A Christian is One Inwardly

 

When Miracles Don't Happen

When miracles don’t happen 

Exactly when we hoped, 

And things go on as normal; 

We don’t know how to cope; 

When troubles, disappointments,

Are foll’wing us around,

And sadness starts to linger,

And gladness turns to frowns;

When all the world around us

Is turning upside down,

And honesty is missing,

And faithfulness not found;

When liars and deceivers

Are pulling all their tricks,

And people start believing

Those who are really slick;

And, many who are faithful

Are being treated bad,

Because they share the gospel,

And it makes people mad;

Then, we must look to Jesus.

He is our King of kings.

He is our Only Savior.

To Him our praises bring!

Our Lord will bring us comfort,

And He will show the way

That we must go to follow

Our Lord throughout the day.

We’ll trust Him with our future,

Believe He really cares,

Submit to all He purposed,

Our lives to His cross bear;

Believe in all He promised,

Surrender to His will,

And all that He has purposed,

He surely will fulfill.

Our Lord, completely faithful,

Has what is best in mind.

We will not be forgotten,

Our peace, in Him, we’ll find.

An Original Work / June 28, 2018

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Will You Escape God's Judgment?

Romans 2:1-11 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on another. For on whatever grounds you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. 2And we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. 3So when you, O man, pass judgment on others, yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment? 4Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

 

“5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. 6God ‘will repay each one according to his deeds.’ 7To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life. 8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.

 

“9There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek; 10but glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, first for the Jew, then for the Greek. 11For God does not show favoritism.”

 

From They to You

 

When these words were first penned by the apostle Paul, they were not divided by chapters and verses. So if you begin a new chapter, look back at the one previous to that one to see if a thought is being carried over from the previous chapter, which is the case here. And Paul was writing these words to all who were loved by God and called to be saints, first to encourage them in their walks of faith, and then to address the issues of God’s wrath against sin and of all hypocritical judgments against others.

 

For he was talking about “they” and then he switched to “you.” So, after listing all sorts of sins being committed by those who had exchanged the truth about God for a lie, he went back to addressing all those who professed faith in Jesus Christ, who claimed to be followers of Jesus Christ. For it appears they were not all living righteously, but many (or some) of them were doing the same things (or worse) as those they were condemning for their sins against God. So they would not escape God’s judgments.

 

The Lies Being Taught

 

And this goes to the heart of what so many people are being taught in today’s institutional market-driven “churches” which are partnered with the world and with the government in unholy unions. For so many of them have exchanged God’s truth for a lie and they are giving the people of their congregations carte blanche (full freedom) to keep on in their deliberate and habitual sins against the Lord under the guise of God’s grace and forgiveness of all sins once they “believed” in Jesus or “claimed who they are in Christ.”

 

But the Scriptures make it clear that if sin remains our practice, and not obedience to God and to His commands, that it will not matter if we profess Jesus as Lord with our lips. What matters is what we do with our lives once we make those professions of faith. Did we, in truth, die with Christ to sin? Did we repent of our former sins and have a change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior away from sin to obeying God? And are we now living to please the Lord with our lives in surrender to the will of God?

 

Storing Up Wrath

 

This Scripture passage, and many others like it (I will provide Scripture references), make it clear that a mere verbal confession of Christ as Lord of our lives is not enough to secure for us salvation from sin and eternal life with God. And this is not about us, in the flesh, trying to be good enough to be approved by God. This is us, in the Spirit, by the grace of God, and in the power of God, living the lives God has for us to live via our submission to God and to His will and purpose for our lives. This is God at work within us.

 

But if any people who profess faith in Jesus Christ choose to continue in their deliberate and habitual sins against God, they need to know that they are storing up wrath against themselves for the day when God judges us all. For we are not saved and on our way to heaven based on lip service to God. God will judge us all according to our deeds. If we are living to please the Lord, perhaps not perfectly, but in life practice, we have eternal life with God. But if we continue in deliberate and habitual sin, we will face the wrath of 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]

 

So, don’t buy into the lies which tell you that if you make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ that salvation from sin and eternal life with God are guaranteed you regardless of how you live. How you live matters to God, and it matters with regard to where you will spend eternity. Believe it!

 

Will You Escape God’s Judgment?

An Original Work / September 3, 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

He'll Let You Go

Romans 1:28-32 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. 31They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

“32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.”

They Know Right from Wrong

The context here is about those who know about God, who know right from wrong, but they choose to do wrong instead of to do what they know is right. They choose their sins over God and even over healthy relationships with other people, more specifically their spouses (if they are married). And many of them will make all sorts of excuses for why they do what they do. But God says that they are without excuse. For it isn’t that they don’t know right from wrong, but that they choose to do the wrong and not the right.

But God will not force Himself on humans who choose the flesh over God and their sins over righteousness. He will let them go to do whatever their wicked hearts desire. He will allow them to self-destruct, if that is the path that they choose. And then one sin leads to another which leads to another, and the pattern keeps moving forward. And one of the many ways in which they approve of others who practice the same sins is by devoting themselves to viewing the sinful acts of others via TV, the internet, and/or videos.

Their Hearts are Hard

And no amount of reasoning with them seems to make any difference. For they refuse to come to their senses. Their hearts are hard. Even though the sins they are committing are causing damage to their lives, they choose their sins. They choose what pleases their flesh. They choose what destroys them rather than what can heal them. So they continue to choose bad over good, even though they know the difference, and they know that the evil they commit will destroy them. But they are stubborn and selfish people.

They Choose Prison over Freedom

So they dwell in their own prison which they created for themselves. And they walk through this world alone. For their stubborn pride will not let them yield control over their lives to anyone else. For they are “My Do It” people. But the “My Do It” approach never works. It always fails. Even if they claim to believe in Jesus Christ and to pray to God in heaven, they still will not let God have control over their lives. They will not “let go and let God” for they are stubborn and selfish and self-indulgent people who want what they want.

And some of the sins being committed by those who are stubborn in heart and mind, and who choose their sins over God, and over healthy marriages and family connections, are idolatry, adultery, homosexuality, depravity, greed, envy, murder, hate, deceitfulness, malice, gossip, slander, God-hating, arrogance, pride, disobedience, faithlessness, lacking in mercy, and being heartless and senseless, continuing to choose their sins over God. And then they give approval to the sins of others, as well. They know it’s wrong.

The Only Solution

But the only way out of addictive sin which has control over many people’s lives is via surrender to God in dying with Christ to sin and now living to God and to His righteousness in holy living in the power of God, by genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ as Lord. For when Jesus gave His life up for us on that cross it was to deliver us out of our slavery (addiction) to sin so that we will now serve Him with our lives in walks of obedience to our Lord and to His commands, as a matter of life practice. That is the gospel message.

[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] 

He’ll Let You Go

An Original Work / September 3, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Better Is

Based in part off Proverbs 27

An Original Work / October 5, 2018

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Better is Love’s chastisement from a friend,

Than to have your sins coddled to no end.

Wisdom is seeing danger – flees from sin,

Trusting in your Redeemer, pure within.

Jesus is your salvation – freed from sin –

Giving you life eternal, without end.

Trusting in His provisions, peace within,

Simply by giving your life all to Him.

Living your life for Jesus ev’ry day,

Tell of His mighty power, lives to save.

Listening to Him speaking to your heart,

Tell of His grace which gave you a new start.

https://vimeo.com/293958787 

Choosing Sin Over God

No Excuses For Sinful Practices!

Romans 1:18-20 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. 19For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.”

It is against God’s will that any of us should sin against God, but especially if one does so willfully, deliberately, and habitually. For we who profess faith in Jesus Christ are called of God to holiness and to righteousness. We are called of God to leave our lives of sin behind us and to now walk (in conduct) in obedience to our Lord and to His commands, in the power of God. But even many who profess Christ as Lord are those who suppress the truth of God’s Word by their wickedness, for their lives are not surrendered to God.

Many people make excuses for their deliberate and habitual sins against God, including many who profess faith in Jesus Christ. They find someone else to blame, or they blame their environment, or they blame society, or they will claim to not know when they did know. And so God let us all know here, through the teachings of Paul, that all of us have had God revealed to us through His creation, so we are all without excuse if we try to excuse away habitual sin against God. Sinful addiction will face the wrath of God.

Replacing God with Idolatry 

Romans 1:21-23 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.”

There are many people today who profess faith in Jesus Christ but who are living the exact opposite of the kind of life Jesus gave His life up for on that cross. For in His death Jesus put our sins to death with Him so that, by faith in Him, we will now deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in walks of obedience to His commands, all in the power of God. He died and rose again, not just to forgive us our sins but to deliver us out of our slavery to sin so we will now serve Him with our lives in doing His will He has for us to do.

But so many people professing faith in Jesus Christ today are being fed a pile of lies, and they are believing the lies, and so they are continuing in their deliberate and habitual sin, claiming that God’s grace covers it all. But Jesus taught if we want to come after Him we must deny self, die to sin, and obey His commands in practice. He taught that we are not saved by giving Him lip service only, but we must be those who are doing the will of God. For if sin and disobedience to God are our practice, we do not have life with God.

Unnatural Human Relationships

Romans 1:24-27 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.

“26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.”

Now here this is dealing with a very specific sin category. Overall it is speaking here of the sins of sexual immorality, idolatry, and adultery. More specifically it is speaking of homosexuality, i.e. women with women and men with men in sexual relationships. But I am of the belief that a man or a woman who gratifies their own sexual urges with themselves are still preferring same sex relationships over what God designed for us human beings to do. And it is still idolatry and adultery against God and spouse.

And according to Jesus, even for someone to look at another with lust in one’s heart and mind, it is still adultery. No physical contact required at all. And this is huge today with so many people professing faith in Jesus Christ who are regularly viewing pornography or any kind of sexual and seductive material which is intended to stir up one’s lusts. For we are to be those who are keeping our minds pure and who are focused on pleasing the Lord and not the sinful cravings of the flesh, and who are faithful to our spouses.

[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 Sin Over God

An Original Work / September 2, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Heart of Man  

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

An Original Work / April 4, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Listen to me ev’ryone and

Understand this teaching of Christ:

Why do you break the commands 

Of God for the sake of tradition?

When you follow the ways of man,

And don’t obey the words of Christ,

You nullify the words of God,

And you hold to the ways of man. 

What comes out of a man’s mouth is

What makes him unclean and dirty.

The things that come out of the mouth

Come from the heart, from within him.

The heart of man is so sinful;

From his nature, out comes evil:

Lying, cursing, greed and malice,

Lust and lewdness, deceit, slander.

Jesus calls us to obey Him;

Turn from our sins; follow His ways.

Yet, His people honor Him with their lips, 

but their hearts not with Him.

Their worship of God is in vain.

Their teachings are rules taught by man.

Jesus calls us; gently leads us 

To return and follow His truth. 

https://vimeo.com/125490002

Are You Wounded?

Are you wounded, tattered and torn?

You’re forgotten, grieved and forlorn? 

Needing answers? Troubles in mind?

Hope’s allusions hardly to find?

Truth escaping? Liars abound?

Men betraying? Honor not found?

Hope’s not empty. Honesty here.

There’s an answer, which is quite clear.

Jesus loves you. This I do know.

For the Bible surely tells so.

He’s our Savior, life without end,

Cleansing us from all of our sin.

When you trust Him now with your life,

Let your fears go. Give not to strife.

Let Him have control of your will.

Within your heart Jesus will fill.

Peace now filling, worries let go.

Reassurance surely do know.

Savior loyal. He will not lie.

For our sins He surely did die.

Comforts you with all of His love.

Joy He gives you from up above.

He gives purpose. He has a plan

For Your life to live to His end.

He will never leave, forsake you.

His commitment – always be true.

On His love, you now can depend;

Life eternal with Him. Amen!

An Original Work / June 20, 2018

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

I Am Not Ashamed of The Gospel

Romans 1:16-17 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

16I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek. 17For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

 

In a nutshell, the gospel of Christ, of our salvation, teaches us that Jesus Christ, God the Son, gave His life up for us on a cross in order to put our sins to death with Him so that, by faith in Him, we will deny self, die to sin, and obey God and His commands as a matter of life practice. For in Jesus’ death on that cross He bought us back for God (He redeemed us) out of our lives of slavery to sin so we will now serve the Lord Jesus with our lives.

 

And that faith is not of our own doing. It is a gift from God to us. And it means to be persuaded of God as to His holiness and righteousness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need (and God’s requirement) to deny self, die to sin daily, and to walk in obedience to God’s commands in daily living. By faith in Jesus Christ we surrender our lives to the will of God for our lives and we submit to Him as Lord (Owner-Master) over our lives to obey Him.

 

Our lives are now no longer ours to be lived however we want, but they are to be lived for the Lord, to do His will, to go wherever He sends us and to do and to say whatever He commands. Yes, it means forgiveness of sins. But forgiveness is not permission to keep sinning against God. Forgiveness is encouragement to “go and sin no more.” It does not mean we will never sin again (1 John 2:1-2) but that sin should no longer have control over us.

 

So, it is not enough to just claim faith in Jesus Christ, but we must be those who walk by that faith in lifestyle and life practice, in the power of God. For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age. But if we claim that we know God, but we do not obey His commands, in practice, then He says the truth is not in us.

 

[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]

 

I Am Not Ashamed of The Gospel

An Original Work / September 2, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Should I Not Preach Jesus

 

Based off 1 Corinthians 9:16-10:13

An Original Work / July 4, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Woe to me should I not preach Jesus.

I’m compelled to preach the full gospel.

I make myself a slave to ev’ryone

To win their hearts to Christ.

All this I do for my Lord Jesus,

And for the sake of His Name;

Do it for the sake of His gospel,

So that I, its blessings gain.

 

Scripture notates the sins of others;

Written down for us as examples

To keep us from setting our hearts

On evil as did those of old.

Do not worship other gods of man;

Do not give your hearts to them;

Not partake in immorality.

Do not test your Lord and King.

 

So, be careful if you think you are

Standing firm in your faith in Jesus.                        

God has given his word to warn us,

So through faith we will not fall.

No temptation has o’ertaken you

Except what is commonplace.

God is faithful to not let you be

Tempted past what you can bear.

He gives the way of escape.

 

https://vimeo.com/116057811