False Teachers Among You

2 Peter 2:1-3 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed. 3In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.”

 

Many Will Follow in Their Depravity

 

We live in a day and age where there are multitudes of these false prophets (preachers, teachers) teaching lies to the people, and when it appears that the majority of those professing faith in Jesus Christ are following after the lies, and are rejecting the gospel taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, taught in the correct biblical context. And this is not to say that they are believing all the lies or that they are rejecting all of the gospel message, but many are believing a diluted gospel which pacifies the flesh.

 

And those who are teaching the diluted and altered “gospel” message, which is intended to appeal to and to appease human flesh, are either doing so out of ignorance, because it is what they were taught by their teachers, or else they are doing so deliberately to lead people to a false gospel so that the people will reject the correct biblical gospel message, and so they will feel safe in continuing in deliberate and habitual sin and in not having to obey God’s commands. But they are giving them a false hope of salvation.

 

Those who are the latter are people of sinful minds and hearts who are following the devil, and not Jesus Christ. Many of them are malicious, morally unclean, deceivers, manipulators, opportunists, liars, fakes who fake their Christianity, not trustworthy, egocentric, and are rapidly multiplying. They are among the immature, the childish, the self-indulgent, the selfish, the morally impure, the irresponsible, foolish, and self-centered who are thinking only of themselves without any regard for the will of God.

 

So, they not only reject the biblical gospel of Christ, but they lead many others to also reject the biblical gospel of our salvation and to follow after the lies of the enemy, Satan (the devil). For so many of them are teaching that we do not have to deny self, die to sin, and obey God. For they call that “works salvation.” And they lead many into believing that they can continue in their sinful addictions, and not in walks of faith in obedience to the Lord, and still be saved from their sins, and still be on their way to heaven.

 

The Gospel According To Christ and His Apostles

 

Scripture Summaries

 

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

 

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

 

For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for Jesus’ return. For Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (See Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10)

 

And we learn in 1 John 1-3 that if we claim that we have fellowship with God, but yet we walk in darkness (sin), we are liars. If we claim that we know God, but we do not obey his commandments, in practice, we are liars. 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.

 

[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]

 

False Teachers Among You

An Original Work / July 16, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

My Sheep 

 

Based off John 10:1-30 NIV

An Original Work / June 24, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

My sheep hear me. They know me.

They listen to my voice and obey.

I call them and lead them.

They know my voice, so they follow me.

They will never follow strangers.

They will run away from them.

The voice of a stranger they know not;

They do not follow him.

 

So, I tell you the truth that

I am the gate, so you enter in.

Whoever does enter

Will find forgiveness and will be saved.

Nonetheless whoever enters

Not by the gate; other way,

He is the thief and a robber.

Listen not, the sheep to him.

 

Oh, I am the Good Shepherd,

Who laid his own life down for the sheep.

I know them. They know me.

They will live with me eternally.

The thief only comes to steal and

Kill and to destroy the church.

I have come to give you life that

You may have it to the full…

 

They know my voice, so they follow me.

 

https://vimeo.com/114938263

God Gives Grace to The Humble

1 Peter 5:5-9 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“5.. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because ‘God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.’ 6Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you. 7Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.

 

“8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.”

 

Humbling Ourselves

 

What does it look like to be humble? It means to be meek, unpretentious, and modest, i.e. the opposite of proud and boastful. Biblical humility involves a total surrender to God, submission to his will and purpose for our lives, and obedience to his commands, giving all the glory to God. It is willingness to do the will of God, and to speak his truths, regardless of how we are treated in return. And it is being honest with ourselves about who we are with regard to our motives and why we do and say the things we do and say.  

 

So, if we humble ourselves under God’s mighty hand, what should that look like? It definitely involves us submitting ourselves to the will of God for our lives, going where he sends us and saying all that he commands. It involves us sticking our necks out on the line, willing to have them chopped down, i.e. to be the Lord’s servants and messengers even knowing in advance that it will mean being hated, rejected, falsely accused, forsaken, and forgotten by some (or many) for speaking the truth, which many do not want to hear.

 

And it is putting our lives in the hands of God, trusting him to work it all out for good, trusting that God knows best, and he has a plan and a purpose for all that he allows us to go through, for his glory. It is a willingness to walk away from some situations, even if it means that they are left unresolved, or that others are left with a wrong impression of our motives, or knowing that they are thinking ill of us. We can defend our own honor, to a point, as did Jesus and his apostles, but sometimes we just have to walk away.

 

The Devil Seeks to Devour

 

If you are someone who writes on the internet, and who shares with the world what the Lord is teaching you from his word each day, you may get some responses from other humans which are encouraging, and/or you may get some responses from others which are challenging you, or which are criticizing you, or which are falsely accusing you of what you did not do or say. And some of them may be AI, and not real humans, and some may be people who just like baiting others into an argument. You get all kinds.

 

So we need to pray for wisdom and discernment to know what discussions we can engage in, and which ones to avoid. We need discernment to know when someone is baiting us into an argument so that we don’t get trapped in it. And we need wisdom to know how to respond, what to say, what not to say, and when to walk away. But we also need wisdom to discern when a conversation is of the devil, i.e. when he is using someone else to try to “devour” us in order to trip us up with our words. So we must resist him.

 

We must resist him, standing firm in our faith. So we must respond to the lies with the truth. We must respond to false teachings with the truth of what the Scriptures teach. But we must rely on the leading of the Holy Spirit in what to say and in what to write, and not let our emotions get the best of us. And this is not saying that we will get this perfect every time, but that we must make it our practice to pray, and to inquire of the Lord, before we respond unwisely and the devil ends up “getting the best of us.”

 

But we can be encouraged that we are not alone in this battle, not that we wish any of this on anyone else, but sometimes knowing that you are not alone, and that others are facing the same difficulties, it helps you in standing strong (firm) in your faith and not backing down because you are being intimidated by someone else. So we need to pray for wisdom before we just open up our mouths and blurt out what is coming from our emotions. And we must stand firm in our faith at all times, by God’s grace.

 

God Gives Grace to The Humble

An Original Work / July 16, 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

Shepherds of God's Flock

1 Peter 5:1-4 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“1As a fellow elder, a witness of Christ’s sufferings, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed, I appeal to the elders among you: 2Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not out of greed, but out of eagerness; 3not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. 4And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away.”

 

Modern Day “Churches”

 

We live in a day and time when so many “pastors” of “churches” are behaving more like cult leaders, or as though they are the heads of Christ’s church, in place of Christ being the head. Some (or many) of them will choose a select number of the faithful to themselves to serve as a “gestapo,” of sorts, in order to spy on the people and to report any who they believe are the “opposition,” who are not totally in sync with the political and worldly and unbiblical and ungodly methods of how to conduct “Christ’s church.”

 

Some of this they are learning in their training seminars on how to “grow their churches.” My husband and I were church planters for a while, and we attended some of those training seminars. And in one of them we were told that we were to use “needy people” to get the church up and running, but once we were up and running we were to get rid of the “needy people,” because they would drag us down. And this was being taught to pastors and church workers, to take advantage of needy people, but then to dump them.

 

Over all of my adult years (I am now 76) I have witnessed all kinds of crooked stuff being pulled off by pastors and elders of “churches,” which were of the flesh of man and not of God, and which were contrary to the teachings of the Scriptures. And in our present time so many of them are being trained in marketing schemes and in what they need to do in order to draw in large crowds of people from the world into their gatherings. And so many have turned “the church” into centers for entertainment and fun.

 

This is not a representation of all gatherings of the church but of many or most which are of this modern era which are catering to the ungodly and to the people of the world in order to grow their numbers. So many of them have been turned into businesses and are being marketed to the world, and so they are also diluting the gospel and the whole meaning of church in order to attract the world to their gatherings. And God says we are to come out of and to be separate from such gatherings as these worldly gatherings.

 

[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]

 

An Appeal to Pastors and Elders

 

Instead of acting as dictators and cult leaders and heads of businesses being marketed to the world where the pastor is being raised up to God-like status not to be questioned or tested to see if what he is doing and is teaching is of God and in agreement with the Scriptures, pastors and elders are to be shepherd’s of God’s flock, watching over them, caring about them, and ministering to their needs, teaching them the truth of the Scriptures and of the gospel, how we are all supposed to live as followers of Jesus Christ.

 

And they are those who are to be setting the example to the flock in how we ought to live as followers of Christ, in the things that they teach and speak and do and live. They should be teaching the body of Christ, the church, the people who profess faith in Jesus Christ, that we must all deny self, die to sin, and obey God, in practice. They should also be helping the people of God to discover their spiritual gifts and ministries, and then to make room for them to use their gifts in their ministry areas, for the rest of the church.

 

For one man is not to be running the whole thing. One small group of select people are not to be the ones doing all the ministering while the rest sit as spectators, and not as participants in the sense of them being able to share their spiritual gifts and ministries with the rest of the church. For all of us are ministers, if we are of faith in Jesus Christ. Pastors and elders are not to lord it over their people, but they are to serve as examples for the rest of us to follow, according to the teachings of the Scriptures, and not of the flesh.

 

And the people who do the preaching should be being tested to make certain that what they are teaching is of God, in agreement with the Scriptures taught in their correct biblical context. So many pastors and preachers today are diluting the gospel message and they are teaching lies to the people and they are distorting the Scriptures in order to appeal to human flesh, and few or none, it seems, are being tested to make certain that what they are teaching is of God, and in agreement with the Scriptures. This should not be.

 

Testing the spirits: [Matthew 7:15-23; Matthew 24:11-14; John 10:1-15; Romans 16:17-19; 2 Corinthians 11:3,13-15; Ephesians 4:11-16; Philippians 3:2; 2 Peter 2:1-22; 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22; 1 Timothy 1:3-7; 1 Timothy 6:3-10; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; 1 John 4:1-6; Jude 1:1-25]

 

Shepherds of God’s Flock

An Original Work / July 15, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Jesus Christ as our Shepherd

 

Gentle Shepherd

 

By Gloria Gaither / William J. Gaither

 

Gentle Shepherd come and lead us

For we need you to help us find our way

Gentle Shepherd come and feed us

For we need your strength from day to day

 

There's no other we can turn to

Who can help us face another day

Gentle Shepherd come and lead us

For we need to you to help us find our way

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gJwuh61eHA

 

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Done With Sin!

1 Peter 4:1-5 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“1Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin. 2Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God. 3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

 

“4Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you. 5But they will have to give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.”

 

Jesus’ Sacrifice for Our Sins

 

Jesus Christ, God in the flesh (God incarnate), the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – gave himself up for us on a cross to put our sins to death with him. He did this in order that we, by faith in him, will now deny self, die to sin, and walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, and no longer as slaves to sin, as a matter of life practice. But he didn’t stay dead. He rose from the dead in victory over sin, death, Satan, and hell, that we might walk in victory over sin and obey our Lord.

 

Our Confessions of Faith

 

So, if our confessions of faith in Jesus Christ are biblical, honest, and of God, and not of human flesh, then we should be those who do not, after having received Christ as Lord, then go on living in sin and in disobedience to God just like we did before we professed belief in Christ as Lord. That does not mean that we will be automatically perfect in every respect, but that we should not be those who continue living in sin in disobedience to our Lord as a matter of life practice. Our practice now is to die to sin and to obey God.

 

So, if you are someone who has made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ, but then you immediately kept on in deliberate and habitual sin against God, without change of heart, mind, and behavior, and if that is where you still are, then this message is for you. This is to let you know that you must deny self, die to sin, and follow the Lord in surrender to his will, in obedience to his commands, and no longer live as a slave to sin, or else you will not be saved from your sins, and you will not inherit eternal life with God.

 

They Heap Abuse on You

 

But, if you do follow the Lord in obedience to his commands, as a matter of life practice, and you go where he sends you, and you start living a holy life, pleasing to God, and so you have put sin to death in your life, by the Spirit, then you should begin to face opposition and the loss of friends, and perhaps even family members, who will chide and ridicule you for your faith and for deserting the life you were living before. And they may no longer want to hang out with you because it makes them uncomfortable to be with you.

 

But everyone will have to give an account to God one day when all stand before God on the day of judgment and we are all judged by our works. Many who call Jesus “Lord” will claim all that they did in the name of Jesus, but Jesus/God will say to them that he never knew them. Why? Because they did not obey him and his commands. They did not deny self and die to sin, but they continued in disobedience to God all the while they professed Christ as their Lord. So he will say, “depart from me, I never knew you.”

 

[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]

 

Done With Sin!

An Original Work / July 15, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

To Be Like Him 

 

Based off Scripture

An Original Work / March 16, 2014 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Crucified you are with Jesus.

To be like Him, oh, you’ll be,

Because He died at Calv’ry,

So from sin you’d be free.

Oh, what joy He brings into your life,

Giving life with Him endlessly.

 

Oh, what plans He has for your life.

Share the gospel faithfully.

Show the people He loves them.

Now His witness you’ll be.

Tell the world of sin about Jesus,

How He died for them on a tree.

 

Purifying hearts, He saves them,

Who believe on Christ, God’s Son.

Turning now from their idols,

New lives they have begun.

Jesus saves from sin; we’re forgiven.

Over sin, the vict’ry He won!

 

When He comes again to take us

To be with Him evermore,

There will be no more crying.

Gladness will be in store.

Heavens joys will now overtake us:

We’ll be with our Lord evermore.

 

https://vimeo.com/89237609

Water Baptism

1 Peter 3:20-22 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“20..In the days of Noah while the ark was being built, in the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water. 21And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.”

 

There are many people today who are teaching the necessity of water baptism for salvation. But water baptism is not what saves us from our sins and which gives us eternal life with God. For one, many people go through the waters of baptism who never turn their hearts over to Jesus Christ to follow him in obedience and to put their sins behind them. For them, it was just a religious ritual they went through, but it did nothing to change their hearts, their minds, and their lifestyles. Therefore, it was just a formality.

 

And here we learn that it isn’t the physical water you go through which saves you, which removes the physical dirt from your body, but it is a pledge of a clear conscience toward God, through the death (wherein he put our sins to death) and the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. It is by faith in Jesus Christ, via dying with him to sin and now walking (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to God and to his commands, that the Scriptures teach is required of God for salvation from sin and for eternal life with God.

 

An Original Work / July 15, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Not in Cleverness of Speech

 

The apostle Paul speaking: “For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, so that the cross of Christ would not be made void. For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” (1 Corinthians 1:17-18 NASB1995)

 

Water baptism, in and of itself, does not save people from their sins, nor does it give them the hope of eternal life with God. And it is not a prerequisite to salvation from sin nor to being filled with the Holy Spirit. The baptism that we undergo which regenerates is being baptized spiritually into Christ Jesus, and into his death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead, we also might walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as servants of righteousness in walks of obedience to our Lord.

 

[Matthew 3:13-17; Matthew 10:11-12; Mark 10:37-39; John 1:29-34; Acts 9:15-18; Acts 10:44-48; Acts 18:7-8; Acts 22:12-16; Romans 6:1-7]

 

And here, it appears that Paul is separating water baptism from the preaching of the gospel, as though they are not one and the same. Yes, water baptism accompanied people’s faith in Jesus Christ. I believe it was an outward testimony of an inward faith. But anyone can go through the waters of baptism and never be saved from their sins. But if one is not baptized in water it does not nullify their salvation nor their eternal life with God. Only habitual sin and disobedience to God will nullify one’s profession of faith.

 

So, what is the gospel message that God called Paul to preach? You can read about it in the New Testament epistles. But here is a 4 part summary of it:

 

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 grace of God, 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 Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (See Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10)

 

And we learn in 1 John 1-3 that if we claim that we have fellowship with God, but yet we walk in darkness (sin), we are liars. If we claim that we know God, but we do not obey his commandments, in practice, we are liars. 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.

 

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; 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; 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 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:23-31; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

 

But for those who are perishing in their sins, they find this gospel message to be nonsense to them. And they want no part of it. But sadly this includes multitudes of people who profess faith in Jesus Christ, who are convinced that all their sins are forgiven and that they are on their way to heaven, but who have not died to sin, and who are not walking in obedience to our Lord’s commands because someone convinced them that God does not require that for salvation. But if sin is our practice, and not obedience to our Lord and to his commands, we will indeed not inherit eternal life with God. Believe it!

 

Not in Cleverness of Speech

An Original Work / November 21, 2025

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Walking in The Light 

 

Based off 1 John 1-2

An Original Work / November 16, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

When I lift up my voice, and

Sing praise unto God,

I will fellowship with my

Lord and Savior, King.

In Him there is no darkness.

He is in the light of truth.

If we walk in His light,

From sin He purifies.

 

If we repent of our sins,

He’ll forgive us now,

When we humble ourselves, and

Before Jesus bow.

The man who says, “I know Him,”

But does not obey His truth,

There is no truth in him.

In darkness still he’s found.

 

Do not love the world of sin,

For it is hell bound.

If you follow the world, you’ll

Not in Christ be found.

The world and its desires

Will not last; they’ll expire.

The one who does God’s will,

Receives eternal life.

 

See that what you have heard from

Christ remains in you.

Then, you’ll remain in Christ, and

In His Father, too.

This is what He promised us –

His eternal life with God.

So, continue in Him, and

You’ll receive a crown.

 

https://vimeo.com/114160122

Suffering for What is Right

1 Peter 3:14-17 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

14But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear what they fear; do not be shaken.” 15But in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you the reason for the hope that is in you. But respond with gentleness and respect, 16keeping a clear conscience, so that those who slander you may be put to shame by your good behavior in Christ. 17For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

Facing Opposition

If we are following Jesus Christ with our lives, and if we are sharing the truth of the gospel with the people of the world, in its correct biblical context, and if we are on the internet writing out and posting what the Lord is teaching us from his word each day, or doing whatever God has called us individually to do and to be, we should not be surprised if we begin to face opposition from those who do not hold to the same truths and values as we do. And some of that opposition may come from other Christians and even “church” pastors.

One of the main areas of opposition we are being faced with today is coming from many institutional “churches” which are partnered with the ungodly and with the state, and which are teaching a diluted and altered “gospel” message intended to tickle itching ears and to not offend the ungodly and to pacify the addicted to sin, in their sin. For these gatherings are mostly being run as businesses, being marketed to the people of the world, and so they are catering to the felt needs of the people rather than obeying God.

Standing On The Word

And so, if we are standing on the word of God, and if we are not partnering with the world and with the ungodly in compromising the Scriptures and the gospel message, we may face much opposition from within these gatherings of “the church,” either from the people themselves, or from “the church” staff, or more specifically the main (or only) pastor. For many are being warned about us in their training sessions, i.e. about us with “strong convictions,” that they are to encourage us to go somewhere else.

And if we are on the internet, perhaps called of God to do so, or just because we chose to do that, and if we are posting our daily devotions on the internet, i.e. what we are learning from the Scriptures each day from our times with the Lord in his word, or if we are just sharing our beliefs in a group discussion, we should be prepared to be faced with opposition. We should be prepared that some people will disagree with us or they may verbally attack us, and they may accuse us falsely of what we did not do. 

Giving a Defense

Especially if we are standing against what is wrong, and what are lies, and what is painting a wrong picture of what the Scriptures teach, in truth, and so we are calling out the lies and the deception and the trickery and the false teachings and the false accusations, we should anticipate that some people will come against us, some of them falsely accusing us of what we did not say or do, sometimes just because they didn’t read what we wrote, so they made false assumptions, sometimes accidently and not on purpose.

But we are not to fear them. We are not to let their opinions of us shake us and make us afraid. We should take it to the Lord in prayer, seeking his counsel, testing our own hearts to make certain we are on the right path, and then follow the leading of the Lord in how to proceed. And it is perfectly okay to give a defense for the reason for the hope that is in us, if we are being challenged or falsely accused. But we are not to get nasty. We are not to stoop to name calling. But we should speak the truth in love to them.

Letting it Go

But, once we have made our defense, we should let it go, and walk away, for we are not going to convince everyone. Even if they are still shouting out lies against us, we just have to let it go and walk away unless the Lord says, “speak,” and then we trust him to give us the right words to speak. But not everyone is going to agree with us, even if we show them in the Scriptures where it teaches this or that, in the right context. If their minds are made up, they won’t listen. And so we have to move on and let God have his way.

But we need to make certain that what we are holding on to is from the Scriptures themselves and not something taught us by other humans that have no backing in the Scriptures. So many lies are being spread in the name of truth these days which are attacking the godly on false charges based in human doctrines which are not biblical. So we need to be students of the Scriptures so we can answer them from the Scriptures (in context), and not from our own understanding, which could be false if not checked.

[Matthew 7:15-23; Matthew 24:11-24; Luke 6:26; John 10:1-15; Romans 16:17-19; 2 Corinthians 11:3,13-15; Ephesians 4:11-16; Philippians 3:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22; 1 Timothy 1:3-7; 1 Timothy 6:3-10; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; 2 Peter 2:1-22; 1 John 4:1-6; Jude 1:1-25]

Suffering for What is Right

An Original Work / July 14, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Video Talk on the Same Subject

https://youtu.be/N1OVKyUVXzE

Conduct Yourselves with Honor

1 Peter 2:1-3,9-12 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“1Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander. 2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.”

 

“9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. 10Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

 

“11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul. 12Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.”

 

Repudiate the Desires of The Flesh

 

Peter was writing to the elect who were sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ. And, in chapter 1, he said, “14As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance. 15But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do.” Then, in chapter 2 he counseled them that they must rid themselves of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander, and that they were to abstain from the desires of the flesh which wage war against their souls. And this counsel is for us, too.

 

So, the impression that I get from this is that it is possible for Christians to, at some point, fall back into sin, depending on the circumstances of their lives, or to still be walking in some sins, if they are new to the faith, or if they are children or the immature or those not trained in the Scriptures. For we are still human, and we are still capable of sin. But this is never ever to be taught as an invitation to continue in any sin just because one is new to the faith or they are spiritually immature or due to difficult circumstances.

 

All throughout the New Testament Scriptures we are being taught that, as followers of Christ, that we must abstain from the desires of the flesh, that we must not continue in sin, but that we must walk in obedience to our Lord and to our Lord’s commands. And we are warned that if we continue in habitual and deliberate sin, and if that is where we remain, and if we do not repent and turn from our sins, and turn back to God, that we will not have salvation from sin, and we will not inherit eternal life with God. Believe it!

 

[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]

 

For God’s Own Possession

 

Now, I have shared my testimony multiple times, so I am not going to go into massive detail here. But I believed in Jesus at age 7, and I lived for the Lord. I was not a rebellious child, and I was a rule follower, for the most part, but I was not a perfect child. I was still a child. But as I grew to adulthood I began to mature in my walk of faith in obedience to my Lord and I served the Lord in teaching the Scriptures, first to children, and then to women, and then to youth, and also in music ministry (I was a singer).

 

But difficult circumstances in my life with regard to how I was being treated by other people, in ways which were not good, which were unkind and unloving, eventually began to weigh heavily on me. And eventually I caved to the weight of it all and I yielded to sin, not just once, but multiple times before the Lord turned me back around. But he did turn me back around, and I never went back. All glory to God! He got me back on track and that is where I have remained, by the grace of God, and in the power of God.

 

For God had a plan for my life, even him knowing well in advance how I would fail him, and the sins that I would commit. For he knew that he would get me back on track, and that he would get me to where he could use me in the way in which he intended, I believe, even before I was formed in the womb of my mother. But I had to rid myself of all the ways in which I was sinning against him so that I could serve him in the calling that he had for me to proclaim him and his righteousness to the people of the world.

 

Jesus is Calling

 

So, here’s the thing. It is not enough for us to just profess faith in Jesus Christ or to live for him only for a time, and then to fall back into sin. He is counseling everyone who professes his name to rid their lives of all sinful habits and practices so that they may mature (grow up) in their salvation, so that they can serve the Lord in the areas of ministry to which he is calling them. For we can’t serve the Lord if we are walking in sin. We can’t be used of him to reach others for Jesus if we are not obeying our Lord in practice.

 

So, if you are aware that you are living in any kind of sin, and that you are not obeying the Lord and his commands, as a matter of life practice, I counsel you with the counsel of the Lord to rid yourselves of it all in the strength of the Lord. Choose to now abstain from the desires of the flesh which wage war against your souls, and put on the full armor of God with which to fight off Satan’s evil schemes against you. And now conduct yourselves with honor and follow the Lord in what he has planned for you.

 

Lord, Move Me 

 

An Original Work / October 16, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Be my desire, my heart set on fire,

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

Fill with Your Spirit, my heart overflow.

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

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

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

 

Lord, how I want to obey You forever.

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

Teach me to love You; adore You always.

Envelope me, Lord, with Your grace today.

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

Forgive me for all things, as I humbly pray.

 

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

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

I love to hear You speak Your words to me.

I am so grateful that You set me free.

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

And I will live with You for eternity.

 

https://vimeo.com/125966625

 

Conduct Yourselves with Honor

An Original Work / July 14, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love