Measure The Temple of God

“Then there was given me a measuring rod like a staff; and someone said, ‘Get up and measure the temple of God and the altar, and those who worship in it. Leave out the court which is outside the temple and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations; and they will tread under foot the holy city for forty-two months.’” (Revelation 11:1-2 NASB1995)

Time and Place

To correctly understand what this is teaching us here, we need to consider the time period in which these events are taking place. For this is in the Messianic age after Jesus Christ’s death, resurrection, and ascension back to heaven to be with God the Father. This is the church age. And so the church, the body of believers in Jesus Christ, are now the temple of God. And God’s Spirit dwells in us. And we are the holy city of God, not physical Jerusalem.

See: [Galatians 4:22-31; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Ephesians 2:8-22; Colossians 3:12-15; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 8:8-10; Hebrews 10:30; Hebrews 11:25; Hebrews 12:22-24; 1 Peter 2:9-10]

And who are the nations who will tread underfoot the holy city for forty-two months? They are all who are not followers of Jesus Christ. They are all who are antichrist. And this includes the physical and political nation called “Israel,” which, as a nation, does not believe in Jesus Christ to be their Lord and Messiah, the Christ. And the holy city is no longer a physical place in the physical nation called “Israel,” but we who believe in Jesus are that city.

Persecution of Christians

So, this is not about physical nations foreign to the physical and political nation called “Israel” attacking that nation in the physical city of Jerusalem in another building which is a replica of the Old Covenant temple of God. This is about all who are antichrist coming against us who are true followers of Jesus Christ to persecute, destroy, put to death, and silence us and our voices. This is about the persecution of Christians, not of the Jews.

For, all Jews and Gentiles who do not believe in Jesus Christ are antichrist (1 John 2:22). And all who believe in Jesus Christ, in truth, are for Christ. And all Jews who rejected Jesus as their Lord and Messiah were cut out of biblical Israel, and all Gentiles who believed in Jesus were grafted into Israel, the Israel of God. And Jesus Christ and his followers are that Israel of God. And all who yet believe in Jesus Christ will also be included in biblical Israel.

But even some other professers of Christ will abandon, persecute, ignore, ostracize, ridicule, and want nothing to do with us if we are truly following Jesus Christ with wholehearted devotion and if we are doing and saying the kinds of things Jesus and his New Testament apostles did and said. For our opponents, although many of them profess to believe the Scriptures, some of them don’t do so in practice, and they will not approve of us if we do.

Measuring The Temple

And what does it mean that John was to measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship in it? This is not a measurement of a physical building called “the temple of God.” This is a spiritual evaluation of the spiritual temple of God, the church, which is comprised of all who are of genuine faith in Jesus Christ. This is a testing of our faith to see who is truly of God and who is not, and who needs to change, for time is running out.

Have we died with Christ to sin, and are we continuing to do so daily? Are we living in submission to him as Lord? Are we walking in fellowship with him according to his commands? Are we living holy lives pleasing to God, no longer living in sin? “Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid? Your heart does the Spirit control? You can only be blest, and have peace and sweet rest, as you yield Him your body and soul” (Elisha A. Hoffman, hymn writer).

[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] 

Living Sacrifices  

Based off Romans 12:1-2; Romans 6:11-14 NIV

An Original Work / September 14, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Oh, holy ones, I counsel you,

In view of God’s mercy,

To give yourselves to God in love

As living offerings,

Pleasing to God, holy in love.

This is your true worship.

Do not conform to worldly lives.

Let God transform you today.

Then you’ll be able to

Test and approve of what

God’s will is – His pleasing

And perfect will. Oh, holy ones, 

I counsel you – Offer yourselves unto God. 

Oh, holy ones, I counsel you – 

Do not be conceited.

Humble yourselves before your God.

Do not be self-righteous.

The strength you have to live in love

Comes from your Lord God, so

Live your new lives in pow’r of God.

Be changed in heart, mind and will.

Do this because of what

Christ did for you when 

He died on the cross to save

The world from sin. Oh, holy ones, 

I counsel you – Humble yourselves before God.

Oh, holy ones, I counsel you –

Count yourselves dead to sin,

But be alive to God in Christ.

Do not let sin reign in

Your earthly lives so you

Obey its evil desires.

Offer yourselves unto your God

As those who’ve been born again.

For sin shall no longer be 

Your lord and master.

Give of yourselves to God

For righteousness. Oh, holy ones, 

I counsel you – Be alive to God in Christ. 

https://vimeo.com/118480946

Measure The Temple of God

An Original Work / April 22, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

But Since You Say, "We See"

And Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.” Those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, “We are not blind too, are we?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.” (John 9:39-41 NASB1995)

What did Jesus mean when he said, “For judgment I came into this world”? It meant to distinguish between right and wrong and good and evil, to separate light from darkness and truth from lies. It was to teach us, the people, cause and effect, to let us know the eternal results of the decisions that we make in life for good or for evil. For Jesus’ messages were not all feel good messages. He continually stated what God expected of us in the way of thought, word, and deed, and what will result if we do not follow his instructions but if we should decide to go our own stubborn way, instead. 

For the results of Jesus’ teachings were that many who were spiritually blind, and who knew that they were, by faith in Jesus Christ were delivered out of their spiritual blindness so that they could now see truth and righteousness and what God expected of them, with a desire to submit to God and to obey him. But those who thought they could see, who were full of pride, were made blind because they rejected Jesus Christ and his teachings. Instead of them being receptive to Christ and to his teachings, their hearts were hardened against him and they willfully shut their eyes and ears to the truth.

I liken this a lot to some who have been brought up under Christianity, who have been taught the Scriptures from very early on in their lives, some of whom even taught the truth of the Scriptures to others, perhaps for many years, some of whom may be (or were) pastors of church congregations. They are not ignorant of the truth, but in their pride they ignore and reject the truth that Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught so that they can continue in their sin. They have all the head knowledge that they need to obey God, but they want their sin more than they want Jesus in their lives.

For, the Pharisees were not ignorant of the truth of God’s Word. They were taught it, and they taught it to others from the Old Covenant. So they knew right from wrong and good from evil. They knew God’s moral laws, that they were to obey them. They were also taught about the Christ (the Messiah) who was to come, but when he came, they largely rejected him, and they fought against him. They did, and so did the Scribes and the Sadducees and the rulers in the Temple of God. And eventually they had him put to death on a cross, although he had done no wrong, but because they hated 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 the will of God. For Christ gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession.

[Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23; Titus 2:11-14; 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; 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] 

And Jesus is still warning us against such attitudes and hypocrisy in our own lives, and against following after such leaders or becoming just like them. 

Seven Woes  

Based off Matthew 23

An Original Work / May 31, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love 

Woe to you, teachers of the law;

Hypocrites, you keep men from God.

You refuse to obey the truth,

Nor will you permit others to.

You travel o’er land and sea

To win a single convert to you.

When he becomes one 

You make him twice as much

A “son of hell” as you are.

Woe to you, blind guides of mankind.

You distort the words of your God.

By your practices you declare

Your oaths mean nothing, though you swear.

You give a tenth of your spices,

But you neglect justice, mercy.

When you focus your 

Time and talents on

What is external, you miss out.

Woe to you, who appear so clean,

When inside you are crass and mean.

You work hard to look so upright,

While you hide all your sins inside.

You deceive yourselves when you think

You would not have done what others

Did to God’s messengers 

And prophets of old,

For you will do much the same.

You’re to blame.

https://vimeo.com/125489388

But Since You Say, “We See”

An Original Work / April 21, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

An Alliance Not Of God

“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the Lord,

“Who execute a plan, but not Mine,

And make an alliance, but not of My Spirit,

In order to add sin to sin;

Who proceed down to Egypt

Without consulting Me,

To take refuge in the safety of Pharaoh

And to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

“Therefore the safety of Pharaoh will be your shame

And the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.

“For their princes are at Zoan

And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.

“Everyone will be ashamed because of a people who cannot profit them,

Who are not for help or profit, but for shame and also for reproach.” (Isaiah 30:1-5 NASB1995)

“I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.” (John 10:11-15 NASB1995)

What is the message to us who believe in Jesus Christ today from both of these Scripture passages? It is that we are not to put our trust in other human beings to the point to where they become our gods and the ones we run to when we need help and on whom we depend to tell us the truth and to rescue us from evil. We are not to follow their plans that they have for our lives while we ignore God and the plan that he has for our lives. And we are not to make an alliance with those who are not following our God.

We are not to follow any people or people groups or nations with undivided loyalties and devotion. God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – is to be our only God to whom we bow and worship and to whom we pledge our loyalties and devotion. And we should not give our support to any people or people groups or nations without knowing really who they are and what they are doing and if truly they are following Jesus Christ with their lives, which should be evident by their attitudes, actions, behaviors, and words.

We are not to follow anyone with blinders on, not paying attention to what they truly believe and who they really are and what they are up to just because we were told to follow them, or that is what we were taught to do from childhood on up. For many are wolves in sheep’s clothing out to steal, to kill, and to destroy, and not to save. They put on a show of righteousness in order to deceive and to gain followers, but they are just hired hands who will desert the people as soon as things get bad enough for them to leave.

Many are false shepherds of the people who are leading the people astray to follow after the false gods of this world and to follow after the lies of the enemy. So many are teaching a false gospel of salvation which promises many people salvation from sin and eternal life with God based on lip service only and not on the truth of the Scriptures taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles. For many are not teaching that faith in Jesus Christ requires that we die to sin and obey God’s commands in practice.

So, test those who are in positions of power and rule and authority, whether in the gatherings of “the church” or in our governments, who proclaim Jesus Christ with their lips, to see if what they are proclaiming and doing is in agreement with the Scriptures, and to see if they are truly righteous, godly, morally pure, upright, honest, faithful, and obedient to God and to his gospel message (taught in the correct biblical context). And then believe God and follow God over and above everyone else from now to eternity with God.

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

Only in Him  

Based off Isaiah 30

An Original Work / February 19, 2014

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love 

Woe to those who look to man’s help;

Who turn away from Jesus Christ;

Forming an alliance not in step with God;

Making their own plans, and praying not.

Willing not to listen to truth,

They close their ears to what is right.

Pleasing words are all that they’ll hear;

Feel good messages that bring cheer.

Trust in your Lord; turn from your sin.

Put your faith now ONLY IN HIM.

Do not turn to idols. They’ll not satisfy.

Jesus will save you. That’s why He died.

Your Lord will be gracious to you.

He cares all about you, ‘tis true.

He forgives you all of your sin

When you give your life up to Him.

Oh, how truly gracious He’ll be

When you bow to Him on your knees;

Turning now from your sin; walking in his ways.

He’ll lead and guide you all of your days.

Now you will sing praises to Him.

He delivered you from your sin.

You’ll tell others now of His grace,

So they may see Christ face-to-face. 

https://vimeo.com/87181019

A Video Talk on the Same Subject

https://youtu.be/8VVbTBLvMC8 

An Alliance Not of God

An Original Work / April 21, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Jesus' Sheep Obey His Voice

“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; 28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.” (John 10:27-30 NASB1995)

Have you ever noticed how many times by how many people only verses 28-30 are what are spoken or repeated or posted of John 10:27-30? Why do you think they do that? Do you realize that they are leaving out the subject matter? For without verse 27 we don’t know who the “they and them” are, do we? So, without the subject matter, how do we know to whom we are to apply verses 28-30? That opens the door to apply those verses to anyone, doesn’t it? But that is what is being done. Verses 28-30 are willfully being applied to a broad audience of people professing faith in Jesus Christ.

But if these verses are being applied to those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, then why leave out verse 27 which states clearly who the intended recipients are? Because they want to apply verses 28-30 to a much broader audience than what verse 27 allows. For verse 27 makes it clear that the recipients of verses 28-30 are the Lord’s sheep whom he knows intimately, who listen to God/Jesus, who heed his voice, and who obey his commands. And his sheep are his church, his body, those who by faith in him have died with him to sin and who are now walking in obedience to his commands.

So, it is purposefully deceptive to leave out verse 27 which states who the recipients are of verses 28-30, and then to apply those verses more broadly to a wider audience which ends up giving these promises meant for a select group to many people who have given lip service only to God, who have not died to sin and who are not living for God in obedience to his commands. But the Scriptures make it quite clear that if we profess to know God and to be in fellowship with God, but while we continue to walk in sin, and not in obedience to our Lord, that we will not inherit eternal life with God.

So, in order to avoid that teaching, they leave out verse 27 so that they can give those promises out to a broader audience who are not being required to die to sin and to obey God’s commands. But they are deceiving the people by giving them a false hope that is not theirs to possess if they have not, by faith in Jesus Christ, died to sin, and if they are not walking in obedience to our Lord’s commands, in practice, by the grace of God, in the power of God. For they don’t have eternal life with God based on lip service only, but only via dying to sin and walking in obedience to our Lord, in the power of God.

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

My Sheep  

Based off John 10:1-30 NIV

An Original Work / June 24, 2012  

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

My sheep hear me. They know me.

They listen to my voice and obey.

I call them and lead them.

They know my voice, so they follow me.

They will never follow strangers.

They will run away from them.

The voice of a stranger they know not;

They do not follow him.

So, I tell you the truth that

I am the gate, so you enter in.

Whoever does enter

Will find forgiveness and will be saved.

Nonetheless whoever enters

Not by the gate; other way,

He is the thief and a robber.

Listen not, the sheep to him.

Oh, I am the Good Shepherd,

Who laid his own life down for the sheep.

I know them. They know me.

They will live with me eternally.

The thief only comes to steal and

Kill and to destroy the church.

I have come to give you life that

You may have it to the full… 

They know my voice, so they follow me.

https://vimeo.com/114938263

Jesus’ Sheep Obey His Voice

An Original Work / April 21, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Toward Those Who Fear Him

“He has not dealt with us according to our sins,

Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

For as high as the heavens are above the earth,

So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him.

As far as the east is from the west,

So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Just as a father has compassion on his children,

So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.

For He Himself knows our frame;

He is mindful that we are but dust.

As for man, his days are like grass;

As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

When the wind has passed over it, it is no more,

And its place acknowledges it no longer.

But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him,

And His righteousness to children’s children,

To those who keep His covenant

And remember His precepts to do them.” (Psalm 103:10-18 NASB1995)

The fear of the Lord is not just Old Testament teaching. The fear of the Lord is also New Testament teaching. And to fear God is to revere, respect, honor, worship, and obey him. To fear God involves believing that what he says he will do, that he will do it, whether promises of blessings or promises of judgments, and then to act accordingly in obedience to him. It means to do what is right and acceptable to him and to make it our goal to please him. And it involves acceptable worship of God and cleansing ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion. 

[Matthew 10:28; Luke 1:50; Acts 9:31; Acts 10:34-35; Romans 3:10-18; 2 Corinthians 5:6-11; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Philippians 2:12-13; Hebrews 5:7; Hebrews 12:28-29; Revelation 11:18; Revelation 14:7; Revelation 15:4] 

In other words, what is required of us for salvation from sin and for eternal life with God is not in words only, but in faith, attitude, mindset, and behavior. For to believe in Jesus is not of our own doing, but it is persuaded of God and it is gifted to us by God, and so it submits to the will and purpose of God for our lives in dying with Christ to sin and in living for God in his righteousness in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living. It does not demand absolute perfection, but lack of perfection is never to be used as an excuse for deliberate and habitual sin. We must obey God and not sin.

[Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Hebrews 12:1-2; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Peter 2:24]

But is this in keeping with the grace of God? Yes! Absolutely! For the grace of God, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and desires, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for our Lord’s return for his faithful bride (Titus 2:11-14). For it was the grace of God which sent Jesus Christ to the cross to put our sins to death with him so that, by faith in him, we will deny self, die to sin daily, and walk (in conduct) in obedience to our Lord’s commands. And so we will do the works of God he has for us to do (Ephesians 2:8-10).

You are Loving and Forgiving 

Based off Psalm 86

An Original Work / February 19, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

You are loving and forgiving,

Jesus, Savior, King of kings.

You provided our redemption.

By Your blood You set us free.

You are gracious; full of mercy.

No deeds can compare with Yours.

Great are You; there is none like You.

Glory be to Your name.

Teach me Your way, and I’ll walk in it.

O Lord, I will walk in Your truth.

May I not have a heart divided,

That Your name I give honor to.

I will praise You, O Lord, my Savior,

For great is Your love toward me.

You have delivered me from my sins.

Your grace has pardoned me.

You, O Lord, are full of compassion,

Slow to anger, bounteous in love;

Faithful to fulfill all You promise;

Glory be to Your name above.

Hear, O Lord, and answer Your servant.

You are my God. I trust in You.

Turn to me and grant Your strength to me.

You are my comforter. 

https://vimeo.com/117066958

Toward Those Who Fear Him

An Original Work / April 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

An Acceptable Day To The Lord?

Isaiah 58:1-11 NASB1995

“Cry loudly, do not hold back;

Raise your voice like a trumpet,

And declare to My people their transgression

And to the house of Jacob their sins.” (Isaiah 58:1)

This is a long passage of Scripture, so I will summarize most of it, but please read it for yourselves, for it contains an important message for all of us yet today. So, what was the sin of “the house of Jacob”? Basically, it had to do with them going through forms of religious practice but without submission and obedience to God. They prayed, and they fasted, and they gave off an appearance of seeking to know and to do the will of God, but it was surface level only. For it was not evident in their daily practices that God was Lord.

But this part is what is standing out to me:

“Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it for bowing one’s head like a reed and for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to the Lord?” v 5

And the subject matter here does not even have to be fasting. It could be anything, really. For the real subject matter, I believe, has to do with forms of religious practice that have nothing to do with a change of heart and mind and behavior. For one gets up on a Sunday morning and gets dressed for “church” and then “goes to church” where one sits in a chair or in a pew, in a row with other people, and one sings some songs and listens to a sermon, and then one goes home and resumes life as normal until the next week.

That is not church! And that is not a relationship with Jesus Christ. For, first of all “the church” is the people of God. It is all who, by faith in Christ, have died to sin and who are obeying God, in practice, in the power of God. We are those who have surrendered our lives to Jesus Christ to obeying his will and to no longer living in sin. But that does not make us perfect. But we are those whose lives are centered in Christ in doing his will, in going where he sends us, and saying and doing all that he commands, all for his glory.

And collectively we are the body of Christ, his church, and we are all to be ministers of the gospel and ministers to one another in teaching and in encouraging one another to walk in holiness and in righteousness in obedience to our Lord, and to help one another to grow in Christ and to not live in sin. But we are also to minister to one another’s genuine physical needs, and to care for the needs of our family members, too. For faith in Jesus is faith in action, living the kind of life that Jesus lived on this earth.

This is the life of one who is a true follower of Jesus Christ, who doesn’t just go through the motions of religious practice, but who walks the walk and does not just talk it. For Jesus said that if anyone would come after him he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin) and follow (obey) him in practice. And obeying God is obeying his New Covenant commands, and it is living holy lives, pleasing to God. So it requires that we die to sin and now follow the leading of the Lord in doing what he has for us 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] 

My Heart’s Desire  

Based off Romans 10:1-21; Luke 9:23-26; Ephesians 4:17-24

An Original Work / June 29, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Loved Ones, Oh, my heart’s desire

Is that you might come to Jesus.

Many appear zealous for God,

But they do not trust in Him.

They have not submitted to the One

Who saved them from their sins;

Not forsaken their sins,

Nor have they obeyed their King.

The word of the Lord is near you:

The word of faith we’re proclaiming:

That you must confess your faith

In Jesus as your Lord and King:

Believe in Him as your Lord, 

And follow Him where’er He leads.

Share the gospel; be a witness,

And meet others’ needs.

Beautiful are the feet of those

Who bring the good news of Jesus:

Anyone who would come to Him

Must deny himself today;

Die to sin and self, and

Let the Spirit transform you in heart;

Put on your new self in Jesus,

Yielding to the cross. 

https://vimeo.com/115643303

An Acceptable Day To The Lord?

An Original Work / April 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

God Gives Us The Victory

“The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.” (1 Corinthians 15:56-58 NIV)

All of us one day are going to die a physical death unless Jesus returns before that can happen and he takes his faithful bride to be with him for eternity. But death is not just physical. There is also spiritual death. Those who are of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ, who remain in Christ in obedience to him until the very end, although we may face physical death in our bodies, we will live with Christ for eternity. But those who remain in their sins, making sin their practice, will die in their sins and not live with Christ.

Now, when this Scripture states that the strength of sin is the law, that is a difficult concept to understand, and even the old commentators struggle with its meaning. But it is not teaching that the commands of God are sinful or that they encourage sin. For our Lord’s commands forbid that sin should be our practice, and they teach that righteousness and faithfulness to our Lord must be our practice. But it is teaching that the strength of sin, sin’s evil nature, and the consequences of sin are made known to us by the law.

For, although we who believe in Jesus Christ are not under the Old Covenant liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, circumcision, dietary, and Sabbath laws, we are not to be lawless. God’s moral laws never went away, and obedience to his New Covenant commands are required of us of God as part of biblical faith which saves. For if sin is what we obey, and not God’s commands, then we are not in fellowship with Christ, we don’t know God, and we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God in heaven.

But obeying God’s commands and ceasing to make sin our practice are not something that we can do in our own flesh. For it is God who gives us the victory over sin and Satan and self. It is only because of what Jesus did for us on that cross that any of us can, by faith in Jesus Christ, deny self, die to sin, and obey God and his commands, in practice. For even the faith to believe in Jesus comes from God, is authored by God, is gifted to us by God, and is persuaded of God that we must deny self, die to sin, and obey God.

Therefore, as those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, we are to be steadfast in faith, immovable with regard to our faith in practice, always abounding in the work of the Lord. And what is the work of the Lord? It is the power to deny self, die to sin, and obey his commands, and it is living for him and for his will in the power of God. And it is following his leading in going wherever he sends us, and saying whatever he gives us to say, and doing whatever he commands we must do as his followers, for our toil is not in vain in the Lord.

[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] 

Wake Up!  

Based off Ephesians 5:1-21; Revelation 3:1-6

An Original Work / November 25, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead.

Your God awaits you to do what 

He says to you. 

Be not conformed to your selfish will.

Trust in the Lord. Do what He says. 

He will give you victory.

Do not walk in darkness; 

Come into the light of love.

Listen to your Savior calling

You to obey all His teachings.

Repent of your sin, and 

Christ will shine His love on you.

He waits patiently for you to

Heed His whispers to your heart.

Will you hasten to obey Him;

Not from Him depart?

Live your life from this day forward,

Walking in His love and mercy.

Let Him cleanse you of all your sins.

Dwell with Him today.

Do not insult God’s grace to you.

Do not make light of your sin.

Let the light of His truth come 

And free you from within.

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God Gives Us The Victory

An Original Work / April 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love