God's Chosen People

Jesus Christ said to the unbelieving Jews, “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it.” (Matthew 21:43 NASB1995)

“That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.” (Romans 9:8)

“Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, ‘And to seeds,’ as one would in referring to many, but rather as in referring to one, ‘And to your seed,’ that is, Christ. (Galatians 3:16)

“And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.” (Galatians 3:29)

“…His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility... For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.” (Ephesians 2:15-18)

“This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.” (Ephesians 3:6)

“Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.” (1 John 2:22)

The physical nation called “Israel” is a political entity comprised of mostly Jews, most all of whom do not believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they do not believe in Jesus Christ, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Only about 2% of the population of physical political Israel identify as Christian. So the nation, as a singular unit, does not worship the God of their ancestors, thus they are antichrist.

[Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19; Matthew 21:43; John 8:18-19,38-47; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:4-8,25-28; Romans 11:1-36; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:1-6; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9]  

So, according to the Scriptures, taught in the correct biblical context, all Jews who have rejected Jesus Christ as their Lord and Messiah are not biblical Israel. They are not God’s chosen people, his holy nation. Now all who believe in Jesus Christ, whether Jew or Gentile by physical birth, are God’s chosen people and heirs of the promise made to Abraham and to his seed, Jesus Christ. We are biblical Israel, the only Israel of God.

But somewhere along the line in human history someone began teaching Christians that they were to raise up the Jewish people to some kind of honorary status almost in a worshipful kind of sense to where they were convinced that the physical and political nation of Israel was still biblically God’s holy nation, his people, and a people that we should give our loyalty, devotion, and support to, as though they are still God’s chosen people.

But that is a lie. For the Scriptures do not support that. And they teach that all Jews who do not believe in Jesus Christ are the same as anyone else who does not believe in Jesus Christ, so they are the same as their Arab neighbors. And the holy city is no longer in physical Jerusalem, because the vast majority of the Jews are still living in slavery to sin and not as obedient servants of the Lord Jesus Christ (see Galatians 4:22-31).

And the temple of God has not been a physical building ever since Jesus Christ gave his life up for us on that cross, and he rose from the dead, and he ascended back to the Father in heaven, and he sent his Holy Spirit to indwell the lives of his followers. We are now the temple of God in whom God dwells by his Spirit, and Jesus is the temple of God, so there will never be another temple of God, for God does not dwell in physical buildings.

And God has only one chosen people, and that is all who have trusted in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of their lives, whether Jew or Gentile by physical birth. Only through faith in Jesus Christ can any of us be God’s chosen people and his holy nation, and only if we have been 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 obedient servants of our God.

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

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

God’s Chosen People

An Original Work / March 1, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Opening My Eyes to See

As some of you may or may not be aware, when the Lord called me to this ministry in 2004, and he had me begin writing down what he was teaching me from my times with him in his word each day, he also began opening my eyes to so many things about what was going on in my nation and in the world that I had absolutely no clue about previously. And so he had me reading all sorts of research articles and news articles and historical documents, and even some science documents, to open my eyes to see.

And I began following what was going on in my nation and in the world, and I began seeing certain patterns of behaviors and such, and I began taking note of them. And as time progressed he began showing me, through other people’s writings, the reality of what he had been showing me and that I had accepted on faith, although I did not understand it all. And I still do not understand it all. And I know he gave me a few writings about Iran, and so I decided to read some of these documents from 10 to 15 years ago today.

Now, my writings back then were long, for they included long passages of Scripture, what I was getting from the Scriptures, any dreams or visions he may have given me as parables to help me to understand what he was wanting me to see, and some of my findings through other articles that I read. For I was pretty ignorant back then of what was happening in the world, and it was important that my eyes would be opened to the reality of what is happening in my world, especially as things are getting much closer to the rule of the beast and end times prophesies of Scriptures.

So, if you are interested, I am going to share one of these writings with you today, especially since the subject of Iran is on the forefront right now. And these writings are just me writing down what the Lord was teaching me as best as I understood it at the time, but he has shown me since then, through so many other sources, the reality of some of the things he was showing me back then. And this was the Lord opening my eyes to see so many things I was so ignorant of before. So, read this if you want:

https://christsfreeservant.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-tangled-web.html

An Original Work / June 19, 2025

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Reposted February 28, 2026

P.S. If you read my American history lesson under the title “A Tangled Web,” an original work dated July 22, 2015, I stated then that I was always active in church (Christian) ministry, and Jesus Christ was my life (implied) always. Mostly always that was the case, but there were those times when it wasn’t.

Retain the Standard of Sound Words

“..by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher. For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day. Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you.” (2 Timothy 1:10-14 NASB1995)

The apostle Paul served God as a preacher of the gospel with a clear conscience, and yet he was put in prison more than once on false charges. But he regarded his suffering, that it was for the sake of the gospel. And some people are imprisoned on false charges while the guilty go free. For justice is not always served. Sometimes the innocent are incarcerated while the guilty are given the freedom to keep on in their sinful behaviors. But those whose trust is in the Lord must keep trusting the Lord in all things.

For the Scriptures do not teach that if our trust is in the Lord Jesus that we will have an easy life, and that everyone will like us, and that we will never have to suffer. The Scriptures teach us that a walk of faith in Jesus Christ is hard, and that it will mean suffering for the sake of the truth of the gospel, and it will mean being hated because of our walks of faith and because of our testimonies for the truth of the gospel of our salvation. And it may mean that people will speak lies about us and that we may suffer for it.

But when we truly love as God loves, and we love even our enemies, and those who have done evil to us in the past, or in the present, we put our lives at risk that the ones we love may turn against us and do evil against us, and that they might lie about us, and it may cost us much. But, when Jesus left his throne in heaven, and took on human form, he loved his own people. And he spoke the truth of the gospel. And he was hated, and people lied about him, and he was put to death although he had done no wrong.

But we should not let the fear of that overtake us. We must be strong in the strength of the Lord, and put on the armor of God with which to fight off the attacks of our enemy against us. We must commit our lives to the Lord, knowing that we are not promised an easy life and that we may have to suffer and even die for the sake of the truth of the gospel. And we must continue speaking the full gospel message to the people, out of love for God and out of love for our fellow humans, and for their deliverance from sin.

Never should we alter the truth of the gospel out of fear of being hated, rejected, persecuted, betrayed, slandered, incarcerated, or put to death. We must keep on speaking the truth that people need to hear, even if it costs us our reputations or acceptance or friendships or whatever. We must keep teaching that Jesus died to put our sins to death with him so that, by faith in him, we will now die to sin and live to God and to his righteousness in walks of surrender to God in obedience to his commands, so we have life in him.

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).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18] 

Who Believes?  

Based off Isaiah 53

An Original Work / October 3, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Gospel message, who believes?

Jesus Christ died on a tree,

Saving us from all our sin,

So we might be cleansed within.

Had no beauty found in Him,

That we should desire Him.

Man of sorrows, suffering;

Crushed for our iniquities.

Surely He has borne our griefs;

From our sadness, brings relief.

Bore the stripes; forsaken, He,

So forgiven we might be.

We, like sheep, have gone astray,

Each of us turned his own way.

Jesus calls, “Repent today;

My commandments, now obey.”

Jesus said, to come to him,

We must die to all our sin.

Crucified with Him, we live,

Walking in His righteousness.

Suff’ring servants, we will be,

Taking His identity on us,

When confessing Him

As our Savior, Lord and King.

https://vimeo.com/115517757

Retain the Standard of Sound Words

An Original Work / February 28, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Not Ashamed

“For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline. Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord or of me His prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity, but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher.” (2 Timothy 1:7-11 NASB1995)

As followers of Jesus Christ, all of us are to be taking the message of the gospel of Christ to the people of the world, which includes to the worldly church, too. And we are to do so unashamedly, without fear of reproach and rejection and/or persecution. And we should not be those who dilute and alter the gospel message to make it less offensive and more acceptable to human flesh out of fear of being mistreated. But we are to speak the truth of God’s word to the people, spoken in love, and without compromise.

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 28:18-20; John 4:31-38; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 26:18; Romans 10:14-15; Ephesians 2:10; Ephesians 5:11-14; 1 Peter 2:9,21; 1 John 2:6]

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).

But when we speak the truth of the gospel, as Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught it, in the correct biblical context, and not out of context to appease human flesh, we might not be popular. We may not have large followings. And we might be opposed. We may be rejected and persecuted. And we might have people who will mock us and reject us and turn away from us and think ill of us because we are speaking words which make them not comfortable, but which convict of sin, and which call for repentance.

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).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18] 

But don’t let the words of others dishearten and discourage you. Don’t let the rejection and mistreatment you might face when sharing the truth of the gospel make you afraid. And, yes, we are not saved by our own fleshly works but only by the grace of God. But God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives. And we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them (see Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10).

By Your Grace  

An Original Work / June 27, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Speak Your words to my heart,

Let Your grace and love impart.

Be to me all I need

To love and serve Christ my King;

To love and serve Christ my King.

Change my heart; be like You;

Let me love and serve in truth.

Guide my steps ev’ry day, 

As I bow my knees and pray;

As I bow my knees and pray.

Love You, Lord. You love me. 

You died so that I’d go free

From my sin; pure within;

By Your grace I’m saved from sin;

By Your grace I’m saved from sin.

Invite You in my heart;

Now I have a brand new start.

Repented of my sin,

So that I’d be cleansed within;

So that I’d be cleansed within.

Live for You ev’ry day,

List’ning to the words you say.

Make You Lord of my heart;

Be Your witness, grace impart;

Be Your witness, grace impart.

Obey Your ev’ry word;

Do the things I’ve seen and heard.

Your word, Lord, in me burns,

While I wait for Your return;

While I wait for Your return.

https://vimeo.com/125738774

Not Ashamed

An Original Work / February 28, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Whoever Desires to Love Life

“Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. For

“Whoever desires to love life

    and see good days,

let him keep his tongue from evil

    and his lips from speaking deceit;

let him turn away from evil and do good;

    let him seek peace and pursue it.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,

    and his ears are open to their prayer.

But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.” (1 Peter 3:8-12 ESV)

These instructions are to us who believe in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives, in truth, and in righteousness, and in godly living. We are those who have been crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness. Sin is no longer to be what we practice, what we obey. Righteousness and obedience to our Lord and to his commands are now to be what we obey (see Romans 6:1-23; 1 Peter 2:24).

Collectively we are the body of Christ, his church. The church is NOT a place we go to. It is not a building. It is not a church denomination. It is not a social club nor a civic center. And it is not a corporation under the state and a business being marketed to the people of the world. And it is not a place we visit for an hour or two once or twice a week and then we leave until the next week. And it is not a place for us to be spectators while a few people do all the ministering. But that is what many have made “the church” to be.

The church is us who believe in Jesus Christ, in truth and in righteousness. We are the temple of God in whom God dwells by his Spirit. And we are to gather together for mutual encouragement and edification, as each body part (that’s us) does its work. All of us are to be exhorting and teaching and encouraging and urging one another to live holy lives pleasing to God and to no longer walk in sin, and to serve the Lord Jesus with our lives. And we are to be warning each other against the lies of deceitful false teachings, too.

So this unity of mind that we are to have with one another is not the mind of the flesh nor the mind of men in their marketing gimmicks and deceitful scheming. So if you hear “unity” stressed in the gatherings of what are called “churches,” test what that “unity” is all about. Is it unity with business plans and goals of human making? Or is it unity with Christ and with his gospel message and with his plan and purpose for our lives? For Peter is talking about unity with the mind of God/Christ and with his purposes.

And we can only be united in mind with one another if we are first of all united with God and with his mind and purpose for our lives. And when we are united with Christ in heart and mind and actions, all these other things will be the outgrowth of our relationship with Jesus Christ. We will be people who love one another as Christ loves us and gave himself up for us. We will not be proud, but we will be humble, not bragging on ourselves for our own accomplishments, but humbly giving God the glory for the good within us.

We will not be people who feel as though we have to get even with those who we believe have done evil to us. But we are to love even our enemies. And we are to do good to them, and pray for them, and say to them what will be beneficial to them in the eyes of God. And even if they do evil to us continually, we are to love them in return, and to keep doing good to them. And if those who oppose us are those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, but they are walking in sin, we should warn them of the consequences of sin.

[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 5:15-21; 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]

When we come to faith in Jesus Christ it is not of our own doing – not of the will of the flesh nor of human origin. So we don’t get to decide what that faith should look like. God does! His word does! But we have to read the Scriptures in their context. For many liars and deceivers are teaching Scriptures out of context to make them say what they do not say if studied in the appropriate context. For the faith that comes from God will result in us dying with Christ to sin and walking with him in obedience to his commands.

So, faith in Jesus Christ is not forgiveness of all sins and a promise of heaven when we die while we go on living like we did before. Faith in Jesus Christ results in us dying to self and to sin and now following our Lord in obedience to his commandments. So sin is no longer to be what we practice. Lying, cheating, stealing, committing adultery, slandering, gossiping, and living in sexual immorality, and the like, are not to be what we practice. For we are now to turn away from evil and do what God requires that we do.

And the peace that we are to pursue is not world peace. For us to have world peace, that will involve all of us compromising our faith and convictions in order to unify with the people of the whole world. So we will become like minions, all believing and doing the same things under the control of some type of tyrannical government. And this is what is coming (Revelation 13). But we are called by God out of the world to be different so that we, by God’s grace, are now being conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ.

For those who are righteous in the eyes of the Lord are all who are living righteously, by the grace of God, for whom righteousness is their practice. And to be righteous is to live under the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit of God in following our Lord and his commands. For it means to be right in the eyes of God, i.e. what he deems as righteous, holy, morally pure, upright, faithful, and submissive to God and to his will for our lives. This is how we are to live as followers of Jesus Christ.

But if we should choose to continue living in (walking in) sin, in practice, and not in walks of holiness and righteousness and obedience to our Lord, the Bible teaches us that we will die in our sins. We will not inherit eternal life with God regardless of what our lips profess. For Jesus said that not everyone who says to him, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God the Father in heaven. So if sin is what you practice, heaven is not your eternal destiny.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2]

In Harmony  

An Original Work / September 2, 2012

Based off Ro. 12:9-21; 1 Pet. 3:8-17

Love each other truly. 

Cling to what is good.

Hate all that is evil. 

Never lack in zeal.

Serve the Lord with fervor. 

Joyful in hope be;

Patient in affliction; 

Praying faithfully.

Honor one another. 

Live in harmony.

Share with all God’s people

Who are found in need.

Do not be conceited.

Sympathetic be.

Love, and show compassion

In humility.

Keep your tongue from evil.

Peaceful you must be.

Honor one another.

Live in harmony.

God sees who are righteous;

Listens to their prayers.

But He’s against evil – 

Is His to avenge.

Do not fear what they fear.

Suffer patiently.

In your hearts, make Christ Lord.

Serve Him faithfully.

Honor one another.

Live in harmony.

https://vimeo.com/112832903

Whoever Desires to Love Life

An Original Work / September 13, 2024

Reposted on February 27, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

A Desire to Inherit the Blessing

“Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.” (Hebrews 12:14-17 ESV)

The peace that we are to strive for with everyone is not world peace. It is not us joining hands with the people of the world in unity of mind, heart, and action toward one common goal and purpose. For it makes no compromise of faith, morals, biblical doctrines, and practice. I hear some Christians calling for world peace, but they don’t realize what that means. It means a one world tyrannical government and a one world religion and forced compliance. It means that we are all minions bowing to the same “beast.”

The word “peace” means to tie together or to join together into a whole, and it means wholeness and welfare, so we can definitely strive toward the wholeness and welfare of everyone that they would be joined together with Christ and with his body into one complete whole. And we can be at peace with all people to the extent that it does not require compromise of faith and conviction and moral purity and obedience to our Lord, and as long as it does not require that we not preach the message of the gospel of Christ.

For what is attached along with peace here? It is holiness. We are to strive toward peace and holiness, so the one cannot contradict the other. For to be holy means to be set apart by and for God, to be different from the world because we are being conformed to the likeness of character, heart, and mind of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. And without it, no one will see the Lord. For we cannot be one with the world and one with Christ, too. Either our minds are set on obeying God or they are set on obeying the flesh.

And this is written to Christians when it says to “see to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God.” For the grace of God frees us from slavery to sin and it trains us to renounce (say “No!” to) ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for our Lord’s return. For Jesus Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works” (See Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10).

So, if our desire is to obtain the grace of God, what is required of us? We must willingly surrender our hearts and lives over to Jesus Christ, be crucified with him in death to sin, and be raised with him to walk in newness of life in him as slaves to God and to his righteousness, and no longer as slaves to sin. All this is of God and is made possible because of Jesus’ blood sacrifice for our sins, but we must willingly yield control of our lives over to the Master Jesus Christ, turn from our sins, and now obey God in practice.

For if we remain in control of our own lives, and we live by the flesh and not by the Spirit, so we let our emotions rule our lives, and not God, and we continue in sin living in immorality, and not in walks of faithful obedience to our Lord, then it won’t matter what faith in Christ we profess with our lips. We will not inherit eternal life with God. And that is the point of what this is teaching here and in many other Scriptures, too. So you may be expecting to be received into God’s heaven, but he will say that he never knew you.

[Matt 7:13-14,21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 10:27-30; Ac 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

So, do not take God’s grace for granted. And do not buy into the lies that so many are teaching today which are telling you that you can make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and now all your sins are forgiven and heaven is guaranteed you when you die, but regardless of how you live. How you live does matter for eternity. For genuine faith which comes from God conforms to the will and purpose of God, for it is persuaded of God. And he persuades us to die to sin and to walk in obedience to his commands.

Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer 

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897

Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,

This is my constant longing and prayer;

Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,

Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,

Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,

Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,

Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,

Holy and harmless, patient and brave;

Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,

Willing to suffer others to save.

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,

Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;

Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,

Fit me for life and Heaven above.

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,

Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;

Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;

Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

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A Desire to Inherit the Blessing

An Original Work / November 26, 2024

Reposted February 27, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Faith's Not Finished

We don’t believe, then close the door,

And all the rest we now ignore.

Don’t walk away and do your thing,

While you not serve the King of Kings.

Salvation, yes, a gift from God,

A gift to honor, not to trod.

Deliverance from sin, it is,

So we can walk in righteousness.

Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,

All for our sins He sacrificed,

Gave of Himself so we’d go free

From slavery to sin. You see?

Now walk with Him, do what He says,

Obeying Him, with no regrets,

Live your new life to do His will,

And now in Him, with Him you’ll dwell.

An Original Work / February 27, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love