A People for God's Own Possession

1 Peter 2:1-5,9-12 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

1Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander. 2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

 

4As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight, 5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

 

9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. 10Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

 

11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul. 12Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.

 

Changed Lives

 

When we believe in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives, it is to produce in us changed lives. We are no longer to live as we lived before as slaves to sin, but we are now to be servants of our Lord, living holy lives pleasing to Him. All such things as malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, slander, lying, cheating, adultery, idolatry, and immorality are to be put out of our lives. And now we are to follow our Lord Jesus in His ways, according to His words and those of His apostles written down for us in the Scriptures.

 

We are not saved from our sins merely on a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and merely for the purpose that we might end up in heaven one day with God, and not in hell. Our lives are now to be surrendered to the Lord to doing His will and purpose for our lives. He is now to be Lord over our lives, and He is the one to be directing our paths, and no longer our sinful flesh. We are to be those who are seeking to know and to do the will of God for our lives who are doing the will of God, empowered by God, not by the flesh.

 

A Chosen People

 

When we believe in Jesus Christ with God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in Him, which is not of our own doing, i.e. not of our human flesh, it is because God chose us to be His. And by faith in our Lord we are now 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 servants of righteousness in walks of obedience to His commands. So if that was not your experience, if you did not have a heart change, then perhaps your faith was not of God.

 

And God did not choose us just so we could skip hell and go to heaven when we die. He chose us to be HIS possession, with Him now directing our paths and leading us in the ways of righteousness. And He chose us that we might now proclaim the excellencies of God who called us out of darkness (sin) into His wonderful light (truth and righteousness). We are to be His who are not only living godly lives surrendered to our Lord, but who are now sharing the message of the gospel of our salvation with the people out in the world.

 

Conduct Yourselves with Honor

 

We who belong to Christ by God-persuaded faith in Him are now to abstain from the sinful desires of the flesh. Sin must no longer rule over our lives. Now God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – is to be Lord over our lives, directing our paths, showing us which way we are to go. And our lives are to be surrendered to Him, to doing His will. And we are to be seeking Him to know His will and purpose for our lives, and then we are to be following Him in obedience wherever He leads us in doing His will for us.

 

And this is not to say that we will be absolutely perfect in every respect or that we will never sin again (see 1 John 2:1-2) now that we belong to Christ. But the Scriptures are quite clear on this subject of what biblical faith looks like and what it should result in. And they teach that if sin remains our practice, and if obedience to God is not what we practice (by habit), that we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. For as followers of Christ we are to be living holy lives pleasing to God, in the power of God.

 

The Gospel

 

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 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]

 

A People for God’s Own Possession

An Original Work / October 29, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Your Word 

 

Based off Psalms 119

An Original Work / December 27, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Praise You with an upright heart as

I learn of Your righteousness.

I seek You with all my heart;

Do not let me stray from Your law.

I have hidd’n Your word in my heart

That I might not sin against You.

Open my eyes that I may see

Wonderful things in Your word.

I am a stranger on earth.

 

I have chosen the way of truth;

My heart is set on Your word.

I will walk about in freedom,

For I have sought out Your truth.

Teach me knowledge and good judgment,

For I believe in Your law.

Your hands made me, and they formed me;

Give me understanding, Lord.

I put my hope in Your word.

 

Your word is a lamp to my feet

And a light unto my path.

You are my shield and my refuge;

In Your word I put my hope.

My heart trembles at Your word, Lord.

May my lips o’erflow with praise.

May my tongue sing of Your truth, Lord.

Your salvation, Lord, long I.

Your word, Lord, is my delight.

 

https://vimeo.com/125862410

The Tapestry

Based off Romans 1:18-32

The tapestry was marvelous,

Well done, and was not frivolous.

All shown to fit together well

For all who on the earth do dwell.

For God had His design in mind

In hopes that Him the people find.

He showed Himself to everyone

Through His created works, well done.

But humans have a different mind,

And therefore not all God do find.

For many cast off truth they know

And worship God they do not show.

Instead they worship God’s creation,

The things of earth in jubilation.

They make the things of earth their idols,

And lusts of flesh they do not bridle.

So God, He gave them to their pleasures

To do what in their hearts do treasure,

To live their lives in much confusion,

To treat the Lord with much derision.

But God is calling out to all of us

To live our lives for Him who’s marvelous.

To make Him Lord and Master of our lives,

To live for Him, and to reject the lies.

An Original Work / March 10, 2024

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Do Not Conform to Worldly Ways

1 Peter 1:13-25 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

13Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance. 15But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do, 16for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”

 

17Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners. 18For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers, 19but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot. 20He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake. 21Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.

 

22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart. 23For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, 25but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.

 

Following Jesus

 

As those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, we are to follow the Lord with our lives. We are to walk in His ways according to the teachings of the Scriptures written down for us who believe in Jesus Christ. We are to be serious about what the Scriptures teach us with regard to how we are now to live. And we are to obey our Lord and His commands as a matter of life practice. So we are no longer to conform to the patterns of this sinful world. For God has called us to be holy (unlike, different from the world) and to be like Him.

 

Come Out From Among Them

 

But this isn’t just about being “good deed doers” who do nice things for other people. This is about our lives fully given over to God to do His will and to walk in His ways, to go where He sends us and to not go where He says not to go. And one of the major places He tells us to depart from are these manmade institutional market-driven “churches” which are not of God because they are not conformed to the will of God but to the will of humans and to human flesh and fleshly and worldly desires. We are to leave them!

 

We are not to walk in the ways of these worldly gatherings which are modeled after the world in order to win the world to their gatherings. And we are not to accept what so many of them are teaching as “the gospel” which is of human flesh and not of God. For so many of them are teaching that a mere profession of faith in Jesus is enough to secure you salvation, and that God, they say, does not require that you put sin to death and that you obey His commands in practice. But that is a lie from hell! Not of God!!

 

So the Scriptures teach that we are to come out from among them so that we do not share in their sins and in their punishment. We are to have no fellowship with darkness and with the ungodly, but we are to live holy lives, pleasing to God, doing the will of God. We are not to conform to worldly ways, but we are called to go out into the world and to share the gospel with the people of the world. But we must teach that Jesus put our sins to death with Him so we will die to sin and obey God, and live our lives to please God.

 

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

 

The Biblical Church

 

For “the church” is not these institutions of human origin which are being patterned after the ways of the world in conformity with the world and in fellowship and partnership with the world and with the government. The church is not a building or a church denomination called “church.” And it is not a location you go to. We, the people of God, who are of biblical faith in Jesus Christ, are the church. And we are to gather together to minister to one another and to help one another to walk in obedience to our Lord.

 

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 28:18-20; John 4:31-38; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:14-18,42-47; Acts 26:18; Romans 10:14-15; Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:11-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20; 1 Peter 2:9,21; 1 John 2:6]

 

Share The Gospel

 

And then we, as the body of Christ, are to go out into the world to share with the people of the world the gospel of our salvation. And 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 (see Luke 9:23-26).

 

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]

 

Do Not Conform to Worldly Ways

An Original Work / October 28, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

In Holiness 

 

An Original Work / February 1, 2016

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Praise the Lord all you saints!

Worship God in holiness.

Trust in Him! Do not faint!

Believe in His righteousness.

 

God is faithful in all things.

He delivered you from sin.

Follow Him where’er He leads.

Witness daily. His words heed.

 

Trust in Him! He is truth!

He has not forsaken you.

Rest in Him! Let Him lead!

He will meet all of your needs.

 

When you go through trials deep,

He’ll be with you. He’ll not sleep.

Walk with Him throughout your day.

Read your Bible. Kneel and pray.

 

Give to God all your heart!

From His mercy ne’er depart.

Jesus died for your sin!

Walk in vict’ry. Live in Him.

 

Jesus paid the debt we owe.

From our lives His love should flow,

Living for Him ev’ry day,

Loving others, His words say.

 

https://vimeo.com/153857809

The Proven Character of Your Faith

1 Peter 1:3-9 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you, 5who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

 

“6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials 7so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9now that you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.”

 

To The Elect of God

 

This is being addressed to the elect of God, sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ. So these are those who, by profession of faith in Jesus Christ, should have died with Christ to sin and who are now obeying the Lord and His commands in life practice. For Jesus Christ, in His death on that cross, put our sins to death with Him so that we will now die to sin and obey Him and His commands in holy living. For He died to deliver us out of our slavery to sin so we will now serve Him with our lives in doing His will.

 

An Inheritance that is Imperishable

 

Now, many people hold on to this promise of an imperishable inheritance based off making a profession of faith in Jesus Christ only, but who never died with Christ to sin and who never obeyed God and His commands in life practice. This promise is not for them. For “faith” in Jesus Christ is not lip service only. The faith to believe in Christ comes from God, and not from ourselves, and it is a gift from God which requires that we deny self, die to sin, and obey God’s commands, or we do not have eternal life with God.

 

But it goes beyond just the initial reaction we have to faith in Jesus Christ. For faith which saves, which comes from God, and which is persuaded of God as to His righteousness, and our sinfulness, and of our need to deny self, die to sin, and obey God’s commands, is not a one time event which takes place in our lives, done deal. Our faith and our salvation from sin is progressive, and we must continue in those walks of obedience to our Lord until the time of the end if we want to be saved and on our way to heaven.

 

[Matthew 24:9-14; Romans 8:24; Romans 13:11; 1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 15:1-2; 2 Timothy 1:8-9; Hebrews 9:28; 1 Peter 1:5,9]

 

Suffering Various Trials

 

Now Jesus Christ told His followers that if we are following Him in obedience to His commands, and if we are walking in His ways in doing His will, that we will be persecuted as He was persecuted for the sake of righteousness. Especially if we are those who are following in His footsteps in taking the message of the gospel of Christ (the biblical gospel) to the people of the world, we will be hated, mistreated, and falsely accused of wrongdoing or of teaching a “false” gospel which they falsely call “works salvation.”

 

But suffering is for our good, to grow us and to mature us in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord. Although suffering is definitely not pleasant, and it hurts to be mistreated by others, especially by those closest to us, still it works good in our lives if we respond to it in the right way and if we let it teach us and train us to be godly, to love God, to obey His commands, to do what He says, and to become who He created us to be, by His grace. For the purpose of suffering is to refine us in character to become more like Jesus.

 

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; John 16:33; Acts 14:22; Romans 5:3-5; 2 Corinthians 1:3-11; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 3:7-11; 1 Thessalonians 3:1-5; Hebrews 12:3-12; James 1:2-4; 1 Peter 1:6-7; 1 Peter 4:12-17; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13] 

 

The Goal of Your Faith

 

As was mentioned at the beginning of this, our salvation from sin is not a one time event which takes place in our lives and now we can live however we want because heaven is now secured us for eternity. We are saved (past), we are being saved (present active), and we will be saved (future) when Christ returns for His faithful bride, provided we continue in Christ, in walks of obedience to His commands, and no longer as slaves to sin until the end. Sin must no longer be our practice, but obedience to our Lord must be.

 

[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 Proven Character of Your Faith

An Original Work / October 28, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

In Keeping Them

 

Based off Psalm 111:10; Psalm 19:7-11

An Original Work / June 3, 2014

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Stand in awe of your Lord. Harken to His teachings.

Follow where He leads you. Live for Him today.

Through Him you gain wisdom; knowledge; understanding.

To my Lord belongs all worship and my praise.

 

Perfect is the Word, refreshing souls in His love.

His commands are faithful, guiding us each day.

Joy comes to the heart of those who love His teachings;

Follow His instructions. He will light their way.

 

Abide in the Lord, and obey His commandments.

His Word is more precious than all of our gold.

By His Word He warns us, comforts, and implores us.

When we follow His Word, there is great reward.

 

https://vimeo.com/97324081

Falsely Accused of Wrongdoing

Jeremiah 37:9-16 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“9This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, ‘The Chaldeans will go away for good,’ for they will not! 10Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down.”

 

11When the Chaldean army withdrew from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army, 12Jeremiah started to leave Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to claim his portion there among the people. 13But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”

 

14“That is a lie,” Jeremiah replied. “I am not deserting to the Chaldeans!” But Irijah would not listen to him; instead, he arrested Jeremiah and took him to the officials. 15The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison. 16So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.

 

Accused Falsely of Wrongdoing

 

Have you ever been falsely accused of a wrong you did not commit? I have, many times, but not by the outside world, but by others who call themselves “Christians” and “Pastors” and “Elders” in “churches.” For one, I was told by two professing Christians that I deserved to die, one of whom wanted me burned at a stake, because of the biblical lessons I taught on the subject of biblical Israel today, that we are those who are of faith in Jesus Christ, and that all who reject Jesus Christ as the Messiah are not biblical Israel today.

 

My husband and I had a ministry to college age adults from the beginning of 1999 to mid-2006. We tried several times to connect that ministry with local “churches,” but each one failed eventually. In one we were told we needed to go someplace else because the church leadership just did not like us, not because we did anything wrong. We obeyed them. We followed their rules. We submitted to them. But just because they didn’t like us and for no other reason. But they were pretty worldly, and they compromised the gospel.

 

So, we tried a different “church.” This one went well until the pastor approached me privately and asked if our praise band, comprised of the students, would “draw in large crowds from the world.” I knew where he was going with this. And then he asked about replacing our band with a different group of musicians, and he wanted me to take this back to our leadership team, so I did. We then met with him. But he only said, “I would never do that,” which was a non-denial denial. So I asked him why he said that, then he reported me to the elders, claimed I lied about him, and they put me on church discipline without even giving me a chance to defend my own honor.

 

At another “church” (and these are not in order of occurrence), the pastor was encouraging us to utilize our spiritual gifts, so I volunteered for ministry. Nothing came of it so I asked him about it, and he accused me falsely of character traits which were not mine, and of not being “crucified with Christ.” Then his elders accused me falsely of wanting to serve the Lord from false and selfish motives, because they were judging me falsely by themselves when they didn’t even know me. It all worked out in the end, though.

 

At yet another “church” I was in a support group for hurting women, along with a friend of mine. She told me one day she wanted to speak out but she was afraid and she asked me if I would help her. I said I would. Then I got accused falsely by the leadership of taking over or being pushy, and so I tried explaining the situation to the leaders, but I got treated in return as though I was the enemy and as though I had some ulterior motives I did not have, and they refused to consider my own defense. They hurt the hurting.

 

In another situation my husband and I were training to be church planters. And we were invited to the district prayer conference, I believe it was called. My husband had injured himself and could not attend so he encouraged me to go without him. While I was there I was asked to speak before a room full of pastors and official workers of the church denomination about the ministry we had with these young adults. So I shared what the Lord put on my heart to share. And later I was called into the “principal’s office,” so to speak.

 

The head dudes accused me falsely of not hearing from God. Even though a good number of the pastors present told me afterwards that what I said was true, and that it needed to be said, the denominational heads did not have the same perspective. But all throughout the prayer conference the Lord was calling me to a different ministry, I believe, and so I had to make a choice to follow the Lord, or to follow these men and reject the calling of God on my life. So in 2004 I chose to go with God, and that’s why I am here now.

 

The Results Which Follow

 

Now the above are just summations of a few challenges which I faced throughout my life when I was obeying the Lord but while I was being accused of wrong I did not commit. There were more. When I asked one pastor about what he was teaching, respectfully, and by permission, he became incensed and he told me that I needed to sit back and let him be God’s voice to me. But then he told me he was warned about people like me, i.e. “people with strong convictions,” so he then invited me to leave.

 

Now, there will be people reading this who do not know me, and who were not there with me when these things took place, who will assume, as did Job’s friends with him, that I must have done something wrong. Now, although I do not claim to be perfect, in each of these situations I was perfectly in line with what I was permitted to do at the time in which I took the steps that I did. I did not cross any known boundaries or speak lies or speak out of turn or cause any disturbance. I submitted, but not to the lies.

 

So, the point here is to point out that we can be following the Lord in obedience to His commands, doing and speaking the truth of the Scriptures in the correct and appropriate setting, with permission, and still be accused of wrong we did not commit because we are following the Lord in His ways, and we are not following after the ways of this world and of human flesh. For not everyone is going to agree with us. And we who speak the truth are most likely being faced with opposition. I know that I am, but not always.

 

And the way things are going in our present world, for those of us who live in the USA, who are following the truth of the Scriptures, and who are speaking the truth to the people, we should be getting ready for the reality that one day we are going to come under severe persecution, and we will not be allowed to teach many of the things we are able to teach now. And we will be treated as was Jeremiah and the other prophets and Jesus Christ and His apostles. It is coming! It is just a matter of how soon it will hit.

 

So, we need to be ready for it. What the Lord has taken me through in my lifetime, when I was serving Him with my life, and I was walking in His ways, and I was following His leading, which I am doing, has prepared me for such a time as this when things are going to get much worse. For those of us who speak the truth of God’s Word to the people, and who call out sin for what it is, and who call sinners to repent and to obey God, one day we will no longer be allowed to do that. For it is already not socially acceptable, for it offends.

 

Censorship is working its way into the gospel message. Be ready for it! Christian persecution is on the rise. So be prepared to stand for the truth.

 

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; John 16:33; Acts 14:22; Romans 5:3-5; 2 Corinthians 1:3-11; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 3:7-11; 1 Thessalonians 3:1-5; Hebrews 12:3-12; James 1:2-4; 1 Peter 1:6-7; 1 Peter 4:12-17; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13] 

 

Falsely Accused of Wrongdoing

An Original Work / October 27, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Teach Them 

 

Based off various scriptures

An Original Work / May 24, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Open up the blinded eyes of

Those who walk in sin’s darkness.

Turn them to the light of Christ

And to His righteousness.

Turn them from the pow’r of Satan.

Turn them to the peace of Christ,

So they may receive forgiveness

And eternal life.

 

Teach them to put off their old selves

And their former way of life,

And to put on their new self,

Reborn to be like Christ;

To not copy worldly customs;

Be transformed in life and mind;

Obey freely His word in them,

Pleasing unto God.

 

Teach them how to love their neighbors

Truly as they love themselves;

Be a witness; share the gospel;

Satan’s lies dispel;

Comfort all who mourn in sadness;

Share Christ’s love and joy today.

Do this through your life and witness

For your Lord always.

 

https://vimeo.com/125485489

In The Stillness of The Midnight

In the stillness of the midnight

When all’s quiet and serene

All the hustle bustle still now

And a person rarely seen

You can hear a drop of water

Hear the tinkle of a bell

Hear the ticking of an old clock

And can say that all is well

It is peaceful now, so quiet

All that chitter chatter gone

All the noises of the daylight

Will now wait ‘til break of dawn

All the noises and confusion

All distractions – this or that –

All the busyness and actions

Now are quiet, that’s a fact

Now it is the perfect timing

To have quiet time with God

For reading of His holy word

While reflecting on what’s taught

It is time to hear Him speaking

And for us to lend our ears

For us taking in His teachings

And relieve then all our fears

For it’s in these quiet moments

That we listen to Him best

When we’re free from all distractions

And we find in Him our rest

An Original Work / March 2, 2024

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Refusal to Obey God's Commands

Jeremiah 35:12-19 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

12Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 13“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem: ‘Will you not accept discipline and obey My words?’ declares the LORD.

 

14The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you again and again, and you have not obeyed Me!

 

15Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me. 16Yes, the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab carried out the command their forefather gave them, but these people have not listened to Me.

 

17Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them but they have not answered.’”

 

18Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have done all that he charged you to do, 19this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Jonadab son of Rechab will never fail to have a man to stand before Me.’”

 

A Command to Obey

 

Whether under the Old Covenant or the New Covenant, we are commanded of God, as those who profess faith in God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – to obey God and His commands to us. Since we are now under the New Covenant, we do NOT have to obey the Old Covenant liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, circumcision, dietary and Sabbath laws. But we do have to obey God’s commands to us under the New Covenant, which are written down for us in the books of the New Testament.

 

But sadly many pastors of institutional “churches” are teaching that we do not have to obey God and His commandments and that we do not have to repent of (die to) our sins. But that is a lie from hell. For all throughout the New Testament writings we are instructed that we must die to sin and obey our Lord’s commands or we do not know God, we are not in fellowship with Him, and we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life in Him. So we need to listen to what is taught to us in the New Testament about obedience.

 

Turn From Wicked Ways

 

When we come to genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ we are now to die with Christ to sin and now live to Him and to His righteousness in walks of obedience to our Lord and to His commands, as empowered by God. And it was the same for those under the Old Covenant. As followers of Christ we are to turn from our wicked ways, and correct our actions, and no longer go after the gods (idols) of this world to serve them. Sin must no longer be what we practice, but obedience to God is to be what we live by.

 

Yet so many people who give lip service to the Lord, and who profess Jesus as their Lord and Savior, do not accept the discipline of the Lord in their lives, and they do not obey His commands. Even though God has spoken to them through His messengers, time and time again, still they have not obeyed, but they continue in their deliberate and habitual sins against God. They do not incline their ears to the words of the Lord but they chart their own course, instead, and they follow in the ways of their sinful natures.

 

Judgment to Come

 

There are some people who may face the immediate judgment of God, depending upon the severity of their sinful actions. Or, as they continue in their sinful ways, and in their refusal to obey the commands of God, they may face God’s judgments against them. Others who profess faith in Jesus Christ but who are still living to please the flesh may appear to not have any judgments against them presently, but one day they will stand before the Lord, and they will be judged by God because they would not obey Him.

 

Those who have died with Christ to sin, and who have obeyed Him in life practice, and who have kept His words to the very end, all in the power of God, by God-gifted faith in the Lord Jesus, they have the hope of salvation from sin and eternal life with God. But all who continue in their sinful practices, who do not turn from their sins, and who do not obey our Lord’s commands, they will not inherit eternal life with God, even though they have been convinced by liars that they will spend eternity with God. Know this!

 

[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]

 

So, if you have been holding on to your sin, and if obedience to God is not your practice, I pray you will turn from your sin and obey God from now on.

 

Refusal to Obey God’s Commands

An Original Work / October 27, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Trust and Obey 

 

Words by John H. Sammis, 1887

Music by Daniel B. Towner, 1887

 

When we walk with the Lord

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

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

 

Not a shadow can rise,

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

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

 

Not a burden we bear,

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

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

 

But we never can prove

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

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

 

Then in fellowship sweet

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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