The Wrath of The Lamb

Revelation 6:12-17 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“12And I watched as the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red, 13and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind. 14The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

 

15Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. 17For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”

 

Their Religion of Choice

 

In my nation (the USA), many people profess faith in Jesus Christ, i.e. they refer to themselves as Christians. But not all who profess to be Christians are living a Christian life. For some, it is just a title, or it is their religion of choice, or something they grew up under, but not something they live by in daily practice. For many, they “believed” in Jesus via a false gospel message which did not teach them that faith in Jesus requires that we deny self, die to sin daily, and walk (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to his commands.

 

For many, it is just their religion of choice, and rituals that they perform (or not), and something they do weekly by habit, by culture, but it is not their lifestyle. It is not what they live by day in and day out. It is a title that they wear, but it has no meaning behind it. And it can be just for show, to make an impression on others, but not something lived out day by day. So, not everyone who claims Christianity as their religion of choice is living out the Christian life in daily practice. Sadly, for many, it is just a title they wear.

 

The Morally Unclean

 

And then we have those who are opportunists, who are malicious, morally unclean, deceivers, manipulators, liars, and the untrustworthy who fake their Christianity to impress others, or so they will be accepted in certain environments, or in order to deceive, manipulate, use and abuse, and mislead others with regard to what the Scriptures actually teach it looks like if we are genuine followers of Christ. For they are charlatans or “wolves in sheep’s clothing” whose goal it is to deceive, mislead, and to teach lies.

 

And some of them are pastors and elders of “church” congregations. And some of them are political figures who claim to be Christians but who are living the opposite of what the Christian life is all about. And some of them are just ordinary everyday people who want to give a good impression to others, so that they will be liked and accepted, but who secretly engage in all sorts of evil, especially in the area of sexual immorality, idolatry, and adultery. And so they tell lies, by habit, to cover up their sinful practices.

 

But God Will Judge

 

Those who are morally unclean, who fake their Christianity in order to impress and/or to deceive others, and/or those for whom sin is still what they practice, for they keep going back to the same sins over again, and for whom obedience to our Lord’s commands is not what they practice, they will one day have to face the wrath of God, and God will judge them. And all who claimed Jesus as Lord, but did not die to sin and obey God’s commands, in practice, they will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God.

 

Sadly, many professing Christians are ignoring this reality, and they are continuing in their sin and in disobedience to our Lord, by habit, and some of them are relying on false hopes of salvation from sin and eternal life with God based off lip service to God alone. But the Scriptures make it quite clear to us, if we will read them and believe what they teach, that if sin is what we practice, by habit, and not obedience to our Lord’s commands, that we will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. Take this to heart!

 

[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 Wrath of The Lamb

An Original Work / July 22, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Just Are You 

 

Based off Revelation 15-16

An Original Work / August 26, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Great and marvelous are Your deeds, O God.

Just and true Your ways, King of all the earth.

Who will not fear You; glorify Your name?

You are righteousness. Praise Your Name!

 

Just are You, O Lord, our Eternal ONE,

For You judge the earth in Your righteousness.

They have shed the blood of Your righteous ones.

You give their reward. They’re to blame!

 

Kings of all the earth gather, one accord;

Make haste to engage in a mighty war.

They oppose the Lord and His holy saints.

They serve wickedness, to their shame!

 

Jesus comes again, to some unforeseen.

Blessed are those who wait for Him at the gate.

They’ll not be ashamed. “Glad” be their refrain.

When He comes again, He’ll remain!

 

https://vimeo.com/115579013

Time is Not on Our Side

Time, it is not on our side.

Days are passing, passing by.

Wars are raging, people praying,

Folks betraying, to sin straying.

 

Sin, it is not put to death,

E’en by folks at their last breath.

Worldliness is on the rise

Taught by preachers in disguise.

 

“Church,” it is a social bee

Based on so much vanity.

People talking, not much walking

With the Lord. The truth they’re balking.

 

Folks are living in their sin,

Not to Christ will they give in.

Sin’s addiction has its pull

On the ones who live like fools.

 

World, it’s going all to hell,

Many people in its spell –

Follow leaders who lies feed us.

They deceive us, their sins grieve us.

 

Rulers lying through their teeth,

Blaming others their sins heed,

Casting blame on innocents

With the stories they invent.

 

Time to wake up to it all,

See the writing on the wall.

Bible tells us if sin dwells us

Heaven’s gates not open to us.

 

So repent of sin today,

Flee from sin, Christ now obey.

Walk with Him in fellowship

Until you breathe your last breath.

 

An Original Work / July 21, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Laodicean Church of Today

Because You are Lukewarm

 

Revelation 3:14-16 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“14To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Originator of God’s creation. 15I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other! 16So because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of My mouth!”

 

This is speaking of someone who is not totally opposed to God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – but who is not on fire (enthusiastic) for him, either. Lukewarm, thus, is to be in a state of inactivity with regard to a walk of faith in obedience to the Lord, halfhearted, indifferent, and apathetic. And the lukewarm can be people who know the Scriptures, who even teach the Scriptures, and who profess some of the truths of the Scriptures verbally to others, but who do not live what they teach. For they are spiritually absent.

 

And God is not okay with that, as some people would have some of you believing. He is not okay with you just going through the motions of religious practice while you ignore his commands and you do what your flesh desires and craves, instead. And this is why he said, “I am about to vomit you out of my mouth.” And, sadly, this is where many professing Christians are today, giving lip service to the Lord, but still living to please the flesh in sinful practices and not in walks of obedience to God in surrender to his will.

 

You Say, “I Need Nothing!”

 

Revelation 3:17-19 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“17You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. 18I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. 19Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.”

 

Many people who have professed faith in Jesus Christ are of the belief, since they prayed the prayer to receive Christ, or they made a public confession of Jesus as Lord, while claiming to believe in his bodily death and resurrection, that nothing more is required of them. For many are being taught and are believing that God does not require of them that they repent of (turn from) their sins and that they obey God and his commands, in life practice. For they call that “works salvation.” But repentance and obedience are required.

 

So, the writers of the Scriptures, who wrote under the inspiration of God, taught us what is necessary for salvation from sin and eternal life with God, and what all God requires of us in thought, word, and deed. And they taught us to put off all wickedness, sexual immorality, lying, cheating, stealing, committing adultery, unfaithfulness, and the like, and to live self-controlled, upright, morally pure, honest, and faithful lives in Christ Jesus in obedience to his commands, or we will not be saved nor have eternal life with God.

 

Jesus is Standing at the Door

 

Revelation 3:20-22 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“20Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me. 21To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. 22He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

 

Now, this writing was addressed to the church in Laodicea. So, at one time they were those who put their faith in Jesus Christ or they wouldn’t be called “the church.” Some people believe this is a reference to the apostate church, i.e. to defectors (deserters) of the faith in the last days, which makes sense. But then some of them believe that they are beyond repentance. But if that were so, Jesus would not be knocking at their door and inviting them into pure fellowship with him as their only Lord and Master. So there is still hope!

 

Some people ask, well if they are regarded as one of the churches, why is Jesus standing outside the door knocking? I believe they began as true believers but over time they got lazy, and slothful, and got captivated by the world, and eventually they shut Jesus out and pushed the Holy Spirit right out of their gatherings. Sadly, it seems that is where the majority of what are called “churches” here in the USA are presently. For so many are now partnered with the world and are feeding the flesh, and are not obeying God.

 

So, please be aware that the Scriptures do not teach that we can “believe” in Jesus and then keep living however we want, in sinful addiction, living to please the flesh and not God. What they teach emphatically is that we must, by faith in Jesus Christ, which comes from God, deny self, die to sin daily, and follow our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands, as a matter of life practice. For if sin is what we practice, deliberately and habitually, we will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. God’s Word Says!

 

[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 Laodicean Church of Today

An Original Work / July 21, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Laodicea 

 

Based off of Revelation 3:14-22

An Original Work / April 29, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Laodicea, Laodicea, I’m calling you.

You hear Me calling, you hear Me calling. I’m calling you.

Will you not answer? Will you not answer? I’m calling you.

If you but follow, if you but follow, I’ll answer you.

Won’t you give Me your heart and your soul,

So I can cleanse you and make you whole?

Laodicea, Laodicea, I’m calling you.

If you will answer, if you will answer, I’ll come to you.

 

I stand at your door; I stand at your door. I’m knocking there.

Will you not listen? Will you not listen, while I’ll be there?

If you’ll but open, if you’ll but open your hearts to Me,

I’ll come within you, I’ll come within you, you’ll sup with Me.

Won’t you buy from Me some gold and salve?

These costly treasures are yours to have.

Laodicea, Laodicea, I’m calling you.

If you will answer, if you will answer, I’ll come to you.

 

Are you contented; are you contented to be lukewarm?

Will you not have Me? Will you not have Me? Of this I warn –

If you don’t hear Me, if you don’t hear Me, and so obey,

I will spit you out; I will spit you out without delay.

So why not heed this, your final call,

And give to God absolutely all?

Laodicea, Laodicea, I’m calling you.

If you will answer, if you will answer, I’ll come to you.

 

https://vimeo.com/112738953

The One Who Overcomes

Open and Closed Doors

 

Revelation 3:7 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“7To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.”

 

These (above) are the words of Jesus Christ. He is the one who is holy and true. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. So if a door has closed for you that was once open, and it does not reopen, God allowed it for his purposes. Don’t try to force it to reopen. If the Lord opened a different door for you, and that door is clearly from God, then as long as the Lord wants you there, and he can use you there, that door will remain open, even if there are attempts of the enemy to close that door.

 

And we are not speaking here of physical doors that you open and close to buildings or to houses, but this has to do with opportunities for the Lord to use you to minister to others, and to their needs, and to be a witness for him, perhaps “to the regions beyond” (a reference to a hymn by A.B. Simpson and M.M. Simpson, based off Matthew 28:19). And if a door was shut on you previously, even more than one, not only can God open other doors for you, but he may reopen a door previously closed, in his timing.

 

God Knows our Deeds

 

Revelation 3:8-9 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“8I know your deeds. Behold, I have placed before you an open door, which no one can shut. I know that you have only a little strength, yet you have kept My word and have not denied My name. 9As for those who belong to the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are liars instead, I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will know that I love you.”

 

Jesus knows who are his, by biblical faith in him, and who are not for him, even if they profess to be. And he knows all about us, who we are, what we are thinking, and what we are doing. Nothing is hidden from his sight. So, if we have been serving him with our lives faithfully, and if we have been facing much rejection and persecution because we stand on the truth of the Scriptures, and we do not embrace the lies of the enemy, he knows what we are going through. And he knows if we have persevered even in our trials.

 

And Jesus knows who are faking it, who claim to be followers of Christ, but who are still of the flesh, and not of God. He can see right through the façade. He knows who is speaking truth to the people and who is teaching the lies of the enemy. They may be fooling some or a lot of people, but they can’t fool God. And they will have “their day in court” when they will have to give an account to God/Jesus Christ for their lies and for faking Christianity. And God may one day humble them before those who they had persecuted.

 

The Hour of Testing

 

Revelation 3:10-13 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“10Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. 11I am coming soon. Hold fast to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. 12The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name. 13He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

 

I believe that verse 10 here is often misinterpreted to suggest that God will remove all people from the earth who profess his name before the time of tribulation to come upon the earth. And it all comes down to that word translated as “from.” The Greek word literally means “out from within,” which would indicate they would still be on the earth during the time of tribulation, but that God would keep all who are genuinely following him secure in their faith and that he would strengthen them to persevere even in severe trial.

 

For we read in Revelation 11 that the nations (includes the political nation called “Israel”) will trample the “holy city” for 42 months. Physical Jerusalem is no longer the “holy city” of God. We who believe in Jesus Christ to be our Lord and Savior are that “holy city” now (see Galatians 4:22-31). And we read in Revelation 13 that the beast will be permitted to wage war against the saints, and this is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints. And in Revelation 14 it also calls for the perseverance of the saints in tribulation.

 

[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] 

 

So, we are to be those who hold fast to our faith and to not let the enemy of our souls dishearten us to the point to where we desert the faith, for we are not promised an easy life on this earth. We are promised that, as Christ’s followers, that we will be hated and persecuted as he was, and that many of us will be martyred for our faith. We are to expect to have to go through trials and tribulations which test our faith and that we will be persecuted for righteousness’ sake. But we must keep the faith or salvation will not be ours.

 

[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 One Who Overcomes

An Original Work / July 21, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

My Prayer 

 

An Original Work / May 30, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

“Fill me with Your Spirit; help me to love others;

Let me know Your power; be an overcomer.

Show me how to follow Jesus Christ, my Savior;

Be His faithful servant to obey Him always.

 

“Lead me with Your presence; help me know the right way;

Teach me love and kindness, generous compassion.

Give me grace and courage to be Jesus’ witness,

Teaching His salvation to a world who needs Him.”

 

Won’t you come and follow Jesus Christ, your Savior?

He died so you’d be free of control of your sin;

Free to follow His ways in complete surrender;

Living sacrifices – let His grace transform you.

 

https://vimeo.com/122052093

A Reputation for Being Alive

Revelation 3:1-6 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“1To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of the One who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation for being alive, yet you are dead. 2Wake up and strengthen what remains, which is about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God. 3Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.

 

“4But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white. 5Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels. 6He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

 

Mostly Dead

 

So, what do you believe it looks like today for the church (the body of Christ) to have a reputation for being alive, yet they are dead (or mostly dead)? I believe it depends on the times in which we live and the culture in which we live and who is giving the reputation to “the church.” For, in the times in which we now live, if “the church” has a reputation of being “alive,” it often has to do with being fun and entertaining and exciting with all kinds of activities and social engagements for the family, more than anything else.

 

But if the “reputation” has to do with what God values, and if “the church” is promoting themselves as God-honoring people who teach the truth of the gospel, but what they teach and how they live is opposite of that, by the majority, then this has to do with having a reputation of being spiritually alive, according to the Scriptures, but in reality they are primarily spiritually dead, for they do not adhere to the teachings of the Scriptures in practice, and in whole, but perhaps only little or in part only, thus teaching part lies.

 

Wake Up!

 

So, if the gatherings of the church (some or many of them) are “mostly dead,” because there is still a part that remains that needs to be strengthened, which is about to die, then what should that look like for them to “wake up”? What do they need to wake up from? They need to wake up from the spell they are under which is leading them to believe and to act on  so many of the lies being taught, and they need to start believing and living the truth of God’s word and teaching it to others, in obedience to the Lord.

 

So much of what is called “church” in our culture here in the USA is not the biblical body of Christ operating under the authority of Jesus Christ according to the teachings of the Scriptures. Probably most of them are incorporated under (partnered with) the state (the government), and with the world and they are businesses being run like other businesses, being marketed to the world. And so they cater to the felt needs of the ungodly, and they alter the gospel message to make it less offensive to the people of the world.

 

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

 

Few, I would presume, literally operate as the biblical body of Christ, with Jesus Christ as the true head of his body, under the authority of God and of the Scriptures taught in their correct biblical context. For, as the body, Christ is to be our only head, and his word is what is to be what we follow and put into practice, and not the marketing schemes of men intended to attract the world. And each of us who are following the Lord are to have a part in these gatherings in building one another up to maturity in our faith in Christ Jesus.

 

Few People

 

“13Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.” (Matthew 7:13-14).

 

In our world today it appears that the majority of professing Christians are still habitually sinning against the Lord, living for the flesh, feeding their minds and hearts with the things of this world, and they are not those whose lives are surrendered to Jesus Christ, to doing his will, to obeying his commands, and to living holy and morally pure lives pleasing to God, in the power of God. For so much of “the church” is teaching them that obedience to God and death to sin (biblical repentance) are not required for salvation.

 

But the Scriptures teach that if we do not deny self, die to sin, and obey our Lord’s commands, as a matter of life practice (not necessarily in absolute perfection), but if sin and disobedience to our Lord’s commands are still what we practice, by habit, deliberately, then we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. Only those who walk with Jesus in white, in purity of heart and mind and lifestyle in devotion to the Lord and to his commands, in his power, in life practice, will not be blotted out from the Book of Life.

 

[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 Reputation for Being Alive

An Original Work / July 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Return to Me

 

Based off Jeremiah 31; Cf. Revelation 2-3

An Original Work / September 5, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

I have loved you with an eternal love,

Which I give to you, in my faithfulness.

 

Keep your voice from weeping,

And your eyes from tearing.

You will be rewarded

With much fruitfulness.

 

There is hope for you that My family

Will return to Me; live in victory!

 

Though I discipline in My love for you,

My heart longs for you that you walk in truth.

 

Turn your thoughts to your Lord.

Choose to walk in His ways.

Turn from your sins daily.

Follow Jesus Christ.

 

Oh, how long will you wander in your sin?

Give your hearts to Me; be restored within.

 

I will satisfy ev’ry weary soul

Who repents of sin; is renewed within.

 

Behold, days are coming;

It will surely happen;

Though I discipline them,

They will thrive again.

 

I will be their One and their Only God.

They shall walk in white; be in Me, made right.

 

https://vimeo.com/115536688

The Church Tolerating Sexual Sin

Being Misled to Sexual Immorality

 

Revelation 2:18-21 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“18To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like a blazing fire and whose feet are like polished bronze. 19I know your deeds—your love, your faith, your service, your perseverance—and your latest deeds are greater than your first.

 

“20But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols. 21Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.”

 

We live in a day and time when addictive sin, especially that of sexual immorality, is largely being tolerated in today’s market-driven institutional “churches” which are of the flesh of man, and not of God. And this is not speaking only of the MEGA churches, but of all gatherings of the church, the body of Christ, which have incorporated (joined, merged, combined) with the state (the government) and with the world in unholy unions, which God forbids. The majority of them appear to be pacifying and tolerating sin.

 

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

 

Sadly, and I just read some recent statistics on this subject, it appears that around 80% of Christian men, and about 40% of Christian women are engaged in viewing pornography. I think it was 50% or greater, the number of pastors who engage in pornography. But it isn’t just that they all engage in the viewing of porn on a somewhat habitual or consistent basis, but this has been accepted among many pastors and church fellowships as the norm, it would appear, from what I just read, and which I have also observed.

 

A Call of God to Repent

 

Revelation 2:22-23 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“22Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds. 23Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.”

 

So God is, and has been for a long time, calling out to the church, to all who profess faith in Jesus Christ who are sinning willfully and habitually against God, to repent of all known sins in their lives and to submit to the will and purpose of God for our lives. For God will judge his adulterous people for their sins of adultery and idolatry and disobedience to our Lord’s commands, in life practice. And those who refuse to repent, and who choose their sins over God, they will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God.

 

Those Who Obey God

 

Revelation 2:24-25 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“24But I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned the so-called deep things of Satan: I will place no further burden upon you 25than to hold fast to what you have until I come.”

 

But thank the Lord, not all who profess faith in Jesus Christ are still living in sin, doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, as a matter of life practice. Even if we once did, we have denied self, died to sin (repented of our sin), and we are now living to please God in walks of obedience to his commands, as a matter of life practice, yet not necessarily in absolute perfection. But lack of perfection is never to be used as an excuse for deliberate and habitual sin against the Lord which will face the judgment of God.

 

So the encouragement to all of us here who are not habitually and deliberately yielding to sin’s control, but who are walking by faith in obedience to our Lord, in his power, strength, and wisdom, is that we are to continue in our walks of surrender to the Lord until Jesus returns and he takes his faithful bride to be with him for eternity. We are not to waver in opinion, going back and forth between sin and obedience, but we are to remain steadfast in obedience until our Lord returns to take us home.

 

The Church Tolerating Sexual Sin

An Original Work / July 20, 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

Where the Throne of Satan Sits

Revelation 2:12-15 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“12To the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These are the words of the One who holds the sharp, double-edged sword. 13I know where you live, where the throne of Satan sits, yet you hold fast to My name. You did not deny your faith in Me, even in the days of My faithful witness Antipas, who was killed among you where Satan dwells.

 

“14But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality. 15In the same way, some of you also hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.”

 

They Hold Fast to Christ

 

I live in the USA. I am pretty well informed of the spiritual condition of the church at large in my nation and how it parallels the church in Pergamum. From what I have read, observed, and experienced over my 76 years of life in various states and cities and church gatherings within my nation, I would venture to say that the minority fits the first paragraph while the majority fits with the description in the second paragraph. Those who hold fast to the name (character) of Jesus, and who do not deny him are in the minority.

 

Few, it seems are teaching what Jesus taught as the gospel of salvation:

 

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).

 

They Teach the People Lies

 

So, what is meant here by some of them held to the teaching of Balaam and of the Nicolaitans? What they taught is what is so popularly being taught in the majority of what are called “churches” in the USA today. They taught spiritual and moral compromise. For they gave permission to those who professed faith in Jesus Christ to continue in deliberate and habitual sin and to participate in what is sexually immoral. For they taught that the people did not have to repent of their sins or obey God, in practice, as a requirement of God for salvation from sin and for eternal life with God.

 

Or, if they teach repentance and obedience to God, many teach it as recommended but as optional. For they pervert the grace of God into a license to keep sinning. They teach that God’s grace forgives their sins but does not require that they die to sin and obey God in practice. Few teach that we must die to sin and obey God as believing faith which saves and which promises eternal life with God. 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 (see Titus 2:11-14).

 

Revelation 2:16-17 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“16Therefore repent! Otherwise I will come to you shortly and wage war against them with the sword of My mouth. 17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.”

 

Repent, or Else!

 

The New Testament Scriptures, under the New Covenant (and Jesus taught the New Covenant), teach us that faith in Jesus Christ comes from God, it is gifted to us by God, it is not of our own doing, not of our own flesh, but it is persuaded (convinced) of God as to his righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need (and God’s requirement) that we deny self, die to sin daily, and follow our Lord in surrender to his will and in obedience to his commands, by his grace and in his power. But if we refuse, and we continue in sin and in disobedience, we will not inherit eternal life with God.

 

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

 

Where the Throne of Satan Sits

An Original Work / July 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Seek the Lord 

 

Based off Isaiah 55

An Original Work / July 20, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Musical Instrumentation by Mark Bradley

 

“Come to Me all you who thirst; come to waters.

Listen to Me, and eat what’s good today,

And your soul will delight in richest of fare.

Give ear to Me, and you will live.

I have made an eternal covenant with you.

Wash in the blood of the Lamb.”

 

Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him.

Let the wicked forsake his way, in truth.

Let him turn to the Lord, and he will receive mercy.

Freely, God pardons him.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways,”

declares the Lord, our God.

 

“My word that goes out of My mouth is truthful.

It will not return to Me unfulfilled.

My word will accomplish all that I desire,

And achieve the goal I intend.

You will go in joy and be led forth in peace.

The mountains will burst into song… before you,

And all of the trees clap their hands.”

 

https://vimeo.com/379408296