False Apostles Teaching Cheapened Grace

The apostle Paul was writing to the church in Corinth. He was concerned that they were being led astray by false apostles to reject the truth of the gospel and to embrace the lies, instead. And it appears that these false apostles were leading the people to reject Paul and the gospel of Christ. And so Paul defended his own honor and his service both to the Lord and to the people. But he did not do this out of selfish motives. He did this because the people were listening to the lies and the liars and they were rejecting the truth.

 

2 Corinthians 12:19-21 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“19Have you been thinking all along that we were making a defense to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all of this, beloved, is to build you up. 20For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder. 21I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.”

 

A Similar Situation Today

 

And we have a similar situation as this today, at least here in the USA, we do, within many of the gatherings of the church (or what are falsely being referred to as the church) at large. We have many such false apostles in these gatherings serving as pastors and preachers who are teaching the people lies, and who are refuting the truth of what the Scriptures teach. And many of them are deceivers, manipulators, opportunists, egocentrics, and those who fake their Christianity, who themselves are living immoral lives.

 

And they are those who hide behind the grace of God and who hide their lies behind the grace of God, too. For they are teaching the grace of God as though it is carte blanche (free license) to keep on living in sin once you believe in Jesus. Many of them are teaching the people that God does not require repentance (death to sin) and obedience to His commands, for they call that “works salvation.” But that’s a lie! For Jesus gave His life up for us so we will now die to sin and obey God in practice, in the power of God.

 

So, they are encouraging the people to follow their example in living sinful lives – dishonorable, corrupt, immoral, wicked, dishonest, self-indulgent, and selfish lives – while claiming that God’s grace covers it all. So we have many people professing faith in Jesus Christ who are being convinced that their sins no longer matter to God. And so they continue in their sins without conscience, and so they continue to decline, to worsen, and to deteriorate while they claim that God’s grace covers all their sins. But that’s a lie!

 

By Faith in Jesus Christ

 

Yes, by faith in Jesus Christ we are forgiven our sins, and God’s grace does cover us if we should sin in the future if we are those who by faith in Jesus have repented of our sins and who are walking in obedience to our Lord and to His commands as a matter of life practice (see 1 John 2:1-6). But if sin remains our practice, deliberately and habitually, and not obedience to our Lord and to His commands, then we are regarded by God as not those who are of genuine faith in the Lord, so our sins are not covered by God’s grace.

 

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).

 

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in Him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

 

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 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]

 

False Apostles Teaching Cheapened Grace

An Original Work / September 10, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

The Battle for Truth

 

Based off Malachi 1-4

An Original Work / May 18, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Truth is marching, truth is marching.

 

I love you. Honor me. Tell the truth. You’ll be free.

Sing My praise all your days. I will give all you need.

 

Truth is marching, truth is marching.

 

Turn from sin; cleansed within. Stand in awe of My Name.

Teach what’s true. Walk in peace. Follow Christ, in His ways.

 

Truth is marching, truth is marching.

 

Show to God faithfulness. Do not be adult’rous.

Do not shed shallow tears. Do not be insincere.

 

Truth is marching, truth is marching.

 

I have sent messengers who have giv’n My address.

They call for repentance, and they warn of judgment.

 

Truth is marching, truth is marching.

 

I, the Lord, do not change, so return – blessings gain:

Healing comes; joyfulness; freedom from your distress.

 

https://vimeo.com/117023801

Suffering Serves a Purpose

The Sufferings of Paul

 

I am reading in 2 Corinthians 11-12 about the sufferings that the apostle Paul had to endure as a follower of Jesus Christ and as a minister of the gospel of our salvation. He faced many beatings, imprisonments, stonings, shipwrecks, hunger and thirst, and lack of sleep, etc. And he was burdened for the church, that they not continue in sin, but that they walk in the ways of the Lord. And it grieved him if anyone sinned. But God used him greatly, and He gave him many revelations and visions which were used in his life in teaching the people the things of God and of the gospel of our salvation.

 

7So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me. 10That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong (2 Corinthians 12:7-10 BSB Berean Standard Bible).

 

We do not know what Paul’s “thorn” was exactly, for he did not say. But we do know is that it was not sin, for Jesus died on that cross to deliver us out of sin so we will obey God with our lives. He died to free us from sin! His grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we await our Lord’s return (see Titus 2:11-14). So God will not refuse to remove sin from our lives, and His grace is not sufficient for us if we decide to continue in deliberate and habitual sin (see Romans 6:1-23).

 

Making it Personal

 

Today I was on an internet site called “Facebook.” It is a place where we can gather together on the internet with friends and family, mostly people we know and have known in person throughout our lives. And all of a sudden I got notified that I had a response to one of my posts from someone from my youth. But this one was posted on April 10, 2022, and it was a picture of my dad as a young boy, with my comments attached. He and my mom were both born in 1914 and both died in the year 2000 at the age of 86. Also today the Lord had me post a poem about the purpose for our own lives.

 

These kinds of things don’t usually happen in my life by accident. Usually when something like this happens I know God has a message He wants to convey through it. And the message is two-fold. One has to do with the sufferings that we face throughout our lives, which can begin in our childhood, and the second is that God has a purpose for the things we suffer, for the things He allows in our lives. There are lessons to be learned even through the hard times, and God uses these hard times in our lives to prepare us for what He has for us to do, for His callings upon our lives.

 

A Very Wicked Man

 

My dad was a very wicked man and an abuser of some of the worst kinds to my mother and to me and my siblings. I feared the man greatly, and I tried to avoid him as much as possible. He wasn’t just a big bully, and he wasn’t just mean and hateful, but he took advantage of some (or all) of his children in some of the worst ways, and we also witnessed his beatings against our mother. Although I feared him greatly, I learned to forgive him over again and again. But for the longest time I could find no good in him, and no good memories about him, either. So the Lord worked on me in that area.

 

As the years passed, and as I grew older, I found that there were memories of him that I could enjoy, and that’s a good feeling. One of the things I enjoy is the picture of him when he was a boy which I posted on Facebook. And I have some stack tables that were his that my children use to eat at when we visited them, and I like that memory. And I remember how he would move pictures around on the walls all the time and he would have to show us how he rearranged them. So, finding something good to remember about him was very healing for me. And the pain of the past went away.

 

Life With Purpose

 

But going back to the poem (“Life Unending”) the Lord had me post today after I received that comment on that post from 2022. It asks the question if we have given thought to why we were even born. Have we thought about our purpose, for why God put us on the earth, and why He gave us the parents that He gave us? For Jesus Christ, who is our creator, is the one who formed us in the wombs of our mothers. God put us in the families we grew up in, for better or for worse. God had a purpose in allowing me to go through all the sufferings I have had to endure throughout my whole life.

 

On sort of a humorous side to this, my maiden name is “Thorn,” and Paul was given a thorn in his flesh to torment him. And God’s grace was sufficient for me through all the sufferings the Lord took me through in my life, even if I did not always recognize that as such. Through everything that I suffered in this life God had a plan and a purpose for my life. He was preparing me for the calling He placed on my life 22 years ago. I don’t think I could have endured the past 22 years if I had not gone through the sufferings I did which prepared me for “such a time as this.” Suffering serves a purpose.

 

[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] 

 

Suffering Serves a Purpose

An Original Work / September 9, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

A Believer’s Prayer

 

An Original Work / July 31, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

With my whole heart, Lord, I pray

To be Yours, and Yours always.

Lead me in Your truth today.

May I love You, and obey.

Lead me in Your righteousness.

When I sin, may I confess;

Bow before You when I pray;

Live for You and You always.

 

Love You, Jesus, You’re my friend.

Life with You will never end.

You are with me through each day,

Giving love and peace always.

You will ne’er abandon me.

From my sin You set me free.

You died on that cruel tree,

So I’d live eternally.

 

Soon You’re coming back for me;

From this world to set me free;

Live with You eternally.

Oh, what joy that brings to me.

I will walk with You in white;

A pure bride, I’ve been made right

By the blood of Jesus Christ;

Pardoned by His sacrifice.

 

https://vimeo.com/114796263

Life Unending

Have you given thought to your life –

To why you were even born?

Have you thought about your purpose?

Or is your purpose now forlorn? 

Do you know your life has meaning –

That you are not here by mistake?

Do you know your life has purpose?

And it is not that you be fake?

Do you know you were created

With God’s purpose now in mind?

To believe, you would, in Jesus,

And His righteousness to find?

Do you know that He has purpose,

And has meaning for your life?

That you would follow Jesus Christ,

And you’d not give up to strife?

Now He wants to bless you richly

With His treasures now in store,

To give hope now for your future,

And, that Him you’d now adore.

Gave His life for your salvation,

So from sin you’d be set free,

To follow Jesus only now,

Bowing now on bended knee.

He has given you direction

Through the teachings of His Word,

To follow Him in purity,

And do nothing, though, absurd. 

So, give your life to Him today,

Follow Him where’er He leads.

Tell others of His saving grace,

And for others, their needs meet.

An Original Work / April 12, 2019

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Led Astray from Pure Devotion to Christ

2 Corinthians 11:1-4 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“1I hope you will put up with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that. 2I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

 

“3I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ. 4For if someone comes and proclaims a Jesus other than the One we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the One you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it very easily.”

 

The Bride of Christ

 

When we believe in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives, in truth and in righteousness, He becomes our husband, and we become His bride. So we are to submit to Him as Lord (Owner-Master) of our lives, and we are to be faithful to Him from that time forward. No longer should sin and disobedience to God’s commands be our practice. For in Jesus’ death on that cross He put our sins to death with Him so that by faith in Him we will die to sin and now live to God in obedience to His commands, in God’s power.

 

Nonetheless, we live in a day and age where liars and deceivers abound, and where “wolves in sheep’s clothing” are serving as “pastors” of so many “church” congregations. And so many of them are lying to the people, teaching them a false half-truth gospel which removes many of the critical elements of the gospel message in order to appease human flesh. So they are convincing much of the bride of Christ to live in adultery to her husband, and to keep on in deliberate and habitual sin under the guise of forgiveness.

 

Did Jesus’ death on that cross offer forgiveness of all sins? Yes! But under the provision that the person seeking the forgiveness is of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of their own doing, but which comes from God. And that faith requires that we deny self, die to sin, and obey God and His commands in life practice or we are not true children of God. But can a true child of God still sin? Yes! (1 John 2:1-2) But if sin is our habit, and not obedience to God, we don’t know God and we don’t have eternal life in Him.

 

[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 Failed Marriage

 

In a human to human marriage relationship we take marital vows to one another to be faithful in marriage to our spouse. For in marriage we are to become one flesh, each of us having equal love and concern for the other. But when one spouse (or both) decides to commit adultery to the other, that breaks those marriage vows, and now the marriage relationship is broken. But can it be healed? Yes! It can via genuine repentance and renewed commitment. But if a spouse continues in adultery, the marriage is broken.

 

The same goes in our marriage relationship with Christ. First of all, so many professers of faith in Jesus Christ never did commit their lives to Christ to do His will, but they just used “faith in Jesus” to forgive them their sins thinking that they could now continue living in sin without punishment. So they remain married to sin, to lust, to sexual immorality, to adultery, to idolatry, and the like. Thus, the marriage is broken before it even gets started. So they are not truly “in Christ” because they are still living in habitual sin.

 

And since so much of today’s “church” here in the USA has taken the wide road which leads to death, and they are refusing the narrow path which leads to heaven and to life eternal with God, the situations mentioned above have gotten much worse. So many are giving lip service only to God but they are still living for the sinful desires of the flesh. So many are believing that forgiveness of sins gives them permission to keep sinning without punishment. But God says the ones Doing His will have eternal life with God.

 

See the Scripture references above which teach what was just shared.

 

Led Astray from Pure Devotion to Christ

An Original Work / September 9, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

For By Grace 

 

Based off Ephesians 2:8-10

An Original Work / January 27, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

For by grace we’ve been saved of all our sins,

So that with Christ Jesus our lives begin.

Cleansing us from sin, He made pure within

All who trust in Him as their Savior, friend,

So that with Christ Jesus our lives begin.

 

We’ve been saved through faith; this not from ourselves,

Lest that we should boast in our fleshly works.

Our salvation is a gift from our God,

Who loves us so much that He gave His Son

To die on the cross for all of our sins.

 

So repent of all of your sins today,

And He’ll forgive you; wipe your sins away.

Obey all of His teachings given you,

So that you can walk with Him now in truth;

So that you can walk with Him now in truth.

 

https://vimeo.com/125737956

A "911" Emergency Call

Preface

 

The Lord put in my mind “911.” For most of my life those 3 numbers meant numbers that you call on your telephone in case of an emergency. But on September 11, 2001, “911” took on a whole new meaning. It was still about an emergency situation, but it was the day on which 3 buildings in New York (USA) came crashing down, all three of which looked kind of like planned demolitions. But not only were these 3 buildings (the Twin Towers and building 7) utterly demolished (destroyed entirely), but nearly 3,000 people were reported as having died in/near the Twin Towers buildings on that day.

 

Now we are nearing the 25^th anniversary of that tragic day coming up this Friday, and so I took some time today to look at some people’s videos taken on that day which were posted on YouTube. And what was standing out to me is how so many people inside those buildings were not being instructed or encouraged to leave the buildings, and how some or many of them chose for themselves to remain inside the buildings assuming this was a minor situation, believing that someone would put out the fire and that they would then all be safe. But they were not safe, and nearly 3,000 of them died.

 

1 Corinthians 10:14-22 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 15I speak to reasonable people; judge for yourselves what I say. 16Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? 17Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf.

 

“18Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar? 19Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? 20No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons. 21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too. 22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?”

 

A Spiritual Parallel

 

Now the Lord is giving me a spiritual parallel of what happened on 9/11/01 in the USA to this passage of Scripture and its warnings to flee. This is not about fleeing a burning building, but this is about fleeing idolatry, adultery, sexual immorality, lying, cheating, stealing, drunkenness, revelry, and the like, i.e. addiction to sin. For Jesus Christ became sin for us on that cross, and He put our sins to death with Him in order that, by faith in Him, we will deny self, die to sin, and obey God in life practice. And all throughout the Scriptures we are warned to flee sin or to face eternal death spiritually.

 

Taking Communion Illustration

 

And on the subject of idolatry the apostle Paul used the taking of communion to illustrate his point. For, when we participate in the taking of communion, we are remembering the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, but also the reason for why He died, and what that accomplished. And this is to be a time of reflection and prayer and repentance, if needed, and of renewal and rededication of our lives to Christ to be the people of God He intends for us to be, living holy lives, pleasing to Him, no longer as slaves to sin, but now as servants of righteousness in obedience to God’s commands.

 

And the bottom line in what he was saying is that God does not want those who profess the name of Jesus to be idolaters and those living in addiction to sin, for He died to free us from our slavery to sin so we will now walk in obedience to His commands. For if we remain living in idolatry and in bondage to sin, we are being participants with demons, and we cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons, too. We cannot hold on to living in sin, and not live to obey God, and still confess Christ as Lord of our lives. Therefore, if sin remains our practice, we do not have eternal life with God.

 

The Purpose of the Parallel

 

So, the purpose of “911” in this scenario, in relation to what happened on 9/11/01 in New York, and to the number of human lives which were lost that day, is in relation to the number of people in those buildings who were either encouraged to not leave, and so they did what they were told, and they stayed where they were, or regarding those who chose on their own to remain, thinking that the fire was a minor issue that someone would put out and so they would be safe. So many people today are being led in the same direction, only on a spiritual level, and so they are remaining in their sins.

 

So many people are being taught today that God’s grace to them is forgiveness of all sins (past, present, and future), and the promise of heaven as their eternal destiny, but based on a profession of faith in Jesus Christ only. And they are believing the lies of the people who are telling them that they are now safe in the arms of Jesus and that nothing bad is going to happen to them, so they do not have to “flee” their sins. And/or they are choosing on their own to make that judgment call and to determine that they themselves are safe and that they will not face eternal death.

 

But they are believing a lie which will send them straight to hell.

 

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

 

A “911” Emergency Call

An Original Work / September 8, 2026

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.

 

https://vimeo.com/379406352

God Will Provide an Escape

1 Corinthians 10:1-5 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“1I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea. 2They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3They all ate the same spiritual food 4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. 5Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.”

 

In the book of Exodus we read about how God called Moses to be the one to lead His people out of slavery in Egypt. The Pharaoh of that time refused to let the Israelites go, for he used them as slaves. So God sent some plagues to the Egyptians, the last one being the death of all firstborn in the land, including both humans and animals. But God spared His people, and then He led them out of Egypt. He rescued them from Pharaoh, but then they wandered in the wilderness for the next 40 years because of their rebellion against God and their lack of faith with regard to the Promised Land.

 

Now, please note with me what this passage of Scripture says about that time. And this was Old Testament times, not New Testament times. It says that they all “drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.” Now Jesus Christ was not yet born. This was probably hundreds of years before His birth, or perhaps over a thousand years. But He was and is God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – so He always existed with God. So, although He was not with them in the flesh, He was with God’s people in the spirit in the wilderness.

 

1 Corinthians 10:6-10 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“6These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did. 7Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: ‘The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.’ 8We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. 9We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes. 10And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.”

 

Now, in verse 5 it states that God was not pleased with most of the Israelites, therefore they were struck down in the wilderness. Why? Because so many of them were idolaters, revelers, drunkards, the sexually immoral, those who put Christ to the test, and those who grumbled and complained against God, and against His servant Moses. And they refused to repent of their sins and to obey God in life practice. So, these things were written down for us, as examples to us, to keep us from craving evil things as they did. For if sin is our practice, we will not have eternal life with God, either.

 

[See also: Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Matthew 7:21-23]

 

1 Corinthians 10:1-13 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“11Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. 12So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall. 13No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.”

 

Again, these things took place as examples to us to keep us from craving evil things as they did, and they were written down as warnings for us to let us know what can and will happen to us if we rebel as they did, and if we choose sin over God. We will die without Christ, and heaven will not be our eternal destiny. That is taught to us all throughout the New Testament Scriptures, although it appears the majority of “Christians” in my nation are ignoring those warnings, for so many of them are being taught that they will not be judged by God if they make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ.

 

But faith in Jesus Christ is not in words only, but in action and in truth. For the faith to believe in Jesus is not of our own doing, of our own flesh, but it comes from God, it is authored and perfected by Jesus Christ, it is gifted to us by God, and it is persuaded of God as to His righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need (and God’s requirement) that, by faith in HIM, we must deny self, die to sin, and obey our Lord in practice, in the power of God at work within us. For Jesus died to deliver us out of addiction to sin so that we will now serve the Lord with our lives from now on.

 

So, do not take God’s grace for granted. For His grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we await our Lord’s soon return. And our Lord will give us all we need to resist the devil and to flee temptation to sin, if we are willing, and if we will obey Him. A “My-Do-It” approach to resisting the devil will not work. Our lives must be surrendered to the Lord to doing His will. So don’t get prideful and think, “I can do this,” especially if the “My-Do-It” approach keeps you held in bondage to sin.

 

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

 

God Will Provide an Escape

An Original Work / September 8, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Give Ear to Jesus 

 

Based off Isaiah 55

An Original Work / February 16, 2016

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Call on your Savior. Seek the Lord while He is near.

Let the wicked forsake his way; Turn to the Lord.

God will have mercy. He’ll forgive you of your sin.

He will freely pardon you and give peace within.

Turn from your sin, follow Jesus, be cleansed from sin.

 

Give ear to Jesus. Come to Him. Your soul will live.

Listen to Him speaking to you: “Eat what is good.”

If you are thirsty, come to Jesus, drink from Him.

Drink His Spirit given to you. Be born again.

Listen to Him. Do what He says. Rejoice in Him.

 

God’s Word, eternal, will achieve what He desires.

He is willing none should perish, saved by His blood.

Share now the gospel. Jesus died so we’d go free.

Walk in vict’ry, free from your sin, eternally.

Die to sin, and live to Jesus. In Him believe.

 

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By God's Grace

By God’s grace we’ve been set free

So that we can bend the knee,

Humbly turning from our sin,

Letting His love come within.

Walking with Him day by day,

Read His Words, and kneel and pray,

Listening to Him as He speaks,

Growing in Him by the weeks.

Comfort He brings to our hearts,

When our loved ones do depart,

When we are misunderstood,

And evil rages over good.

Joy to us, His love imparts,

When He rules within our hearts,

Making him Lord of our lives,

In our hearts His Word now thrives.

Peace to us He’ll truly bring,

When we make him Lord and King,

Giving up our all to Him,

By His grace, forsaking sin.

Daily with Him now we meet,

Sitting with Him at His feet,

Drinking in His every Word,

Doing the Words that we heard.

Love our Savior, He’s our friend,

He’ll be with us to the end,

Helping us throughout each day,

To be faithful in all ways.

He’s our Healer, Priest and King,

Who rules over everything.

He gives strength for every need,

As on His Word we daily feed.

An Original Work / March 21, 2019

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love