Run With It

Saturday, June 13, 2026

In an Unworthy Manner

1 Corinthians 11:23-29 NKJV

23For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 25In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

26For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes. 27Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.

Taking Communion

What this is talking about here is what is commonly referred to as “taking communion.” Different gatherings of what are called “churches” do this in different ways. And for some gatherings, and for some people, this is just another religious exercise that they go through routinely, and not all of them are following the same exact schedule or the same exact routines and traditions. But what often gets lost is the real reason for this, and what purpose it serves in the lives of those who profess faith in Jesus Christ.

For this isn’t just about remembering that Jesus Christ gave his life up for us on a cross to die for our sins, and that he was resurrected from the dead so that we could live through him and have eternal life in him. This is about us, by faith in Jesus Christ, participating with Christ in his death and in his resurrection by us dying with him to sin and us being raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness, in walks of obedience to God’s commands.

And the purpose is not just to proclaim the Lord’s death, but also his resurrection, and the purpose for them both. We are to be those who are sharing with the people that Jesus Christ gave his life up for us on that cross to put our sins to death with him in order to free us from the control of sin over lives. And he was resurrected from the dead that we might now live through him in walks of surrender to him in obedience to his commands in holy living, by God’s grace, in the power of God, and for the glory of God.

Examine Yourselves

Now, as far as I can remember, I have most always taken this seriously. When I participated in taking communion, I took that time to examine my own heart and life before God, to pray to the Lord to show me any areas of my life which needed to be changed, and I repented of any known sins, if I knew of any. I took that time to pray and to meditate on what this means, not just on what it meant for Jesus to give his life up for us to free us from our sins, but what that change in my life should look like in daily practice.

And I believe that is really the purpose of it all, to get us to examine our own hearts, to think on what Jesus did for us and what that means for us and what change that should bring about in our lives because of what he did, and because he brought us to faith in him. This is a time for prayer and self-examination and reflection on Jesus’ sacrifice for us on that cross in order to deliver us out of addiction to sin so we would now serve him with our lives in doing whatever he has for us to do, as his followers.

But eating the bread and drinking the cup in an “unworthy manner” is not just about taking communion when you know you are holding on to sin in your life. This is about any acts we do where we might go through religious exercises, and where we might give the impression that we are true followers of Christ, but where we might be holding on to sin and not living for the Lord. Those who do this are regarded by God as guilty of the body and blood of Christ who eat and drink judgment upon themselves.

[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]

Live For Jesus

So, live for the Lord. Do all that he says for you to do. Deny self. Die to sin. And walk (in conduct) with God in obedience to his commands, and let righteousness and godly living be what you now practice. And be real! Do not fake it! Don’t just go through the rituals. Be who God created you to be. Follow Jesus wherever he leads you. And be one who shares the good news of the gospel of Christ with the people of this world, and with the worldly church, too. For many profess him, but the minority truly follow HIM.

Lord, Move Me

An Original Work / October 16, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Be my desire, my heart set on fire,

Lord, move me to worship You only, I pray.

Fill with Your Spirit, my heart overflow.

Lord, may I long for You; Your word to know.

Teach me to walk with You, Lord, in Your power,

And may I serve You, Lord, right now in this hour.

Lord, how I want to obey You forever.

Help me to hear You, Lord, so I will not stray.

Teach me to love You; adore You always.

Envelope me, Lord, with Your grace today.

Meet me in my need, and show me Your mercy.

Forgive me for all things, as I humbly pray.

Counsel me, lead me, direct me, and guide me,

So I follow You, Lord, where’er You lead now.

I love to hear You speak Your words to me.

I am so grateful that You set me free.

Wash me, and cleanse me, and make me like You, Lord,

And I will live with You for eternity.

https://vimeo.com/125966625

In an Unworthy Manner

An Original Work / June 13, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Friday, June 12, 2026

Idolatry and Demons

1 Corinthians 10:14-22 NKJV

“14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 15I speak as to wise men; judge for yourselves what I say. 16The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 17For we, though many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake of that one bread.

“18Observe Israel after the flesh: Are not those who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? 19What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything? 20Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. 21You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons. 22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?”

What is Idolatry?

What is idolatry? It is worship of what is not God. It is obsession with something craved, admired, and/or dreamed about and hoped for which is contrary to the will and purpose of God for our lives, or which takes the place of God in our lives. It is anything which consumes our minds and hearts which leads us in the wrong direction, or which leads us to sin against God and/or against other humans. So this can include sinful addictions to anything which moves us away from God and which gratifies selfish desires.

The concern here is regarding those who profess faith in Jesus Christ with their lips, but whose love and devotion is given to “another god.” And this god can be anything or anyone worshipped in place of or far above God. This god can even be oneself, and so the goal is to give pleasure to oneself in place of living to please God. And so this person, although giving an outward appearance of being of God, is still living for self and for selfish and for sinful desires, because pleasing self is what they want above all else.

Therefore, this could be someone who lives in a fantasy world, who pretends that they are living in a world which they imagine in their own minds, perhaps due to movies they watch, or stories they read or listen to, or songs that they hear sung. And so they put themselves in the position of those characters and they imagine that they are living out the stories themselves. And this can include sexual fantasies, or having romantic affairs with someone imagined or craved, even someone from the past, perhaps.

The Cup of Demons

Now, this passage of Scripture (1 Corinthians 10:1-13) gives us some examples of the kinds of sins which fall under the heading of idolatry. Mostly it was under the general category of lusting after evil things, but which included drunkenness, revelry, sexual immorality, putting Christ to the test, and grumbling against God. For the Israelites this also included grumbling against Moses who was called of God to lead the people to follow God in obedience to his commands, and to forsake their sinful practices.

And the concern here was that the Christians of Paul’s day were taking communion, i.e. they were participating in the remembrance of Christ’s death on that cross, and the shedding of his blood for our deliverance out of addiction to sin so that we can now serve God with our lives in obedience to his commands, but some (or many) of them were still living in idolatry. So he was letting them know that they could not participate with Christ in his sacrifice for our sins if they are still making sin their idol, their god.

That is the same concern today. We have many people giving lip service to God, professing faith in Jesus Christ, claiming him as their Lord, going through the motions of religious practice, but whose hearts are far from God. For they are still making sin their practice. They are still living in idolatry in worship of what is not God and which is against God. But we cannot be “in Christ,” and be saved from our sins and on our way to heaven, if sin is what we practice, and not death to sin and obeying our Lord God.

Living Sacrifices

Based off Romans 12:1-2; Romans 6:11-14 NIV

An Original Work / September 14, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Oh, holy ones, I counsel you,

In view of God’s mercy,

To give yourselves to God in love

As living offerings,

Pleasing to God, holy in love.

This is your true worship.

Do not conform to worldly lives.

Let God transform you today.

Then you’ll be able to

Test and approve of what

God’s will is – His pleasing

And perfect will. Oh, holy ones,

I counsel you – Offer yourselves unto God.

Oh, holy ones, I counsel you –

Do not be conceited.

Humble yourselves before your God.

Do not be self-righteous.

The strength you have to live in love

Comes from your Lord God, so

Live your new lives in pow’r of God.

Be changed in heart, mind and will.

Do this because of what

Christ did for you when

He died on the cross to save

The world from sin. Oh, holy ones,

I counsel you – Humble yourselves before God.

Oh, holy ones, I counsel you –

Count yourselves dead to sin,

But be alive to God in Christ.

Do not let sin reign in

Your earthly lives so you

Obey its evil desires.

Offer yourselves unto your God

As those who’ve been born again.

For sin shall no longer be

Your lord and master.

Give of yourselves to God

For righteousness. Oh, holy ones,

I counsel you – Be alive to God in Christ.

https://vimeo.com/118480946

Idolatry and Demons

An Original Work / June 12, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

If You Think You're Standing

1 Corinthians 10:1-11 NKJV

1Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, 2all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3all ate the same spiritual food, 4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. 5But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

6Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. 7And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” 8Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell; 9nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; 10nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

For Our Instruction

A lot of people have this idea that they can make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and now all their sins are forgiven, and heaven is guaranteed them for when they die, or for when Jesus returns for his faithful bride – end of the story. But that is not what the Scriptures teach us, which we will learn if we study them in their correct biblical context. And God gave us this example of what happened to so many of his people in the wilderness as examples to us so that we won’t do as they did, with the same results.

With most of them God was not well pleased, and as a result their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. Why? Because the majority of them lusted after (craved, desired) evil things. Some of them became idolaters, revelers, and drunkards. Others were those who made a practice of sexual immorality. Some put Christ to the test, to try his patience, to see how much he would endure of their wickedness. And others complained against the Lord and his messenger Moses. All of them died and did not enter God’s eternal rest.

And all of these things took place as examples to us, and they were written down for our instruction to keep us from craving evil things as they did, so that we will not suffer the same consequences of eternal separation from God (see also Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13). For, according to the Scriptures, faith in Jesus Christ must result in us dying to sin and obeying our Lord’s commands. And disobedience to God, in practice, is regarded by God as unbelief, regardless of what faith we profess with our lips.

So Many are Ignoring This

Why are so many professing Christians today ignoring this and feeling like this does not apply to them? Well, for one, we live in a day and age when lies and liars abound pretty much everywhere you look. They are preachers and teachers of the Scriptures. And they are heads of governments of nations. And they are the news media and social media and AI videos which are made to look real, but they are not real. So much is being faked, and so many people are following after the lies while they are ignoring the truth.

Why? Because the lies make them feel good. The lies tell them they are okay, and that God does not judge them, and that heaven is secured them regardless of the fact that so many of them are living just like the majority of the Israelites did who wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. The lies tell them that a profession of faith in Jesus means that they are now “in Christ” and so their “identity” is in Christ, and so his grace covers all their sins, and so their sins no longer matter to God. But that is a big fat lie!

Does God’s grace promise us forgiveness of all sins? Yes, if we deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in obedience to his commands, as a matter of life practice, although not necessarily in absolute perfection. But 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 while we await our Lord’s return (see Titus 2:11-14). So, if we disobey God, and if we continue in deliberate and habitual sin, in practice, we don’t know God.

1 Corinthians 10:12-13 NKJV

“12Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 13No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.”

So Many Excuses

I have heard so many excuses from people living in sexual idolatry and adultery and immorality for why they cannot get victory over their deliberate and habitual sin. But there is no excuse! Pride is standing in the way of many of them gaining victory over sin, for they get over confident, thinking either that they can conquer this all on their own, and/or that they have already defeated it, and so it is no longer an issue. Or pride keeps them from admitting that they continue to fail, and so they try to cover it up.

And since they take a “my do it” approach to conquering their addiction to sin, and so they get over confident, then they go right back to the same old routines. They fall right back into the same old traps. And they keep returning to their vomit. And then sometimes they will make up excuses for why they cannot get victory over their sin. Or they will take the broad road approach that tells them that since they “prayed the prayer” that their sins no longer matter to God, and so heaven is still their eternal destiny.

But the Scriptures teach us that God has made the way through Jesus’ death on that cross, and through his resurrection from the dead, that we can be delivered out of our slavery (addiction) to sin if we will just surrender our lives to the Lord Jesus, die with him to sin, and now follow him in obedience to his commands – all in his power and strength, and not in our own strength. A “my do it” approach will not work. For that is the flesh trying to conquer flesh. We have to let go and let God, and do what he says to do.

A People Divided

An Original Work / July 4, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant / Sue J Love

Flick’ring torches; hatred; violence;

Crashing windows; guns of men;

We are a people divided

By our love of pow’r and fame.

Idols marching; they’re in chorus;

Their goal to destroy the church,

Tempting us to follow them in

Pure devotion; them we search.

Leave your idols. Follow your God.

Make Him your Lord God and King.

Be a living witness for Him,

And your off’rings to Him bring.

Repent of your sins and worship Him.

A living sacrifice,

Put your all upon His altar.

Leave your old life way behind.

Flick’ring torches; hatred; violence;

Crashing windows; guns of men;

We are a people divided

By our love of pow’r and fame.

https://vimeo.com/126494411

If You Think You’re Standing

An Original Work / June 12, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Thursday, June 11, 2026

I Discipline My Body

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 NKJV

“24Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. 25And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. 26Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. 27But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.”

Reading that reminded me of this:

Hebrews 12:1-2 NKJV

“1Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

What Race?

What race are they both talking about? They are not talking about a physical race on a physical race track with us running with our physical legs and bodies. They are both talking about a spiritual race, which is our walk of faith in obedience to our Lord, in surrender to his will, in death to sin, and in living to righteousness, by the grace of God, and in the power of God. And it is a fight, a conflict, an effort, a battle, i.e. “fighting the good fight of faith.” And it is spiritual warfare against Satan resulting in spiritual victory over sin.

For Satan will come after us to try to tear us and to wear us down. He will pull all kinds of tricks on us to try to get us to be afraid or to tempt us to sin or to get us to be lazy or to run away from it all because it got too hard. And he will use other humans against us to try to break us, to try to get us to give up trying, to feel defeated, and as though we just can’t take another step forward. He will whisper to us all sorts of things to get us to be afraid of so many things, or to get us to doubt God and the teachings of Christ.

So every day we must commit our lives to obedience to our Lord, to not live by our feelings, and to resist Satan’s attempts to dishearten and to discourage us from moving forward with God in obedience to his commands in doing what he has called each one of us to do collectively and individually. And we fight the good fight of faith, not with the weapons of this world, but with spiritual weapons of faith, perseverance, truth, righteousness, the gospel of salvation, sharing the gospel message, and with the Word of God.

How to Do That?

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).

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 while we wait for Jesus’ return. For it is not the one who claims he is “in Christ” who is “in Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. We have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God in heaven (see Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1-3).

Receiving the Crown

We have to stay the course, in the strength of our Lord. Daily we must put on that armor of God to fight off Satan’s evil schemes against us. And we cannot play with sin. We cannot get slothful. We cannot let the trappings of this world take us off course. No matter how hard things get, or no matter how many voices we have coming against us, or how much we are mistreated and rejected and/or falsely accused of what we did not do, we must remain steadfast in faith and in obedience to our Lord’s commands.

And notice with me what Paul said, which is critical that we get this. He said he disciplines his body to bring it into subjection, lest, when he had preached to others, he himself should become disqualified. What did he mean by that? Read the section of this writing, “How to Do That?” He was not talking about working out at a gym to make himself physically strong. He was talking about disciplining himself spiritually so that he did not fall into temptation, and into sin, and turn from serving the Lord with his life.

For we don’t “get saved” and now we are guaranteed forgiveness of all sins and heaven as our eternal destiny. God has to draw us to Christ, and only by the faith which he provides can any of us believe in Jesus. And that belief involves us denying self, dying to sin, and obeying God, in practice. And it is progressive faith (past, present, and future) which won’t be complete until Jesus returns for his faithful bride, and provided that we continue in walks of obedience to God, in death to sin, so that we don’t become disqualified.

Do Your Best

Based off of 2 Timothy 2

An Original Work / November 7, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Love You, Father, love You, Lord.

Be strong in the grace of Christ.

Endure hardship for your Lord.

Your commander, live to please.

You’ll receive the victor’s crown.

By the rules, run in the race.

Your Lord, you’ll see face to face.

Jesus Christ, raised from the dead;

Of your life, He is the head.

Endure all for the elect.

Love You, Father, love You, Lord.

If we died, we live with Him.

If we last, with Him we’ll reign.

If we disown Him today,

He will have to look away.

Even if we faithless be,

Faithful He’ll remain always.

He cannot disown Himself.

He’s our Lord and Savior, King.

He will reign o’er ev’rything.

Love You, Father, love You, Lord.

Do your best; present yourself

As one who’s approved by God.

Work as one who’s not ashamed;

Rightly share the Word of Truth.

Wander not from what you know.

Destroy not the faith of some.

God’s foundation; it stands firm.

The Lord knows those who are His:

Those who turn from wickedness.

Love You, Father, love You, Lord.

In a house are wood and clay,

Gold and silver, all array.

Some are noble, some are bad –

Cleanse your life, and you’ll be glad;

Useful to the Master’s work.

A pure heart – in righteousness,

Pursue faith and love and peace.

Bad desires you want to flee.

Gentle servant you must be.

http://vimeo.com/117504030

I Discipline My Body

An Original Work / June 11, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Flee Sexual Immorality

1 Corinthians 6:13-20 NKJV

13bNow the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! 16Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” 17But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

18Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Keep the Marriage Bed Pure

When two people (a man and a woman) who profess faith in Jesus Christ unite together in marriage, as husband and wife, the two are to become one flesh. They are no longer to live as though they are single (unmarried). They are no longer to give their hearts and minds and bodies to anyone else in the same manner as they would and should give to their spouses. For “Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.” (Hebrews 13:4 NIV)

But now the adulterer is not just someone who has physical sexual relations with someone to whom they are not married. Jesus taught that “whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart” (see Matthew 5:27-30 NKJV). And the same applies to anyone looking at a man with the full intent to lust after him. So, this is a heart issue, and an issue of what is being allowed to be entertained in the mind, which stems from what is in the heart, which one can act out with oneself.

At Epidemic Proportions

And this is at epidemic proportions within the Christian community, at least here in the USA it is. For so much of what is called “church” has turned a blind eye to this, and they have, instead, embraced it and those who live in it, or else they just choose to overlook it as though it does not exist. And so many of them have now altered the gospel message in order to delete our Lord’s commands that we must deny self, die to sin, and obey our Lord in practice if we want salvation from sin and eternal life with God in heaven.

So, by doing this, they give their followers permission to keep on living in sin, to keep on living in adultery and idolatry and in sexual immorality. And they call that “God’s grace.” But 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 while we wait for our Lord’s return. For Jesus gave his life up for us on that cross to buy us back for God out of our slavery to sin so we will now die to sin and obey our Lord’s commands.

Dust in the Wind

The Lord put in my mind this secular song, “Dust in the Wind,” because it relates to what this writing is about. For the song speaks of dreams passing before one’s eyes with curiosity, but all they are is dust in the wind. And then it goes on to speak of the “same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea. All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind.” And dreams can be sexual fantasies, and curiosity a door to sin, and the “same old song,” addiction.

For “dust in the wind” is a metaphor which suggests that all our earthly ambitions are fleeting and insignificant, especially in the eyes of God, and in view of eternity. So, those who deliberately and habitually commit sexual immorality, are themselves “dust in the wind” as are all their addictive sinful practices, as are all their excuses for why they keep sinning against God and committing adultery against their spouses. And this includes failed attempts at changing if done in the flesh while their hearts not surrendered to God.

The Two One Flesh

Not only did God design the marriage relationship between a husband and a wife that the two should become one flesh, and for them to be faithful and pure in their relationships with one another, to death do them part, but he designed faith in Jesus Christ to be our marriage to Jesus Christ. He is to be our spiritual husband, and we are to be his spiritual bride. And we are to be faithful to him in the same ways in which we should be faithful to our spouses, and we should not be idolaters and adulterers, but pure in heart.

And our bodies are not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and for our spouses. For if we are of faith in Jesus Christ, then our bodies are members of Christ himself. So we are not to take the members of Christ (our bodies) and unite them with “a prostitute,” which can be in one’s mind and heart only, via mental fantasy, or porn, and/or via self-gratification. For our bodies include our minds, our hearts, and our emotions. So when or if you unite your mind and emotions with sexual sin, your sin is against God, and spouse, and self. For you have joined your body with “another lover.”

[Genesis 2:24; Matthew 5:28; Matthew 15:19-20; Matthew 19:9; Mark 7:20-22; Romans 13:9; 1 Corinthians 5:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-20; Galatians 5:13-21; Ephesians 5:1-33; Colossians 3:18-19; 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8; Titus 2:3-5; Hebrews 13:4; 1 Peter 3:1-7; 2 Peter 2:13-19]

He Gives Purpose

An Original Work / June 9, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

“Listen to Me when I’m calling to you.

Obey freely My word.

Follow Me in all of My ways.

Do all that I say.

Hear Me gently whisper to you

My will for your life and future.

Give all of your life and heart to

Follow Me always.”

Repent of your sins and worship Jesus.

He’s your Lord and Master.

He died for your sins so you could

Live with Him today.

He has a plan for your life and

He gives purpose and direction.

He gives meaning to your life,

So follow Him today.

“I love you so much I gave My life for

You to walk in My ways,

Living for Me each day as you

Bow to Me and pray.

Witness for Me of your love for Me and

Of My grace and mercy,

How I died to save you of your

Sins now and always.”

https://vimeo.com/119038798

Flee Sexual Immorality

An Original Work / June 11, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Sexual Immorality Among Us

1 Corinthians 5:1-8 NKJV

“It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! 2And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. 4In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

“6Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. 8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”

The Situation Here

So, what is the situation here? One man, among the fellowship of the believers in Jesus Christ, was in a sexual relationship with his father’s wife, and the church, the body of Christ, was overlooking this situation. They were not doing anything to try to stop the man from doing this and to spare the body of believers in Christ from being influenced by this, either. They were not grieved over this at all. Rather they were proud of their fellowship. And this is what is taking place today, only multiplied over one hundred times.

In our present age, at least here in the USA, sexual immorality is largely being overlooked, ignored entirely, and/or embraced within the gatherings of what are called “the church.” So many pastors are either engaged in sexual immorality themselves, or else they are ignoring and/or are embracing people in their sins while calling what they are doing “grace, love, and compassion.” And “the enemy” are all those who call out these sins and who call for repentance, and who beg the church to obey the Scriptures.

A Personal Example

It is a well known and well documented fact that my husband of 53 years has been addicted to sexual immorality most all of his life. And he has made this fact known publicly, and he is presently writing about his addiction on an internet site called “Substack.” And multiple times I have taken this matter to pastors of “churches” who did nothing about it. In one institutional church the pastor and elders said they did not know how to address this situation, so they just sent him to a counselor who did nothing to help the situation.

In another situation I began to address this with a former pastor of ours, and he immediately stopped me and turned to my husband and asked him if he gave his permission for me to tell him what was going on. So, even though my husband had been addicted to sexual immorality the whole of our marriage, and before that, my husband had to give his permission for me, the one who was being sinned against, to tell about how I was being sinned against. That just is not biblical. And nothing ever came of that, either.

Then, in a third encounter with another pastor, the pastor took the side of my husband and he came against me, instead – me, the one being sinned against, even though I was not the one sinning. And my husband did not support me, and he lied to the pastor. And then my husband continued in his sexual addiction. But the Lord encouraged me to remain with my husband and to set some biblical boundaries for my own protection, which is what I did. And my husband agreed to those boundaries and we remained together.

The Explosion!

Because so much of “the church” is now embracing people in their sin, and they are not calling out sin for what it is, and they are not dealing with sin within the church in a biblical manner, all sin appears to be being generally accepted and not dealt with. And those who are being sinned against are just “out of luck,” so to speak, with no one to stand with them and to help them and to support them. And many people are being faced with either the possibility of just having to put up with it or to leave and to be on their own.

But this is not how it is supposed to be! This is not what God intended, that the church should ignore deliberate and habitual sin among its fellowships and allow such sins as these to fester and to spread throughout the congregation in direct disobedience to the commands of God and at the expense of injuring the possible innocent subjects of such sinful acts. Yet, I believe this is what it has come down to in the vast majority of gatherings called “church” in this day and age, though I believe there are exceptions.

And I believe a big reason why this is taking place is the influence of the world and of “big business” and so much of “the church” partnering with the world and with the government in turning their gatherings into places of business to be marketed to the people of the world. And so they are altering the gospel message to make it less offensive and more appealing to the flesh. And thus they are not calling out sin, and dealing with it biblically, but many are embracing people’s sins and are giving them permission to sin.

God’s Plan and Purpose

But 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).

In Conclusion

So, believe God! Believe the teachings of the Scriptures on the subject of habitual and deliberate sin within the lives of individuals who profess faith in Jesus Christ, and within the gatherings of the church, as a whole. God will judge his church! And he will judge all of us on the day of judgment according to our works (deeds). And many will claim that they knew Jesus and that they did good deeds, but he will say to them, “I never knew you! Depart from me you workers of lawlessness.” So, don’t let that be you!!

Walking in The Light

Based off 1 John 1-2

An Original Work / November 16, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

When I lift up my voice, and sing praise unto God,

I will fellowship with my Lord and Savior, King.

In Him there is no darkness. He is in the light of truth.

If we walk in His light, from sin He purifies.

If we repent of our sins, He’ll forgive us now,

When we humble ourselves, and before Jesus bow.

The man who says, “I know Him,” but does not obey His truth,

There is no truth in him. In darkness still he’s found.

Do not love the world of sin, for it is hell bound.

If you follow the world, you’ll not in Christ be found.

The world and its desires will not last; they’ll expire.

The one who does God’s will, receives eternal life.

See that what you have heard from Christ remains in you.

Then, you’ll remain in Christ, and in His Father, too.

This is what He promised us – His eternal life with God.

So, continue in Him, and you’ll receive a crown.

https://vimeo.com/114160122

Sexual Immorality Among Us

An Original Work / June 11, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

P.S. On Substack, my husband goes by the name, “RecoveringArtificialChristian.” You can read my husband’s Substack posts at https://substack.com/@ricklove51.

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