No More Excuses

Luke 14:16-24 NKJV

Then He said to him, “A certain man gave a great supper and invited many, 17and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, ‘Come, for all things are now ready.’ 18But they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.’ 19And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.’ 20Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ 21So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.’ 22And the servant said, ‘Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.’ 23Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper.’ ”

I don’t know about you, but I have heard many excuses for why people who profess faith in Jesus Christ do not obey God and do not follow Jesus Christ with their lives. And I have heard many excuses from those not professing faith in Jesus for why they are holding back from putting their faith in him when they have acknowledged that Jesus is who he said he was, and that he did the things that he did, and that he is the Son of God and the Savior of the world. They know the truth. Many have been taught the truth from birth. And some whose lives are not given to the Lord have even taught the truth.

So, why make excuses when you know the difference between good and evil, but while you continue to do the evil and not the good? And I am most certain that I have not heard all the excuses being given, but I have heard plenty, and I see the same excuses being used by many people who must all be listening to the same lies, for they carbon copy each other’s excuses. And some people who have been living in sexual addiction, as one example, for a lifetime, are still living in sexual addiction, and so they are still reciting the same old excuses which they give over again for why they can’t be pure.

That is really what this passage of Scripture is about, for God’s invitation to us is an invitation, not only to believe in Jesus Christ, but to put that faith into daily practice by forsaking our sins and living to please our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands. And yes, this was first an invitation given to the Jews who were God’s chosen people of the Old Covenant, but most rejected Jesus, so the Gentiles (non-Jews) were invited, and many of them accepted the invitation and they believed in Jesus as their Lord and they died with him to sin and obeyed his commands, in practice, by his grace.

But sadly too many people today are professing faith in Jesus with their lips but while they make continued excuses for why they can’t obey his commands, in practice, and live holy lives pleasing to God instead of continuing to live in sin. Some claim it is too hard to obey. Surely it is not easy for those who are still embracing their sinful practices, and it is not always easy even for those whose lives are dedicated to the Lord and to his service. But it is not impossible! For God does not require of us what he will not give us the ability to do if we will let him be master of our lives.

So, if God has called us, he will provide all we need to do as he commands. So there are no excuses for not obeying our Lord if we claim to believe in Jesus and/or if we know the right way to go but we resist because we want our sin more. We know right from wrong. We know good from evil. Even the devil knows that. So one can make all the excuses in the world for not doing what they know is right, and for deliberately and habitually continuing to do what they know is evil, but no excuses will give anyone a free pass from having to die to sin and to walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands.

[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] 

Give God the Glory  

Based off Psalm 19

An Original Work / March 10, 2014

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

All of creation now proclaims:

“Give God the glory; honor His name!”

Each day the stars in heav’n above

Show forth His wisdom; tell of His love.

They do not speak. They have no voice.

Yet, they declare we have a choice:

“Worship the God of heav’n above;

Believe in Jesus; trust in His love.”

God’s word is perfect, just and good,

Refreshing souls who trust in the Lord;

Makes wise the simple; radiant -

Lighting our lives with God’s righteousness.

Joy to the heart His words now speak;

Pure and enduring, now we seek.

They are more precious than our gold;

Sweeter than honey; never grow old.

Keeping the word brings great reward.

By the word Jesus speaks and He warns,

Convicting hearts of all their sin;

Forgiving all who call upon Him.

Praying You keep me, Lord, from sins.

May they not rule my life again.

Then will I walk in all Your ways,

Following Jesus all of my days. 

https://vimeo.com/88900305

No More Excuses

An Original Work / May 15, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

But You Were Not Willing

Luke 13:34-35 NKJV

34“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing! 35See! Your house is left to you desolate; and assuredly, I say to you, you shall not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”

Jesus Christ spoke this to the Jews, to the Israel of the Old Covenant, the majority of whom rejected Jesus as their Messiah, the Christ who was to come but who had now come. And largely they, as a people, had also rejected the prophets of old who God had sent to them, time and time again, to call them to repentance, to forsake their idols, and to follow God as Lord of their lives, in obedience to his commands. Many or all of the prophets of God they stoned and also killed. But this message is not for them alone.

This message can also be applied to much of “the church” today, to all who profess faith in Jesus Christ with their lips but whose hearts are far from God. Outwardly they claim to be the people of God, saved by God’s grace, forgiven of all sins, and on their way to heaven to be with our Lord for eternity. They might go through the motions of religious practice, attend institutional “church” gatherings on a consistent basis, and they may do some good deeds, but their lives are not surrendered to Christ as Lord.

But, despite their rebellion, despite their idolatry, despite their treatment of the prophets who were the messengers of God to the people, God the Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit still loved them, and he still longed for them to turn from their sins and to follow him in surrender to his will in walks of obedience to his commands. And this reminds me of Jesus’ words to the church in Laodicea (Rev 3:14-22), where he said he was standing at their door knocking, waiting for them to open the door and to let him inside.

But sadly, the majority of the Jews of Jesus’ day denied him as their Lord and Messiah. And the Bible teaches us that all who deny Jesus as the Christ are the antichrist. And this includes both Jews and Gentiles (non-Jews) in our world today. But one can profess faith in Jesus Christ with their lips but still deny him with their actions, with their refusal to die with him to sin and to follow him in obedience to his commands, and to let him truly be LORD of their lives, and for their sinful flesh to no longer be Lord over their lives.

But just as the Jews largely rejected God’s messengers who were sent to them by God to call them to repentance and to obedience to our Lord, many who profess to be Christians today do the same. And this includes many who call themselves pastors of “church” congregations. So many of them are being trained in business and marketing schemes and tricks and gimmicks, and they are being warned against people like me, i.e. “people with strong convictions.” And they are being encouraged to get rid of us messengers.

So much of what is called “church” today is repeating the same offenses against God and against his messengers as did the Jews of Jesus’ day and of the days before them. For so many of them are marketing their gatherings to the people of the world, and so they are altering and short-cutting the gospel message to make it more attractive to the ungodly and to human flesh. And they are giving many professing Christians the idea that they do not have to die to sin or obey God, for they call that “works salvation.”

Therefore, all of us who are still teaching the gospel that Jesus taught, and that his New Testament apostles taught, are largely being rejected and cast out of these institutional “churches,” which is good in some ways, since we are warned not to partake with them but to come out from among them. But it still means that the people who profess to belong to God are still casting out his messengers because they don’t like the messages. They don’t want to hear that God requires that we deny self, die to sin, and obey our Lord.

But one day Jesus will return. He will come to judge us all. And all who are following him in obedience at that time when he returns will be welcomed into his heavenly kingdom, Jew and Gentile (non-Jew) alike. But all who are still denying him, not just with their lips, but by how they live, still living for the flesh, they will not gain entry into God’s eternal kingdom. But they will be cast into hell where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth for eternity. So, deny self, die to sin, and obey God – all 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]

Jerusalem  

An Original Work / May 2, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

…you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God… Hebrews 12:22

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, hear now your King of kings.

He speaks to you, Jerusalem, in all His majesty.

Oh, listen now, Jerusalem, He’s calling out to you.

Hear Him call you, Jerusalem; He’s waiting now for you.

Won’t you bow down, Jerusalem? Let Christ make you anew!

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, hear God’s call to obey

Your Lord and Savior, Christ the King; trust Him without delay.

Turn from your sin, Jerusalem; let Christ rule in your hearts.

Invite Him now, Jerusalem, to save you; grace impart,

And purify, Jerusalem, your hearts of all your sin!

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, hear your God’s final plea

To come to Him, Jerusalem, right now on bended knee.

Make Him your Lord, Jerusalem; He’s your Messiah, King.

Honor Him as the Holy One, your off’rings to Him bring.

And serve Him now, Jerusalem, for He is Christ your King!

https://vimeo.com/125966150

But You Were Not Willing

An Original Work / May 15, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

His Way, Not Our Way

Luke 13:22-29 NKJV

22And He went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. 23Then one said to Him, “Lord, are there few who are saved?”

And He said to them, 24“Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. 25When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from,’ 26then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.’ 27But He will say, ‘I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.’ 28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out. 29They will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God.

We live in a day and time when “the gospel” being widely spread throughout the world and in my nation (the USA) is not the same gospel that Jesus taught and that his New Testament apostles taught. But it is a watered down, diluted, and altered “gospel” which is taught largely from taking Scriptures out of their appropriate biblical context to make them say what they do not say if taught in the correct biblical context. And many are just flat out ignoring the Scriptures that do not agree with their way of life.

Therefore, the predominant “gospel” message being taught and accepted here in the USA teaches a faith which does not require death to sin and walks of obedience to our Lord in holy living. But it gives free license to continue living in sin, and not in obedience to the Lord, all marketed under the topic of God’s grace. And even if some are teaching putting sin to death in our lives and walking in obedience to our Lord, many are teaching this as optional and not as required for salvation and for eternal life with God.

But pay close attention to Jesus’ words here. For us to be saved and on our way to heaven we have to be walking the “narrow” road by the grace of God, in the power of God, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ. And the narrow way is limited, restricted, and controlled by God according to his teachings on what it means to believe in Jesus Christ and to know God and to have eternal life with God promised to us. So to follow Jesus we must deny self, die to sin daily, and obey God and his commands, in practice.

For one day Jesus is going to return, and we are all going to have to stand before him on the day of judgment and to give an account of what we did with his grace, with his salvation, and with his calling on our lives to deny self, die to sin, and obey his commands as a matter of life practice. And all those who did what he said, who surrendered their lives to him, who put sin to death, by the Spirit, and who walked in obedience to his commands, in practice, in the power of God, are going to be taken to be with him.

And then he is going to shut the door to eternal life with God. And many who thought they were saved by his grace, and that heaven was guaranteed them upon death, or when Jesus returns, they will knock on that door, and they will ask the Lord to let them inside. But he is going to say to them, “I don’t know you.” But they will say, “But I prayed the prayer to receive Christ,” and “I went to ‘church’ every Sunday,” and “I paid my tithe and I fed the hungry and I gave to the needy,” and he will answer, “I don’t know you.”

Why? Because they didn’t do what he said they had to do. They didn’t submit to him as Lord (Owner-Master) of their lives. They didn’t surrender their lives to him to now live for him and no longer for the sinful pleasures of the flesh. They didn’t put sin to death in their lives, but they continued to walk in sin. They didn’t obey his commands in practice, but they obeyed the cravings of their flesh, instead. They didn’t make Jesus the Lord of their lives but they continued to be lord of their own lives, choosing their own destiny.

But Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

So, just because we “pray the prayer” to receive Christ, or we proclaim him as Lord with our lips, or just because we get baptized and we attend weekly gatherings of “the church,” or we read our Bible or pray before meals or do good deeds, it does not guarantee us that we are saved from our sins, that we are in relationship with Jesus Christ, and that eternal life with God is ours to possess. Jesus requires that we die to our old lives of living in sin and for self and that we now surrender our all to him to follow him wherever he leads us in doing whatever he commands us to do, from now to eternity.

[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] 

As the Deer 

By Martin J. Nystrom

Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water

So my soul longeth after You

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield

To You alone may my spirit yield

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

Video talk on the same subject

https://youtu.be/weyscy4jb8g 

His Way, Not Our Way

An Original Work / May 14, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Traditions vs Compassion

Luke 13:10-17 NKJV

Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. 11And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up. 12But when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, “Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.” 13And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

14But the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd, “There are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.”

15The Lord then answered him and said, “Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it? 16So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound—think of it—for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?” 17And when He said these things, all His adversaries were put to shame; and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by Him.

Now, I am going to preface this by saying that, as Christians, we are not under the Old Testament Sabbath law. When Jesus Christ gave his life up for us on that cross, he did away with the Old Covenant liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, circumcision, dietary, and Sabbath laws. But what remained intact were God’s moral laws. For Jesus Christ is now our Sabbath rest, and we are to worship him in spirit and in truth every day of the week, at any time of day or night, and at any location, even on the internet.

But the Scriptures do give us the freedom to have one day that is more special to us than the others if that is what we choose, but we also have the freedom to see every day alike if we choose. For the day of the week has nothing to do with our relationships with our Lord, for we are to worship our Lord 24/7, day or night. And by worship I don’t mean having a song service followed by someone preaching a sermon. For true worship of our Lord is us dying to sin and obeying our Lord in submission to him and to his will.

And while I am on this subject, please know that “the church” is not a building built by human hands. And those buildings called “church” are not “the house of the Lord” in whom God dwells. And the church is not to be joined together with the ungodly and with the world in unholy unions. So the church is not to be incorporated under the state, nor is it to be run like a business being marketed to the people of the world in order to “grow their numbers.” We who believe in Jesus are the church. We are its building.

[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] 

But for those who still hold to keeping the Sabbath or who hold to having to attend a “worship service” once a week on a Saturday or a Sunday, please know that the purpose of our gatherings is not to follow some strict religious practices passed down to us from generation to generation, which were decided for us by human beings who saw ritualistic practices as true worship of God. And they are not to serve as concerts and for entertainment purposes in order to attract the world to our gatherings, either.

The purpose for our gatherings is so that we, the body of Christ, might encourage and exhort one another in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord in holy living. This is so we can help one another to develop close walks with our Lord in faithfulness to his service and to warn one another against “wolves in sheep’s clothing” who are teaching lies to the people, and who are leading many astray. And so we are to be speaking the truth of God’s word to one another, in love, so we are not hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

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

In other words, we are to serve one another as God’s healing agents who help one another to grow close to our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands. Our gatherings are not to be so traditionally structured with human-based traditions that there is no room for us to serve one another in helping one another to heal spiritually and to live holy lives pleasing to God. God never intended our gatherings to be so ritualistic that there was no room for us, his body, to minister to one another as we ought.

For “church” is not something we go to once a week, on one particular day of the week, at any specific time of the day where we sit as spectators who sing some songs and who listen to a sermon and then go home until the next week where the same thing gets repeated over and over. We who believe in Jesus are the church, and all of us are its ministers. And God has given us all gifts and body parts which we are to be using for the building up of the body of Christ to maturity in our faith, as EACH PART does its work.

As the Deer 

By Martin J. Nystrom

Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water

So my soul longeth after You

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield

To You alone may my spirit yield

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

Traditions vs Compassion

An Original Work / May 14, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Are You Bearing Fruit?

Luke 13:6-9 NKJV

6He also spoke this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. 7Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, ‘Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why does it use up the ground?’ 8But he answered and said to him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. 9And if it bears fruit, well. But if not, after that you can cut it down.’ ”

Jesus Christ is the speaker here. If I were to translate this to today, this is what I believe this looks like:

The “certain man” is God, and the fig tree is the church, and the vineyard is the kingdom of God. And the fruit is the result or the outgrowth of our faith in Jesus Christ. This is revealed via true repentance, which is a change of heart and mind away from sin, to God, in obedience to his commands, resulting in a change of behavior. And this is shown by our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord in doing what he has called us to do in living holy lives, pleasing to him, and in putting sin to death in our lives, by the Spirit.

And for God to not find any fruit on this tree got me to thinking more about who this tree represents. For it is a singular tree in his vineyard, so it doesn’t represent the entire vineyard, which is the kingdom of God. It isn’t that God’s entire kingdom is not bearing fruit in keeping with repentance, but that one specific part of it is. So this would represent those who have professed faith in Jesus Christ, at least with their lips, but who have not yet born fruit (results) in keeping with repentance (death to sin; living to God).

And who is the keeper of the vineyard? Well, when we believe in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives, the Holy Spirit is given to us to live within us and to guide and direct us in the ways of the Lord, and to teach us all things pertaining to our Lord and to his teachings. He is our counselor, our guide, our encourager, the one who leads us in the ways of righteousness and who counsels us in the ways that we should go. And he convicts of sin. So perhaps he is the keeper of the vineyard, but still he is God the Spirit.

And he is the only one I can imagine would be pleading with God the Father for more time for the tree to bear fruit, which has not yet produced the fruit that God intends for his true church to produce. And he is God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – living within us, helping us to bear that fruit if we are truly in Christ by faith in him, and if we will cooperate with God in his work of grace in our lives in training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives (Titus 2:11-14).

So this tree would represent all who have made professions of faith in Jesus Christ but who have not yet born the fruit (the results) which must be evident in our lives if we are to have salvation from sin and eternal life with God. So this would be kind of like how the church in Laodicea is described for us in Revelation 3:14-22, neither on fire for the Lord nor totally opposed to Jesus Christ, but lukewarm. And so Jesus is knocking at the door of their hearts, and he is calling to them to let him inside and to be in fellowship with him, which means we must die to sin and obey God and his commands.

And when I look at what is going on in the world all around me, and when I see the spiritual decline which has taken place within most of the church here in the USA, where I live, I find myself pleading with the Lord for more time for many of my loved ones to turn their hearts over to Christ in true repentance, in surrender to his will, in walks of obedience to his commands, before God judges my nation and many people are taken quickly from this earth and are given no more opportunities to surrender to the Lord.

For time is not on our side. The fulfillments of the prophesies of the Scriptures with regard to the last days are being fulfilled before our eyes on a daily basis, and it keeps getting worse and worse. And we can’t miss the signs all around us if truly we are spiritually alert to what is happening. But if you are part of that tree which is not yet bearing fruit, which is in danger of being cut down and thrown away, I pray your eyes will be opened to the truth and that you will repent and obey God before it is too late.

For Our Nation  

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Recording Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Trust Him with your life today.

Make Him your Lord and your Savior.

Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.

He will forgive you of your sin;

Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.

On our knees to God we’re praying,

Seeking God to give us answers

That are only found in Him.

God is sovereign over all things.

Nothing from His mind escaping.

He has all things under His command,

And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing

In our Lord, and interceding

For our nation and its people

To obey their God today.

He is our hope for our future.

For our wounds He offers suture.

He is all we need for this life.

Trust Him with your life today.

https://vimeo.com/379406352

[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] 

Are You Bearing Fruit?

An Original Work / May 14, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Inside and Outside

Luke 11:39-40,52 NKJV

39Then the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and dish clean, but your inward part is full of greed and wickedness. 40Foolish ones! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?… 52“Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.”

Are you a Pharisee? Do you profess one thing with your lips while you live another? Are you good at instructing others in what is right while you do the opposite? Are you good at telling others how they ought to live but while you keep living in sin and in direct defiance of our Lord’s commands? Are you good at appearing good on the outside while inside you are full of filth and wickedness? Are you good at reciting the teachings of the Scriptures but while you deny them for your own life and practice? Do you perform well for an audience while you hide your sins in secret, hoping no one will know?

Are you like a robot who can go through the motions of what is required but without any heart and soul behind them? Are you just repeating what you know you should say but the words are soulless? It’s words, and it may even be the right words, but the words are empty because the heart and soul are empty of God and of his Spirit. Certainly you have heard people read to others but who put no inflection in what they say, no passion behind the words, and so it is dull to those who listen. That is what it is like when someone speaks words but their hearts are not behind them. They are dull.

But not just dull to the listener, but dull (empty, lifeless, and stale) in the sight of God. The mouth is moving, or perhaps the fingers are typing or writing, but there is no heart and soul behind them because the heart and the soul are given over to what is evil, instead. The heart and soul are under the control of the devil and are not under God’s control. But they want to make an impression that their lives belong to the Lord and/or that they are in the process of being given over to God, but while the opposite is true. For what is outward is not a true reflection of what is going on in the inside.

And many who live this way not only do not convince others to walk rightly with God, but many of them do the opposite. For, in order to justify their own sinful lifestyles and ungodly practices they alter the gospel of Christ to make it more appealing to the flesh and to the ungodly. So they give out what they believe is a “friendlier” version of the gospel so that people will like them but while they direct them straight to hell on the promise of heaven. So, not only are they not on their way to heaven but they hinder those who were pursuing the way of God from entering into eternal life.

And, sadly, this is where many people are these days, professing one thing with their lips, but while they live the opposite knowingly and deliberately in direct defiance of our Lord and his commands. They perform well for an audience, and people may even admire and respect them, and look up to them, but the outside is not what is reflected on the inside, and vice versa. What they speak may sound good, and they may perform well for an audience, but they are fakes. Or their speech may be dull because it does not reflect what is truly in their hearts because it is in performance only.

So the Lord is calling out to all who are pretending on the outside what or who they are not on the inside to repent and to be honest. And this isn’t just about those who are faking their Christianity, but this is about those who are faking their desire for God, or their desire to have a change of heart and of mind resulting in a change of behavior, i.e. genuine repentance. This is about all whose words do not match what is truly going on inside their hearts but who are just going through the motions of desire for the Lord in order to impress or to fool others. Repent and obey God from this day forward.

[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] 

Broken Cord

An Original Work / August 29, 2018

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Your bond is broken with your Lord and Savior

And your testimony is separate from Him.

Your words not matching your actions today.

Repent of your sin and bow down and pray.

Live what you testify in truth always.

Purity’s lacking in your life and witness,

For you profess one thing, but other you do.

Not moral, spiritual. Still of the flesh.

Not living in truth to what you confess.

Lying about it puts you in a mess.

Living a lie is your practice, ‘tis true of you.

Masquerade righteousness – none of it true.

Your heart is not given to your Lord God.

Because of how you live, you are a fraud.

Turn from your sin and give your life to God.

https://vimeo.com/287303934

Inside and Outside

An Original Work / May 13, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Keeping the Word of God

Luke 11:27-28 NKJV

27And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!” 28But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

And I read this in Luke 11:17 and 23 and 32 and 34:

17But He, knowing their thoughts, said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house falls.” “23He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.” “32The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here.” “34The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.”

When Jesus Christ gave himself up for us on that cross, it was to put our sins to death with him so that, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in our Lord Jesus, we will now deny self, die to sin daily, and follow our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands, in surrender of our lives to his will and to his purpose for our lives, all in the power of God. Therefore, obedience to our Lord’s commands is not optional, and it is not to be omitted from the gospel message. Dying with Christ to sin and obeying his commands are evidence of true faith and are required of God for salvation and eternal life.

For if we claim to be “in Christ,” and part of the family of God, and heirs of the Kingdom of God, but we don’t obey God, and we don’t serve him with our lives, but we continue living in sin, this is like someone who gets married on a vow of fidelity and of self-sacrifice only to continue to live like they are still single. They are not united in heart and mind with their spouse, but they are living in adultery against their spouse habitually and deliberately. Thus, this is a picture of a house divided against itself when one spouse chooses to live in adultery rather than in faithfulness and in love and in purity.

For if we are not really with Jesus, on his side, following his lead, and obeying his commands, then we are against him. We can’t just profess him as Lord and Savior with our lips and then go on about our lives as though nothing has changed, as though we are still free to live like we did before we made that profession of faith. For by faith in him we should have died to sin and been transformed of the Spirit of God away from sinful lifestyles to now serving Jesus with our lives. Now we should be his followers who follow him wherever he leads us in doing whatever he calls us to do, by his Spirit.

And what is the story of Jonah and Nineveh? Jonah was a prophet of God called of God to go to Nineveh and to let them know that judgment was coming upon them. But when the people got that message, they repented of their sins. And to repent is to have a change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior. It means to reject our lives of sin and to turn to our Lord to walk in obedience to his commands. And the one greater than Jonah is Jesus, and he is calling for all to change directions, to forsake their sins, and to now obey God and his commands as a matter of life practice, forever.

And with regard to the lamp of the body being the eye, the eye has to do with spiritual discernment, judgment, and discretion. So, if the discernment is bad, it is against the will of God, and it against his moral laws and his commands, and it is against all that is holy, morally pure, upright, godly, honest, and faithful to our Lord (and to one’s spouse, too). So one’s whole body is thus full of darkness (sin, wickedness, evil, immorality, etc.). But if the judgment is good, it is full of light (righteousness, honesty, godliness) because the judgment (discernment) comes from God and not the flesh.

So, as those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, we are to be those who hear (who listen to) the Word (teachings) of Christ/God and who then obey his teachings for us who profess faith in him, i.e. who put the Word into practice in our daily lives, by the grace of God, and in the power of God at work within us who are his. So we need to be students of the Scriptures who study them in their appropriate biblical context and who put the teachings for the church (for us who believe in Jesus) into practice. For if we refuse, and we continue in habitual sin, we will not inherit eternal life 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] 

Better Is

Based in part off Proverbs 27

An Original Work / October 5, 2018

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Better is Love’s chastisement

From a friend,

Than to have your sins coddled

To no end.

Wisdom is seeing danger –

Flees from sin,

Trusting in your Redeemer,

Pure within.

Jesus is your salvation –

Freed from sin –

Giving you life eternal,

Without end.

Trusting in His provisions,

Peace within,

Simply by giving your life

All to Him.

Living your life for Jesus

Ev’ry day,

Tell of His mighty power,

Lives to save.

Listening to Him speaking

To your heart,

Tell of His grace which gave you

A new start.

https://vimeo.com/293958787

Keeping the Word of God

An Original Work / May 13, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love