Nonsense, Nonsense

Nonsense, nonsense coming from their mouths,

Raise their banners, raise them very loud,

Bold in witness, that but not of God,

Please the world and draw in their large crowds.

“Win the world to us, but not to God,

Please the crowds and make sure music’s loud,

Tell some jokes, and have a new cartoon,

Twist the Scriptures morning, night, and noon.

“All surrender, but to God do not,

Bow to humans and to all their gods,

Share their idols, give them all your praise,

Pledge allegiance, and your voices raise.

“Share the gospel? No! For we forbid.

Keep that gospel, keep it very hid.

Don’t judge others. Speak not then of sin.

People’s souls to Christ you’re not to win.

“Pleasure-seeking, that’s what it’s about,

Play your games and to our idols shout,

Don’t offend the people with the truth,

Better if you’d rather be uncouth.

“All about now blending with the world,

Unity with flesh now not absurd,

Keep on sinning now you’ve been forgiv’n,

Don’t let judgment keep you now from heav’n.”

They’re mistaken, though, in what they say.

Read your Bible. Read it now and pray.

God requires your obedience,

And He says from sin you must repent.

If you choose to God to not obey,

Not give homage to Him, or bow, or pray,

Not forsake your lives of liv’n in sin,

Heav’n’s not yours, your sins He’s not forgiv’n.

An Original Work / February 4, 2022

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

[Rom 2:6-8; Gal 6:7-8; 2 Co 5:10; 1 Co 6:9-10; Gal 5:16-21; Eph 5:3-6; Rom 6:16; Rom 8:1-17; Jn 15:1-11; 1 Jn 2:3-6; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Rev. 2-3; Rev 18:1-6; Rev 21:8, 27; Rev 22:14-15; Matt 7:21-23; Heb 10:26-27]

The Crafty Serpent

Genesis 3:1-7 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

1Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’” 2The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, 3but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’”

 

4“You will not surely die,” the serpent told the woman. 5“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

 

6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. 7And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.

 

The Serpent Satan

 

The serpent being spoken of here is Satan, the devil, the evil one who opposes God and His Word and who tempts people to sin against God. He is a liar and a deceiver and a manipulator who twists God’s words to try to make them say what they do not say in order to convince people to believe the lies and to reject the truth. He takes on many different forms. And he works through all sorts of people, even many people who are pastors, evangelists, missionaries and others who purportedly preach “The Word.”

 

What began with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden never stopped. And in today’s world “the serpent” appears to be gaining much ground as so many people are now being convinced to believe and to follow after the lies rather than to believe the Words of God and to follow after the truth. Why? Because they make the lies more appealing and attractive to the people than the truth of God’s Word. They convince the people that the truth is the lie and the lies are the truth because they are more appealing to human flesh.

 

Twisting of Truth

 

And so we have multitudes of people in positions of influence over the people who are being like the serpent suggesting that God didn’t really say what the Bible says that He said. And so they pull Scriptures out of context and they twist them to say what they do not say if taught in the correct biblical context, which is exactly what the serpent did in his conversation with Eve. And she knew what God said. She knew right from wrong. But she got caught up in the lie and she chose the lie over what God said.

 

And that is where so many professing “Christians” are today, believing the lies which tell them that they do not have to repent of (die to) sin, and they do not have to obey God’s commands, for they call that “works salvation.” So this is like the serpent saying, “Did God really say?” They twist the Scriptures to make them look like God didn’t really say we have to put sin to death and that we have to obey His commands, and so they give the people freedom to keep on in their sins while promising them forgiveness of all sins.

 

The Consequences

 

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).

 

[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]

 

In Conclusion

 

So everyone who has been listening to the serpent, via the liars and the deceivers, needs to stop listening to “the serpent” and believe God. Search the Scriptures yourselves, know what they teach (in the correct biblical context), and then obey God. But we are not under the Old Covenant liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, circumcision, dietary and Sabbath laws. We are under the New Covenant. But God’s moral laws never went away. We still have to obey God’s commands and repent of all sin.

 

The Crafty Serpent

An Original Work / September 24, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Praise The Lord

 

written by Michael Hudson and Elliott Bannister

 

When you're up against a struggle

That shatters all your dreams

And your hopes have been cruelly crushed

By Satan's manifested schemes

And you feel the urge within you

To submit to earthly fears

Don't let the faith you're standing in

Seem to disappear

 

Now Satan is a liar

And he wants to make us think

That we are paupers

When he knows himself

We're children of the King

So lift up the mighty shield of faith

For the battle must be won

We know that Jesus Christ has risen

So the work's already done

 

Praise the Lord

He can work through those

Who praise Him

Praise the Lord

For our God inhabits praise

Praise the Lord

For the chains that seems to bind you

Serve only to remind you

That they drop powerless behind you

When you praise Him

 

https://youtu.be/t4rHyj1tY00?si=RT6l7ZdDXs8K0m-n

 

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One Flesh Divided in Two

Adam and Eve

 

Genesis 1:26-27 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

26Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

 

27So God created man in His own image;

in the image of God He created him;

male and female He created them.

 

Genesis 2:7,18,21-24 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

 

18The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”

 

21So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh. 22And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him. 23And the man said:

 

“This is now bone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;

she shall be called ‘woman,’

for out of man she was taken.”

24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

 

In God’s Image

 

God created man and woman in His image, after His likeness. God created the first man and the first woman to be sinless, to share in His character, and to represent Him in thought, word, and deed. They were created after His likeness, to be holy, undefiled, and unlike the world. They were to be godly people who followed after the Lord and His ways, who did what He said to do, who were in daily fellowship with Him seeking to know His ways that they might walk in them in truth and in righteousness.

 

Two in One

 

God created the man, Adam, first, and then He created a wife for him, Eve. And the man declared that this woman God gave to him was now bone of his bones, and flesh of his flesh. And then we read that the man was to leave his father and mother and to be united to his wife, and they would become one flesh. And this is repeated for us in the New Testament multiple times in Matthew 19:5; Mark 10:7-8; 1 Corinthians 6:16; and Ephesians 5:31. So, what is “one flesh” supposed to look like? What’s its purpose?

 

Well, this isn’t just about a sexual union, although it is that, too. But this has to do with unity of heart and mind and purpose and vision and consideration and respect and honor and value, etc. And more Scriptures teach that a man is to love his wife as he loves his own body, and he is to love her as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her, and she is to show respect (value, appreciation, and regard for) to him. This should be a partnership, each adding to the other, each being faithful to the other, helping each other.

 

Sin Entered

 

When we get into Genesis 3 we learn that Adam and Eve (Eve first, then Adam) disobeyed God. They sinned against God for the first time. So God banished them from the Garden of Eden. And ever since then we humans have been born in the likeness of Adam with sin natures, separate from God and unable within ourselves to be acceptable to God. And so God sent His Son Jesus to the cross to put our sins to death with Him so that by faith in Him we will now die to sin and obey God in practice, by the grace of God, and in the power of God so that we can now be united with our God.

 

Well, sadly, sometimes sin enters into marriage relationships and that sin breaks that union, that oneness the couple should have with one another. And this may be because one or both of them united themselves with someone else and became one with someone other than their spouse. And according to Jesus, it is an act of adultery just to lust after someone to whom you are not married, so this doesn’t have to include physical sex with another person, but it can include sexual immorality of many forms such as addiction to porn and to self-gratification. These still divide a marriage.

 

Broken Relationships

 

So, what is the solution for a situation such as this? Well, anyone who is committing adultery against their spouse needs to repent and to change course and to choose to be faithful, if the marriage is to be restored. For if one spouse or the other is continuing in sexual immorality, the unity of the marriage is broken, and the marriage bed is defiled. And the couple are no longer one but two separate people going two separate ways. Many people end up in divorce because of this while others choose to remain with the sinful spouse even though the marriage is a broken relationship.

 

Well, when we sin against the Lord deliberately by being adulterous in our relationship with Him, by choosing the people or the things or the trappings of this world over our marriage to Him, it breaks that oneness and that unity of heart and mind we had with Him, too. But it can be restored. We just have to repent of our sin, turn from that sin, and now walk in obedience to our Lord and no longer in sin. For we are to be one with Christ much like we are to be one with our spouses, and so we are to remain faithful in service to our Lord. And that is where we are to remain until Jesus takes us home.

 

[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]

 

One Flesh Divided in Two

An Original Work / September 24, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Love Must Be Genuine

 

Based off Romans 12:9-21

An Original Work / October 22, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Love must be genuine.

Hate what’s evil; cling to good.

Love each other with affection.

Show respect for ev’ryone.

Never lack in your zeal.

Serve the Lord with diligence.

 

Rejoice in steadfast hope.

In affliction, patient be.

Keep on praying; share with others.

Practice hospitality.

Bless those who persecute.

Feel with others sympathy.

 

Be not filled with conceit.

Daily sit at Jesus’ feet.

Live in harmony with others.

Live at peace with ev’ryone.

Repay not to someone

With the evil he begot.

 

Do not take your revenge;

Leave it to the wrath of God.

If your enemy is thirsty,

Give to him something to drink.

Do what’s right for mankind.

Evil: overcome with good.

 

https://vimeo.com/114695549

Cease and Desist!

Hebrews 12:1-7 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us. 2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

 

4In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons:

“My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord,

and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.

6For the Lord disciplines the one He loves,

and He chastises every son He receives.”

7Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons..

 

To Redeem Us

 

The whole purpose of Jesus giving His life up for us on that cross was to put our sins to death with Him so that, by faith in Him, we will now die with Him to sin. And He rose victorious out of the grave in victory over sin, Satan, death, and hell so that we, by faith in Him, might live for Him in walks of obedience to His commands. For He shed His blood for us on that cross to buy us back for God (to redeem us) out of our bondage (addiction) to sin so that we will now walk in victory over sin as servants of righteousness.

 

Therefore, as those who profess faith in Jesus Christ we are to throw off (get rid of) everything which might lead us into sin as well as all sinful patterns of behavior. Many professing Christians keep returning to the same sins over again mainly because of what is stored up in their hearts which they have failed to let go of and to get rid of and because they will not let go of the things that they love in this world which keep leading them into sin. So this is an encouragement to get rid of those things which lead people into sin.

 

Put Off and Put On

 

But the Scriptures do not teach merely to get rid of the sin, but to now put on Christ and His righteousness in walks of obedience to His commands. We put off lying. We put on telling the truth. We put off laziness and we put on perseverance and dedication. We put off lust and we put on love for God and for other humans. We put off faithlessness and we put on faithfulness. For if we do the “put offs” but we don’t replace them with the “put ons,” it will be very easy to go right back to the sin and to not have victory over sin.

 

But we don’t do this in the flesh by our own design and purpose. We do not get to choose what faith looks like. God does! Trying to let go of sin in the flesh will not work. For Jesus Christ is the author and the perfecter of our faith, not us. So we must stay focused on Him and on His plan and purpose for our lives. And we must do things God’s way in His power and strength and wisdom. The “My Do It” approach to conquering sinful practices is bound to fail. If we do not follow God’s instructions we are bound to fail every time.

 

Not Freedom to Keep Sinning

 

Just please know that God does not give those who profess His name the freedom to keep on in their habitual sin. Yes, it is possible for a true follower of Christ to sin. It might happen. But the Scriptures teach clearly that if sin is our habit, what we practice, and not obedience to our Lord, that we do not know God. We are not born of God. We are not in fellowship with God. And we do not have salvation from sin and eternal life with God. So do not play with sin. Don’t do life your way! Do life God’s way in His power and strength.

 

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; 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]

 

Cease and Desist!

An Original Work / September 23, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Near the Cross 

 

Hymn lyrics by Fanny J. Crosby, 1869

Music by William H. Doane, 1869

 

Jesus, keep me near the cross;

There a precious fountain,

Free to all, a healing stream,

Flows from Calvary's mountain.

 

Near the cross, a trembling soul,

Love and mercy found me;

There the bright and morning star

Sheds its beams around me.

          

Near the cross! O Lamb of God,

Bring its scenes before me;

Help me walk from day to day

With its shadow o'er me.

 

Near the cross I'll watch and wait,

Hoping, trusting ever,

Till I reach the golden strand

Just beyond the river.

        

In the cross, in the cross,

Be my glory ever,

Till my raptured soul shall find

Rest beyond the river.

 

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Bring Them Home

They are wand’ring far from home,

From the Lord their souls do roam.

Looking not to God above,

Trusting not in Jesus’ love.

 

Trusting in themselves alone,

Spending time on their Smart Phones

Doing what their flesh desires,

And do not what God requires.

 

Looking to the flesh of man,

Not on God’s grace do they stand.

Stand on intellect and flesh,

With the world they truly mesh.

 

Walking not by faith in Christ,

Taking God’s word now by heist,

They pervert the Word of God,

And on God’s grace they do trod.

 

They care not what God’s Word says,

They prefer the lies, instead.

They’re not instruments of grace,

Not see Jesus face to face.

 

They profess their faith in God,

To their idols, though, do nod.

God is calling to repent,

From their idols to relent.

 

But so many do not hear.

They put fingers in their ears.

Will not listen to the truth,

And can be now so uncouth.

 

So we pray to God above,

That they will respond to love,

Will repent of all their sins,

And obey the Lord and win.

 

An Original Work / January 29, 2022

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

We Need to Persevere

Hebrews 10:30-39 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

30For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge His people.” 31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

 

32Remember the early days that you were in the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in the face of suffering. 33Sometimes you were publicly exposed to ridicule and persecution; at other times you were partners with those who were so treated. 34You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.

 

35So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward. 36You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised. 37For,

“In just a little while,

He who is coming will come and will not delay.

38But My righteous one will live by faith;

and if he shrinks back,

I will take no pleasure in him.”

39But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

 

Our Purpose

 

We are not saved from our sins and have eternal life with God so that we can glide through life just doing what our flesh desires. God did not put us on this earth to serve ourselves, but to serve Him with our lives. We are not here for our own pleasure but that we might please God with our lives. Life is not to be easy and comfortable for us so that we never suffer for the sake of righteousness. So, as followers of Christ we are called of God to deny self, die to sin, suffer for the sake of righteousness, and to obey His commands.

 

Therefore, we cannot just make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and then continue to live for ourselves for our own sinful and/or selfish pleasures. By biblical faith in Jesus Christ, which comes from God and not from ourselves, 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 now as servants of righteousness in holy living, in the power of God, by His grace. And now we are to follow our Lord wherever He leads us in doing what He desires.

 

Changing Course

 

Some people professing faith in Jesus Christ never did change course. Outwardly they may have done some “good things,” but inwardly their hearts did not change, and so secretly they continued in deliberate and habitual sin against God. Others may have changed course, and they may have walked the walk for a period of time, but then they may have fallen back into sin and so they were or they are presently in need of repentance and renewed faith in the Lord in walks of obedience to His commands.

 

And then there are those who are like the church in Laodicea, neither on fire for the Lord nor totally against Him, but they are lukewarm. It isn’t that they are doing anything really bad, but they aren’t doing anything regarded as truly “good” in the eyes of the Lord, either. So we read in Revelation 3 that God was about to spit them out of His mouth. So maybe you are a “good person” and you are not deep into addiction to sin, but you are lazy and self-serving. God wants to light a fire under you to get you moving forward.

 

The Gospel

 

For, the gospel of Christ is not an invitation to make a profession of faith in the Lord Jesus while you ignore Him and His commands and while you chart your own course and go your own way. Jesus died on that cross to put our sins to death with him so we will die to sin and walk in obedience to our Lord and to His commands. “Faith” without obedience to God is not biblical faith which saves. For faith = obedience, and disobedience = unbelief. And if anyone convinces you otherwise, they are lying to you. Believe the truth!

 

So, what’s this teaching us? It is teaching us that we must live for the Lord, that we must obey His commands, that we must walk in His ways and follow Him wherever He leads us in doing whatever He has called us to do, as His followers. We must not get lazy and shrink back from doing the will of God. The New Testament Scriptures are filled with instructions for those who profess faith in Jesus Christ with regard to how we must conduct our lives. Our lives must be sold out to God to doing His will from now to the end.

 

[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]

 

We Need to Persevere

An Original Work / September 23, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

My Prayer 

 

An Original Work / May 30, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

“Fill me with Your Spirit; help me to love others;

Let me know Your power; be an overcomer.

Show me how to follow Jesus Christ, my Savior;

Be His faithful servant to obey Him always.

 

“Lead me with Your presence; help me know the right way;

Teach me love and kindness, generous compassion.

Give me grace and courage to be Jesus’ witness,

Teaching His salvation to a world who needs Him.”

 

Won’t you come and follow Jesus Christ, your Savior?

He died so you’d be free of control of your sin;

Free to follow His ways in complete surrender;

Living sacrifices – let His grace transform you.

 

https://vimeo.com/122052093

God's Double-Edged Sword

In Context

 

In Hebrews 3-4 we are instructed in the ways of the Lord and in what it looks like to be people of genuine faith in the Lord Jesus and in what it looks like if our faith is not of God, but is of human flesh. And we are warned against hardening our hearts against the Lord and against His commands,  as did the majority of the Israelites when they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years, and so the majority of them were put to death. They did not enter into God’s eternal rest because of their disobedience (their unbelief).

 

And we have a parallel passage of Scripture in 1 Corinthians 10:1-22 where we learn that those things took place as examples to us to keep us from craving evil things as they did. We are not to be idolaters, drunkards, revelers, the sexually immoral, and those who put Christ to the test and who gripe and complain about God and about His commands. For those who did those things were killed. And these things happened as examples to us and were written down as warnings to us so we do not follow their example.

 

Hebrews 4:12-13 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“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.”

 

The Double-Minded

 

God knows us inside out. He knows our every thought, our every desire, and all of what we do. Nothing is hidden from God! Yet there are people who are living in addiction to sin who hide what they do from other people, but they cannot hide from God. They hide because what they are doing is evil and it is against God, and it is against other humans. Those who live like this, who make sin their practice, and not obedience to God, can be very conniving and manipulative people whose intention truly is to hurt other people.

 

Many of them are addicted to sexual immorality, but that is not their only sin. Many of them are also those who are habitually hating others, lying, deceiving, manipulating, tricking, gaslighting, and the like, which goes right along with addiction to sexual immorality. And so they also play mind games, and they feign ignorance, like they don’t know how to change, or that they are hearing something for the first time when they have heard it hundreds of times. And they keep repeating the same excuses over again.

 

People like this don’t usually take personal responsibility for their actions, and they will sometimes blame the ones they are habitually sinning against. So they might attempt to guilt-trip the one they are targeting to try to get the other person to believe it is their fault, when it is not their fault. And they will heap all sorts of abuse on the one they are targeting or the one who is trying to rescue them from their addiction. For they are the double-minded who teeter-totter back and forth, who are unstable in all their ways.

 

Some of them are like “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” one person with two separate personalities, one of which is kind, good, and respectable, and the other, which is cruel and hateful and full of trickery. It is all like an evil game they play. Many of them are abusers, but abuse isn’t just physical or only physical, or it doesn’t have to be physical at all. Abuse can be mainly verbal, and so they abuse others (or perhaps just their spouses) mentally and emotionally, and they can get hateful if their spouses do not take the bait.

 

And many of these sex addicts will play the victim when they are really the perpetrators for they try to get people to sympathize with them and to be on their side. And some of them will perform religiously for an audience and they may be greatly admired by people for character traits which they fake and which are not true to who they are in real life. And most people who know them will have no clue who they are with their spouses at home. For they are chameleons who know how to blend in with their environment.

 

The Double-Edged Sword

 

However, God sees all and He knows all. Nothing is hidden from God! So, whether you are the double-minded described above, thinking you are getting away with your tricks and with your lies, or you are the object of the addict’s hurtful behaviors, please know that nothing escapes God’s notice. And there isn’t anything that God does not have authority over and that He cannot step inside of and put a stop to anytime He is ready to act. But He allows us who follow Him to suffer unjustly for the sake of righteousness. And suffering is for our good to draw us closer in fellowship with our Lord.

 

If you are the double-minded, thinking you are getting away with your evil schemes, please know that God will judge you one day, and hell will be your eternal destiny, not heaven, even if you profess faith in Jesus Christ with your lips. What you are doing God can see it all! But if you are the one being targeted and sinned against and mistreated and lied to, give it over to the Lord, pray for wisdom in knowing what He would have you to do, and how you should respond. Don’t let Satan get the best of you! Don’t let the devil’s evil schemes against you defeat you! Follow the Lord’s leading.

 

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

 

God’s Double-Edged Sword

An Original Work / September 23, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

The Letters

 

Based off Revelation 2-3

An Original Work / December 17, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

To the angels of all the churches write:

These are the words of your Lord and your God.

I know all your deeds, and your witness, too,

And who holds to My words and tells what’s true.

I know all your hard work and your perseverance,

Yet I hold against you: you’ve forsaken Me.

Listen to what I say to you.

 

You have people there who deny My name,

And who put the cross of Christ up to shame.

They entice the people to Me, profane,

And their worship of Me is all in vain.

They are so adult’rous as they chase their idols,

And you put up with them easily enough.

Listen to what I say to you.

 

You give off an image of godliness,

But what you present is so fraudulent,

Or else you lack passion for Jesus Christ,

So you look to others to tell what’s right.

I say turn from your sin, or you will face judgment.

He who overcomes will have eternal life.

Listen to what I say to you.

 

I know your afflictions and poverty;

How you suffer for your Lord patiently.

Do not fear the devil and company.

You be faithful to your Lord endlessly.

I know all your weakness and your dedication.

You have kept My Word and not denied your Lord.

I will write on you My new name.

 

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