Know The Truth

“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”

“They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.” (1 John 4:1,5-6 NASB1995)

What do false prophets or teachers or preachers do that is false? They speak lies to the people as though what they are saying is from God when it is not from God, but it is from the flesh of humankind. And how is it that it seems as though most people who profess faith in Jesus Christ do not recognize the lies for what they are? It is because the lies are a careful and meticulous blend of truth and lies made to appear as truth, and because they are not testing the spirits against the Scriptures (in context) to discover the lies.

But it isn’t just that. Many are they who prefer the lies, because the lies give them permission to keep living in deliberate and habitual sin without conscience and remorse and biblical repentance, and absent of obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice. For the lies promise them that they are permanently saved from the punishment of all sin, that all their sins are forgiven, and sometimes that God can’t even see when they sin, and that by God’s grace they have the guarantee of eternity in heaven with God.

So, this is why we are encouraged here that we are not to believe every spirit, and that includes not believing everyone who calls himself Reverend or Pastor or Elder or Deacon or Prophet or Evangelist or Apostle. For they don’t all speak the truth. Probably most of them are not teaching the gospel taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, taught in the correct biblical context. So we need to be students of the Scriptures who study them in their biblical context so that we can discover any lies we have believed.

And we should not base our faith on what we have always heard is the truth, just because so-and-so said it, or just because it feels good and it is comfortable to our ears and fits with our preferred lifestyles. So, if someone teaches something contrary to what we have always believed, we should not write it off unless we have done the due diligence to test it against the Scriptures. For many of us out there, speaking the truth, are being ignored because the majority prefer the lies which feel good and tickle itching ears.

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

For 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).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18] 

Arise and Shine 

Based off Isaiah 60

An Original Work / March 6, 2014 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Arise and shine; your Lord has come.

Allow His light to flow through you,

For many walk in wickedness.

Show them the way to life anew.

Arise and shine. Your Lord loves you.

Lift up your eyes, and look about.

Some do believe, while others doubt.

Believe in all God’s promises.

The many will, In Christ, find rest.

Lift up your eyes, and you’ll be blessed.

Arise and shine; salvation comes

To all who trust in Christ, God’s Son.

Forgiven of their sins, they’ll be,

When they repent on bended knee.

Arise and shine, so all will see.

Lift up your eyes, and see your Lord.

He will revive his church, forlorn.

Though humans have forsaken you,

They will find Christ, and walk in truth.

Lift up your eyes; God honors you.

https://vimeo.com/88371130

Know The Truth

An Original Work / February 22, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Love Which God Has For Us

“We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.” (1 John 4:16-18 NASB1995)

What is this love being spoken of here? The Greek word is agápē, and it speaks of love which centers in moral preference, which prefers what God prefers, which is all that is holy, righteous, morally pure, upright, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to his commands. For God is love, and so he is holy, righteous, honest, and faithful in all that he is and does. And so the love which he has for us is also pure, upright, and godly.

So, how was God’s love for us demonstrated to us? God the Father sent Jesus Christ, God the Son, who was the only begotten Son of God, to the earth, to be born as a baby to a human mother, but conceived of the Holy Spirit, and not of man. So he was not born with a sin nature as we are. And when he lived on the earth as God incarnate (in the flesh), he never once sinned. And so he became our perfect lamb sacrifice for our sins.

And in Jesus’ death on that cross, and in his bodily resurrection, he made the way for us to die with him to sin and to be raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but as servants of righteousness in walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands. By God-persuaded faith in our Lord Jesus we can now walk in freedom from bondage (addiction) to sin and live holy lives, pleasing to God, in his power.

So, if we who profess Jesus Christ as Lord and as Savior of our lives abide in his agápē love, it means that we are acting in accordance with his love. We are upholding, obeying, and conforming our lives to all that is of God, and to all that is morally pure, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to his commands. We are no longer walking in sin, making sin our habit, but now serving our Lord and doing his will, in his power, is what we live for.

Therefore, we have confidence on the day of judgment, not because we gave lip service to God and made a verbal profession of faith in Jesus Christ, but because, by God-persuaded faith in our Lord Jesus, we were 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 now as servants of our Lord and as slaves to his righteousness, by his grace and in his power.

So for those who have given only lip service to the Lord, and whose lives are not surrendered to the Lord in walks of obedience to his commands, but who are still making sin their practice, living to please the flesh, and not living to please God, they do not have the hope of salvation from sin and eternal life with God, but the dreadful expectation of eternity in hell. For they have rejected the truth of God’s word and have chosen to believe the lies, instead.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 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 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]

You Loved Me

A song based off the poem by the same name @ Original Works

Music and lyrics by Sue Love @ Original Works & Tosin Iyawo Ogaga

Vocals by Tosin Iyawo Ogaga & Sue Love

An Original Work / December 3, 2019

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

When I was lonely and afflicted,

You were there to pick me up.

You took me in Your arms,

And You held me tenderly.

Your love embraced me.

Your grace sustained me.

When my heart cried out to You

In my fear and my despair,

You never turned away,

But You let me know You loved me.

Your grace forgave me.

You did not shame me.

Then, when I answered the call,

“Here, Lord, send me.”

You sent me to where I must be.

Your mercy held me, did not fail me.

All this, You had planned, to use me.

And, when all trials and scorn

Came to test me.

You gave me all that I would need.

You strengthened me so I’d not fail You.

Your kindness blessed me, it touched me.

And, when I needed the church 

To lift up me,

To hearten me so I’d not fail,

You blessed me with folks who would love me.

Their presence with me, Your praise hailed!

And, when I walked through the valley

Of the shadow of the death,

And tears flowed from my eyes,

Still Your kindness was there for me.

Your touch, it healed me.

For I believed You.

When now I think about the ways,

Of the many, many ways

That You in Your great love

Show me that You’ll always care for me,

My heart, it thanks You,

And gladness fills me, fills me.

https://vimeo.com/377807796

The Love Which God Has For Us

An Original Work / February 22, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Teeter-Tottering

When I was a child I played on a playground, and one of the playground apparatuses on which we played was called a “teeter-totter” or “seesaw.” Here is a description of what it was like: “It is designed for two people to sit on opposite ends and ride up and down, with one person rising while the other descends, often by pushing off the ground.” (source Google AI). 

And yet to “teeter” and to “totter” means to stagger, waver, sway, falter, stumble, and flounder. And a person who teeters is like a person who sits on both (opposite) ends of the teeter-totter, continually going up and down in opinion, thought, words, action, and behaviors. And the Bible refers to them as the “double-minded” who have two souls, whose hearts are divided between God and the world, and who vacillate between good and evil.

But you can’t serve sin and God at the same time. You cannot be devoted to your sinful addictions and love God, too. The two don’t mix. You cannot be a follower of Jesus Christ if you are still walking in sinful addiction and if you are unwilling to let go of that addiction to serve and to obey God fully with your lives. And your sinful addiction may be immoral living, or it may just be laziness, apathy, and pure selfishness with a desire to please self over all.

And the Scriptures teach us that those who teeter, who are the double-minded, who are unstable in all their ways, should not expect to receive anything from the Lord when they ask, for they do not ask in faith. And all who are double-minded are instructed to cleanse their hands (deeds), and to purify their hearts. For no one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other.

[James 1:5-8; James 4:6-8; Matthew 6:24; Romans 6:1-23; Acts 26:18]

A Two-Edged Sword

But when we serve the Lord faithfully with our lives, and we are his servants and messengers in taking the truth of the gospel of Christ to the people of the world, we are going to have the double-minded opposing us, trying to get us to follow them, instead, or trying to discredit us so that others will not believe us. And they will have an alternative light, i.e. to the light of the gospel that Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught, in context. 

But we are not to let their opposing ideas and diluted gospel messages, and their attacks on us and on what we are teaching dishearten or discourage us, or keep us from speaking the truth of God’s Word to the people that they need to hear. For if what we are sharing is the penetrating power of the truth of God’s Word, which cuts deep, penetrating the soul, and which reproofs, warns, and convicts the sinfully double-minded, we will be opposed.

And we may find that we are losing friends and followers. And people who once seemed to like us will begin to distance themselves from us. And some of them may end up hating us and being bitter against us, and they may attack us or gossip about us or slander us. But time is short, and many professers of faith in Jesus Christ need to repent of their sins and obey God in practice or they will not have salvation from sin and eternal life with God.

[Hebrews 4:12; Revelation 2:12; Ephesians 6:17; Galatians 5:16-24]

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18] 

Fit for Service 

 

An Original Work / October 5, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Holy Spirit, come within us.

Cleanse our hearts, 

and from sin free us.

Make us holy vessels fit 

for service to the King.

Fill us with Your love and power.

Anoint us within this hour

To be living witnesses 

For Jesus Christ, our King.

Our praise to Him bring.

Father God, our heart’s desire,

Come and speak to us in power.

Revive our hearts to obey You;

Live for You always.

May we love and serve You only,

Walking with You; 

Not a phony.

May we always tell the truth,

And show integrity.

Your true servants be.

Jesus, Savior, sanctify us.

Purify our hearts within us;

Be transformed into Your likeness,

Holy unto You.

May we always listen to You

Speaking Your words 

Now within us.

May we heed Your counsel to us;

Follow You today.

Do all that You say. 

https://vimeo.com/113979906

Teeter-Tottering

An Original Work / February 21, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Not in Sexual Promiscuity

“Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed. The night is almost gone, and the day is near. Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.” (Romans 13:11-14 NASB1995)

If we read the book of Romans, in its entirety, in its full biblical context, we will see that the apostle Paul was not a “cheap grace gospel” kind of preacher, but he taught the whole truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 

In chapter 1, verse 18, he wrote: “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.” And in chapter 2, verses 5-6, he wrote: “But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will render to each person according to his deeds.”

In Romans 6 he wrote: “Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?” “For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.” (Romans 6:16,20-21)

And in Romans 8 we read that Jesus gave his life up for us on that cross “so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit” (v. 4). “For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God” (vv. 6-8).

Do you understand what this is teaching? No matter what we profess with our lips, if sin is still what we practice, deliberately and habitually, we will not have salvation from sin, and we will not inherit eternal life with God, but we will face the wrath of God, instead. For salvation from sin is not by lip service only, but it is by God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ which denies self, dies to sin daily, by the Spirit, and which walks (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, empowered by God’ Spirit.

So, this is why we have this warning in Romans 13 letting all who profess faith in Jesus Christ know that it is critical to their salvation and eternal life with God that they lay aside the deeds of darkness (sin, wickedness) and put on the armor of light (truth, righteousness, holiness), and that they behave properly, “not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts” (vv. 13-14).

“So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God” (Romans 8:12-14).

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23). So, please take this seriously, for you will die in your sin if you do not repent.

[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 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22] 

Your New Life  

Based off the Gospels  

An Original Work / May 15, 2014

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Go and make disciples of peoples,

Teaching them to obey their Savior.

Do not fear, but go where He sends you.

Tell them all of what you have heard.

The kingdom of God now is upon you. 

Come, and follow Jesus, your Lord.

He will make you fishers of man.

If the people Jesus desire,

They must die to sin and to self-life.

If they want to hold on to their lives

They will lose them forevermore.

Surely you heard that coming to Christ

Means a new life in Jesus, your Lord.

Follow Christ wherever He leads.

Love the Lord with all of your heart, and

Love your neighbors as you would yourself.

Preach the gospel to all the nations.

Do not worry what you will say.

Proclaim the freedom for all the captives.

Share the light with all who are blind.

You are ministers of our God.

https://vimeo.com/95450440

Not in Sexual Promiscuity

An Original Work / February 21, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Elephant in The Room

“Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. For this, ‘You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,’ and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.” (Romans 13:8-10 NASB1995)

Pornography addiction is at high numbers among professing Christians. According to AI, which also agrees with other statistics I have read over the years, about 75% of professing Christian men and about 40% of professing Christian women, and up to 50% of pastors report viewing pornography. And many children are vulnerable to be included in these statistics, as well. And smartphones in the hands of adults and children alike make for easy access to pornography in secrecy, even in the corner of a crowded room. But many “Christians” are not viewing this as adultery, but that is truly what it is. For..

Jesus said, “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’; but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell.” (Matthew 5:27-30 NASB1995)

And the very sad reality in all of this is that the church at large, in the USA, anyway, is largely pacifying these professing Christians in their sins of idolatry and adultery rather than to call them to biblical repentance and to purity of devotion, both to the Lord and to their spouses (for those married). For they don’t want to offend the sinners, because they want them to come to their gatherings, so they either justify or rationalize or pacify or ignore the reality of this epidemic sin and adultery issue rather than to demand a change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior via repentance.

So, pornography use and addiction is the “elephant in the room,” i.e. “a major problem or controversial issue that is obviously present but avoided as a subject for discussion because it is more comfortable to do so” (source AI).

But this is not an issue to be ignored and swept under the rug as though it is a minor offense not worth mentioning. This is not only sin against God, but it is sin against one’s spouse (if you are married), and it is adultery, and it is destroying many people’s marriages and families. And it is the catalyst that is sending many people to hell because they want to hold on to their sin and to their pornography, which they want more than they want their spouses, and more than they want to be delivered (saved) from their slavery to sin so that they can now serve the Lord Jesus with their lives in obedience to him.

Professing Christian, please know that the Scriptures teach that if sin is our practice, and not obedience to our Lord and to his commands, that we will not inherit eternal life with God, no matter what we have professed with our lips. For we are not saved from our sins and on our way to heaven based on lip service only. We must be those who deny self, die to sin daily, by the Spirt, and who walk (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to our Lord’s commands, in the power of God. And this is not saying we will never sin, but sin should not be our practice, our habit, our addiction. But now we should be servants of the Lord Jesus Christ.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 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 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]

Send a Revival  

An Original Work / June 25, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Send a revival to this nation, Lord, I pray.

Bring us to our knees, Lord, humbly today.

Teach us to daily walk in your footsteps.

Guide us in your truth, and may we find rest.

Send a revival to this nation, Lord, I pray.

Bring us to our knees, Lord, humbly today.

Be our desire and our hearts’ pure devotion, Lord.

Make us a people who walk close to you.

Change our hearts to conform to your likeness.

May we love others who are in distress.

Be our desire and our hearts’ pure devotion, Lord.

Make us a people who walk close to you.

Teach us to be an example of your love, Lord.

May we serve others as though serving you.

Keep us in fellowship with you, I pray.

May we obey you in all things today.

Teach us to be an example of your love, Lord.

May we serve others as though serving you.

https://vimeo.com/126020794

The Elephant in The Room

An Original Work / February 21, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Spiritually Lukewarm

Jesus says: ‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’” (Revelation 3:15-22 NASB1995)

What does it look like if you are spiritually lukewarm? You are halfhearted, unenthusiastic and indifferent about the Lord and your walk of faith in him. You profess his name, and you might go through weekly religious rituals, and attend faithfully local gatherings of the church (or what are falsely being called “church”), but you are still living by the flesh, still doing what you want to do without concern for what God requires of you in the way of thought, word, and deed. For you are still the one running your life.

And you don’t have to be living a severely wicked life, doing all sorts of evil, in order to be regarded as “lukewarm.” For lukewarm is that kind of in between, neither on fire for the Lord, nor totally against him and his commands. You may even do a lot of things right, and live a moral life, but Jesus is not King of your life. God is not the one in control. You are still the one making all the decisions, choosing your choices, and the Lord gets a cursory nod occasionally. This should not be! This not biblical faith!

Another symptom of being lukewarm is being caught up in the ways of the world, craving the things the world desires like wealth, popularity, things, possessions, attention, entertainment and whatever else the world is offering. And it isn’t that all these things are bad, though many of them are, but it has to do with where our heart is, and what our priorities are, and who or what is getting most of our passion and desire. And is the world and its treasures of greater importance than submission to Christ as your LORD?

So, the Lord is calling all who profess his name to rearrange their priorities to where HE is LORD (Owner-Master) of their lives, and to where they bow to him and serve him in being and in doing what he has for all of us to be and to do, for his purposes, and for his glory. And if you know that he is not the one ruling your life, then he is calling you to repent of your sins of idolatry and adultery and to surrender your all to him in full submission to him as King of your life, and to now commit your life to his service.

Many who profess the name of Jesus, and who call their gatherings “the church,” have pushed Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit right out the door, if they ever let him inside in the first place. For they got caught up in the ways of the world, and into turning their gatherings into stage productions and marketplaces to be marketed to the world. So, in order to win the world to their gatherings they diluted and altered the gospel and the character of God to fit what they believed would draw in large crowds from the world.

So, Jesus Christ is standing outside the door of these lukewarm adulterated worldly gatherings of what are being referred to as “the church.” And he is knocking, and he is giving an invitation to let him inside. But letting him inside means submitting to him as Lord, leaving your lives of sin behind you, and now following the ways of the Lord in obedience to his commands in holy living, by the grace of God, via God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ. And that open door will result in genuine biblical fellowship with the Lord Jesus.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18] 

The Letters 

Based off Revelation 2-3

An Original Work / December 17, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

To the angels of all the churches write:

These are the words of your Lord and your God.

I know all your deeds, and your witness, too,

And who holds to My words and tells what’s true.

I know all your hard work and your perseverance,

Yet I hold against you: you’ve forsaken Me. 

Listen to what I say to you.

You have people there who deny My name,

And who put the cross of Christ up to shame.

They entice the people to Me, profane,

And their worship of Me is all in vain.

They are so adult’rous as they chase their idols,

And you put up with them easily enough.

Listen to what I say to you.

You give off an image of godliness,

But what you present is so fraudulent,

Or else you lack passion for Jesus Christ, 

So you look to others to tell what’s right.

I say turn from your sin, or you will face judgment.

He who overcomes will have eternal life.

Listen to what I say to you.

I know your afflictions and poverty;

How you suffer for your Lord patiently.

Do not fear the devil and company.

You be faithful to your Lord endlessly.

I know all your weakness and your dedication.

You have kept My Word and not denied your Lord.

I will write on you My new name. 

https://vimeo.com/114655138

Spiritually Lukewarm

An Original Work / February 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

They Are Mostly Dead

“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, says this: ‘I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God. So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.” (Revelation 3:1-3 NASB1995)

The church is the body of believers in Jesus Christ, as well as it is the gatherings of the people of God. But, as in nearly all gatherings, not everyone present is a genuine believer in Jesus Christ, and not every believer in Christ is living as they ought to live in obedience to our Lord’s commands in holy living. So, all throughout the New Testament we have examples of this where the church, in specific locations, was in need of correction, discipline, repentance, and renewed faith in the Lord Jesus.

Now my understanding of how this worked is that the church in any specific location, such as in Sardis, for example, was the body of believers in Jesus Christ in the whole city. And back then they did not all gather in some very large building called “church”. They met in people’s homes, and their homes were not large, so each gathering was probably the size of a small group home Bible study in our day. So, the church overall, in the city as a whole, had a certain reputation of being alive spiritually, but they were mostly dead.

Now, in the gatherings of the church (or in what is falsely being referred to as “the church”) today, in the USA, they are mostly all presenting an image that they are of God, that they are believers in Jesus Christ, and that what they preach is the truth of God’s Word. Yet it appears that the vast majority of them are businesses of human origin, in partnership with the world and with the government, in unholy unions which are being marketed to the people of the world. And so they compromise truth to “win the world.”

Although they profess that they are of God, and that they believe in Jesus Christ, so much of what is called “church” today is compromised with the world, and with big business, and with the government. And they are not, in truth, following Jesus Christ and the teachings of the Scriptures in their correct biblical context. But they are teaching the Scriptures out of context and are twisting them in order to appease human flesh and to not offend the ungodly who they are trying to draw into their ungodly worldly gatherings.

So, God/Jesus Christ is calling out to his idolatrous and adulterous church who are living more like the world, and who are catering to human flesh, and who are altering, diluting, and misconstruing the teachings of the Scriptures to make them more acceptable to the ungodly and to human flesh. He is calling them to remember the teachings of the Scriptures, to keep (obey) the commands of God, and to repent (turn from) their sins of idolatry and adultery to now live for Jesus Christ in righteous living.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 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 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 Letters 

Based off Revelation 2-3

An Original Work / December 17, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

To the angels of all the churches write:

These are the words of your Lord and your God.

I know all your deeds, and your witness, too,

And who holds to My words and tells what’s true.

I know all your hard work and your perseverance,

Yet I hold against you: you’ve forsaken Me. 

Listen to what I say to you.

You have people there who deny My name,

And who put the cross of Christ up to shame.

They entice the people to Me, profane,

And their worship of Me is all in vain.

They are so adult’rous as they chase their idols,

And you put up with them easily enough.

Listen to what I say to you.

You give off an image of godliness,

But what you present is so fraudulent,

Or else you lack passion for Jesus Christ, 

So you look to others to tell what’s right.

I say turn from your sin, or you will face judgment.

He who overcomes will have eternal life.

Listen to what I say to you.

I know your afflictions and poverty;

How you suffer for your Lord patiently.

Do not fear the devil and company.

You be faithful to your Lord endlessly.

I know all your weakness and your dedication.

You have kept My Word and not denied your Lord.

I will write on you My new name. 

https://vimeo.com/114655138

They Are Mostly Dead

An Original Work / February 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love