the Lord, pray for wisdom in knowing what He would have you to do, and how you should respond. Don’t let Satan get the best of you! Don’t let the devil’s evil schemes against you defeat you! Follow the Lord’s leading.

 

[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]

 

God’s Double-Edged Sword

An Original Work / September 23, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

The Letters

 

Based off Revelation 2-3

An Original Work / December 17, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

To the angels of all the churches write:

These are the words of your Lord and your God.

I know all your deeds, and your witness, too,

And who holds to My words and tells what’s true.

I know all your hard work and your perseverance,

Yet I hold against you: you’ve forsaken Me.

Listen to what I say to you.

 

You have people there who deny My name,

And who put the cross of Christ up to shame.

They entice the people to Me, profane,

And their worship of Me is all in vain.

They are so adult’rous as they chase their idols,

And you put up with them easily enough.

Listen to what I say to you.

 

You give off an image of godliness,

But what you present is so fraudulent,

Or else you lack passion for Jesus Christ,

So you look to others to tell what’s right.

I say turn from your sin, or you will face judgment.

He who overcomes will have eternal life.

Listen to what I say to you.

 

I know your afflictions and poverty;

How you suffer for your Lord patiently.

Do not fear the devil and company.

You be faithful to your Lord endlessly.

I know all your weakness and your dedication.

You have kept My Word and not denied your Lord.

I will write on you My new name.

 

https://vimeo.com/114655138

Rest for The Weary

Hebrews 4:1-11 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

1Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it. 2For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it.

 

3Now we who have believed enter that rest. As for the others, it is just as God has said: “So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’” And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world. 4For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this manner: “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works.” 5And again, as He says in the passage above: “They shall never enter My rest.”

 

6Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience, 7God again designated a certain day as “Today,” when a long time later He spoke through David as was just stated: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”

 

8For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. 9There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His. 11Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

 

Faith in Jesus Christ

 

The faith to believe in Jesus Christ comes from God, it is gifted to us of God, and it is persuaded of God. It is not of our own doing. It is not of our flesh. And it is not something that we can earn by our own fleshly good works. So it is possible for someone to “receive the good news” of the gospel of our salvation but for it to have no impact on their lives since they did not receive the message of the gospel with God-persuaded faith in Christ. For God persuades us as to His holiness and righteousness and of our sinfulness and of God’s requirement that we deny self, die to sin, and obey God.

 

[Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Hebrews 12:1-2; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Peter 2:24]

 

For Good Works

 

So, if someone is presenting to you a “gospel of Christ” which makes no requirements for you to repent of (die to) your sins and to obey God and His commands, in life practice, then what they are teaching you is a lie. We are not saved from our sins and on our way to heaven if all we did was give lip service to the Lord but we did not surrender our lives to Him in obedience to His commands. Yes, we are not saved by our own fleshly works, but we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared in advance that we should walk in them (see Ephesians 2:8-10).

 

[John 15:1-11; 1 Corinthians 15:58; 2 Corinthians 9:8; Galatians 5:6,22-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:20-24; Philippians 2:12-13; Colossians 1:9-14; 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12; 2 Timothy 2:21; Titus 2:11-14; Titus 3:8; James 2:14-26]

 

Hardened Hearts

 

Sadly, many people who profess faith in Jesus Christ, who are claiming for themselves salvation of all sin and heaven as their eternal destiny, are people with hard hearts who will not bow the knee to God in surrender of their lives to Him, but who continue in their deliberate and habitual sin against God, lying to themselves that God will not judge them. They convince themselves and others that they are saved because they “prayed the prayer” to receive Christ, but while their actions and their lifestyles deny Him and His commands that we live holy lives, pleasing to God.

 

And so much of what is called “church” today is coddling them in their sins rather than calling them to genuine repentance and to obedience to the commands of God. So those who are faithfully calling out sin for what it is, and who are calling people to genuine biblical repentance and to forsake their sinful lifestyles, they often end up being the “bad guys” while the true “bad guys” are often being catered to and sympathized with. I have seen this firsthand, more than once! But God’s word teaches us that if sin is our practice, and not obeying God, we will not inherit 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]

 

To the Faithful

 

The faithful in Christ Jesus are those whose lives are surrendered to God, to obeying His commands in holy living, and to no longer living according to the sinful flesh. This does not mean we are absolutely perfect in everything that we do and are and say, but that our lives are committed to serving the Lord in walks of obedience to His commands and to no longer giving our lives over to sin. And this can only be accomplished in the power of God by His saving grace as being led by the Holy Spirit. So all glory belongs to God! Our lives now belong to God to serving Him with our lives and to doing His will.

 

But, as the faithful in Christ Jesus, we should be calling out sin in sinful humans, and calling them to repentance and to obedience to God. We should be sharing the biblical gospel message which Jesus taught when he said that if anyone would come after Him, he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin and to self and suffer for the sake of righteousness), and follow Jesus in obedience to His commands. But when we do that, we should expect to be persecuted, not just by the world, but by the worldly “church” which is teaching a false gospel and which is leading people into sin.

 

But don’t allow how others treat you or what they say about you to dishearten and to discourage you. Keep the faith! Keep speaking the truth!

 

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; John 16:33; Acts 14:22; Romans 5:3-5; 2 Corinthians 1:3-11; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 3:7-11; 1 Thessalonians 3:1-5; Hebrews 12:3-12; James 1:2-4; 1 Peter 1:6-7; 1 Peter 4:12-17; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13] 

 

Rest for The Weary

An Original Work / September 22, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

What a Day That Will Be 

 

By Jim Hill

 

There is coming a day,

When no heart aches shall come,

No more clouds in the sky,

No more tears to dim the eye,

All is peace forever more,

On that happy golden shore,

What a day, glorious day that will be.

 

There'll be no sorrow there,

No more burdens to bear,

No more sickness, no pain,

No more parting over there;

And forever I will be,

With the One who died for me,

What a day, glorious day that will be.

 

What a day that will be,

When my Jesus I shall see,

And I look upon His face,

The One who saved me by His grace;

When He takes me by the hand,

And leads me through the Promised Land,

What a day, glorious day that will be

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elxlLEp0FQ0  

 

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Our Focus on Jesus Christ

Hebrews 3:1,6-11 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“1Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, set your focus on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess… 6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.

 

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.’”

 

Faithful in Service

 

As those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, our life focus should be on Jesus and not on the things of this world. Our lives should be surrendered to our Lord to doing His will. And our lives should be committed to the Lord to following Him wherever He leads us day after day. No longer should we be living under sin’s control, living to please our flesh, doing things our way. But now we should be living to please our Lord in all ways. And we must be faithful in service to our Lord to following Him wherever He leads us.

 

Not Hard Hearts

 

Sadly, not everyone who confesses Jesus as Lord with their lips is living to please the Lord with their lives. Many give lip service only to Jesus but by their lifestyles they deny Him. They profess faith in Jesus Christ thinking that all their sins are now forgiven and eternal life with God is guaranteed them, but they have this idea that they are still the masters of their own lives, charting their own course, living to please themselves, and that God is okay with that. Therefore they do not die to sin and obey God in life practice.

 

But God is not okay with that. He does not approve of deliberate and habitual sin in the lives of those who claim to be His followers. Now, He does not cut us off if we might sin (1 John 2:1-2), but we do not belong to Him if sin is what we practice and not obedience to God (Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10,etc.). So, we cannot just claim Him as Lord and then continue to live in sin. For if we do, we will not have eternal life with God. We will not enter His rest.

 

Hebrews 3:12-19 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. 13But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. 14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first. 15As it has been said:

 

“Today, if you hear His voice,

do not harden your hearts,

as you did in the rebellion.”

 

16For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? 17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? 19So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.

 

Exhort One Another Daily

 

How do we do that? Well, one way is the way that I am doing daily, as being led by the Lord, as called of God to His service, and that is in posting each day on the internet what I am getting from the Scriptures during my times each day with the Lord in the studying of His word. For the people in these times are mainly on the internet, at least in my nation, they are. And via the internet these writings can and do go out to people in other nations as well as in my own nation. So this is one way we can exhort one another daily.

 

Another way is through planned gatherings with other Christians in person where we are able to speak to one another to encourage one another. Or this can be done through phone calls or text messages or emails or letters or cards or chats or anyways possible where we are able to communicate with other people. And it is nice when they are able to communicate back with us where there is mutual encouragement. This is so needed in our world today. We need that fellowship of believers and that mutual exhortation, too.

 

And one of the reasons why this is critically important is so that none of us gets hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. But that is no guarantee that no one will, for many who profess faith in Jesus are still living in deliberate and habitual sin, even if they have others who are encouraging and exhorting them in the ways of the Lord and in the ways of holiness and righteousness and in obedience to our Lord’s commands. For they have hardened their hearts, and they are disobeying God, thus they will not enter God’s rest.

 

[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]

 

Our Focus on Jesus Christ

An Original Work / September 22, 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]

So We Would Worship Him

Jesus Christ, He died for all,

Not so we could have a ball.

Jesus in that manger lay,

So we’d worship Him and pray.

Jesus Christ, He came to earth,

So in Him we’d have new birth.

Jesus sacrificed for sin,

So that we could live in Him.

Jesus Christ, our only Lord,

Gave us grace we can’t afford.

Gift of God, God gave His Son,

Over sin the victory won!

Jesus Christ, our Savior be,

Live with Him eternally.

Crucified with Him to sin,

Now obey Him, live for Him.

Jesus Christ, take not in jest,

In His life now do invest.

Leave your lives of sin behind,

Love your neighbors, do be kind.

Jesus Christ, of Him do tell

So that folks not go to hell.

Tell them to repent of sin,

Sacrifice their lives for Him.

Jesus Christ said “Come to Me,

Die to sin, and you’ll be free,

Walk with Me, go where I lead,

On My word now you should feed.”

Jesus Christ – give all to Him.

Don’t turn back and live in sin.

Holy living now embrace,

Soon you’ll see Him face to face.

An Original Work / December 25, 2021

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

True Grace vs False Grace

Titus 2:15 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“15Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.”

I, as a woman of God, have no authority over any man, yet I can still speak with the authority of the Scriptures the truths of what the Scriptures teach. And I can put these writings out on the internet for anyone to read them who wishes to do so. But I am in no position whatsoever to make anyone do what the Scriptures teach we all must do if we are to be genuine followers of Jesus Christ. All I can do is to just share what the Lord is teaching me and what He is putting upon my heart to share with others for their good.

False Grace

Now, the subject matter in today’s lesson has to do with the grace of God. But before I get into what this is teaching I want to state that many people today, including many pastors of “churches,” are teaching a diluted and false grace message. For many are teaching that God’s grace is only forgiveness of sins and a promise of eternal life with God. For they teach that God does no longer require repentance (death to sin) and walks of obedience to His commands now that we are under the New Covenant. But that is a lie!

So we have large numbers of people professing faith in Jesus Christ who are continuing in deliberate and habitual and addictive sin against God, with sexual sin seeming to be at the top of the list but not the only sin leading to addictive behaviors. And many of those sinning are being taught that God does not judge them for their sins, and/or if they are steeped in sin, usually sexual sin, they are just to “claim who you are in Christ” so that they do not feel guilty for engaging in deliberate and habitual sin against God.

So habitual and deliberate sin among those who profess faith in the Lord Jesus is running rampant within the gatherings of the church. So many people are living in addictive sinful behaviors. They are regulars, the committed who keep returning to the same sins even though they know that what they are doing is evil, and that it is sinful, and that it is hurting others. But it has such a grip on their lives that they keep going back to it over and over. And the sin becomes their god, their “love” which truly they want more than anything else. No matter who gets hurt, sin is still their practice.

True Grace

But if we read what the Scriptures teach about deliberate and habitual sin, and if we read what they teach as the true grace of God, we will realize that God’s grace is not just forgiveness of sin and a free ride to heaven. And God’s grace is a not a free pass to keep living in sin without repentance and obedience to our Lord’s commands. For in Jesus’ death on that cross He put our sins to death with Him so that, by God-persuaded faith in Him, we will now deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in obedience to His commands.

Titus 2:11-14 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone. 12It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13as we await the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. 14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.”

This is true grace! This is biblical grace! For it was God’s grace which sent Jesus to that cross to put our sins to death with Him and then to be raised from the dead victorious over sin, Satan, death, and hell. And by faith in Him we can now be crucified with Christ in death to sin and be raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in Him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as servants of righteousness. For if sin is what we obey, and not God, we will die in our sins. We will not have eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

God’s grace to us was and is in providing for us a way to be freed from our addiction to sin so we will now serve the Lord Jesus with our lives in obedience to His commands in holy living. It was and is that we might be transformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ by God who is now molding us into His likeness, i.e. those of us whose lives are surrendered to the Lord. For Jesus shed His blood for us to buy us back for God (to redeem us) out of our slavery to sin so that we would now be zealous to obey His 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] 

True Grace vs False Grace

An Original Work / September 22, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Listen! Listen!  

An Original Work / December 20, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Weep and wail o’er your sins, children.

God is calling out to you:

Be ye honest; tell the truth,

And it will set you free.

Harken to Him calling you to

Bow on bended knee today.

Don’t delay to let Him in,

And He’ll cleanse your hearts;

Pure within. 

Sinners, won’t you listen to Him

Calling out to you today?

He died so that you would be free

Of your sins always.

Turn from your sin. Turn to Jesus.

Obey Him in ev’ry way.

He wants to set you free of

All your guilt, 

For which He did pay. 

Listen! Listen!

Don’t close your hearts

To His voice speaking to you.

He will give you all of His peace,

If your hearts be true.

He longs for you to come to Him

Humbly now and repentant.

Obey all of His commandments.

Live with Him eternally. 

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