The Two Paths

Psalm 1:1-6 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“1 Blessed is the man

who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,

or set foot on the path of sinners,

or sit in the seat of mockers.

2But his delight is in the Law of the LORD,

and on His law he meditates day and night.

3He is like a tree planted by streams of water,

yielding its fruit in season,

whose leaf does not wither,

and who prospers in all he does.

4Not so the wicked!

For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

5Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,

nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

6For the LORD guards the path of the righteous,

but the way of the wicked will perish.”

 

The Counsel of The Wicked

 

So what is the counsel of the wicked that we are not to walk in? Well, it can be many different things, but the primary one of concern here is those who counsel us that we can believe in Jesus Christ and have heaven secured for us for when we die, and yet we do not have to cease from sin and we do not have to obey God and His commandments (New Covenant), for they call that “works salvation,” which is a lie. For they offer a protection from hell, which is a nothing gospel, which circumvents God’s restrictions, i.e. His commands.

 

The Path of The Sinners

 

What is the path of the sinners? It is the way of sin, of unrighteousness, of godlessness, of immorality, wickedness, homosexuality, sexual idolatry, sexual immorality, lying, cheating, stealing, unfaithfulness, adultery, envy, drunkenness, greed, reviling, swindling, gossiping, slandering, and the like. And this is not to say that we, as followers of Christ will never commit sin, but the Scriptures teach us that if sin is our practice, and not obedience to God and to His commands, that we will not inherit eternal life with God.

 

List of specific sins and put offs and put ons taught in the Scriptures:

 

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

 

The Seat of Mockers

 

Who are the mockers? They can be non-Christians who attack Christians and their beliefs and who persecute followers of Christ for their faith in the Lord Jesus. Or they can be nominal Christians, those who profess faith in Jesus with their lips, including pastors of “churches,” who are the ones teaching and/or accepting the false gospel message, mentioned above, which permits sinners to continue in sin and which gives them permission to not obey God. They will mock those of us who are teaching the biblical gospel of Christ.

 

The Righteous Who Obey God

 

When Jesus Christ gave His life up for us on that cross it was to put our sins to death with Him so that, by faith in Him, a faith which comes from God and is not of our own making, we will now deny self, die to sin daily, suffer for the sake of righteousness, and follow our Lord in obedience to His commands. Again, this is not to say we will now be perfect in every respect or that we might never sin again (see 1 John 2:1-2), but that sin must no longer be our practice. Now obedience to God is to be what we practice.

 

We are regarded by God as the upright, the godly, and the morally pure who walk in His ways, in His truth, and in His righteousness as a matter of life practice, in the power of God, as being led by the Holy Spirit. We are not those who have bought into a cheapened “gospel” so that we can keep on sinning without guilt and without remorse. For we honor God and His Word and His commands out of love for Him, and out of a desire to do what pleases Him, and because we no longer crave sin, but righteousness.

 

The Wicked vs The Righteous

 

The wicked are all (whether or not they profess faith in Jesus Christ) for whom sin is still their practice, their habit, their go to, and for whom obedience to God is not their practice. For they include the self-indulgent, the selfish, the addicted to sexual immorality, liars, deceivers, egocentrics, manipulators, the untrustworthy, malicious, morally unclean, corrupt, dishonest, perverted, and crooked, etc. who do not honor God with their lives even if they profess to be Christians who say they love Jesus.

 

The righteous, in the sight of God, are, on the other hand, those who honor God with their lives, who obey His commands in life practice, and for whom sin is no longer their habit, their practice, what they keep going back to over and over again. They are most likely not absolutely perfect in every way possible, and who never fail to be all who God wants them to be. But they are followers of Christ who do His bidding and who live to please God and who follow Him wherever He leads them. They 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 Two Paths

An Original Work / November 10, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Near the Cross 

 

Hymn lyrics by Fanny J. Crosby, 1869

Music by William H. Doane, 1869

 

Jesus, keep me near the cross;

There a precious fountain,

Free to all, a healing stream,

Flows from Calvary's mountain.

 

Near the cross, a trembling soul,

Love and mercy found me;

There the bright and morning star

Sheds its beams around me.

          

Near the cross! O Lamb of God,

Bring its scenes before me;

Help me walk from day to day

With its shadow o'er me.

 

Near the cross I'll watch and wait,

Hoping, trusting ever,

Till I reach the golden strand

Just beyond the river.

        

In the cross, in the cross,

Be my glory ever,

Till my raptured soul shall find

Rest beyond the river.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5C9FfVA-OI

 

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God is Able to Keep You from Stumbling

Jude 1:24-25 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“24Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy— 25to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority through Jesus Christ our Lord before all time, and now, and for all eternity. Amen.”

 

If we are in Christ, by biblical faith in Jesus Christ, and so we have died with Christ to sin, and we are now walking in fellowship with Him in obedience to His commands, in the power of God; if He is truly our Lord and master, then we have nothing to fear. It doesn’t mean we won’t ever feel fear, for to feel fear warns us of danger ahead so that we can be ready for what is coming, and so we can pray for the strength we need to endure whatever is coming next, and for the wisdom to make the right choices, and to trust God fully.

 

If we are truly in Christ, by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in Him, He can keep us from falling back into sin if our trust is securely in Him and if it is not in ourselves, in our own flesh. He can keep us from falling if we do not let fear overtake us and believe the lies of the enemy which are against us that say we’re helpless against the temptations of the flesh. He can keep us from falling if we do not compromise with the world of sin and give in to the temptations of the flesh. He will empower us to obey Him if we are willing.

 

But we have to want to obey Him. We have to want to die to sin and to follow Jesus Christ with our lives in surrender of our wills to the will of God. And we have to not tempt fate, i.e. we have to not take foolish risks and think we can go “this far” and that we will not go further. We have to set boundaries for ourselves and not put ourselves in positions where we might be tempted. And we have to remove from our lives everything possible that might present a temptation for us, that might trip us up so that we fall.

 

So our hearts have to be right with God. “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person.” “The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.” So if the heart is filled with lust, sinful desire, hatred, unforgiveness, pride, selfishness, and idolatry, this is what will be produced in the person’s life.

 

See: Matthew 15:17-20; Luke 6:45; etc.

 

So if we feed the flesh, and not the Spirit, i.e. if we continually take into our minds and hearts what is pure garbage (sinful, hateful, lustful, prideful), that is what we will produce. For you may have heard the old saying, “garbage in, garbage out.” We are not going to have pure hearts and minds if we are allowing ourselves to be consumed by what is impure and immoral and wicked, and if that is what we approve of. For one little compromise can lead to another and to another, until now it is a huge compromise with sin.

 

Many people professing faith in Jesus Christ, though, are continuing in sin because they have been fed a bunch of lies coming from Satan, and they have adopted those lies into their daily lives, and they have, thus, rejected the truth of the gospel as taught by Jesus and by His New Testament apostles, taught in the correct biblical context. For they want to continue in their sin, but they also want the assurance that when they die they will not end up in hell. But they cannot have it both ways. It doesn’t work that way.

 

So if you are someone who is struggling with sinful addiction, probably more often than not in the area of sexual immorality, please know that Jesus Christ made a way out for you from sin so that you can serve Him with your life in walks of obedience to His commands. But you have to bow to Him in submission to His will. You have to, by the grace of God, deny self, die to sin, and obey God in life practice, in the power of God. And you have to cooperate with God and with His work of grace or you will never be free.

 

[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]

 

God is Able to Keep You from Stumbling

An Original Work / November 9, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Blessed Be Your Name

 

by Matt Redman

 

In the land that is plentiful

Where Your streams of abundance flow

When I'm found in the desert place

Though I walk through the wilderness

 

When the sun's shining down on me

When the world's 'all as it should be'

On the road marked with suffering

Though there's pain in the offering

 

Blessed be the name of the Lord

 

You give and take away

You give and take away

My heart will choose to say

Lord, blessed be Your name

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw4H5t3TwHM

 

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What Do You See?

What do you see when you look outside?

Do you see squirrels trying to hide?

Do you see birds flying in the air,

As though they have not got any care?

Do you see grass growing in the yard?

Do you see water flowing not from far?

Do you see clouds rising in the sky?

Do you see bushes housing butterflies?

Or do you see pain and sorrow, life now dead?

Do you envision what now lies ahead?

Do you see buildings burning, death in store?

Do you weep over this, this scene abhor?

Do you see politicians lie through teeth?

Do you see professing Christians live beneath?

What’s your view now of the world you see?

Do you see people now in harmony?

What’s your perspective of the world about?

Does it cause questions for you, so you doubt?

Do you wonder ‘bout to tomorrow, what ‘twill bring?

Are you far left in thinking, or right-wing?

Joy in what God created, there’s no doubt,

Hurts to see it destructed, flood or drought.

Painful to see so many lose their homes,

Painful to see so many from God roam.

Life is full of joys, but sorrows, too,

Future so uncertain, painful, too,

What tomorrow brings, we do not know,

But our God is sovereign, He does show.

With your circumstances trust Him now.

Leave your sins behind you, to Him bow.

Obey His commandments, do His will.

He’ll give peace within you, just be still.

An Original Work / January 19, 2025

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Devoid of The Spirit

I am reading in Jude 1:3-23 about certain men who have crept in among us, largely unnoticed and not recognized for who they truly are, and for what they are really about. For they pretend to be of God, and to be following Jesus Christ with their lives, but in truth they are the ungodly, the immoral, and liars who turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality. And they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ (see verses 3-4). For they teach we don’t have to repent of our sins and we don’t have to obey God’s commands. For they call that “works salvation.” But that is not the truth!

These are some of their character traits:

• They are dreamers who defile their bodies and reject authority

• They slander what they do not understand

• They shamelessly feast with you at your love feasts

• But while they are shepherding only themselves

• They are carried along by the winds of various teachings

• They are wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shame

• They are wandering stars for whom darkness is reserved

• They are the ungodly engaged in ungodly and wicked acts

• They are ungodly sinners who speak harsh words against God

• They are grumblers following after their own lusts

• They flatter others for their own advantage

• They are scoffers who follow after their own ungodly desires

• They are worldly people who are devoid of the Spirit

So, these are people who pretend to be Christians, to be followers of Jesus Christ, to be in communication with God, and to be following His leading in their lives. They will talk religion, and they may even be very convincing, but they will twist the Scriptures to their own advantage to make them say what gives them permission to live as they do without guilt and without remorse and without just punishment. For, in truth, they are liars and deceivers who teach lies to the people for their own gratification but which will send them to hell if they do not deny self, die to sin, and obey God by faith in Him.

Some of them, however, who may admit some of their moral failures, may also fake a return to Jesus Christ as Lord of their lives, but not in truth. And they may even convince their own minds that what they are doing is right and just and honest. And they may do this to impress others or to regain the trust of others they may have lost, but it is all a lie, a deception, to convince others that they are on a good path while the opposite of that is true, in reality. For they are still living in adultery against God, refusing to bow the knee to God in humble submission and in surrender to His perfect will.

Keep Yourselves in The Love of God

“20But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life. 22And indeed, have mercy on those who doubt; 23save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh” (Jude 1:20-23 Berean Standard Bible).

We, as followers of Jesus Christ, are not to be swayed by these liars who teach lies to the people. We are not to be fooled by them, for they may be very charming, winsome, and convincing people who know just the right words to speak in order to deceive naïve minds and hearts. But we must test everything they say against the Scriptures taught in their appropriate and correct biblical context. For many lies are being taught from Scriptures taken out of context which are then made to say what they do not teach if taught in the correct biblical context. So test them all, and follow God always.

Believe what Jesus and His apostles taught, that by faith in Jesus Christ, which comes from God, and not from ourselves, we must deny self, die to sin daily, and follow Him in obedience to His commands. This doesn’t mean we will be absolutely perfect in every respect from that moment forward, or that we will never sin against God ever again (1 John 2:1-2). But the Scriptures make it quite clear that if sin remains our practice, and not obedience to God, that we will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. So we need to believe that and follow Jesus in obedience.

[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] 

Devoid of The Spirit

An Original Work / November 9, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

He Gives Purpose  

An Original Work / June 9, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

“Listen to Me when I’m calling to you.

Obey freely My word.

Follow Me in all of My ways.

Do all that I say.

Hear Me gently whisper to you

My will for your life and future.

Give all of your life and heart to

Follow Me always.”

Repent of your sins and worship Jesus.

He’s your Lord and Master.

He died for your sins so you could

Live with Him today.

He has a plan for your life and

He gives purpose and direction.

He gives meaning to your life,

So follow Him today.

“I love you so much I gave My life for

You to walk in My ways,

Living for Me each day as you

Bow to Me and pray.

Witness for Me of your love for Me and

Of My grace and mercy,

How I died to save you of your

Sins now and always.”

https://vimeo.com/119038798

I Want to Remind You

Jude 1:5-7 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“5Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe. 6And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day. 7In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.”

 

Needing Reminders

 

We all need reminders, don’t we? The older I get (almost 77 years old) the more I need them. I have to make myself notes, mark things in my calendar, set alarms for myself so I don’t lose track of time, and ask others to remind me. And I need to be willing to be reminded of things by others that I may have forgotten, or that slipped my mind, for I am at that age when things can go out of my mind as quickly as they came into my mind. Writing is now taking much longer than it used to, and I have to proofread multiple times.

 

I can so easily forget some of the simplest of things, things I may have known most of my life but which can now just slip right out of my memory. I can forget how to do routine things I do every day on the computer, so I am now starting to write myself reminder notes, which only help me if I remember that I have the reminder notes and where I keep them. And if you are close to my age, you may identify with what I am sharing with you here. And if you haven’t noticed, the Bible repeats the same stuff over again.

 

Although You are Fully Aware

 

Not all of us are “fully aware” of everything the Scriptures teach us. So, for some people, they may be hearing these things for the first time. Even us old timers, who have studied the Scriptures for 50 years or more, may be hearing these things for the first time. But what Jude is describing here, we can read about in the books of Exodus and maybe also Leviticus. But this story is repeated for us throughout the Old Testament and New Testament Scriptures (see: 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13).

 

Anyway, God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – delivered His people out of slavery in Egypt via His servant Moses, who He assigned to this job. And He did kill the Egyptians who were chasing after the Israelites to bring them back under slavery (or to kill them). But later on, in the wilderness, He ended up killing the majority of His people who refused to obey His commands and who engaged in idolatry, revelry, drunkenness, sexual immorality, disobedience and rebellion against God/Christ Jesus.

 

Sodom and Gomorrah

 

The primary sin they committed was sexual immorality, which is including homosexuality. And God’s Word still speaks against all sexual sin, adultery, and idolatry, which are three in one. Sexual immorality seems to top most lists of sins in the Scriptures. And the Scriptures do separate sexual immorality from the others as though it is a worse sin than the others, for it is a sin against one’s own body, which should belong to Christ, who is our husband with us as His bride, and to one’s spouse (if the person is married).

 

1 Corinthians 6:18: “Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.”

 

And sexual immorality of many kinds, including homosexuality, is probably the predominant sin in the lives of multitudes who profess faith in Jesus Christ (in USA), primarily males (including nearly half of pastors), but including women and children, too. Most of this appears to be connected to the viewing of pornographic images and to self-gratification. So many men (mostly men) and some women are addicted to sexual sin, and so they are living in idolatry and in adultery against Jesus Christ and against spouse.

 

They Will Die

 

All people who are living in sin, who are living in addiction to any addictive sin, but most especially sexual immorality, who are not obeying God and His commands, as a matter of life practice, they will not have salvation from sin and eternal life with God if they do not repent of (turn from) their sin and now follow our Lord in obedience to His commands. For if sin is our practice, and not obedience to God, we will not inherit eternal life with God. For faith = obedience, and disobedience = unbelief (see Hebrews chapters 3-4).

 

[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]

 

I Want To Remind You

An Original Work / November 8, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

For those still walking in sin and not in obedience to God’s commands:

 

Broken Cord

 

An Original Work / August 29, 2018

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Your bond is broken with your Lord and Savior

And your testimony is separate from Him.

Your words not matching your actions today.

Repent of your sin and bow down and pray.

Live what you testify in truth always.

 

Purity’s lacking in your life and witness,

For you profess one thing, but other you do.

Not moral, spiritual. Still of the flesh.

Not living in truth to what you confess.

Lying about it puts you in a mess.

 

Living a lie is your practice, ‘tis true of you.

Masquerade righteousness – none of it true.

Your heart is not given to your Lord God.

Because of how you live, you are a fraud.

Turn from your sin and give your life to God.

 

https://vimeo.com/287303934

Tears Were in His Eyes

One day as I was walking along a lonely road,

I came across a person of whom I’d not been told.

He was not one prestigious – Not in the eyes of man.

He looked like one deserted, like one whom they had banned.

He had a sad composure, for tears were in his eyes.

And as I now observed him, then I began to cry.

I wondered what had hurt him. I wondered why so sad.

Why was he now deserted? Had he done something bad?

I listened to his story. I did not interrupt.

On him I had compassion. I found him not corrupt.

I learned He was our Savior who died for all our sins,

So we could be forgiven and we now live for Him.

So why was He deserted? Because of all the lies,

So many now reject Him, for they His grace deny.

His grace which calls, “Repentance,” 

His grace which says, “Obey,”

His grace which speaks, “Forgiveness,”

This grace, do not betray.

An Original Work / January 18, 2025

Reposted on November 8, 2026, w/slight editing

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

“And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life” (1 John 5:11-12 Berean Standard Bible).

The Lord led me today to make a video recording of this poem and to post it on YouTube. In the video I shared that the poem was more like a parable, like something to illustrate for us what it looks like when people reject the true biblical Jesus and His biblical gospel. And those who do that include many who profess faith in Jesus with their lips but who are believing a lie and not the truth of the gospel. 

For they think if they confess Jesus Christ as Lord that they are guaranteed forgiveness of all sins and eternal life with God, regardless of whether or not they keep on in deliberate and habitual sin and not in obedience to God and to His commands. But the Scriptures teach we must deny self, die to sin, and obey God and His commands in life practice if we are to have forgiveness of sins and eternal life with God.

[Acts 26:18; Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1-3; etc.]

Link to the video recording:

https://youtu.be/ZMbbkfYx5qw

Whoever Abides in God

1 John 4:15-17 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him. 17In this way, love has been perfected among us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment; for in this world we are just like Him.”

 

A Caution

 

Before you draw any conclusions about what this is teaching, please read all of 1 John, for it is very easy to misread what this is teaching if you do not read this in its full context. For this word “confesses” is not just about a verbal confession (admission) with your lips that Jesus Christ is Lord. The word means to agree with God, to be of the same mind as God, to speak to the same conclusion as God. So it means to agree that Jesus is not only the Son of God but that He is God, for God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

 

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.

 

So please understand that lip service alone is not enough for us to have a relationship with Jesus Christ and to be saved from our sins and to have the hope of eternal life with God. Just because we claim it with our lips doesn’t make it a reality in our lives. We may know all the right words to say, but if we are not living what we profess with our lips, then it is just garbage. It is just dung to be flushed down the toilet. For it is words spoken that have no backing to them. For we must deny self, die to sin, and obey God in practice.

 

Abiding in Love

 

God is love. So to abide in love is to abide in God. And to abide in God is to obey God, to follow Jesus Christ wherever He leads us, to die to sin, and to comply with God and with His commands (New Covenant). It means we conform to, adhere to, act in accordance with, and we continue in the will and purpose of God for our lives which we are taught in the Scriptures, which we must read in their full and appropriate biblical context to get the correct understanding of what they are actually teaching us.

 

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

 

So, if we want to have confidence on the day of judgment that God abides in us, and us in Him, and thus we have salvation from sin and the hope of eternal life with God, we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and obey God and His commands as a matter of life practice, all in the power of God, and as being led by the Holy Spirit. For not everyone who calls Him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

 

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; 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]

 

Whoever Abides in God

An Original Work / November 8, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Seek the Lord 

 

Based off Isaiah 55

Musical Instrumentation by Mark Bradley

An Original Work / July 20, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

“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.”

 

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