The Church Tolerating Sexual Sin

Being Misled to Sexual Immorality

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

A Call of God to Repent

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Those Who Obey God

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

The Church Tolerating Sexual Sin

An Original Work / July 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Should I Not Preach Jesus

 

Based off 1 Corinthians 9:16-10:13

An Original Work / July 4, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Woe to me should I not preach Jesus.

I’m compelled to preach the full gospel.

I make myself a slave to ev’ryone

To win their hearts to Christ.

All this I do for my Lord Jesus,

And for the sake of His Name;

Do it for the sake of His gospel,

So that I, its blessings gain.

 

Scripture notates the sins of others;

Written down for us as examples

To keep us from setting our hearts

On evil as did those of old.

Do not worship other gods of man;

Do not give your hearts to them;

Not partake in immorality.

Do not test your Lord and King.

 

So, be careful if you think you are

Standing firm in your faith in Jesus.                        

God has given his word to warn us,

So through faith we will not fall.

No temptation has o’ertaken you

Except what is commonplace.

God is faithful to not let you be

Tempted past what you can bear.

He gives the way of escape.

 

https://vimeo.com/116057811

Where the Throne of Satan Sits

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

 

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

 

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

 

They Hold Fast to Christ

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

They Teach the People Lies

 

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

 

Or, if they teach repentance and obedience to God, many teach it as recommended but as optional. For they pervert the grace of God into a license to keep sinning. They teach that God’s grace forgives their sins but does not require that they die to sin and obey God in practice. Few teach that we must die to sin and obey God as believing faith which saves and which promises eternal life with God. But God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives (see Titus 2:11-14).

 

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

 

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

 

Repent, or Else!

 

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

 

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

 

Where the Throne of Satan Sits

An Original Work / July 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Seek the Lord 

 

Based off Isaiah 55

An Original Work / July 20, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Musical Instrumentation by Mark Bradley

 

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

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

And your soul will delight in richest of fare.

Give ear to Me, and you will live.

I have made an eternal covenant with you.

Wash in the blood of the Lamb.”

 

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

Let the wicked forsake his way, in truth.

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

Freely, God pardons him.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways,”

declares the Lord, our God.

 

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

It will not return to Me unfulfilled.

My word will accomplish all that I desire,

And achieve the goal I intend.

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

The mountains will burst into song… before you,

And all of the trees clap their hands.”

 

https://vimeo.com/379408296

Do Not Fear Suffering

Revelation 2:8-10 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“8To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of the First and the Last, who died and returned to life. 9I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.

 

“10Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.”

 

Setting the Stage

 

Now, what I am going to share here I have shared multiple times before, so this will not be new information to most of you. But it is necessary in order to illustrate the message I believe the Lord is leading me to share with you this evening. I believed in Jesus at age 7. I am now 76.5 years old. I walked with the Lord, in fellowship with him, and in obedience to his commands most all my life, not perfectly, but consistently and persistently in my desire to know him, to live for him, and to please him in doing his will for my life.

 

But I did go through a period of time, in the middle there somewhere, where I was led astray to sin against the Lord, at times, in ways I never thought I would ever do. But the Lord did not give up on me, and eventually he brought me back around. And after a few years he called me to this ministry of writing down what I am learning from him from my times spent with him in his word, and then to post these writings on the internet. I have been doing that for about 22 years now, nearly daily for the past 20 years.

 

God’s Calling

 

When I answered God’s call on my life, he was using dreams and visions as parables to help me to understand what he wanted me to learn from his word, as applied to our world today, much like Jesus spoke in parables when he lived on the earth. And he was putting the names of people and places and things I never heard of before, or I knew little about, in my mind. And so I was doing a lot of internet searches at a time when the internet was still pretty wide open and you could find information that is not easy to find now.

 

And then God began teaching me about the Bilderbergs, the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, NATO, the UN, the IMF, the World Bank, the Federal Reserve, Freemasons, Zionism, the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, the deep state, the WHO, Big Pharma, the WEF, the powerful elite, the New World Order, the All-Seeing Eye (national symbol), international law, the UN Bill of Rights, the shadow government, and Washington, D.C. history, etc. And all of this was absolutely new and foreign to me. But I needed to know about these. I needed my eyes opened.

 

Trials and Tribulations

 

But the more the Lord was teaching me about what was going on within my own nation (the USA), and within the world, so much of which I had no clue about before, and the more that I was learning about what the Scriptures teach, in the correct biblical context, things I did not have a clear picture of before, and the more that I was sharing this on the internet, and with some people in person, what all I was learning, the more that some people were distancing themselves from me, or they thought I was “off my rocker.”

 

Over the years, as I have written on topics taught in the Scriptures, or of a biblical nature resulting in having to expose the lies and to proclaim the truth of God’s word, the more some people have backed away and distanced themselves from me, for they thought I was too weird, or too radical, or too honest. And I have had people try to get me to back down, to soften the truth to make it friendlier or to avoid certain topics. But God has called me to expose the lies for what they are and to proclaim the truth of his Word.

 

The Feel Good Stuff

 

So many people today are craving the “feel good stuff,” and they are staying away from the “hard truths” which need to be taught. And it appears that not many people today want to read anything that can’t be read in a couple of sentences or in one paragraph only. The shorter, the better, I think for most people today, from what I can tell. But if you make it too short, it can sometimes lose the truth of what needs to be said, or it can be easily misunderstood without a good explanation of what is actually being taught.

 

So, if you are someone like me who is following the leading of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is leading you to teach on what the Bible teaches on topics that are not the “feel good stuff,” and which have to confront unbiblical teachings, and which call out the lies for what they are, and which teach the hard and necessary truths of the Scriptures, most likely you will be opposed by those who disagree with you, and you may be falsely accused of wrong, and you may be stomped on or blocked or “unfollowed” or whatever.

 

God Knows

 

But the comforting thing in all of this is that God knows your affliction. He is fully aware of the slander against you. And he knew all this was going to take place. And you might recall that he warned you about this in advance. He prepared you for it so you would not be surprised by it (see Jeremiah 1). So don’t let it get to you. Don’t let it defeat you. Do not fear what you are suffering and what you are about to suffer. For God called you to be his messenger in getting out the truth of his word to the people. So persevere!

 

For, things are not going to get better. They are going to get much worse. The devil is on a rampage against you because you speak the truth of God’s word that he doesn’t want the people to hear. And we are living in the last days before the return of our Lord, and things are getting worse by the day. Lies and deception and false gospels and coddling people in their sins are all over the place. So be faithful to the death, and God will give you a crown of life. Do not let how other people treat you get you down. Rest in the Lord!

 

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; John 16:33; Acts 14:22; Romans 5:3-5; 2 Corinthians 1:3-11; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 3:7-11; 1 Thessalonians 3:1-5; Hebrews 12:3-12; James 1:2-4; 1 Peter 1:6-7; 1 Peter 4:12-17; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13] 

 

Do Not Fear Suffering

An Original Work / July 19, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Forever with Us

 

Based off Psalm 46

An Original Work / February 5, 2016

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Be still and know God is over all things.

Throughout the earth, He’ll be honored as King.

The Lord Almighty, forever with us.

He is our refuge when we’re in distress.

 

Therefore, we have not a reason to fear.

Trials will come, but our God is still near.

He is our helper, so we do not fall.

Mountains will quake, but on Jesus we call.

 

Joy to the Church, even if sorrow comes.

Enemies rage, but our faith marches on.

God’s Holy Spirit, now living within,

Gives peace and comfort, and grace without end.

 

https://vimeo.com/154477497

Kindling Useless Fires on God's Altar

Malachi 1:10 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.”

 

Shut the Temple Doors!

 

This is Old Covenant when the temple of God was a physical building that people went to. Today the temple of God is us, the people of God by faith in Jesus Christ. We are the temple, the church, the body of Christ. And, as the body of Christ, the church, we gather together mostly in physical locations, although some of us gather on the internet for fellowship with the body of Christ here because we are not finding it in any physical locations and/or because God sent us to the internet to interact with his people here.

 

I believe God is saying the same thing today about the gatherings of the church in various locations, that those doors would be shut because so many of them are kindling useless fires on his altar, i.e. they are worshipping God in vain with superficial forms of worship and praise to him. For God would rather the doors of the gatherings of the church be shut than for us to offer up to God empty forms of worship of him, which may stir the emotions, but which do not produce changed hearts, minds, and lives for Jesus Christ.

 

Revelation 2:4-5,7 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“4But I have this against you: You have abandoned your first love. 5Therefore, keep in mind how far you have fallen. Repent and perform the deeds you did at first. But if you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place…

 

“7He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the Paradise of God.”

 

Have You Forsaken Your First Love?

 

This passage of Scripture, as a whole, is not all relevant to the subject at hand, but this section of it is, so this is what I will focus on here. And this is Christ speaking to the church. So, what does he mean by saying to the church, the body of Christ in a particular location, that they have abandoned (forsaken) their first love? What is the meaning of the word “love”? It is agape love which prefers what God prefers, which chooses his choices, and which obeys them in his power. So it is morally pure, honest, and faithful.

 

God is love. Jesus is love. So love is preferring God/Jesus, making him number one, in first place in our lives. It is putting him and his commands and his teachings and his callings on our lives in first place above all else. And love is also preferring what God prefers, and obeying his commands. For we can go through all the motions and the rituals of religious practice but sill neglect and abandon our first love, neglecting to put God and his will and his purpose for our lives in first place above all else. He must have preeminence.

 

Religious Rituals and Practices

 

So, how does this relate to kindling useless fires on his altar? I believe it has to do with going through the routines and rituals of religious practice but without Christ truly being Lord (Master/Owner) of our lives. We can sing all sorts of “praise and worship” songs, and call that worshipping God, but if God does not have first place in our lives, if he does not have top priority, and if our lives are not fully surrendered to him, to doing his will, to obeying his commands, then it is not biblical worship of God. It is all in vanity.

 

Therefore, singing songs of worship of God in a gathering of the church in something called a “worship service” does not automatically translate to someone worshipping God. For worship of God is not just in words spoken or sung, but it is in denying self, dying to sin, and obeying our Lord in daily practice, and us no longer living as slaves to sin, by his grace and in his power. True worship of God produces changed hearts, minds, and lives for Jesus Christ, and we should always be in an attitude of worship of God.

 

What is Biblical Worship of God?

 

So, if you are of the mindset that going to a building called “church” once a week, on a Sunday morning, sitting in rows with other people, and then singing along with the “songs of worship,” some or many of which are very watered down, that this is what constitutes genuine worship of God, then you have been ill informed. For true worship of God involves us denying self, dying to sin, and walking in obedience to our Lord, in life practice, and putting Christ in first place in our lives, including singing songs of worship.

 

Therefore, if you have just been going through the routine of what is called “worship” but God/Christ is not first place in your life, and you are still living life for your own selfish desires, doing what pleases your flesh and not what pleases God, as a matter of life practice, then this is a call of God for you to repent (turn from your sin) and live the life that God has for you to live for his glory. Cease from your selfish and sinful desires and now commit your life to following the Lord in obedience wherever he may lead you now.

 

[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]

 

Kindling Useless Fires on God’s Altar

An Original Work / July 19, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

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

They Speak from the World's Perspective

Do Not Believe Every Spirit

 

1 John 4:1-3 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and which is already in the world at this time.”

 

We must be very careful in how we interpret this passage of Scripture, for the English word “confesses” usually represents a verbal acknowledgement only which is never enough in itself to assure that a person either is or is not from God. So if we look at the Greek word “homologéō,” we find that the word has a deeper meaning. It means to speak to the same conclusion as, to be in full agreement with and to align with God. And this is not verbal only. For if we are fully aligned with God it will show in our actions, too.

 

So, we even need to test the English translations (and all translations) of the Scriptures to see whether or not they agree with the Scriptures, as a whole. For in 1 John, chapters 1-3, we learn that if “we say” we have fellowship with God/Christ Jesus, yet we walk (in conduct, in practice) in sin, we lie. And if anyone “says,” “I know Him,” but does not keep (obey) his commands (New Covenant), he is a liar. And the one who “practices” righteousness is righteous, but the one who practices sin is of the devil. Actions speak loudly!

 

So, if we are to test the spirits, we cannot go by people’s confessions only. We cannot trust that just because someone claims to be a follower of Christ that they are who they say they are. For we have many “wolves in sheep’s clothing” among us who are liars, thieves, false apostles, false teachers, deceivers, and manipulators who speak lies to the people. So test what they are teaching against the teachings of the Scriptures taught in the correct biblical context to make sure that their words agree with the Scriptures.

 

We Are From God

 

1 John 4:4-6 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“4You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. 5They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them. 6We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.”

 

So, how do we determine who is from God and who is not from God? We study the Scriptures to learn what they teach qualifies us to be from God or not from God. But we need to study them word by word and book by book in context, for many false teachings are being taught from Scriptures taught out of the appropriate biblical context. But the foundational teaching of the Scriptures is that a true follower of Christ will be someone who has denied self, died to sin (repented), and who is following our Lord in obedience.

 

Now, the Scriptures do not demand that we live in absolute sinless perfection and that we never fail to be all who God requires or desires that we should be. But they do teach that if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to our Lord’s commands, that we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. So it all comes down to what we practice in lifestyle. That is what says who we really are and what we truly believe. And that will come out in the words which we speak and teach, as well.

 

So, if they speak from the world’s perspective then they are most likely teaching that God does not require of us that we repent (turn from) our sins and that we obey God’s commands in practice. Or else they are teaching these as optional and not as required for salvation from sin and for eternal life with God. For they call that “works salvation.” But the Scriptures are clear on this subject. We must die to sin and obey God, in practice, or we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God guaranteed us.

 

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

 

They Speak from the World’s Perspective

An Original Work / July 19, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Teach Them 

 

Based off various scriptures

An Original Work / May 24, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Open up the blinded eyes of

Those who walk in sin’s darkness.

Turn them to the light of Christ

And to His righteousness.

Turn them from the pow’r of Satan.

Turn them to the peace of Christ,

So they may receive forgiveness

And eternal life.

 

Teach them to put off their old selves

And their former way of life,

And to put on their new self,

Reborn to be like Christ;

To not copy worldly customs;

Be transformed in life and mind;

Obey freely His word in them,

Pleasing unto God.

 

Teach them how to love their neighbors

Truly as they love themselves;

Be a witness; share the gospel;

Satan’s lies dispel;

Comfort all who mourn in sadness;

Share Christ’s love and joy today.

Do this through your life and witness

For your Lord always.

 

https://vimeo.com/125485489

What Love Looks Like

1 John 3:11-20 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“11This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 12Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous. 13So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

 

“14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death. 15Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.

 

“16By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. 17If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?

 

“18Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth. 19And by this we will know that we belong to the truth, and will assure our hearts in His presence: 20Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.”

 

What Love Prefers

 

The word “love” in the Greek is “agape,” which means to prefer, in this case to prefer what God prefers, choosing his choices, and obeying them in his power. And God prefers holiness, righteousness, godliness, moral purity, uprightness, faithfulness, honesty, integrity and obedience to his commands, that they should be what we prefer and what we live by as followers of Christ. So God prefers truth and righteousness and he rejects all that is lies, deceptions, and all willful misleadings and misrepresentations of His Word.

 

And we should prefer and reject the same things which our Lord prefers and rejects. Why? Because that is love for God. And that is also love for our fellow humans. For lying to people, even if it is to make them feel good, is not love. Misleading them to avoid being harsh and strong on subjects that matter for eternity is not love. It is hate! And going soft on sin in order to not offend the sinfully addicted is not compassion. It is selfishness, for it is the truth which sets people free, not the lies which tickle itching ears.

 

All So Upside Down!

 

We live in a day and time when so many things are being twisted and traded for something else in order to appease human flesh. And they call that love. They call that kindness. They refer to it as mercy. And they define it as compassion. But in reality, it is none of those. It may sound good, and it may feel good to human flesh, and people may embrace it and love those who teach it, but if you are soft-pedaling the gospel to make it more acceptable and so people will like you, that is the opposite of love.

 

And the word “love” is being flip-flopped to mean the opposite of what agape love looks like. So if you are someone who speaks the truth in love to the people, and who tells them the truth of the gospel, that by faith in Jesus we must deny self, die to sin, and obey God, in practice, you may find that you will be rejected by the majority who prefer a “friendlier” version of the gospel message which does not require that we repent of our sins and that we obey God, in practice. You may be hated for the truth that you speak.

 

Opposition From Others

 

Now, speaking from experience, and I have been at this most of my life, if you are a follower of Jesus Christ, and if you are a student of the Scriptures who studies them in the correct biblical context, and who is a seeker of truth and righteousness, and so you are diligent in making certain, as being led by the Spirit, that what you are teaching/sharing is biblical truth, as far as you understand, and not the lies which are popularized, you will probably face opposition from others who do not hold to the same beliefs as you.

 

And you may have all kinds of accusations hailed at you from those who disagree with what you are sharing as truth. And you may be called all sorts of names, and you may be accused of teaching lies, and you may be accused of not being a Christian or of faking it or of being AI (artificial intelligence) just because what you are sharing from the Word of God does not agree with what other people have come to believe. Well Jesus and the prophets before him and his apostles faced similar treatment, so you are in good company.

 

Laying Down our Lives

 

So, laying down our lives for our fellow Christians (or for those giving lip service to God only) is not just about giving some of our possessions to people who are legitimately in need. For what they need is not just worldly possessions. What they need is for someone to tell them the truth of what God’s word teaches for their deliverance from addiction to sin so they will now love and serve God with their lives in obedience to his commands. Refusing to speak truth is also withholding compassion and genuine love.

 

For when this says that we are to love, not in word and speech, but in action and in truth, it is not teaching that we are to remain silent and to keep from speaking the truth of the gospel. It means that we don’t love in words only, which often is not love at all, but that we demonstrate love by our actions done in truth. And if we are writers on the internet, and not in person with other people, this is our actions done in truth if what we are speaking is the truth that people need to hear, spoken in love, because they need the truth.

 

[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]

 

What Love Looks Like

An Original Work / July 18, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Open My Heart 

 

An Original Work / July 2, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

“Be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil” (Rm. 16:19b).

 

Open my heart. Let Your truth in.

Make of me a servant, pure within;

Sing of Your praise all of my days.

Let Your Spirit transform all my ways.

Jesus Christ died on a cross to

Save me from my sin.

“Repent of sin. Be cleansed within.

Obey all of His commands today.”

 

“Why do you doubt? Why do you fear?

Jesus Christ will wipe away your tears.

He cares for you. He feels your pain.

Die to sin, and life with Him you’ll gain.

Follow Him where’er He leads you.

Talk with Him each day.

Then you will know what He has planned             

For your life before your world began.”

 

“Come unto Me, weary in heart.

Let My love and grace to you impart.

Believe in Me. Trust in My care.

Take your burdens to the Lord in prayer.

He will meet all of your needs,

And give you peace within.

Rejoice in Him! Tell of His love.

He will give you comfort from above.”

 

https://vimeo.com/116072845

Do Not Prefer the World

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

 

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

 

Love Means to Prefer

 

The word “love” in the Greek is “agapaó,” and it means “to prefer.” It is most often used in the Scriptures with regard to preferring what God prefers, to choosing his choices, and to obeying them in his power. It has to do with preferring all that is holy, righteous, godly, morally pure, upright, faithful, honest, and obedient to God and to his commands. But in this current context here it is speaking of loving (preferring) the world, which would be to prefer what is sinful, wicked, immoral, dishonest, and unfaithful.

 

Sadly, it appears as though the majority of those professing faith in Jesus Christ here in the USA are in the category of preferring the world over and above God. For so many are believing a cheapened form of the gospel of Christ which states that we don’t have to repent of (die to) sin or obey God, and we can still be saved and on our way to heaven. Or they may teach that we should obey God and put sin to death, but they don’t require that for salvation from sin and for eternal life with God, although God indeed does!

 

Preferring The World

 

So, if we prefer the desires (lusts) of the flesh, the desires (lusts) of the eyes, and the pride (empty boasting, arrogance, wandering, roaming) of life in this sinful world, this is in place of preferring what God prefers. This is not of God but of human sinful flesh. So this has to do with preferring to sin deliberately and habitually rather than to obey God and to live holy lives. It is preferring sexual immorality to moral purity, and lies to honesty, and adultery to faithfulness to both God/Jesus and to marriage partners, etc.

 

What does this say about if we prefer what is of the world over and in place of what is of God? It says that the love of the Father is not in us. And this is taught all throughout the New Testament, not in these same exact words, but with the same message. For we are taught that if our faith in Christ is genuine biblical faith that it will result in us repenting of (dying to) sin and obeying our Lord. But if disobedience to God and sinful practices are what remain, and what we do in practice, we don’t have eternal life with God.

 

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

 

The World is Passing Away

 

So we must pay close attention to what this teaches us because our salvation is dependent on us knowing and believing the truth and not the lies. A true believer in Jesus Christ should be dedicated to the Lord and to his service with a hunger for God and his truth, and with a sincere desire to do his will. So, if you profess faith in Jesus Christ, convinced that heaven is now your eternal destiny and that all your sins are forgiven, but then you continue in deliberate and habitual sin, and not in walks of obedience to our Lord’s commands, you do not have salvation from sin and eternity with God.

 

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).

 

Do Not Prefer the World

An Original Work / July 18, 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