Who is The Antichrist?

1 John 2:18-23 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“18Children, it is the last hour; and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.

 

“20You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. 21 I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth. 22Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son. 23Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.”

 

The Antichrist

 

What does it mean to be “antichrist”? It means to be against Christ, to be opposed to Him and who He is and why He came to the earth and why He sacrificed himself for us on that cross. It is to reject Him as the Messiah, the Christ, and to reject Him as Lord of one’s life. And this includes many who profess faith in Jesus Christ but who do not obey His commands and who continue living in deliberate and habitual sin against the Lord. They do not know Him, they are not in fellowship with Him, and they do not love Him.

 

So all who do not believe in Jesus Christ as their Messiah, their Savior, their Lord, and their redeemer, who do not bow to Him as Lord of their lives, but for whom self is the god of their lives, they do not know God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit. And all who deny that Jesus is the Christ also deny God the Father. And this includes all Jews who are still claiming the God of their fathers as their God, but who do not accept Jesus Christ as their Messiah, Lord, and Savior. They are antichrist who deny Jesus is the Christ.

 

They Went Out

 

Now, when this says, “They went out from us..”, this is not to be interpreted as anyone who leaves a particular church gathering, and goes somewhere else, that they are antichrist, or that they are backslidden, or that they are living in sin, and that they are out of God’s will. Some of them could be, but some of them could be following the Lord’s commands to come out from among the ungodly, and those who partner with the ungodly who have turned the church into a business to be marketed to the world. See:

 

[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]

 

For so much of what is called “church” today is not the biblical body of Christ gathering together to exhort, encourage, teach, and minister to one another, utilizing their spiritual gifts and their callings of God in their parts of the body to help one another to grow to maturity in Christ in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord. So much of what is called “church” are these businesses of human making being marketed to the people of the world which are diluting the gospel to make it less offensive to the world.

 

So, just because someone professing faith in Jesus Christ departs from a particular “church gathering,” it does not mean that they are backslidden or that they never were truly saved. It may mean the exact opposite of that, for they are obeying God in doing what He commands that we do. For He does not want us to be partners with the world and with the ungodly and with those who are teaching lies and who are teaching a false gospel of salvation. And the church is all who are of genuine faith in Jesus Christ.

 

The Truth

 

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).

 

The Lies vs Truth

 

Many pastors of church congregations are speaking the opposite of what this teaches us above. So many of them have now gone the way of the world and of the flesh and they are catering to the people of the world, and to the ungodly, and so they are teaching that we can be saved and on our way to heaven on a mere verbal confession of Christ as Lord. So many of them are also teaching that God does not require obedience to His commands and that we die with Him to sin (repent). But that is a lie from hell.

 

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).

 

[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]

 

Who is The Antichrist?

An Original Work / November 5, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Magnify Him

 

An Original Work / April 17, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Glory to the Father, and glory to the Son;

Praise the Holy Spirit – our God, the Three in One.

Alpha and Omega, beginning and the end;

Savior, sanctifier, healer, the Amen!

 

Jesus reigns forever; He is the King of kings.

He is our Redeemer, the Lord of everything.

Through His blood He saved us, and brought us victory;

Purifying, our debt buying, so we’re free!

 

Soon He’s coming back for us, to make us His bride.

He asks that we watch ‘til the time when He arrives.

When He comes, what glory then will be ours to share;

Magnify Him when we meet Him in the air!

 

https://vimeo.com/116100199

When God Calls You

When God calls you to obey Him,

Do His will, and not betray Him,

Count the cost, ‘twill not be easy,

Not for fun, and not be breezy.

Not for you, and not for pleasure,

Not so you lay up your treasures,

But so you obey Him freely,

Do His will and not what’s feely.

Go with Him where’re He leads you,

Share with others what He feeds you,

Share the gospel message clearly,

Do all that He says, not nearly.

Persecution what awaits you,

Lies against you, they’ll reject you,

You’ll not fit within their limits,

They’ll not understand your visits.

Flesh of nature thinks of pleasure,

Does not look to God for measure,

Lay up on the earth their treasures,

Time is spent in worldly leisure.

Immature and self-indulgent,

Think of self, and not to solve it,

So the message of the gospel,

They reject it, they are hostile.

Don’t be fearful of their treatment,

Faith in God be in agreement,

Follow Him where’re He leads you,

Do His will and to Him be true.

Faith in Jesus pray that they’ll do,

Turn from their sins, obey Him through,

Follow Him where’re He leads them,

Live for Jesus. Say an Amen!

An Original Work / January 12, 2025

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

They Don't Really Know Him

1 John 2:3-6 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“3By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments. 4If anyone says, ‘I know Him,’ but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him: 6Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.”

 

There are many people in this world of ours, at least there are in the USA, where I live, who profess faith in Jesus Christ with their lips but whose hearts are far from God, for sin is still what they practice and not obedience to God and to His commands. And among them are the malicious, morally impure, deceivers, manipulators, opportunists, liars, the untrustworthy, egocentrics, and fakes who fake their Christianity and who speak lies about what they are really doing behind closed doors when no one else is looking.

 

They may give off the outward impression that they are doing well, and that they are following Jesus with their lives, but they are lying. They have not changed course, but they are still committing the same sins over again, deliberately and habitually. They are still on a moral and ethical decline. And the reason for most of this is their pride. Their pride will not allow them to change course and to humble themselves before God in true repentance and to yield control of their lives over to God. And they are worsening; sinking.

 

Therefore, even though their lips may profess faith in Jesus Christ, and they may even read the Scriptures and attend weekly “church” gatherings, and they may even be church leaders, including the pastors, if they do not obey God’s commands, but they continue in deliberate and habitual sin against God, instead, they are liars if they claim that they are followers of Christ, that they believe in Jesus and in His sacrifice for the sins of the world. For to know God we must obey God and not obey sin, and follow where He leads.

 

1 John 2:15-17 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“15Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world. 17The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.”

 

Now this word “love” is “agape,” which means “to prefer.” Usually it is used in the context of love which comes from God and which prefers what God prefers, which is all that is holy, righteous, honest, faithful, morally pure, upright, and godly. But in this context it is used referring to those who prefer the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life over God, over His commands, and over their marriages, too (for those who are married). And so they continue in deliberate and habitual sin against God.

 

Many of them are addicted to sexual sin and pornography or anything visual, or what is just in their minds or in their memories, which stirs up unnatural and sinful desires within them. For their sexual sin is the true love of their lives – not God and not their spouses (if they are married). For they are the selfish and the self-indulgent who keep returning to the same sins over again. And although sexual sin is probably the most predominant of all, all deliberate and habitual sin against God and refusal to obey God is still preferring the desires of the flesh to God.

 

And one day we are all going to have to stand before God/Jesus Christ, and we will be judged according to our deeds. All those who made professions of faith in Jesus but who did not obey His commands, but who kept on in their sin, will hear from God that He never knew them, and that they are to depart from Him (see Matthew 7:21-23). Only those who have put their trust in the Lord, who have died with Him to sin, and who are obeying Him in life practice, will have the hope of eternal life with God. Take this seriously!

 

[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]

 

They Don’t Really Know Him

An Original Work / November 4, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Tick Tock 

 

An Original Work / May 1, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Tick tock, tick tock, time is a passing.

The time on the clock keeps ticking

While the church is fast a-sleeping.

Satan’s on a rampage

‘Cause his time is running out.

Will you worship God the Father,

God the Son and Holy Spirit?

Will you obey all of His

Commands for you today?

Jesus died to pay your ransom,

So that you could be forgiven.

Won’t you come to Him in truth

And penitently pray to Him?

 

Tick tock, tick tock, time is a wasting.

The cross of our Lord awaits you.

Won’t you come and share His table,

Drink the cup and eat the bread

In memory of Him?

Take a heart examination,

And accept our God’s salvation.

Humbly bow in adoration

And proclaim His name.

He wants for you to believe in

Him who interceded for you

When He died for your sins

And He rose from death in victory.

 

Tick tock, tick tock, time’s end is nearing.

How He longs to take and keep you,

In His arms He wants to hold you,

If you will but come to Him

And call on Him today.

His desire is that you please Him

In all of your life’s ambitions;

Be a living sacrifice

And be transformed today.

Let Christ’s love and grace sustain you,

And His promises prepare you

For His soon return to earth

To gather all His saints to Him.

 

https://vimeo.com/119270762

Don't Believe The Liars

1 John 1:1-10 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“1That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life. 2And this is the life that was revealed; we have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us.

 

“3We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ. 4We write these things so that our joy may be complete.

 

“5And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. 6If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7Butb if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

 

“8If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.”

 

Jesus Christ is God

 

God is Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – one God in three persons. And God the Father sent His only begotten son to the earth to be born as a baby to a virgin woman, conceived of the Holy Spirit, and not of man. So Jesus was not born with a sin nature as we are, and He never sinned, even though He was tempted in like manner as we are tempted. And when Jesus was about 30 years old He began His earthly ministry with 12 disciples, most all of whom also became His apostles after His death and resurrection.

 

And His apostles were given the responsibility to share the message of the gospel with the people of the world and to help the believers in Christ to learn the teachings of Christ and His commands so that they would now walk in the ways of the Lord and no longer as slaves to sin. They proclaimed to the people what they had seen and heard as a testimony of Jesus Christ and who He is and what He did for us in giving His life up for us on that cross so that they might have fellowship (partnership, participation) with Him.

 

False Images of Christ

 

Whereas the apostles of Christ gave a true picture of who Christ is and was, and of His purpose in giving His life up for us on that cross, we have many false shepherds of the people today who are teaching lies to the people and who are misrepresenting who Christ really was/is and what He taught and His purpose in giving His life for us on that cross. Many are saying that He is not God, but the Scriptures teach that He is, and they are saying He does not require death to sin and obedience to God’s commands, but He does!

 

They have altered His character to make Him more socially acceptable, and they have altered His gospel message to make it more acceptable to the ungodly and to human flesh. They are, in essence, dismissing the biblical Jesus in favor of a friendlier and more tolerant of sin Jesus who pacifies the professers of faith in Christ in their sins. They have made Jesus into someone who is teaching what He did not teach, tolerating deliberate and habitual sin and disobedience in the lives of those who call Him “Lord.”

 

Darkness and Light

 

But the message the apostles heard from Christ, and that they announced to the people, was a different gospel from what is being so popularized today. For they let the people know that if we claim that we are in fellowship (relationship, participation) with Christ (with God), but yet we walk (in conduct, in practice) in darkness (sin, wickedness), we are liars who do not live by (practice) the truth. For we must walk (in conduct, in life practice) in the truth which comes from Christ to have fellowship with Christ and with one another and to have the blood of Jesus cleansing us from all sin.

 

And 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. And this is what “walking in the light” looks like for followers of Christ. 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).

 

If We Confess

 

This word “confess,” from a biblical perspective, has to do with agreeing with God and what He says about our sins and what we need to do to be cleansed of our sins and to have eternal life with God. So this is not just a verbal declaration or acknowledgement that one has sinned against God, but this has to do with agreeing with what God says about our sin, which must then result in us dying with Him to sin and now following Him in obedience to His commands in life practice. For if sin continues to be our practice, and not obedience to God, then we are deceived and we are not forgiven our sins.

 

So don’t believe the liars and their lies, i.e. all who are saying that if you just profess Jesus as Lord, or if you just give a verbal acknowledgement that you sinned against Him, that you are now saved of all sins and on your way to heaven. 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 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]

 

Don’t Believe The Liars

An Original Work / November 4, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer

 

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897

Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

 

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,

This is my constant longing and prayer;

Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,

Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

 

Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,

Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,

Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,

Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

 

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,

Holy and harmless, patient and brave;

Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,

Willing to suffer others to save.

 

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,

Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;

Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,

Fit me for life and Heaven above.

 

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,

Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;

Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;

Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrYhiK2nQBg

 

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Be On Your Guard

The Context

 

The context of this is the last days before the return of Christ. There will be people who will scoff at the promise of the return of Christ because He has not yet returned for His bride. But we read in 2 Peter 3 that with the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. And the reason our Lord still has not returned for His bride, and to judge the earth, is because He is patient, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance. And I give an Amen to that one. I feel the same way.

 

2 Peter 3:14-18 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“14Therefore, beloved, as you anticipate these things, make every effort to be found at peace—spotless and blameless in His sight.

 

“15Consider also that our Lord’s patience brings salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom God gave him. 16He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

 

“17Therefore, beloved, since you already know these things, be on your guard so that you will not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure standing. 18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.”

 

Be Ready

 

Don’t take for granted Jesus’ slowness in not yet returning to the earth to judge the earth, and the people of the earth, and to take His faithful bride to be with Him for eternity, and then assume that you can keep on in deliberate and habitual sin and it won’t be counted against you. Instead, make every effort to be found at peace with God – spotless and blameless in His sight. And how do we do that? By God-persuaded faith in Jesus we deny self, die to sin, and now follow our Lord in obedience to His commands in holy living.

 

Patience Brings Salvation

 

The longer Jesus takes to come back, the more opportunity there is for the people of this earth to be delivered out of their bondage to sin and to now serve the Lord Jesus Christ with their lives in obedience to His commands. And I am almost certain that most of us have someone in our lives who we love dearly who has not yet surrendered their lives to Christ to obey Him and to turn from their sins. So our prayer is for their salvation, for we grieve over the idea that one day they might end up in hell for lack of faith in Christ.

 

Paul’s Letters

 

The apostle Paul was not one of those preachers who said what people’s itching ears wanted to hear so that they would like him. He did not have the “gift” of charm, from what I understand, but he spoke directly and frankly to the people in letting them know what God requires of us all who profess the name of Jesus. He was loving. He was kind. But he definitely was not a people pleaser, and he did not soften the truth of the gospel to make people feel good. He did not withhold the truth so as to not hurt people’s feelings.

 

Paul wrote with the wisdom God gave Him even if the people rejected him, persecuted him, mistreated him, stoned him, and falsely imprisoned him, etc. Why? Because He loved God, He obeyed God. And because He believed God’s Word, and He knew if the people did not repent and obey God they would end up in hell, and not heaven, he spoke truth. For he cared more about their salvation from sin than whether or not they would approve of him. And I share what I share with you each day for the same reasons.

 

Do You Know?

 

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 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).

 

If You Do

 

Knowing the truth of what God’s word teaches and doing what His word teaches we must do are not one and the same. There are a lot of people professing faith in Jesus Christ who have head knowledge about Jesus and about His requirements of us who profess His name, and some of them are pastors of church congregations, too. But faith in Jesus is not just in the knowing, but it is in the doing. So if we do not repent (turn from) our sins and obey God, in practice, 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]

 

Be On Your Guard

An Original Work / November 3, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Blessed Be Your Name

 

by Matt Redman

 

Blessed Be Your Name

In the land that is plentiful

Where Your streams of abundance flow

Blessed be Your name

 

Blessed Be Your name

When I'm found in the desert place

Though I walk through the wilderness

Blessed Be Your name

 

Every blessing You pour out

I'll turn back to praise

When the darkness closes in, Lord

Still I will say

 

Blessed be the name of the Lord

Blessed be Your name

Blessed be the name of the Lord

Blessed be Your glorious name

 

Blessed be Your name

When the sun's shining down on me

When the world's 'all as it should be'

Blessed be Your name

 

Blessed be Your name

On the road marked with suffering

Though there's pain in the offering

Blessed be Your name …

 

You give and take away

You give and take away

My heart will choose to say

Lord, blessed be Your name

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw4H5t3TwHM

 

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Are You Paying Attention?

Are you paying attention to what’s all around?

To the climate, the people, and even the clowns?

Are you listening for words that not even yet said?

Are you waiting for God, or now going ahead?

 

Does it matter to you if the truth is not told?

Is the truth what you want or to lies do you hold?

Is the truth what you speak? In your witness you’re bold?

Or your witness for Christ you’ve snuffed out ‘cause you’re cold?

 

What’s your fortitude now? With what grace do you speak?

Are you living for Christ? Or to sin do you sneak?

What’s your attitude now about life, what you seek?

Is your purpose to please God each day of the week?

 

What’s your thinking right now ‘bout why God put you here?

Is your purpose in life to your Lord to be near?

Do you want to please Him in all things that you do?

Or is pleasing your Lord something that you undo?

 

It’s important that we pay attention to this,

What’s going on in the world, the times which we live,

What the Scriptures do teach about all these last days,

For the future one day will go up in a blaze.

 

So repent of your sins, obey God, His commands,

Put your faith in the Lord, on His Word now depend.

Walk with Him now each day, go with Him where He leads,

Share the Gospel with others, and their needs do meet.

 

An Original Work / January 10, 2025

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Who Ought We To Be?

2 Peter 3:8-13 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“8Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.

 

“10But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.

 

“11Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to conduct yourselves in holiness and godliness 12as you anticipate and hasten the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will be destroyed by fire and the elements will melt in the heat. 13But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.”

 

With The Lord

 

God is not on our timetable, but we are to be on His. He (Jesus/God) could return at any moment, or not for a long time. And so we must live today as though this moment could be our last moment on this earth. And we should continue in Christ and in His love and mercy, in obedience to His commands, as though today could be our last. We must not assume that just because He has not yet returned for His bride that He could not return today, or that we could not die today. We should not ever take His patience for granted.

 

God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – is patient with us, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance. But this is not saying that all will come to repentance and that none will perish if God waits long enough. The Scriptures are very clear on that subject that if we do not surrender our lives to the Lord, die to sin, and obey God and His commands, in life practice, but if we continue in deliberate and habitual sin in disobedience to His commands, we will not inherit eternal life with Him.

 

The Day of The Lord

 

There is coming a day when Jesus will return to gather His faithful bride to be with Him for eternity and to judge those who refused Him. And those who refuse Him include many (perhaps multitudes of) people who profess faith in Jesus Christ with their lips but who live their lives for the sinful pleasures of the flesh, instead. On that day they will hear Him say: “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.” And “I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!” Take Heed! (see Matthew 7:21-23)

 

Who Ought We To Be?

 

Knowing that one day our Lord is going to return to judge the earth and the people who live on the earth, and that only those whose lives are given over to the Lord to obey Him, and to no longer live as slaves to sin, will have eternal life with God, we ought to be those who, by the grace of God, conduct ourselves in holiness and godliness, in the power of God, by faith in Jesus Christ. Lying, cheating, stealing, committing adultery, unfaithfulness, disloyalty, and all sexual immorality, etc., are to be put out of our lives.

 

And now we are to live holy lives, pleasing to God. Our lives are to be surrendered to the Lord, and He is now to be ruler of our lives, and not ourselves. We don’t get to determine our own steps, but we now follow the leading of the Lord in who we are and in what we do and say. This doesn’t mean we will do everything perfectly, or that we will never fail (see 1 John 2:1-2), but that we should no longer be walking in sin living in disobedience to God, but now our Lord should be the true master of our lives.

 

[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]

 

Who Ought We To Be?

An Original Work / November 3, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

As the Deer

 

By Martin J. Nystrom

Based off Psalm 42:1

 

As the deer panteth for the water

So my soul longeth after You

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

 

You alone are my strength, my shield

To You alone may my spirit yield

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

 

[A Prayer of Devotion to God Alone]