If You Think You're Standing

1 Corinthians 10:1-11 NKJV

 

1Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, 2all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3all ate the same spiritual food, 4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. 5But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

 

6Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. 7And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” 8Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell; 9nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; 10nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

 

For Our Instruction

 

A lot of people have this idea that they can make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and now all their sins are forgiven, and heaven is guaranteed them for when they die, or for when Jesus returns for his faithful bride – end of the story. But that is not what the Scriptures teach us, which we will learn if we study them in their correct biblical context. And God gave us this example of what happened to so many of his people in the wilderness as examples to us so that we won’t do as they did, with the same results.

 

With most of them God was not well pleased, and as a result their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. Why? Because the majority of them lusted after (craved, desired) evil things. Some of them became idolaters, revelers, and drunkards. Others were those who made a practice of sexual immorality. Some put Christ to the test, to try his patience, to see how much he would endure of their wickedness. And others complained against the Lord and his messenger Moses. All of them died and did not enter God’s eternal rest.

 

And all of these things took place as examples to us, and they were written down for our instruction to keep us from craving evil things as they did, so that we will not suffer the same consequences of eternal separation from God (see also Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13). For, according to the Scriptures, faith in Jesus Christ must result in us dying to sin and obeying our Lord’s commands. And disobedience to God, in practice, is regarded by God as unbelief, regardless of what faith we profess with our lips.

 

So Many are Ignoring This

 

Why are so many professing Christians today ignoring this and feeling like this does not apply to them? Well, for one, we live in a day and age when lies and liars abound pretty much everywhere you look. They are preachers and teachers of the Scriptures. And they are heads of governments of nations. And they are the news media and social media and AI videos which are made to look real, but they are not real. So much is being faked, and so many people are following after the lies while they are ignoring the truth.

 

Why? Because the lies make them feel good. The lies tell them they are okay, and that God does not judge them, and that heaven is secured them regardless of the fact that so many of them are living just like the majority of the Israelites did who wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. The lies tell them that a profession of faith in Jesus means that they are now “in Christ” and so their “identity” is in Christ, and so his grace covers all their sins, and so their sins no longer matter to God. But that is a big fat lie!

 

Does God’s grace promise us forgiveness of all sins? Yes, if we deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in obedience to his commands, as a matter of life practice, although not necessarily in absolute perfection. 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 while we await our Lord’s return (see Titus 2:11-14). So, if we disobey God, and if we continue in deliberate and habitual sin, in practice, we don’t know God.

 

1 Corinthians 10:12-13 NKJV

 

“12Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 13No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.”

 

So Many Excuses

 

I have heard so many excuses from people living in sexual idolatry and adultery and immorality for why they cannot get victory over their deliberate and habitual sin. But there is no excuse! Pride is standing in the way of many of them gaining victory over sin, for they get over confident, thinking  either that they can conquer this all on their own, and/or that they have already defeated it, and so it is no longer an issue. Or pride keeps them from admitting that they continue to fail, and so they try to cover it up.

 

And since they take a “my do it” approach to conquering their addiction to sin, and so they get over confident, then they go right back to the same old routines. They fall right back into the same old traps. And they keep returning to their vomit. And then sometimes they will make up excuses for why they cannot get victory over their sin. Or they will take the broad road approach that tells them that since they “prayed the prayer” that their sins no longer matter to God, and so heaven is still their eternal destiny.

 

But the Scriptures teach us that God has made the way through Jesus’ death on that cross, and through his resurrection from the dead, that we can be delivered out of our slavery (addiction) to sin if we will just surrender our lives to the Lord Jesus, die with him to sin, and now follow him in obedience to his commands – all in his power and strength, and not in our own strength. A “my do it” approach will not work. For that is the flesh trying to conquer flesh. We have to let go and let God, and do what he says to do.

 

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

 

A People Divided

 

An Original Work / July 4, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant / Sue J Love

 

Flick’ring torches; hatred; violence;

Crashing windows; guns of men;

We are a people divided

By our love of pow’r and fame.

 

Idols marching; they’re in chorus;

Their goal to destroy the church,

Tempting us to follow them in

Pure devotion; them we search.

 

Leave your idols. Follow your God.

Make Him your Lord God and King.

Be a living witness for Him,

And your off’rings to Him bring.

 

Repent of your sins and worship Him.

A living sacrifice,

Put your all upon His altar.

Leave your old life way behind.

 

Flick’ring torches; hatred; violence;

Crashing windows; guns of men;

We are a people divided

By our love of pow’r and fame.

 

https://vimeo.com/126494411

 

If You Think You’re Standing

An Original Work / June 12, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

I Discipline My Body

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 NKJV

 

“24Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. 25And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. 26Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. 27But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.”

 

Reading that reminded me of this:

 

Hebrews 12:1-2 NKJV

 

“1Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

 

What Race?

 

What race are they both talking about? They are not talking about a physical race on a physical race track with us running with our physical legs and bodies. They are both talking about a spiritual race, which is our walk of faith in obedience to our Lord, in surrender to his will, in death to sin, and in living to righteousness, by the grace of God, and in the power of God. And it is a fight, a conflict, an effort, a battle, i.e. “fighting the good fight of faith.” And it is spiritual warfare against Satan resulting in spiritual victory over sin.

 

For Satan will come after us to try to tear us and to wear us down. He will pull all kinds of tricks on us to try to get us to be afraid or to tempt us to sin or to get us to be lazy or to run away from it all because it got too hard. And he will use other humans against us to try to break us, to try to get us to give up trying, to feel defeated, and as though we just can’t take another step forward. He will whisper to us all sorts of things to get us to be afraid of so many things, or to get us to doubt God and the teachings of Christ.

 

So every day we must commit our lives to obedience to our Lord, to not live by our feelings, and to resist Satan’s attempts to dishearten and to discourage us from moving forward with God in obedience to his commands in doing what he has called each one of us to do collectively and individually. And we fight the good fight of faith, not with the weapons of this world, but with spiritual weapons of faith, perseverance, truth, righteousness, the gospel of salvation, sharing the gospel message, and with the Word of God.

 

How to Do That?

 

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).

 

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).

 

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 while we wait for Jesus’ return. 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 (see Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1-3).

 

Receiving the Crown

 

We have to stay the course, in the strength of our Lord. Daily we must put on that armor of God to fight off Satan’s evil schemes against us. And we cannot play with sin. We cannot get slothful. We cannot let the trappings of this world take us off course. No matter how hard things get, or no matter how many voices we have coming against us, or how much we are mistreated and rejected and/or falsely accused of what we did not do, we must remain steadfast in faith and in obedience to our Lord’s commands.

 

And notice with me what Paul said, which is critical that we get this. He said he disciplines his body to bring it into subjection, lest, when he had preached to others, he himself should become disqualified. What did he mean by that? Read the section of this writing, “How to Do That?” He was not talking about working out at a gym to make himself physically strong. He was talking about disciplining himself spiritually so that he did not fall into temptation, and into sin, and turn from serving the Lord with his life.

 

For we don’t “get saved” and now we are guaranteed forgiveness of all sins and heaven as our eternal destiny. God has to draw us to Christ, and only by the faith which he provides can any of us believe in Jesus. And that belief involves us denying self, dying to sin, and obeying God, in practice. And it is progressive faith (past, present, and future) which won’t be complete until Jesus returns for his faithful bride, and provided that we continue in walks of obedience to God, in death to sin, so that we don’t become disqualified.

 

[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]

 

Do Your Best 

 

Based off of 2 Timothy 2

An Original Work / November 7, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Love You, Father, love You, Lord.

Be strong in the grace of Christ.

Endure hardship for your Lord.

Your commander, live to please.

You’ll receive the victor’s crown.

By the rules, run in the race.

Your Lord, you’ll see face to face.

Jesus Christ, raised from the dead;

Of your life, He is the head.

Endure all for the elect.         

 

Love You, Father, love You, Lord.

If we died, we live with Him.

If we last, with Him we’ll reign.

If we disown Him today,

He will have to look away.

Even if we faithless be,

Faithful He’ll remain always.

He cannot disown Himself.

He’s our Lord and Savior, King.

He will reign o’er ev’rything.           

 

Love You, Father, love You, Lord.

Do your best; present yourself

As one who’s approved by God.

Work as one who’s not ashamed;

Rightly share the Word of Truth.

Wander not from what you know.

Destroy not the faith of some.

God’s foundation; it stands firm.

The Lord knows those who are His:

Those who turn from wickedness.  

 

Love You, Father, love You, Lord.

In a house are wood and clay,

Gold and silver, all array.

Some are noble, some are bad –

Cleanse your life, and you’ll be glad;

Useful to the Master’s work.

A pure heart – in righteousness,

Pursue faith and love and peace.

Bad desires you want to flee.

Gentle servant you must be.

 

http://vimeo.com/117504030

 

I Discipline My Body

An Original Work / June 11, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Flee Sexual Immorality

1 Corinthians 6:13-20 NKJV

 

13bNow the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! 16Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” 17But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

 

18Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

 

Keep the Marriage Bed Pure

 

When two people (a man and a woman) who profess faith in Jesus Christ unite together in marriage, as husband and wife, the two are to become one flesh. They are no longer to live as though they are single (unmarried). They are no longer to give their hearts and minds and bodies to anyone else in the same manner as they would and should give to their spouses. For “Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.” (Hebrews 13:4 NIV)

 

But now the adulterer is not just someone who has physical sexual relations with someone to whom they are not married. Jesus taught that “whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart” (see Matthew 5:27-30 NKJV). And the same applies to anyone looking at a man with the full intent to lust after him. So, this is a heart issue, and an issue of what is being allowed to be entertained in the mind, which stems from what is in the heart, which one can act out with oneself.

 

At Epidemic Proportions

 

And this is at epidemic proportions within the Christian community, at least here in the USA it is. For so much of what is called “church” has turned a blind eye to this, and they have, instead, embraced it and those who live in it, or else they just choose to overlook it as though it does not exist. And so many of them have now altered the gospel message in order to delete our Lord’s commands that we must deny self, die to sin, and obey our Lord in practice if we want salvation from sin and eternal life with God in heaven.

 

So, by doing this, they give their followers permission to keep on living in sin, to keep on living in adultery and idolatry and in sexual immorality. And they call that “God’s grace.” 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 while we wait for our Lord’s return. For Jesus gave his life up for us on that cross to buy us back for God out of our slavery to sin so we will now die to sin and obey our Lord’s commands.

 

Dust in the Wind

 

The Lord put in my mind this secular song, “Dust in the Wind,” because it relates to what this writing is about. For the song speaks of dreams passing before one’s eyes with curiosity, but all they are is dust in the wind. And then it goes on to speak of the “same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea. All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind.” And dreams can be sexual fantasies, and curiosity a door to sin, and the “same old song,” addiction.

 

For “dust in the wind” is a metaphor which suggests that all our earthly ambitions are fleeting and insignificant, especially in the eyes of God, and in view of eternity. So, those who deliberately and habitually commit sexual immorality, are themselves “dust in the wind” as are all their addictive sinful practices, as are all their excuses for why they keep sinning against God and committing adultery against their spouses. And this includes failed attempts at changing if done in the flesh while their hearts not surrendered to God.

 

The Two One Flesh

 

Not only did God design the marriage relationship between a husband and a wife that the two should become one flesh, and for them to be faithful and pure in their relationships with one another, to death do them part, but he designed faith in Jesus Christ to be our marriage to Jesus Christ. He is to be our spiritual husband, and we are to be his spiritual bride. And we are to be faithful to him in the same ways in which we should be faithful to our spouses, and we should not be idolaters and adulterers, but pure in heart.

 

And our bodies are not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and for our spouses. For if we are of faith in Jesus Christ, then our bodies are members of Christ himself. So we are not to take the members of Christ (our bodies) and unite them with “a prostitute,” which can be in one’s mind and heart only, via mental fantasy, or porn, and/or via self-gratification. For our bodies include our minds, our hearts, and our emotions. So when or if you unite your mind and emotions with sexual sin, your sin is against God, and spouse, and self. For you have joined your body with “another lover.”

 

[Genesis 2:24; Matthew 5:28; Matthew 15:19-20; Matthew 19:9; Mark 7:20-22; Romans 13:9; 1 Corinthians 5:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-20; Galatians 5:13-21; Ephesians 5:1-33; Colossians 3:18-19; 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8; Titus 2:3-5; Hebrews 13:4; 1 Peter 3:1-7; 2 Peter 2:13-19]

 

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

 

Flee Sexual Immorality

An Original Work / June 11, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Sexual Immorality Among Us

1 Corinthians 5:1-8 NKJV

 

“It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! 2And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. 4In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

 

“6Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. 8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”

 

The Situation Here

 

So, what is the situation here? One man, among the fellowship of the believers in Jesus Christ, was in a sexual relationship with his father’s wife, and the church, the body of Christ, was overlooking this situation. They were not doing anything to try to stop the man from doing this and to spare the body of believers in Christ from being influenced by this, either. They were not grieved over this at all. Rather they were proud of their fellowship. And this is what is taking place today, only multiplied over one hundred times.

 

In our present age, at least here in the USA, sexual immorality is largely being overlooked, ignored entirely, and/or embraced within the gatherings of what are called “the church.” So many pastors are either engaged in sexual immorality themselves, or else they are ignoring and/or are embracing people in their sins while calling what they are doing “grace, love, and compassion.” And “the enemy” are all those who call out these sins and who call for repentance, and who beg the church to obey the Scriptures.

 

A Personal Example

 

It is a well known and well documented fact that my husband of 53 years has been addicted to sexual immorality most all of his life. And he has made this fact known publicly, and he is presently writing about his addiction on an internet site called “Substack.” And multiple times I have taken this matter to pastors of “churches” who did nothing about it. In one institutional church the pastor and elders said they did not know how to address this situation, so they just sent him to a counselor who did nothing to help the situation.

 

In another situation I began to address this with a former pastor of ours, and he immediately stopped me and turned to my husband and asked him if he gave his permission for me to tell him what was going on. So, even though my husband had been addicted to sexual immorality the whole of our marriage, and before that, my husband had to give his permission for me, the one who was being sinned against, to tell about how I was being sinned against. That just is not biblical. And nothing ever came of that, either.

 

Then, in a third encounter with another pastor, the pastor took the side of my husband and he came against me, instead – me, the one being sinned against, even though I was not the one sinning. And my husband did not support me, and he lied to the pastor. And then my husband continued in his sexual addiction. But the Lord encouraged me to remain with my husband and to set some biblical boundaries for my own protection, which is what I did. And my husband agreed to those boundaries and we remained together.

 

The Explosion!

 

Because so much of “the church” is now embracing people in their sin, and they are not calling out sin for what it is, and they are not dealing with sin within the church in a biblical manner, all sin appears to be being generally accepted and not dealt with. And those who are being sinned against are just “out of luck,” so to speak, with no one to stand with them and to help them and to support them. And many people are being faced with either the possibility of just having to put up with it or to leave and to be on their own.

 

But this is not how it is supposed to be! This is not what God intended, that the church should ignore deliberate and habitual sin among its fellowships and allow such sins as these to fester and to spread throughout the congregation in direct disobedience to the commands of God and at the expense of injuring the possible innocent subjects of such sinful acts. Yet, I believe this is what it has come down to in the vast majority of gatherings called “church” in this day and age, though I believe there are exceptions.

 

And I believe a big reason why this is taking place is the influence of the world and of “big business” and so much of “the church” partnering with the world and with the government in turning their gatherings into places of business to be marketed to the people of the world. And so they are altering the gospel message to make it less offensive and more appealing to the flesh. And thus they are not calling out sin, and dealing with it biblically, but many are embracing people’s sins and are giving them permission to sin.

 

God’s Plan and Purpose

 

But 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).

 

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).

 

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 while we wait for Jesus’ return. 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 (see Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1-3).

 

In Conclusion

 

So, believe God! Believe the teachings of the Scriptures on the subject of habitual and deliberate sin within the lives of individuals who profess faith in Jesus Christ, and within the gatherings of the church, as a whole. God will judge his church! And he will judge all of us on the day of judgment according to our works (deeds). And many will claim that they knew Jesus and that they did good deeds, but he will say to them, “I never knew you! Depart from me you workers of lawlessness.” So, don’t let that be you!!

 

[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]

 

Walking in The Light 

 

Based off 1 John 1-2

An Original Work / November 16, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

When I lift up my voice, and sing praise unto God,

I will fellowship with my Lord and Savior, King.

In Him there is no darkness. He is in the light of truth.

If we walk in His light, from sin He purifies.

 

If we repent of our sins, He’ll forgive us now,

When we humble ourselves, and before Jesus bow.

The man who says, “I know Him,” but does not obey His truth,

There is no truth in him. In darkness still he’s found.

 

Do not love the world of sin, for it is hell bound.

If you follow the world, you’ll not in Christ be found.

The world and its desires will not last; they’ll expire.

The one who does God’s will, receives eternal life.

 

See that what you have heard from Christ remains in you.

Then, you’ll remain in Christ, and in His Father, too.

This is what He promised us – His eternal life with God.

So, continue in Him, and you’ll receive a crown.

 

https://vimeo.com/114160122

 

Sexual Immorality Among Us

An Original Work / June 11, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

P.S. On Substack, my husband goes by the name, “RecoveringArtificialChristian.” You can read my husband’s Substack posts at https://substack.com/@ricklove51.  

We Speak the Wisdom of God

1 Corinthians 2:6-14 NKJV

 

6However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 8which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9But as it is written:

 

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,

Nor have entered into the heart of man

The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

 

10But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

 

13These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

 

The Natural Man

 

Now the Lord put in my mind a secular song called, “On My Own,” which is taken from the movie/musical “Les Misérables,” yet I do not recommend the movie/musical due to certain content. The song is about someone being “in love” with someone else who does not return the same affection. So this person lives in a fantasy world, having a love affair with this person in their own mind. And as I thought about that in relation to this Scripture passage, I thought about the “natural man” and how that might relate to him or her.

 

For the “natural man” is our flesh nature that we are born with. And those who live according to the flesh, and not according to the Spirit of God, will naturally think on and act on what is of the flesh, and not on what is of God. Even if they know about God, and even if they have studied the Scriptures, and even if they have made a profession of faith in Jesus, and maybe even have taught the Scriptures, they may still be those who are still living by the flesh, living in a fantasy world, not receiving the things of the Spirit of God.

 

So, who they are “in love” with may or may not be a person, but it could be an idea or a concept or a certain belief or a particular subject. Or it could just be the world – the lusts of the flesh and of the eyes, and the pride of life. And when I think of “fantasy” that can include movies, stories, and imaginary tales, which includes all kinds of sources of entertainment. But it could also include porn addiction, and/or romanticizing a relationship with whoever is in the video, which Jesus Christ calls adultery and also idolatry.

 

Of the Spirit of God

 

In contrast to the natural man who lives by the flesh, and not by the Spirit, we who are of the Spirit of God, via God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, by which we deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in obedience, we should be among the spiritually mature. We should not be those who are living in a fantasy world, living according to our flesh, getting our “high” from what is clearly against God. We should not be following the “wisdom of this age,” but rather the wisdom which comes from God.

 

For, if we have believed in Jesus Christ, in truth and in righteousness, and we have received his gift of salvation from sin, then we have not received the spirit of the world which tells us we can keep living however we want. But we have received the Spirit who is from God that we might know the things which come from God, that we might do all that God has planned for us to do and to be as his followers. And as his followers we must follow him in obedience to his commands and no longer live as slaves to sin.

 

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).

 

For Those Who Love God

 

To love God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – is to obey him according to his New Covenant commandments written down for us in the New Testament books of the Bible. It is to deny self, die to sin daily, and to follow our Lord wherever he leads us in doing, and in being, and in speaking all that he has for us to do and to be and to say. It does not mean that we will never sin again (1 John 2:1-2), but that sin must no longer be our habit, what we practice. Now living the life God has for us is how we want to live.

 

[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 Spirit Calling

 

An Original Work / November 12, 2019

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Hear the Spirit calling. He’ll keep you from falling.

Tenderly He’s calling, “Come and follow Him.”

Walk with Jesus daily. Don’t give in to lazy.

Folks may call you crazy. Fellowship with Him.

 

Follow where He leads you. Eat what Jesus feeds you.

His love will renew you, if you follow Him.

Do what Jesus tells you. Don’t let your faith fail you.

His love will avail you, if you walk with Him.

 

Jesus, Lord and Savior, reigneth now forever.

He gave us His favor, so we’d live with Him.

Turning now from our sin, Holy Spirit live-in.

Holiness we walk in, purified by Him.

 

https://vimeo.com/373006449

 

We Speak the Wisdom of God

An Original Work / June 10, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Not Words of Human Wisdom

1 Corinthians 2:1-5 NKJV

 

“And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. 2For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.”

 

Sharing the Gospel

 

When we who believe in Jesus Christ share the message of the gospel of Christ with the people of the world, or with the worldly church, we must do so under the power of the Holy Spirit living within us, and according to what the Scriptures teach on that subject, in the correct biblical context. It is best if we do not use man-made formulas for how to share Christ with people, for so many of those formulas are not teaching the truth of the gospel. And the “gospel” many are teaching has been altered to appeal to human flesh.

 

But Jesus Taught

 

I can recall in my younger years when evangelism was seriously being stressed in the church and we were all being trained in how to share the gospel with people. But they were man-created formulas, and as I later in life learned, many of them were taken from a collection of Scriptures taught outside of context made to say what they do not say if taught in context. And so many people were being taught that if they prayed the prayer to receive Christ that all their sins were forgiven and heaven was guaranteed.

 

But 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).

 

But that was not what was being taught in these evangelism training classes and via these gospel tracts or formulas we were given to use to spread the message of the gospel. But “getting people saved” was the goal, and the numbers mattered to church officials for their records. But so many of these evangelistic efforts failed to share the gospel as taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, and so they gave people a false hope of salvation, and many people who prayed the prayer never gave their hearts to Christ.

 

Get Into The Word

 

So, if you are going to share the message of the gospel with other people, do not rely on gospel tracts to get you there. And don’t rely on the gospel message you heard from some preacher or evangelist, or something you found on the internet. And don’t use AI (artificial intelligence), although there have been times when they have had it more correct than most preachers I have heard. But get into the Word yourselves, and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit read what the Scriptures teach, in context.

 

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).

 

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 while we wait for Jesus’ return. 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 (see Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1-3).

 

[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]

 

Walking in The Light 

 

Based off 1 John 1-2

An Original Work / November 16, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

When I lift up my voice, and

Sing praise unto God,

I will fellowship with my

Lord and Savior, King.

In Him there is no darkness.

He is in the light of truth.

If we walk in His light,

From sin He purifies.

 

If we repent of our sins,

He’ll forgive us now,

When we humble ourselves, and

Before Jesus bow.

The man who says, “I know Him,”

But does not obey His truth,

There is no truth in him.

In darkness still he’s found.

 

Do not love the world of sin,

For it is hell bound.

If you follow the world, you’ll

Not in Christ be found.

The world and its desires

Will not last; they’ll expire.

The one who does God’s will,

Receives eternal life.

 

See that what you have heard from

Christ remains in you.

Then, you’ll remain in Christ, and

In His Father, too.

This is what He promised us –

His eternal life with God.

So, continue in Him, and

You’ll receive a crown.

 

https://vimeo.com/114160122

 

Not Words of Human Wisdom

An Original Work / June 10, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love