Victory Over Addiction to Sin

Matthew 19:23-26 NIV

 

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

 

25When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?” 26Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

 

The “gods” They Worship

 

Why do you think that it is difficult for rich people to be saved from their sins and to have eternal life with God? I believe it is because they own so much, and they have so much money, and so many possessions, that the things of this world end up becoming their “gods” in place of God becoming their God. They want to hold on to their riches and to their possessions, but they know that faith in Jesus Christ means total surrender to the Lord, and so they fear if they surrender to the Lord that he will require of them that they give up much or all of their worldly possessions, and they don’t want to lose them.

 

But I believe this story isn’t just about rich people. This is about anyone who is holding on to anything they are unwilling to surrender to the Lord and so it keeps them from being genuinely delivered out of their bondage to sin so that they can now serve the Lord with their lives. And what comes to mind is anyone who is addicted to any particular sinful habit who is unwilling to let go of it in order to follow our Lord in obedience to his commands. They can’t be saved from their sins because they are unwilling to deny self, die to sin, and surrender their all to the Lord to obey him and his commands.

 

With Man This is Impossible

 

Ephesians 2:8-10 BSB

 

“9For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9not by works, so that no one can boast. 10For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.”

 

When I read “With man this is impossible” in the passage in Matthew, it immediately brought to mind this passage of Scripture in Ephesians 2. Why? Because this passage teaches us that our salvation is not from ourselves, i.e. “with man this is impossible.” None of us, in our own flesh, of our own will and purpose, by our own “good works” can ever earn or deserve our own salvation. We can never be “good enough” to be right with God of our own doing, of our own flesh. But our salvation is not absent of works, but they are the works of God which God prepared in advance that we should do.

 

And that took me to the subject of addiction to sin and gaining victory over addiction to sin. Many people are trying to do this in their own flesh, and it just isn’t working. They read all the books on this subject, and they read internet teachings on this subject, and they receive psychological counsel, and other people’s advice. And so they try these things, and they may work for a while, but for many (or most) of them, what they try to do in their own flesh eventually fails. Why? Usually because they fail to surrender it all to the Lord. It is that “treasure” that they don’t want to have to give up.

 

Victory is Possible with God

 

Luke 9:23-24 BSB

 

23Then Jesus said to all of them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me. 24For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.”

 

So, this is the solution. You want to have victory over addiction to sin, and deliverance from slavery to sin, and eternal life with God? You have to let go and let God. You have to deny self, take up your cross daily (die daily to sin and to self), and follow Jesus in obedience to his commands, and in surrender to his will, all in the power of God at work within those of genuine faith in Christ. You can’t do it in your own flesh, of your own human effort. This faith which brings salvation is not from ourselves. In our own flesh we can never be good enough to be saved from our sins. So surrender to 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]

 

Video Talk on the same topic:

 

https://youtu.be/uFvOx5nstSY

 

He Lifted Our Burdens

 

Based off Isaiah 9:2-7

An Original Work / February 15, 2014

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

People walk in darkness. They abide in their sin.

It has power o’er them. True belief escapes them.

 

Jesus Christ came to save them. He gave His life up for them;

Crucified; died for our sin, so we might be forgiven,

And have life up in heaven.

 

Many come to know Him. God’s love now o’erflows them.

They rejoice in vict’ry. Their sin is but hist’ry.

 

We were once bound in slav’ry. Jesus lifted our burdens;

Set us now free from Satan, so we now walk in freedom.

Sin has no more dominion.

 

Praise be to our Savior! He showed us His favor.

He took all our burdens; cast them all upon Him.

 

He is our mediator; The Light which shines in darkness.

Counselor in our troubles; He gives peace now in our hearts;

Joy which is everlasting.

 

https://vimeo.com/86854416

 

Victory Over Addiction to Sin

An Original Work / July 6, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

My Testimony

Hebrews 4:14-16 BSB

 

“14Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess. 15For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin. 16Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.”

 

Recap: In Hebrews 3-4 we are warned against falling back into sin and into disobedience to our Lord, thus falling away from our fellowship with Jesus Christ. And we are warned against hardening our hearts and rebelling against the commands of our Savior, and then remaining there for a long time. And we are encouraged to listen to the voice of the Lord, to put sin to death in our lives, and to walk (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to our Lord and to his commands if we want salvation and eternal life with God.

 

My Testimony

 

I believed in Jesus at age 7 and I followed the Lord with my life. I was involved in Christian ministry most of my life, walking with the Lord, obeying his commands, and following his leading, although I was not perfect. But then I had a difficult pregnancy with my last child which resulted in me needing to have a hysterectomy mid-1981. And then my hormones went crazy after that. And I began to experience early menopause symptoms. So I was at a stage in my life where I was very emotionally vulnerable.

 

At the same time, I was going through a healing process with regard to the sexual and physical and emotional abuse I had suffered at the hands of my father. So I cried a lot!! All those memories, most of which I had forgotten, were beginning to surface, and I was giving them over to the Lord, praying them through one by one. And I had few people supporting me through this process, and some who were against me. And I was caring for my four small children at the same time. But I was relying on the Lord to get me through.

 

Seven Years Passed

 

Seven years passed and we were now living in another town in a different state where the people were not friendly to outsiders. If you were not “one of them” you were not wanted. And many of us “outsiders” received the same treatment. And the menopausal symptoms were increasing, but I was considered too young to be going through that, so I was written off by most doctors. So, I was lonely and afflicted, in need of good friends and Christian fellowship, and my husband was travelling a lot with his job. I was hurting!

 

Now, as both my husband and I have shared before, without me knowing it, I had married a man who was addicted to sexual sin, which is where he remained, but where he says he is now gaining victory. I pray that he is! And rather than my husband supporting me in this time, and helping me through it, he took advantage of my weakness, instead, and he pushed me into joining in with him in his sin. I still had a choice. I could have said no. So I am at fault for allowing that to happen and for me to sin with my husband.

 

Another Seven Years Passed

 

My sins against the Lord continued on and off for a period of about seven years with breaks in between where I would get back on track in following the Lord and then something would happen that would lead me back into sin, usually having to do with my husband. And my husband and I have both confessed this publicly, and he is presently writing his story on an internet site called “Substack,” so what I am sharing is no secret. This has been out in the open for the past 8 years. But this was a real severe battle for me.

 

The last year of returning to this sin had a break of seven years prior to that. So it was like six years on, seven years off, and then one more year added on to a total of seven years battling with this sin. And that year was in 2000, the year both of my parents died, which was an emotionally difficult year for me. And then I got very serious about confronting this sin and conquering it in the power of God. And he showed me I was not forgiving Jesus for not rescuing me from my father, and so I forgave him, and he delivered me.

 

And Then..

 

The year was 2004. My husband and I were training to be church planters. I was going for my consecration and he was going for his ordination on the promise that he was no longer living in sexual sin, which turned out not to be true. But the Lord had a different plan for me. He had a calling for my life which was his calling even before I was formed in the womb of my mother, even with him knowing all the battles I would face throughout my life, even with him knowing that I would struggle with sexual sin for a period of seven years. But his plan was to use me to be his voice to the people of the world.

 

Could he have struck me dead and sent me to hell when I turned my back on him to follow my husband in sexual sin? Yes! He could have! But he had a plan and a purpose for my life. Because of his grace and mercy I am where I am today, doing what I am doing, writing down what the Lord is teaching me from my times spent with him daily in his word, and then placing these writings on the internet for a herald to “Run With It,” the name of my blog. And I closed that door shut on my past life, never to be reopened. Amen!

 

A Believer’s Prayer

 

An Original Work / July 31, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

With my whole heart, Lord, I pray

To be Yours, and Yours always.

Lead me in Your truth today.

May I love You, and obey.

Lead me in Your righteousness.

When I sin, may I confess;

Bow before You when I pray;

Live for You and You always.

 

Love You, Jesus, You’re my friend.

Life with You will never end.

You are with me through each day,

Giving love and peace always.

You will ne’er abandon me.

From my sin You set me free.

You died on that cruel tree,

So I’d live eternally.

 

Soon You’re coming back for me;

From this world to set me free;

Live with You eternally.

Oh, what joy that brings to me.

I will walk with You in white;

A pure bride, I’ve been made right

By the blood of Jesus Christ;

Pardoned by His sacrifice.

 

https://vimeo.com/114796263

 

My Testimony

An Original Work / July 6, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

P.S. I have my husband’s approval to share this with you today.

The Thoughts and Intentions of The Heart

Hebrews 4:12-13 BSB

 

“12For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.”

 

In Context

 

In context, the people who professed faith in Jesus Christ were being warned against thinking that they were secure in their salvation and in eternal life with God based off lip service only, it appeared. And they were being told that they were the church, the body of Christ, the people of God via faith in Jesus Christ only if they continued in their walks of faith in obedience to our Lord’s commands and if they did not revert to living in sin (in disobedience).

 

They were to see to it, thus, that none of them had a wicked heart of unbelief that turned away from the living God and that turned back to living in sin. For, belief in Jesus Christ requires obedience to God’s commands and death to sin. And those who continue in sin, and who do not obey God, in practice, will not have salvation from sin and eternal life with God (see Hebrews 3-4). For faith = obedience, and disobedience = unbelief.

 

The Word of God

 

What is “The Word of God”? Jesus Christ is “The Word.” And the teachings in the Scriptures are “The Word of God.” But they must be read and taught in the correct biblical context, for many people today are teaching lies from the Scriptures taught out of context. And we must be careful to make certain we are using a reliable Bible translation (if more than one is available to us), for there are some which teach contrary to the Word of God. So be discerning!

 

Does The Word of God provide us with encouraging words? Yes! Absolutely! Yet, The Word also must cut to the heart and soul of humans to convict us of sin and to warn us against false teachings, and to warn us against returning to sin and to disobedience to God, and the consequences thereof. The Word must serve also as judge of the thoughts and the intentions of our hearts, to expose evil for what it is, and to call us to repent of sin and to obey God.

 

Everything Exposed

 

There are people professing faith in Jesus Christ today for whom sin is still what they practice, and not obedience to God and to his commands (under the New Covenant). And many of them are sinning secretly where no one else can see what they are doing. And the access to Smart Phones (to the internet), in the secrecy of the phone facing them only, to where no one else can see what they are viewing, is opening the door wide to all kinds of sin.

 

But nothing is hidden from God’s sight. And I am well aware that some people are teaching that if you “prayed the prayer” to receive Christ that God can no longer see what you do. But that is a lie from hell. God can see, and he does judge, and he judges everyone according to their deeds. And we must all give an account to God for what we did with what we’ve been given. And many will be denied eternal life because they disobeyed God.

 

Please read what these Scriptures teach with regard to faith in Jesus Christ, what that looks like biblically, and with regard to how we live and the words that we speak and the things which we practice. For Jesus taught that if we want to come after him we must deny self, die to sin daily, and follow him in obedience. For if sin is what we obey, in practice, and not obedience to God, we will not have eternal life with God, but hell will be our eternal destination.

 

[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]

 

P.S. God does not condemn those who are his for singular acts of sin or of disobedience which are not deliberate and habitual. Where God draws the line has to do with what we practice. If sin is our practice (habit), and if disobedience to God’s commands is our practice (what we do repeatedly), and not holy living, and not death to sin, and not obeying God with our lives, then we are not saved from sin and we do not have eternal life with God.

 

Your Word 

 

Based off Psalms 119

An Original Work / December 27, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Praise You with an upright heart as

I learn of Your righteousness.

I seek You with all my heart;

Do not let me stray from Your law.

I have hidd’n Your word in my heart

That I might not sin against You.

Open my eyes that I may see

Wonderful things in Your word.

I am a stranger on earth.

 

I have chosen the way of truth;

My heart is set on Your word.

I will walk about in freedom,

For I have sought out Your truth.

Teach me knowledge and good judgment,

For I believe in Your law.

Your hands made me, and they formed me;

Give me understanding, Lord.

I put my hope in Your word.

 

Your word is a lamp to my feet

And a light unto my path.

You are my shield and my refuge;

In Your word I put my hope.

My heart trembles at Your word, Lord.

May my lips o’erflow with praise.

May my tongue sing of Your truth, Lord.

Your salvation, Lord, long I.

Your word, Lord, is my delight.

 

https://vimeo.com/125862410

 

The Thoughts and Intentions of The Heart

An Original Work / July 6, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Falling Short of God's Rest

Hebrews 4:1-2, 6-7 BSB

 

“1Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fallen short of it. 2For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it.”

 

6Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience, 7God again designated a certain day as “Today,” when a long time later He spoke through David as was just stated: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”

 

God’s rest, being spoken of here, is not in reference to the Jewish Sabbath rest, but to God’s eternal rest, to salvation from sin and eternal life with God. Many people who profess faith in Jesus Christ, and who refer to themselves as Christians, will not enter into God’s eternal rest because of disobedience, because sinning against God remained their habit and not obedience to God and to his commandments (under the New Covenant).

 

Too many people today are being taught a false gospel of salvation which does not require death to sin and obedience to God, as required by God. Those who are accepting that false gospel, and who are continuing in deliberate and habitual sin, and not in walks of surrender to God, in obedience to his commands, will not enter into God’s eternal rest. They will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God, because of unbelief.

 

So, this is a caution and a warning against falling short of this eternal rest being offered to us by God, which comes from God, and which is not of our own doing. And the way people fall short of it is by rejecting the teachings of Christ and of his New Testament apostles on the truth of the gospel, taught in the correct biblical context, and they are listening to liars who are telling them they don’t have to obey God and they don’t have to forsake their sins.

 

But even many who believe that God requires obedience to his commands and death to sin have this false sense of security that God is still going to let them into his heaven because they prayed the prayer to receive Christ or because they do many other “Christian” things. And so they excuse away their deliberate and habitual sin, and give themselves grace, while they ignore the fact that God says we will die in our sins if we don’t die to them.

 

Too many people who refer to themselves as “Christians” are relying on a false hope of salvation from sin and of eternal life with God while they continue in deliberate and habitual sin against God and not in walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands. So, if that is where you are today, please know that will not get you saved, and it will not give you eternal life with God. So today, repent of all sin and follow God 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]

 

Trust and Obey 

 

Words by John H. Sammis, 1887

Music by Daniel B. Towner, 1887

 

When we walk with the Lord

in the light of His Word,
What a glory He sheds on our way!
While we do His good will,

He abides with us still,
And with all who will trust and obey.

 

Not a shadow can rise,

not a cloud in the skies,
But His smile quickly drives it away;
Not a doubt or a fear,

not a sigh or a tear,
Can abide while we trust and obey.

 

Not a burden we bear,

not a sorrow we share,
But our toil He doth richly repay;
Not a grief or a loss,

not a frown or a cross,
But is blessed if we trust and obey.

 

But we never can prove

the delights of His love
Until all on the altar we lay;
For the favor He shows,

for the joy He bestows,
Are for them who will trust and obey.

 

Then in fellowship sweet

We will sit at His feet.
Or we’ll walk by His side in the way.
What He says we will do,

Where He sends we will go;
Never fear, only trust and obey.

 

Trust and obey, for there’s no other way
To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB4KcleYiWM

 

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Falling Short of God’s Rest

An Original Work / July 5, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Exhort One Another Daily

Hebrews 3:12-19 BSB

 

12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. 13But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. 14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first. 15As it has been said:

 

“Today, if you hear His voice,

do not harden your hearts,

as you did in the rebellion.”

 

16For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? 17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? 19So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.

 

The Scriptures are written not to men only, but also for women, and so this word “brothers” is not intended to be for men only. A better word here is the word “brethren” which has to do with belonging to the same family, in this case, with the family of God. This is written to fellow believers in Jesus Christ, whether male or female. As those who belong to the family of God, none of us should have a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. And Paul summed up “unbelief” as equivalent to disobedience.

 

For faith in Jesus Christ is not shown genuine by lip service only. Our faith is proven genuine by our obedience to our Lord and the fruit of that in our lives. So, if someone claims to be a follower of Jesus Christ, but that person is still living in sin, and not in obedience to our Lord’s commands, as a matter of life practice (habit), then according to the Scriptures that person is not of genuine faith in the Lord Jesus. And this is not saying that we must be absolutely perfect, but that willful sin must no longer be our habit (practice).

 

And so we, as the family of God, are to exhort (encourage, urge, compel) one another DAILY to not give way to sin’s deceitfulness, but to put sin to death in our lives, and to walk in obedience to the Lord and to his commands in daily living. And this is so that, hopefully, none of us may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin and then fall away from the faith. For we have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance of faith we had at first, which is only promised via us dying to sin and obeying our Lord.

 

For who are the ones who have heard the Word of the Lord and have rebelled? They are all who continue in deliberate and habitual sin and who ignore and do not obey the commands of our Lord, as a matter of life practice. They know right from wrong. They know when what they are doing is evil, and that it is contrary to the laws of God, and yet they do them anyway, for that is what they desire in place of desiring after our Lord and his holiness and righteousness. And disobedience, in practice = unbelief.

 

[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]

 

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

 

Exhort One Another Daily

An Original Work / July 5, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

We are God's House If We..

Hebrews 3:5-11 BSB

 

5Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later. 6But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.

 

7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:

“Today, if you hear His voice,

8do not harden your hearts,

as you did in the rebellion,

in the day of testing in the wilderness,

9where your fathers tested and tried Me,

and for forty years saw My works.

10Therefore I was angry with that generation,

and I said,

‘Their hearts are always going astray,

and they have not known My ways.’

11So I swore on oath in My anger,

‘They shall never enter My rest.’”

 

God’s House

 

“God’s house” is not a building built by human hands called “the church.” And if we should enter such a building, we are not entering “the house of the Lord.” God’s house is us, the people of God, who by faith in Jesus Christ have denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who are now, in the power of God, walking (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to our Lord and to his commands. We are those who have surrendered our lives to the Lord Jesus to follow him in his ways, and to cease from making sin our practice.

 

And Jesus Christ is to be the head of his church, his body, and not men. There are men who are to be chosen of God who serve the church, the body of Christ, in positions of pastor, elder, or deacon, to make certain that the church is operating as she ought, and to keep things in order. But Jesus is to be head and Lord over all. And they should be getting their instructions from the Lord and from the Scriptures on how to biblically conduct the gatherings of the church, taking all the New Testament Scriptures into account.

 

Now, we are not part of that house, the church, the body of Christ, on the basis of a profession of faith in Jesus Christ only. Yes, we must “hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast,” but this is not just about a verbal proclamation of faith in our Lord Jesus, which is apparent by the following Scriptures. This has to do with us actually living the Christian life and walk of faith in daily practice, by the Spirit, in obedience to our Lord, and to his commands, and us ceasing to make sin our practice (habit).

 

The Warnings

 

And so there is a warning here which we must take to heart and not ignore. If you hear the voice of God spoken through the Scriptures, or via someone who is speaking the truth of the Scriptures, do not ignore that voice. And do not harden your hearts and resist that voice and rebel against that voice. But check and make sure that what you are hearing is the truth of the Scriptures, as taught in the correct biblical context, but don’t just ignore what you are hearing because it goes against your preferred lifestyle.

 

Why? Because if we follow the example of the majority of the Israelites, who wandered in the wilderness for 40 years, so we crave evil things, as they did, and we end up committing sexual immorality, and engaging in drunken revelry, et al, and so we put Christ to the test, and we gripe and complain against God, and so we resist God and his commands, and we follow the ways of sin, instead, then we will get the same results. We will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. We will not enter God’s rest.

 

[see 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13]

 

So, please take this seriously. For faith in Jesus Christ is not via lip service only. And God indeed requires that we deny self, die to sin daily, by the Spirit, and that we now walk (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to his commands in holy living if we want to be saved from our sins and to have eternal life with God. For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives from now to Jesus’ return, or life ends.

 

[Matthew 7:21-23; 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; 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 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]

 

Our Eyes on Jesus

 

Based off Hebrews 12:2-13

An Original Work / April 23, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus.

Our faith starts and grows in Him,

Who for the joy set before Him

Endured all our sin.

Scorning the shame of the cross,

He sat down beside God above.

He was willing to die for us,

To save us, in love.

 

Think about the opposition

He endured from sinful men,

So when you go through life’s trials,

You stay strong within.

Knowing all He went through for us

Helps us not grow weak of heart;

Not grow weary; don’t give up;

And not from Him depart.

 

In your struggle against sin’s ways,

Resist not to shed your blood.

Have you forgotten the words

God spoke to us in love?

“My child, don’t ignore it when

The Lord corrects you; do faint not,

Because the Lord disciplines those

That He loves, of God.”

 

God rebukes us all for our good;

Share with Him in holiness.

It produces a harvest of

God’s own righteousness.

Therefore, strengthen all within you

That is weak and might give way.

Stand firm in the faith God gives you;

Trust Him and obey.

 

https://vimeo.com/125489683

 

We are God’s House If We..

An Original Work / July 5, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

I Have Fought the Good Fight

2 Timothy 4:1-2 BSB

“I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom: 2Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.”

This was the apostle Paul speaking to Timothy, man to man. But can this be applied to women, too? Yes! For we read in Acts 2 where Peter quoted the prophet Joel in stating that in the last days God’s sons and daughters, male and female, would prophesy (preach, proclaim the word of the Lord). And he was referring to the men and women who were prophesying together on that day to the people who were there. And Jesus sent women from the tomb to proclaim to his disciples (men) that Jesus had risen from the dead. And he, in essence, sent another woman to tell her townspeople about Jesus Christ.

So, women are not excluded from preaching (prophesying, proclaiming the word of God), even to men. But women are not to be in positions of pastor or elder, and they are not to be in authority over men, and they are not to usurp authority over men, and they are not to instruct men in a position of authority over men to where they can exercise discipline over men. But right now there is a definite shortage of biblically qualified men to serve as pastor and elder who are walking with the Lord in obedience to his commands and who are setting the example for how we all should be living to please God.

2 Timothy 4:3-4 BSB

“3For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.”

This is where we are now. And part of the reason that we are there is that so many men who serve as pastors and elders of the gatherings of the church are themselves spiritually AWOL (absent without leave). They are not living morally pure lives in walks of obedience to the Lord and so they are diluting and altering the gospel message to make it more pleasing to human flesh and to the ungodly – to all who disobey God in practice, and who continue in deliberate and habitual sin, whether or not they profess faith in Jesus Christ. So many pastors are turning from the truth and are teaching the people lies.

2 Timothy 4:5-8 BSB

“5But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. 6For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8From now on there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but to all who crave His appearing.”

Now, I am not an advocate of women usurping authority over men. I am one who believes in submitting to those in authority unless those in authority are requiring that we lie, cheat, steal, manipulate and twist the Scriptures to make them less offensive and more acceptable to human flesh. Obeying God always comes before obeying men, and we never have to submit to sinning against God. But I am a woman of God who is very aware of the spiritual environment in probably the majority of the gatherings of “the church” in my nation, and of how the majority of the men are not living morally pure lives.

And then I am reminded of the story of the woman who wet Jesus’ feet with her tears, and wiped them with her hair, and who kissed his feet and anointed them with perfume who was then looked down upon and criticized by a Pharisee. Jesus addressed the man and he let the man know that the things that he should have done for Jesus, but did not do, the woman who he wanted to cast out did those things for Jesus. And so he chastised the man and he honored the woman because she did for Jesus what the man should have done but did not do, even when she was criticized for doing it.

Now we live in a time in our world and in my nation when we need more people preaching the truth of God’s Word, of the Gospel of our salvation to the people. And in the last days God’s daughters will prophesy (preach, proclaim the word of the Lord). But us women are being forced to go to the internet because we will not be given a voice within most of the gatherings of “the church.” But we need people preaching the truth to the people in our churches, even if they are female, as long as they are not in positions of authority over men, but as given permission to speak by those in authority.

I am a woman of God, largely rejected by men, who God sent to the internet 22 years ago to share with the people what God was teaching me each day from my times spent with him in his word. He gave me a voice on the internet where I had no voice in the gatherings of “the church.” And here I have had the freedom to preach (to proclaim the word of the Lord) to whoever will listen (male or female). And by the grace of God, even against much opposition, at times, I have fought the good fight, and I am continuing the race, and I have kept the faith. May God be glorified through his servant!

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 28:18-20; Luke 9:23-26; John 4:31-38; John 10:27-30; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 10:14-15; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-14; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Peter 2:9,21,24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

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

I Have Fought the Good Fight

An Original Work / July 4, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love