Jesus' Sheep Obey His Voice

“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; 28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.” (John 10:27-30 NASB1995)

Have you ever noticed how many times by how many people only verses 28-30 are what are spoken or repeated or posted of John 10:27-30? Why do you think they do that? Do you realize that they are leaving out the subject matter? For without verse 27 we don’t know who the “they and them” are, do we? So, without the subject matter, how do we know to whom we are to apply verses 28-30? That opens the door to apply those verses to anyone, doesn’t it? But that is what is being done. Verses 28-30 are willfully being applied to a broad audience of people professing faith in Jesus Christ.

But if these verses are being applied to those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, then why leave out verse 27 which states clearly who the intended recipients are? Because they want to apply verses 28-30 to a much broader audience than what verse 27 allows. For verse 27 makes it clear that the recipients of verses 28-30 are the Lord’s sheep whom he knows intimately, who listen to God/Jesus, who heed his voice, and who obey his commands. And his sheep are his church, his body, those who by faith in him have died with him to sin and who are now walking in obedience to his commands.

So, it is purposefully deceptive to leave out verse 27 which states who the recipients are of verses 28-30, and then to apply those verses more broadly to a wider audience which ends up giving these promises meant for a select group to many people who have given lip service only to God, who have not died to sin and who are not living for God in obedience to his commands. But the Scriptures make it quite clear that if we profess to know God and to be in fellowship with God, but while we continue to walk in sin, and not in obedience to our Lord, that we will not inherit eternal life with God.

So, in order to avoid that teaching, they leave out verse 27 so that they can give those promises out to a broader audience who are not being required to die to sin and to obey God’s commands. But they are deceiving the people by giving them a false hope that is not theirs to possess if they have not, by faith in Jesus Christ, died to sin, and if they are not walking in obedience to our Lord’s commands, in practice, by the grace of God, in the power of God. For they don’t have eternal life with God based on lip service only, but only via dying to sin and walking in obedience to our Lord, in the power of 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] 

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

Jesus’ Sheep Obey His Voice

An Original Work / April 21, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Toward Those Who Fear Him

“He has not dealt with us according to our sins,

Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

For as high as the heavens are above the earth,

So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him.

As far as the east is from the west,

So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Just as a father has compassion on his children,

So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.

For He Himself knows our frame;

He is mindful that we are but dust.

As for man, his days are like grass;

As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

When the wind has passed over it, it is no more,

And its place acknowledges it no longer.

But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him,

And His righteousness to children’s children,

To those who keep His covenant

And remember His precepts to do them.” (Psalm 103:10-18 NASB1995)

The fear of the Lord is not just Old Testament teaching. The fear of the Lord is also New Testament teaching. And to fear God is to revere, respect, honor, worship, and obey him. To fear God involves believing that what he says he will do, that he will do it, whether promises of blessings or promises of judgments, and then to act accordingly in obedience to him. It means to do what is right and acceptable to him and to make it our goal to please him. And it involves acceptable worship of God and cleansing ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion. 

[Matthew 10:28; Luke 1:50; Acts 9:31; Acts 10:34-35; Romans 3:10-18; 2 Corinthians 5:6-11; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Philippians 2:12-13; Hebrews 5:7; Hebrews 12:28-29; Revelation 11:18; Revelation 14:7; Revelation 15:4] 

In other words, what is required of us for salvation from sin and for eternal life with God is not in words only, but in faith, attitude, mindset, and behavior. For to believe in Jesus is not of our own doing, but it is persuaded of God and it is gifted to us by God, and so it submits to the will and purpose of God for our lives in dying with Christ to sin and in living for God in his righteousness in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living. It does not demand absolute perfection, but lack of perfection is never to be used as an excuse for deliberate and habitual sin. We must obey God and not sin.

[Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Hebrews 12:1-2; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Peter 2:24]

But is this in keeping with the grace of God? Yes! Absolutely! For the grace of God, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and desires, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for our Lord’s return for his faithful bride (Titus 2:11-14). For it was the grace of God which sent Jesus Christ to the cross to put our sins to death with him so that, by faith in him, we will deny self, die to sin daily, and walk (in conduct) in obedience to our Lord’s commands. And so we will do the works of God he has for us to do (Ephesians 2:8-10).

You are Loving and Forgiving 

Based off Psalm 86

An Original Work / February 19, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

You are loving and forgiving,

Jesus, Savior, King of kings.

You provided our redemption.

By Your blood You set us free.

You are gracious; full of mercy.

No deeds can compare with Yours.

Great are You; there is none like You.

Glory be to Your name.

Teach me Your way, and I’ll walk in it.

O Lord, I will walk in Your truth.

May I not have a heart divided,

That Your name I give honor to.

I will praise You, O Lord, my Savior,

For great is Your love toward me.

You have delivered me from my sins.

Your grace has pardoned me.

You, O Lord, are full of compassion,

Slow to anger, bounteous in love;

Faithful to fulfill all You promise;

Glory be to Your name above.

Hear, O Lord, and answer Your servant.

You are my God. I trust in You.

Turn to me and grant Your strength to me.

You are my comforter. 

https://vimeo.com/117066958

Toward Those Who Fear Him

An Original Work / April 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

An Acceptable Day To The Lord?

Isaiah 58:1-11 NASB1995

“Cry loudly, do not hold back;

Raise your voice like a trumpet,

And declare to My people their transgression

And to the house of Jacob their sins.” (Isaiah 58:1)

This is a long passage of Scripture, so I will summarize most of it, but please read it for yourselves, for it contains an important message for all of us yet today. So, what was the sin of “the house of Jacob”? Basically, it had to do with them going through forms of religious practice but without submission and obedience to God. They prayed, and they fasted, and they gave off an appearance of seeking to know and to do the will of God, but it was surface level only. For it was not evident in their daily practices that God was Lord.

But this part is what is standing out to me:

“Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it for bowing one’s head like a reed and for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to the Lord?” v 5

And the subject matter here does not even have to be fasting. It could be anything, really. For the real subject matter, I believe, has to do with forms of religious practice that have nothing to do with a change of heart and mind and behavior. For one gets up on a Sunday morning and gets dressed for “church” and then “goes to church” where one sits in a chair or in a pew, in a row with other people, and one sings some songs and listens to a sermon, and then one goes home and resumes life as normal until the next week.

That is not church! And that is not a relationship with Jesus Christ. For, first of all “the church” is the people of God. It is all who, by faith in Christ, have died to sin and who are obeying God, in practice, in the power of God. We are those who have surrendered our lives to Jesus Christ to obeying his will and to no longer living in sin. But that does not make us perfect. But we are those whose lives are centered in Christ in doing his will, in going where he sends us, and saying and doing all that he commands, all for his glory.

And collectively we are the body of Christ, his church, and we are all to be ministers of the gospel and ministers to one another in teaching and in encouraging one another to walk in holiness and in righteousness in obedience to our Lord, and to help one another to grow in Christ and to not live in sin. But we are also to minister to one another’s genuine physical needs, and to care for the needs of our family members, too. For faith in Jesus is faith in action, living the kind of life that Jesus lived on this earth.

This is the life of one who is a true follower of Jesus Christ, who doesn’t just go through the motions of religious practice, but who walks the walk and does not just talk it. For Jesus said that if anyone would come after him he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin) and follow (obey) him in practice. And obeying God is obeying his New Covenant commands, and it is living holy lives, pleasing to God. So it requires that we die to sin and now follow the leading of the Lord in doing what he has for us to do.

[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] 

My Heart’s Desire  

Based off Romans 10:1-21; Luke 9:23-26; Ephesians 4:17-24

An Original Work / June 29, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Loved Ones, Oh, my heart’s desire

Is that you might come to Jesus.

Many appear zealous for God,

But they do not trust in Him.

They have not submitted to the One

Who saved them from their sins;

Not forsaken their sins,

Nor have they obeyed their King.

The word of the Lord is near you:

The word of faith we’re proclaiming:

That you must confess your faith

In Jesus as your Lord and King:

Believe in Him as your Lord, 

And follow Him where’er He leads.

Share the gospel; be a witness,

And meet others’ needs.

Beautiful are the feet of those

Who bring the good news of Jesus:

Anyone who would come to Him

Must deny himself today;

Die to sin and self, and

Let the Spirit transform you in heart;

Put on your new self in Jesus,

Yielding to the cross. 

https://vimeo.com/115643303

An Acceptable Day To The Lord?

An Original Work / April 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

God Gives Us The Victory

“The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.” (1 Corinthians 15:56-58 NIV)

All of us one day are going to die a physical death unless Jesus returns before that can happen and he takes his faithful bride to be with him for eternity. But death is not just physical. There is also spiritual death. Those who are of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ, who remain in Christ in obedience to him until the very end, although we may face physical death in our bodies, we will live with Christ for eternity. But those who remain in their sins, making sin their practice, will die in their sins and not live with Christ.

Now, when this Scripture states that the strength of sin is the law, that is a difficult concept to understand, and even the old commentators struggle with its meaning. But it is not teaching that the commands of God are sinful or that they encourage sin. For our Lord’s commands forbid that sin should be our practice, and they teach that righteousness and faithfulness to our Lord must be our practice. But it is teaching that the strength of sin, sin’s evil nature, and the consequences of sin are made known to us by the law.

For, although we who believe in Jesus Christ are not under the Old Covenant liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, circumcision, dietary, and Sabbath laws, we are not to be lawless. God’s moral laws never went away, and obedience to his New Covenant commands are required of us of God as part of biblical faith which saves. For if sin is what we obey, and not God’s commands, then we are not in fellowship with Christ, we don’t know God, and we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God in heaven.

But obeying God’s commands and ceasing to make sin our practice are not something that we can do in our own flesh. For it is God who gives us the victory over sin and Satan and self. It is only because of what Jesus did for us on that cross that any of us can, by faith in Jesus Christ, deny self, die to sin, and obey God and his commands, in practice. For even the faith to believe in Jesus comes from God, is authored by God, is gifted to us by God, and is persuaded of God that we must deny self, die to sin, and obey God.

Therefore, as those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, we are to be steadfast in faith, immovable with regard to our faith in practice, always abounding in the work of the Lord. And what is the work of the Lord? It is the power to deny self, die to sin, and obey his commands, and it is living for him and for his will in the power of God. And it is following his leading in going wherever he sends us, and saying whatever he gives us to say, and doing whatever he commands we must do as his followers, for our toil is not in vain in the Lord.

[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] 

Wake Up!  

Based off Ephesians 5:1-21; Revelation 3:1-6

An Original Work / November 25, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead.

Your God awaits you to do what 

He says to you. 

Be not conformed to your selfish will.

Trust in the Lord. Do what He says. 

He will give you victory.

Do not walk in darkness; 

Come into the light of love.

Listen to your Savior calling

You to obey all His teachings.

Repent of your sin, and 

Christ will shine His love on you.

He waits patiently for you to

Heed His whispers to your heart.

Will you hasten to obey Him;

Not from Him depart?

Live your life from this day forward,

Walking in His love and mercy.

Let Him cleanse you of all your sins.

Dwell with Him today.

Do not insult God’s grace to you.

Do not make light of your sin.

Let the light of His truth come 

And free you from within.

https://vimeo.com/125863007

God Gives Us The Victory

An Original Work / April 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Be Careful That You Don't Fall

The people of Israel who were rescued out of slavery in Egypt, by God, via Moses, were in the wilderness for 40 years before a minority of them were able to enter into the Promised Land. Most of them did not get to go into the Promised Land and they did not get to enter into God’s eternal rest because of unbelief, i.e. disobedience. But a minority of them who were of genuine faith in the Lord, who believed God and did what he said, entered his rest.

“Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: ‘The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.’ We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. We should not test Christ, as some of them did—and were killed by snakes. And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel. These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.” (1 Corinthians 10:6-11 NASB1995)

These were the offenses of those who did not get to go into the Promised Land and into God’s eternal rest. They were idolaters, revelers, drunkards, the sexually immoral, and those who tested Christ and who grumbled against God and against his servant Moses. For they were those who set their hearts on evil things and who did not set their hearts on God and on his Word and on obeying the Lord and his instructions (commands) to them. 

And these things occurred as examples to us to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. And these things happened to them as examples and were written down for us as warnings for us, so that we do not follow their example and do the kinds of evil things that they did, and so be rejected by God. For the Scriptures teach us that if sin and disobedience to God are what we practice that we will not inherit eternal life with God.

“So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall!” v.12

So, what is this teaching us? We can’t just “pray the prayer” to receive Christ and now we are good to go to heaven, done deal, end of story. We can’t just make a profession of faith in Jesus with our lips and think we are now saved for eternity and heaven is now guaranteed us when we die. We have to deny self, die to sin daily, and walk in obedience to our Lord, in practice, if we want to have eternal life with God (see Luke 9:23-26).

For salvation is not lip service only. Because Jesus Christ, in his death on that cross, put our sins to death with him, by faith in him we are now able to die to sin and obey God as a matter of life practice, by his grace. And in his resurrection he conquered death, hell, Satan, and sin on our behalf so that, by faith in Christ, we can now live victoriously over sin in the power of God. For Jesus died to change us, to transform us, and to make us more like him.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; Acts 26:18; 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; Colossians 3:1-17; 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]   

Your Love Offering  

An Original Work / September 13, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Thank You, Lord, for Your love,

Dying on a tree,

So we’d be forgiven,

Live eternally.

Thank You for Your kindness, 

Your love offering, 

When You shed Your blood,

So we could be set free.

Thank You, Lord, for Your cross,

Dying for our sins,

So we’d live in vict’ry,

Purified within.

Thank You, Lord, for Your life

You gave for our sin,

Giving us a new life,

We’re made whole within.

Thank You for Your mercy.

You paid what we owe.

When we turn from our sin,

Your grace freely flows.

Thank You, Lord, for conq’ring

Death and sin and hell,

So we’d walk in freedom,

With You now to dwell.

Thank You, Lord, that You will

Soon come for Your bride.

Perfectly You made her

To with You abide.

Thank You for Your Spirit;

Our God, three in One, 

Giveth us salvation,

Through God’s only Son.

Thank You, Lord, for Jesus!

He’s our King of kings!

He will reign forever!

Our praise to Him bring!!

https://vimeo.com/126318258

Be Careful That You Don’t Fall

An Original Work / April 19, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

In All Your Ways

Proverbs 3:5-7 NIV

 

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart

    and lean not on your own understanding;

in all your ways submit to him,

    and he will make your paths straight.

Do not be wise in your own eyes;

    fear the Lord and shun evil.”

 

If we trust in the Lord with all our heart, it means that our lives are surrendered to him. We have submitted to him as Lord (Owner-Master) of our lives, and our will now is to do his will. We want to do what pleases him, and we do not want to do what is against him and against his commands. Our whole being is given over to him. So, we want to obey him in doing whatever he asks of us and whatever he requires of us all who are following Jesus Christ with our lives. For our whole being is now sold out to God!

 

And if we lean not on our own understanding, that means that we do not make it up ourselves as we go along the way. It means, too, that we don’t trust in other humans to tell us the truth, but we test what they say against the Scriptures, but in the appropriate biblical context. For many liars exist who are teaching the people a false gospel created by deceivers and manipulators who take the Scriptures out of context and twist them to teach what they do not say if taught in the correct biblical context.

 

The NIV says, “In all your ways submit to him..” Most all other translations say, “In all your ways acknowledge him..” If you go to the interlinear you learn that it says, “In all your ways ‘know thou him.’” And then the Pulpit commentary says that this is “not a mere theoretical acknowledgment, but one that engages the whole energies of the soul and sees in God power, wisdom, providence, goodness, and justice.” So, what does that all mean, and why is it so important that I should bring that to your attention?

 

Because in the English language the word “acknowledge” can mean nothing more than a nod of the head or a verbal confession or a mere acceptance that someone or something exists. But it doesn’t necessarily mean agreement or acceptance or participation in any form. But “submit” to, or to “know” him, have much stronger messages of full participation with the Lord and with his commands and his gospel message. For if we submit to God we surrender our lives to him in obedience to his commands, in his power.

 

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).

 

And then he will make our paths straight. And our paths are our lifestyles, the way we live day in and day out, one day after another. And “straight” means upright, godly, morally pure, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to his commands. But God requires our full cooperation. For this doesn’t happen if we choose to keep going our own way, living life however we want to live it. We must submit to God and to his commands, and surrender our all to our Lord to doing his will his way, and not our way.

 

For we are not to be wise in our own eyes, thinking we know what is best for us. And we are not to listen to the lies being spread in the name of “the gospel” in our day and time. But we are to honor, respect, value, submit to, and obey our Lord and his commands. And he says that to come to faith in him that we must deny self, die to sin daily, and follow him in obedience to his commands. For if we go our own way, instead, and continue in sin and in rebellion, we will not inherit eternal life with God. So take this seriously!

 

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

 

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

 

Video talk on the same subject

 

https://youtu.be/OMsIVXwxU0U

 

In All Your Ways

An Original Work / April 19, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Body of Christ

1 Corinthians 12:18-25 NASB1995

But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired. If they were all one member, where would the body be? But now there are many members, but one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary; and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable, whereas our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked, so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

The church is not a place we go to once or twice a week where we sit in rows in chairs or in pews, and then we sing songs picked out by one person, and then we listen to a sermon taught by one person, and then we go home until the next week. We, the people of God, are The Church, the Body of Christ. And all of us who have died with Christ to sin and who are walking in obedience to our Lord are the ministers to the rest of the body of Christ. And we are to be encouraging one another daily so we won’t be deceived by sin.

And all of us who are walking by faith, in obedience to our Lord, letting him guide and direct our lives, are necessary to the proper working of the body of Christ. We are all necessary! And not one of us should consider ourselves not necessary. And we should not treat one another as though we are not necessary to the proper working of the body of Christ. For God has gifted us all with spiritual gifts, and he has assigned all of us our body parts within the universal body of Christ, and we are to be doing what God has assigned.

For me, my body part is to write down what the Lord teaches me each day from his word and to post these writings on the internet. And the Lord brought me here, for there was no room for me in these institutional market-driven “churches” of today where a few select people do all the ministering while the rest of us sit as spectators. I was not wanted because I spoke the truth of the gospel in places where so many have diluted the gospel to appease human flesh. So God placed me where he could use me.

So, all of us who claim Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of our lives, who are walking in obedience to his commands in holy living and no longer as slaves to sin, should pray and ask the Lord to show us our body parts so that we can function in those necessary body parts for the encouragement and strengthening of the rest of the body of Christ. And we won’t all be the same, and we won’t all have the same gifts or functions, but we are all still necessary. And so we should make room for one another, shouldn’t we?

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 28:18-20; John 4:31-38; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:14-18,42-47; Acts 26:18; Romans 10:14-15; Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:11-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20; 1 Peter 2:9,21; 1 John 2:6]

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

 

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