The Bread of Sincerity and Truth

1 Corinthians 5:1-8 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife. 2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

“3Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present. 4When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus, 5hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

“6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough? 7Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.”

Then and Now

That was then. This is now. So what does this look like today in probably the majority of institutional “churches” which are partnered with the world and with the government? What usually takes place when a woman, for example, reports to the pastor and/or to the elders that her husband is cheating on her, and that he is committing adultery against her as a matter of habit, and that he appears to not be willing to give up his sexual addiction? And addiction to pornography and to self-gratification is still biblical adultery.

From what I have read and heard and understand and have seen take place myself, few if any are dealing with sexual addiction in a biblical manner. Some church congregations are hosting small groups for addicts where they get to share with each other about their addictions and where they are supposed to be encouraging one another toward freedom from addiction. But so many of these are not being done biblically, via the Scriptures, but so many are following worldly measures which end up pampering the addicts.

Modern Psychology

So many are also utilizing modern psychology where often the take on it is that the “addicts” cannot help themselves, and so they are not responsible for their sins. Or they will tell the addict who is obviously stating that he is vegging out on porn that he should just “claim who you are in Christ,” which follows a list of qualities of those “in Christ,” some of which are biblical if taught in the correct biblical context, and some of which are not biblical. For to be “in Christ,” we die with Christ to sin and we obey our Lord in practice.

But this does not mean that a genuine follower of Christ is not ever capable of such sins. All of us are still susceptible to being tempted to sin, and we might sin, and we may have even had a time of “fall-out” at some point in our lives where we needed to be brought back to repentance and to walks of obedience to our Lord. But as followers of Christ, sin is no longer to be our habit, our practice, but now obedience to our Lord is to be our practice. And habitual sexual immorality should be dealt with biblically, and not ignored.

Worldly Measures

I believe that the church gatherings, overall, but not including all of the gatherings, are more like this church congregation in Corinth where the people are proud of their church gatherings and who appear unconcerned about the man in an adulterous and incestual relationship with his father’s wife. With so many of them now following the ways of the world, diluting the gospel message, and trying to attract the ungodly to their gatherings, they are choosing to not “rock the boat” and to not confront people in their sin.

But this is not just one man with one woman. Statistics have it at 75% or greater of Christian men are presently engaged in the use of porn on a somewhat regular basis, including about 50% of them being pastors of church congregations, and which includes about that many women, and then children, too. This has become epidemic, not only in our culture, but within the gatherings of the church. And so many pastors will not touch this subject, and so many of them are giving them permission to keep sinning.

God’s Solution

Now the solution that the people were being encouraged to do in that time was to expel the sinful man from their congregation in order to bring him to his senses. But this was in the whole city of Corinth. This was the church in Corinth which probably met in multiple locations. So they all had to agree together and to cooperate with one another in not allowing this man back into their gatherings until he had demonstrated genuine repentance, which did eventually take place. But what about today? In the USA where I live?

In today’s world, if you actually expelled from your congregations those living in sexual immorality habitually, it probably would take out many of the pastors, elders, deacons, and Bible study teachers, along with a good portion of the total congregation. Or if it was a fewer number, they would just leave and go someplace else where they teach a watered down gospel and where no one will say anything to anyone else about getting rid of the sin in their lives. But doing nothing, and letting it grow, is not the answer, either.

A True Biblical Revival

What the modern-day institutional church congregations need today is an old-fashioned biblical revival where the people honestly repent of their sins and where they now walk in obedience to the Lord’s commands in life practice. And where the church, as a whole, is now reaching out to the rest of the world with the gospel truth taught by Jesus and by His New Testament apostles in the correct biblical context. For we are not saved from our sin so we can keep sinning. We are saved out of our addiction to sin so we will now serve our Lord faithfully in obedience to His commands, in His power.

[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 Bread of Sincerity and Truth

An Original Work / September 6, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Zeal for Your House

Based off John 2:17; Psalms 69:9

An Original Work / August 1, 2016

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Zeal for Your house, it consumes me.

Lord, I love my times with You.

I love to worship You and sing Your praises.

Time in Your Word brings me closer to You,

List’ning to You speaking to me,

Gently guiding me in truth.

Lord, You are my life’s example,

Showing me how I should live.

I love to walk with You where’er You lead me.

No greater joy have I when serving You. 

Loving, giving, resting in Your strength, 

I’m yielding to Your will. 

Zeal for Your house, it consumes me.

See the church turned upside down:

Marketing ventures taking place of worship,

Men of the gospel turning into clowns.

Gospel message made appealing,

So the world will feel at home.

Lord, we need a great revival.

Turn their hearts, Lord, back to You.

Open the blind eyes, turn them all from darkness,

Lord, to the light. May they return to You, 

Turn from their sin, forsake idols,

Be restored to God again.

https://vimeo.com/177433676

A Mother's Love for Her Son

To My Son Whom I Love

From your mom

I bore you in my womb. I nurtured you,

Protected you. I held on to you tightly 

So that nothing bad would happen to you.

I was glad the day you were born. 

I held you closely, loved you dearly.

We spent much time together, you and I,

Talking, singing, praying.

I read you stories, snuggled with you,

Laughed and cried with you. 

I hurt when you hurt,

And I rejoiced when you rejoiced,

For I cared deeply about you.

When you wandered off

From the way you should go,

It hurt me. I hurt for you.

When you sang songs about God

And about who he was and is,

It gladdened my heart, too.

I struggled with you 

When you struggled through life,

And I cried many tears over you.

I was also proud of you 

Every time you conquered your obstacles

And you stood strong against giants.

I cheered you on and worked with you

To help you become the man

That you should become one day.

But I failed you, too, when I did not stand strong

Against my giants, and when I let them

Defeat me in battle.

But you forgave me,  

And that means so much to me.

So, thank you!

Now I want to see you

Conquer all the giants in your life,

And be the man God 

Created you to become.

But, no matter what,

I love you because you are my son,

And because you are part of me,

And I am part of you.

And, I am proud of all that

You have done to overcome

So many obstacles in your life

And for all the progress you 

Have made towards

Maturity and manhood.

You will always be my son,

And forever you will be

In my heart, no matter what.

I love you! Mom

An Original Work, November 24, 2018

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Video Recording of the Poem

https://youtu.be/_jpOq6YZS-g 

By Smooth Talk They Deceive

Romans 16:17-18 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“17Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them. 18For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.”

 

Many Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing

 

In my nation (the USA), in our culture today within the gatherings of the church (or the false church) at large, we have many of these people who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teachings of the gospel taught by Jesus and by His New Testament apostles, taught in the correct biblical context. Many pastors and elders and church leaders are teaching an altered and diluted gospel message intended to appease human flesh which does not call the people to repentance and to obey God.

 

Many of these leaders are malicious wolves in sheep’s clothing who fake their Christianity and who are out to deceive, to trick, to trap, to manipulate, and to lead the people astray while convincing them that they are leading them to the truth. They promise them forgiveness of all sins and heaven guaranteed them as their eternal destiny based in a lie which teaches them they do not have to repent of (die to) sin and that they do not have to obey God’s commands, for they call that “works salvation.” It is not.

 

And they tell them that all that God requires is that they pray a prayer to receive Christ or that they make a verbal confession of Christ as Lord, believing that God raised Him from the dead, and now they are saved for eternity, and that nothing can take that away from them. Taken out of context the Bible does appear to teach some of this in the book of Romans. But the whole of Romans and Jesus’ teachings teach we must, by faith in Christ, deny self, die to sin, and walk in obedience to God’s commands.

 

What Jesus and the apostle Paul taught

 

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).

 

So, if you have been believing the lies of the “wolves in sheep’s clothing,” and you are professing Christ as your Lord and Savior, and heaven as your eternal destiny, but while you continue in deliberate and habitual sin and not in walks of obedience to God and to His commands, then I encourage you to repent of (turn from, die to) your sins today and surrender your lives to God to now follow Him in living holy lives, pleasing to God, in the power of God. For Jesus died on that cross to free us from sin, not to coddle us in our sin.

 

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

 

By Smooth Talk They Deceive

An Original Work / September 6, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Seven Woes 

 

Based off Matthew 23

An Original Work / May 31, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Woe to you, teachers of the law;

Hypocrites, you keep men from God.

You refuse to obey the truth,

Nor will you permit others to.

You travel o’er land and sea

To win a single convert to you.

When he becomes one

You make him twice as much

A “son of hell” as you are.

 

Woe to you, blind guides of mankind.

You distort the words of your God.

By your practices you declare

Your oaths mean nothing, though you swear.

You give a tenth of your spices,

But you neglect justice, mercy.

When you focus your

Time and talents on

What is external, you miss out.

 

Woe to you, who appear so clean,

When inside you are crass and mean.

You work hard to look so upright,

While you hide all your sins inside.

You deceive yourselves when you think

You would not have done what others

Did to God’s messengers

And prophets of old,

For you will do much the same.

You’re to blame.

 

https://vimeo.com/125489388

Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

Romans 13:8-10 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

8Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 10Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

 

Loving Our Neighbors

 

When this speaks here of us loving our neighbors, i.e. all people, this is not speaking of romantic love, or the emotional feeling of love, but it is speaking of giving preference to God’s will, for He is love! It means to prefer what God prefers which is all that is holy, righteous, godly, upright, morally pure, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to His commands in daily practice. And it means to not make a practice of doing what is evil, to not lie, cheat, steal, be sexually immoral, commit adultery, and the like, by habit.

 

And we are to love even those who hate us, and who do evil against us, and who despitefully use us (see Matthew 5:44). We are to love those who lie about us to others, and who give others a false impression of who we really are because they want others to hate us. We are to love those who choose to believe the lies about us and not the truth, too, no matter how badly they might treat us in return. For we are to love as Jesus loves us, and He loved us enough to die on a cross so that we could be free from slavery to sin.

 

So, if others treat us with contempt, we treat them with kindness. If they sin against us, we do good to them. If they speak evil of us, we speak kindly of them, not in the sense of making up lies about them ever to make them sound good, but we are not to be mean to others just because they were mean to us. If they steal from us, we give to them. We do not trade “tit for tat,” i.e. we do not do to others as they did to us, if what they did to us was evil. It is not ours to repay evil with evil. But we are to repay evil with good.

 

Romans 13:11-14 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“11And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. 14Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.”

 

Wake Up From Your Slumber

 

When we believe in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives, it does not end there. For the faith to believe in Christ is not of our own doing, not something we can drum up from our own flesh. The faith necessary for salvation from sin and eternal life with God comes from God. It is gifted to us by God, and it is persuaded of God as to Christ’s righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of God’s requirement that we deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in walks of obedience to His commands.

 

So, when this says that our salvation is nearer than when we first believed, it is speaking of our salvation not as a one-time event which takes place in our lives, and then we live, and then we die, and then we go to heaven. It is speaking of our salvation as something that is ongoing and continuous and that which will not be consummated (completed) until Jesus returns and He takes His faithful bride to be with Him for eternity. So we must continue in obedience to our Lord and no longer as slaves to sin until He returns.

 

The encouragement here for all who profess faith in Jesus Christ is that we are to be those who are continuing to surrender our lives to Christ, and to obey His commands, and to forsake our sins in life practice. As followers of Christ we must put sin to death and we must put on (in sincerity and in truth) all that is of God and is holy and righteous in His sight. And we are to behave decently, not in drunkenness or in sexual immorality or in any other sinful practices. We are to make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

 

[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]

 

Love Your Neighbor as Yourself

An Original Work / September 6, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Love Must Be Genuine

 

Based off Romans 12:9-21

An Original Work / October 22, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Love must be genuine.

Hate what’s evil; cling to good.

Love each other with affection.

Show respect for ev’ryone.

Never lack in your zeal.

Serve the Lord with diligence.

 

Rejoice in steadfast hope.

In affliction, patient be.

Keep on praying; share with others.

Practice hospitality.

Bless those who persecute.

Feel with others sympathy.

 

Be not filled with conceit.

Daily sit at Jesus’ feet.

Live in harmony with others.

Live at peace with ev’ryone.

Repay not to someone

With the evil he begot.

 

Do not take your revenge;

Leave it to the wrath of God.

If your enemy is thirsty,

Give to him something to drink.

Do what’s right for mankind.

Evil: overcome with good.

 

https://vimeo.com/114695549

Living Sacrifices to God

Romans 12:1-2 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“1Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.”

 

The Mercy of God

 

What is the mercy of God? It is His compassion, His kindness, His forgiveness, and His grace to us who are born into this world with sin natures, in the image of Adam, unable within ourselves to be made right with God. And what does His grace look like? His grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for our Lord’s return (see Titus 2:11-14). For Christ died to free us from sin’s control.

 

Jesus Christ, in His death and resurrection, made the way for us to die with Him to sin and to now live with Him in walks of obedience to His commands. For in His death He put our sins to death with Him so that, by faith in Christ Jesus we will deny self, die to sin, and obey our Lord in life practice. And by faith in Him we are raised with Him to walk in newness of life in Him, no longer as slaves to sin but now as servants of righteousness, living godly and holy lives, pleasing to God – all in the power of God by His Spirit.

 

Living Sacrifices to God

 

Therefore, since Jesus made the way for us to be forgiven of our sins, we who have trusted in Him to be Lord and Savior of our lives are now to offer our bodies to God as living sacrifices to Him, holy and pleasing to God. And this includes our whole being, i.e. our minds, eyes, ears, hearts, thoughts, and behaviors. They are to be given over to God to be for His glory and for His purposes, and not to please our flesh. So we are not to be taking into our minds, eyes, ears, hearts, and thoughts the sinful desires and pleasures that this world has to offer, resulting in us then engaging in sinful behaviors.

 

For our spiritual service of worship to our Lord is not in words only, nor in the singing of “songs of worship” only. Our spiritual service of worship of our Lord is in our doing and not doing. It is first of all by faith in Him denying self, dying with Christ to sin, and now walking with Him in obedience to His commands in holy living. And then it is us walking (in conduct) with Him moment by moment and day by day in surrender to His will and in doing what He commands, going wherever He leads us in ministry to Him and to the people of this world. For He has a calling for each one of our lives.

 

Be Not Conformed

 

There are many ways in which we might become conformed to this world, and not all of them are related to obvious and deliberate and habitual sins. Some of them may be very subtle and we may not even realize that is what is happening. For we live in a day and age of the Internet and/or television when it is so easy to get distracted and caught up in what is just a waste of time. Especially for us who write on the internet, and so we are on the internet daily, there are all sorts of not wicked things to draw our attention and to distract us. And that is not all bad. But we need to be on the alert.

 

But conformity to the world, as is described here, is primarily anything which takes us in the opposite direction of obedience to God and living holy lives, pleasing to God. For it has to do with taking on the thinking and the values and the behaviors and the attitudes that this world has to offer, which are contrary to the teachings of the Scriptures and the call of God on our lives. And this usually ends up consuming people’s lives to the point where Jesus is barely thought of or considered in their daily activities. But as followers of Christ we are to be living to please God in every area of our lives 24/7.

 

[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]

 

Living Sacrifices to God

An Original Work / September 5, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Living Sacrifices  (song)

 

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

If You Continue in His Kindness

Romans 11:13-24 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

13I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry 14in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them. 15For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? 16If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

 

17Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root, 18do not boast over those branches. If you do, remember this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.

 

19You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” 20That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. 21For if God did not spare the natural branches, He will certainly not spare you either.

 

22Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. 23And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

 

One People in Christ Jesus

 

This was Paul speaking. Paul was a Jew. And all non-Jews were regarded as Gentiles. Jesus Christ, while on the earth, taught the gospel of salvation primarily to the Jews. But the majority of them rejected Him as their Lord and Messiah, the Christ who was to come and who had now come. And most of them participated in the calling for Jesus to be crucified, which was instigated by many of the religious leaders in the Temple of God of that time.

 

In Jesus’ death He destroyed that barrier between Jew and Gentile, making them one in Christ, by faith in Jesus Christ. But all Jews who rejected Christ were now cut out of biblical Israel, and all Gentiles who believed in Jesus Christ were now grafted into Israel. And Jesus Christ is Israel, and all who are of genuine faith in Him are biblical Israel. But all Jews who rejected Jesus are no longer Israel, but they are the antichrist (see 1 John 2:22).

 

The Root and The Branches

 

Now, who is “the root” being spoken of here? Certainly this is speaking of Jesus Christ. And all who were previously and who are now part of biblical Israel were then or are now His branches. So if Jesus is holy, which He is, and if by faith in Him, in truth and in righteousness, we become His branches, then we, too, are holy as He is holy. But biblical faith in Christ requires that we deny self, die to sin, and obey God in life practice.

 

For the faith to believe in Jesus Christ comes from God, it is authored and perfected by Jesus Christ, it is gifted to us by God, and it is persuaded of God as to His righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to, by faith in Him, deny self, die to sin, and obey God in life practice, in the power of God. And this is NOT works salvation. This is of God, and not of our own doing, but we have to surrender to the will of God for our lives.

 

Branches Broken Off

 

The Jews who rejected Jesus Christ were cut out of biblical Israel and the believing Gentiles were grafted into biblical Israel, the Israel of God, not the physical and political nation called “Israel” today. And Jew and Gentile by faith in Jesus Christ have been made into one people of God, the only people of God, the one and only biblical Israel. So the Jews are not superior to the Gentiles and the Gentiles are not superior to the Jews. We are one in Christ.

 

And we who by faith in Christ Jesus have been grafted into biblical Israel should not be arrogant about the fact that the unbelieving Jews were cut out of the Israel of God. We should mourn that fact, instead. For if God did not spare the natural branches (the Jews), because of their unbelief, He will not spare us either if we do not continue in His kindness (grace and mercy), but if we go back to or we continue in deliberate and habitual sin against 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]

 

All Israel Saved

 

Now all the Jews and Gentiles who have died without Christ throughout history have made their choice and they will bear the results of their choices. That cannot be undone. But any present-day Jew or Gentile who decides to no longer persist in unbelief, but to now surrender to the will of God for their lives, they can be grafted into Israel, i.e. into relationship with Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of their lives, by biblical faith which comes from God.

 

Now, in the verses beginning with verse 25 we read about “all Israel” being saved. In context, this is not speaking of the political nation called “Israel,” and it is not speaking only of Jews or of all Jews throughout history. For we learn in Romans 9:27 and Romans 11:5 that only a remnant of the Jews will be saved. So “All Israel” is in reference to all who believe in Jesus Christ who are now included in biblical Israel, Jew and Gentile. For God made us into one people by faith in Jesus Christ. Not one is superior to the other, either.

 

Israel Today: [Matthew 21:43; John 8:18-19,38-47; John 10:16; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:4-8,25-28; Romans 11:1-36; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:1-6; Colossians 3:12-15; Titus 2:14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13; 1 Peter 2:9-10,24; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9; see also Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19]

 

If You Continue in His Kindness

An Original Work / September 5, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

I Will Lift My Eyes 

 

Based off Psalms 121-125

An Original Work / December 12, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

I will lift my eyes to my Lord Most High.

My help comes from Him, who saved me from sin.

He will not let your foot slip, and He who watches will not sleep.

Our Lord watches over you, and your life He will keep.

I will lift my eyes to my Lord Most High.

My help comes from Him, who saved me from sin.

I give thanks to Him.

 

I will lift my eyes to my God in heav’n.

I look to the Lord. My sins, He’s forgiv’n.

Because of His great love for us, He made us alive with Christ.

Through the kindness of our Savior, He gave us new life.

I will lift my eyes to my God in heav’n.

I look to the Lord. My sins, He’s forgiv’n;

My home, now in heav’n.

 

Praise be to the Lord, who is on our side.

Our help found in Him. He gives peace within.

Those who trust will ne’er be shaken. God will supply all we need.

Our Lord has done great things for us. He’s our friend, indeed!

Praise be to the Lord, who is on our side.

Our help found in Him. He gives peace within.

I can count on Him.

 

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Where He Leads Me

Where He leads me I must follow,

Follow Him where’er He goes,

Through the mountains, through the valleys,

Where that is, He only knows.

Walking with me ev’ry hour,

Gently guiding me each day,

Teaching me to always listen

When He speaks, and shows the way.

It may be to show some kindness

To someone who needs His grace,

Or it may be just to listen

To a hurting soul today;

Show compassion, understanding,

Always lend a helping hand,

Show affection, give attention,

Help a hurting heart to mend;

Share the gospel, tell of Jesus,

Who died on a cruel tree.

Tell how their sins He did pardon,

So that they could be set free;

Be like Jesus, care for others,

Speak the Words of Truth to them.

Lay your lives down on His altar,

Holy, pleasing unto Him;

Willing now to be mistreated,

Share in Jesus’ sufferings,

Persecuted for the gospel,

Wait for our returning King.

An Original Work / July 4, 2018

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love