Led By The Spirit

Galatians 5:16-21 NKJV

 

“16I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

 

“19Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.”

 

The Law vs The Law

 

Most of us who are Christians today were not brought up under the Old Covenant liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, circumcision, dietary, and Sabbath laws. So, for someone unfamiliar with the Old Covenant laws, seeing written in the New Testament that we Christians are “not under the law,” it might well be a confusing subject. And some people are using this to their advantage and they are teaching that God says that we don’t have to obey the law, i.e. his commandments. But we indeed do have to obey God.

 

So, when we are reading in the Scriptures that we are not under the law, please do not take it that you do not have to obey the commandments of God. It is just saying that we do not have to obey all the restrictions of the Old Covenant, but it does not give us the freedom to disobey our Lord’s commands under the New Covenant. And God’s moral laws never went away, which our Lord makes clear through his servant, the apostle Paul. For all the law is fulfilled in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

 

But this word love is not just the feel good kind based in our emotions. The word love in the Greek is agapē, which means to prefer. And for the believer in Christ it means to prefer what God prefers, to choose his choices, and to obey them in his power. And what God prefers is all that is holy, righteous, morally pure, upright, faithful, honest and obedient to his commands (under the New Covenant). And we are taught in the New Testament that if we do not obey God, that we do not know God, and we do not have life in him.

 

Walking in the Spirit

 

By faith in Jesus Christ, if our faith is of God, and if it is biblical faith, and not that of the flesh, that should result in us denying self, dying to sin, and obeying our Lord’s commands as a matter of life practice, not necessarily in absolute perfection (1 John 2:1-2). But lack of perfection is never to be used as an excuse for deliberate and habitual sin against God. So, walking in the Spirit is living to please God, turning from sin, and obeying his commands, in practice. Then we will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh in our lives.

 

And then we are given here a list of the works of the flesh, and in most of these lists in the Scriptures, the ones listed first have to do with sexual sin which appears to be the predominant sin holding people in bondage today. And if sin is what we practice, by habit, and not obedience to God, then we are not in relationship with Christ Jesus, and we don’t have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. So we must put away all sin, including lying, cheating, stealing, committing adultery, idolatry, murder, and the rest.

 

And now we must walk (in conduct, in practice) by the Spirit, living to please God in all that we are and say and do. And we must live morally pure lives to the glory of God, in the power of God, by his Spirit. So, instead of adultery, we are faithful. Instead of hatred, we are loving. In place of lies we now tell the truth. Instead of wrath, we are kind. In place of resentful and bitter, we are forgiving and compassionate. Instead of being rebellious, we cooperate with God. And instead of doing wrong, we do what is right in God’s eyes.

 

Put Offs and Put Ons: [Matthew 5:27-30; Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Colossians 3:5-11; 1 Timothy 4:7; 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 12:1-17; 1 Peter 1:14; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10] 

 

Servant of the Lord

 

Based off Romans 1:1-17

An Original Work / July 26, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Servant of the Lord;

For the gospel you’re set apart.

Promised through the prophets of old:

Jesus, Son of God.

Through Him, and for His name alone,

We receive His grace

To call people, Him to obey;

Coming from their faith.

Servant of the Lord,

For the gospel you’re set apart.

Promised through the prophets of old:

Jesus, Son of God.

 

You belong to Christ;

Loved by God, and called to be saints;

Serving God with whole heart and mind;

Preaching Jesus Christ;

Always praying for others’ needs;

Helping hand to lend;

Giving courage to others’ faith,

For the praise of God.

You belong to Christ;

Loved by God, and called to be saints;

Serving God with whole heart and mind;

Preaching Jesus Christ.

 

Servant of the Lord;

Of the gospel, I’m not ashamed;

For salvation, power of God

To those who have faith.

In the gospel find righteousness:

Being right with God.

Turn from sin, and trust Jesus Christ.

By faith, live in Him.

Servant of the Lord;

Of the gospel, I’m not ashamed;

For salvation, power of God

To those who have faith.

 

https://vimeo.com/119511640

 

Led By The Spirit

An Original Work / June 22, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Don't Go Backwards!

Galatians 4:8-20 NKJV

 

“8But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods. 9But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? 10You observe days and months and seasons and years. 11I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.

 

“12Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I became like you. You have not injured me at all. 13You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first. 14And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. 15What then was the blessing you enjoyed? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me. 16Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

 

“17They zealously court you, but for no good; yes, they want to exclude you, that you may be zealous for them. 18But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only when I am present with you. 19My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you, 20I would like to be present with you now and to change my tone; for I have doubts about you.

 

Going Backwards

 

The context of this had to do with the Judaizers who were trying to convince the Christians that they had to be more like Jews, and that they had to hold to some of the Old Covenant liturgical, ceremonial, circumcision, dietary, and/or Sabbath laws as part of faith which saves. So Paul was letting them know that they were not to yield to the teachings of the Judaizers. For those of us who are in Christ, by faith in Him, we are not under the Old Covenant. But we are under the New Covenant God has with his people Israel, with all who believe in Jesus Christ as our Messiah. We are not to go backwards.

 

And this kind of thing is still prevalent today within the gatherings of “the church.” But what is most concerning today is that so many preachers are preaching to the people what is them trying to get the people to reject the message of the gospel, taught by Jesus Christ, and to go backwards, and to accept something less, something not of God, not required of God which will allow them to remain in the flesh, still living in sin, not walking in obedience to the Lord, but while claiming that they are saved and on their way to heaven because they made a profession of faith in Jesus with their lips.

 

Different Topic, Same Subject

 

So, although one situation is dealing with Judaizers convincing Christians to be more like Jews and to hold to some of the Old Covenant liturgical laws, and the other is dealing with some pastors today who are convincing their audience that faith in Jesus Christ does not require that they must deny self, die to sin, and obey God’s commands, as necessary components of believing faith, yet in both situations we have people in positions of prominence and authority within the gatherings of the church who are lying to the people, and who are trying to get them to not obey God and his New Covenant.

 

For the weak and beggarly elements so many are turning back to today is this idea that they can control their own lives, that they can do whatever pleases them, that they can walk in sin, in sexual immorality, in lying, cheating, and stealing, and as long as they profess Jesus as their Lord and Savior, then they are saved and heaven is their eternal destiny. Yet some pastors insist that they must attend weekly gatherings of these “institutional churches” (not of God), which are partnered with the government and with the ungodly, or else they are regarded as not in genuine fellowship with God.

 

Have I Become Your Enemy?

 

So, if you are someone who believes God, who believes the Scriptures, who believes the gospel message taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, in the correct biblical context, you may find yourself in a position as an outcast, and as someone to be ignored and rejected because you teach what they now call “works salvation.” And if you are attending one of these “institutional churches,” because you don’t know that so many of them are being guided by marketing schemes, and not by Christ, you might find yourself being persecuted because you believe God and you trust his Word.

 

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) God’s will. For those who didn’t obey will be told by God, “I never knew you, depart from me” (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

 

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

 

To Be Like Him 

 

Based off Scripture

An Original Work / March 16, 2014 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Crucified you are with Jesus.

To be like Him, oh, you’ll be,

Because He died at Calv’ry,

So from sin you’d be free.

Oh, what joy He brings into your life,

Giving life with Him endlessly.

 

Oh, what plans He has for your life.

Share the gospel faithfully.

Show the people He loves them.

Now His witness you’ll be.

Tell the world of sin about Jesus,

How He died for them on a tree.

 

Purifying hearts, He saves them,

Who believe on Christ, God’s Son.

Turning now from their idols,

New lives they have begun.

Jesus saves from sin; we’re forgiven.

Over sin, the vict’ry He won!

 

When He comes again to take us

To be with Him evermore,

There will be no more crying.

Gladness will be in store.

Heavens joys will now overtake us:

We’ll be with our Lord evermore.

 

https://vimeo.com/89237609

 

Reading of this writing on Video:

 

https://youtu.be/sEyFPOu5vW0

 

Don’t Go Backwards!

An Original Work / June 21, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

All God's Promises Have Conditions

Genesis 17:7-9 KJV

 

“And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.”

 

Genesis 18:19 KJV

 

“For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.”

 

Galatians 3:16,26-29 NKJV

 

16Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ.

 

“26For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

 

All God’s Promises

 

All God’s promises have stipulations which must be abided by in order for those promises to be fulfilled. They are not open-ended promises, i.e. they are not commitments without specific clearly defined limits or conditions. In the covenant that God made to Abraham and to his seed (although we learn in the New Testament that the seed was/is Jesus Christ), Abraham and his descendants were required that they must keep (obey) God’s covenant. They were required of God that they had to keep (obey) the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. All God’s promises have conditions!!

 

So, what happened to the Israelites when they were in the wilderness for 40 years? The majority of them did not obey God. They were idolaters, drunks, revelers, the sexually immoral, and those who craved sin, and who tested Christ, and who grumbled against God and against his servant Moses. So most of them died in the wilderness. And not only did they not get to go into the Promised Land, but they also did not get to enter into God’s eternal rest. And all Jews who rejected Jesus Christ as their Messiah were cast out of biblical Israel, and the believing Gentiles were grafted into biblical Israel, who is Jesus Christ. And all who deny Jesus as the Christ are antichrist.

 

Bible verses on biblical Israel:[Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19; Matthew 21:43; John 8:18-19,38-47; John 10:16; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:4-8,25-28; Romans 11:1-36; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:1-6; Colossians 3:12-15; Titus 2:14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13; 1 Peter 2:9-10,24; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9]  

 

Heirs of the Promise

 

So the true heirs of the promise God made with Abraham are all who by faith in Jesus Christ have become children of God. They are not the Jews who have rejected Christ as their Messiah and who have been removed from biblical Israel. Therefore, the unbelieving Jews do not believe in nor do they worship the same God as us who believe in Christ – the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. And all who do not obey God and his commands, but who walk in sin, also do not worship the only true God, and therefore they also are not heirs of the promise God made with Abraham and with his seed (Christ).

 

So the political nation called “Israel” is NOT the Israel of God. They are not God’s chosen people because the majority of them do not believe in Jesus Christ as their Messiah and Lord. Many of them are atheists or those who call themselves Jews but who do not adhere to the Jewish faith practices. According to the Scriptures, they are the antichrist, in fact. So we are not to give our loyalties and devotion to the physical and political nation calling itself “Israel,” for they are not biblical Israel. Biblical Israel are all who are of biblical faith in Jesus Christ who have died with Christ to sin and who are walking in obedience to God’s commands, in the power of God, by his grace.

 

Baptized into Christ

 

Please understand, that even though water baptism traditionally followed a profession of faith in Jesus Christ in the New Testament Scriptures, being baptized with water is no assurance of anyone having faith in Christ and of being obedient servants of the Lord Jesus Christ. Water baptism saves no one. Many people go through the waters of baptism who never put their trust in Jesus Christ. But water baptism represents what takes place in the life of the believer in Christ, for by faith in Jesus we are buried with Christ in baptism into death to sin, and we are raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him in walks of obedience to his commands. Then we are Christ’s.

 

And if we are Christ’s, then we are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise God made to Abraham and to his seed, meaning Christ.

 

2 Chronicles 7:13-14 NKJV

 

“13When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, 14if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

 

[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]

 

Return to Me

 

Based off Jeremiah 31; Cf. Revelation 2-3

An Original Work / September 5, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

I have loved you with an eternal love,

Which I give to you, in my faithfulness.

 

Keep your voice from weeping,

And your eyes from tearing.

You will be rewarded

With much fruitfulness.

 

There is hope for you that My family

Will return to Me; live in victory!

 

Though I discipline in My love for you,

My heart longs for you that you walk in truth.

 

Turn your thoughts to your Lord.

Choose to walk in His ways.

Turn from your sins daily.

Follow Jesus Christ.

 

Oh, how long will you wander in your sin?

Give your hearts to Me; be restored within.

 

I will satisfy ev’ry weary soul

Who repents of sin; is renewed within.

 

Behold, days are coming;

It will surely happen;

Though I discipline them,

They will thrive again.

 

I will be their One and their Only God.

They shall walk in white; be in Me, made right.

 

https://vimeo.com/115536688

 

All God’s Promises Have Conditions

An Original Work / June 21, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Should We Seek to Please People?

Galatians 1:6-10 NKJV

 

“6I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, 7which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed. 10For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.”

 

The Gospel Taught to Them/Us

 

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

 

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

 

For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for Jesus’ return. For it is not the one who claims he is “in Christ” who is “in Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. We have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God in heaven (see Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1-3).

 

The Different Gospel

 

The different gospel taught to them then, and to us today, is anything which contradicts the teachings of Christ and of his New Testament apostles on what constitutes genuine salvation from sin and eternal life with God. So the “other gospel” is just a perversion, a twisting, and an altering of what the true gospel of Christ teaches. And the reason so many are perverting the gospel of Christ is that they want to please people instead of desiring to please God. They want to attract the ungodly to their worldly gatherings.

 

I would say that the primary perversion of the gospel being taught and largely accepted today is a very diluted message which is intended to attract the ungodly and to appease human flesh. So what they are teaching is that faith in Jesus Christ is a mere verbal confession of Christ as Lord and an acknowledgment of Jesus’ death and resurrection. No death to sin, and no obedience to God and to his commands required. For they call that “works salvation,” which they teach is not of God and contrary to the Scriptures.

 

Secondary to that is where they still teach that we can be saved from our sins and on our way to heaven just by “praying the prayer to receive Christ.” They may or may not teach that we must repent of (turn from) our sins and follow Jesus in obedience to his commands, but if they do, they often will teach repentance and obedience as something we “should do” but is not required of God for salvation from sin and for eternal life with God. So they still teach that we can be saved by lip service only, nothing else required.

 

A Bondservant of Christ

 

But if we are genuine believers in Christ who are his followers, we will obey his teachings and those of his New Testament apostles on the subject of the gospel of our salvation. But we need to study the Scriptures in their appropriate biblical context, comparing Scripture with Scripture, for many lies are being taught from Scriptures removed from their true context and then twisted to say what they do not say if taught in the correct biblical context. So context is critical to correct biblical interpretation.

 

And in sharing the truth of the gospel with other people, we are never to soften the truth of what Jesus and his apostles taught in order that we do not offend other humans or turn them away from “the church.” We are not to hold back the truth we know offends just so people will like us and so they will not reject us, for that is utterly selfish, thinking only of ourselves without genuine regard for the salvation of other human lives. We are not here to be people pleasers but those who seek to please God with our lives always.

 

So, don’t rely on other humans to tell you the truth. Do not rely on “Gospel Tracts” in order to present the gospel message, either. For so many of them cut corners and teach Scriptures out of context and leave out some of the most essential elements of the gospel message. For Jesus did not die just to forgive us our sins so we can go on living in sin without guilt. He gave his life up for us in order to deliver us out of our addiction to sin so we will now serve him with our lives in walks of obedience to his commands always.

 

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 28:18-20; Luke 9:23-26; John 4:31-38; John 10:27-30; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 10:14-15; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-14; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Peter 2:9,21,24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

 

Should I Not Preach Jesus

 

Based off 1 Corinthians 9:16-10:13

An Original Work / July 4, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Woe to me should I not preach Jesus.

I’m compelled to preach the full gospel.

I make myself a slave to ev’ryone

To win their hearts to Christ.

All this I do for my Lord Jesus,

And for the sake of His Name;

Do it for the sake of His gospel,

So that I, its blessings gain.

 

Scripture notates the sins of others;

Written down for us as examples

To keep us from setting our hearts

On evil as did those of old.

Do not worship other gods of man;

Do not give your hearts to them;

Not partake in immorality.

Do not test your Lord and King.

 

So, be careful if you think you are

Standing firm in your faith in Jesus.                        

God has given his word to warn us,

So through faith we will not fall.

No temptation has o’ertaken you

Except what is commonplace.

God is faithful to not let you be

Tempted past what you can bear.

He gives the way of escape.

 

https://vimeo.com/116057811

 

Should We Seek to Please People?

An Original Work / June 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

According to The Will of God

Galatians 1:3-5 NKJV

 

“3Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, 4who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.”

 

The Whole Counsel of God

 

We read in Acts 20:27 that the apostle Paul, when speaking to the elders from Ephesus, testified to them that he had not shrunk from declaring to them “the whole counsel of God.” Many (or perhaps few) Christians have heard this phrase, “The Whole Counsel of God,” but I sense that the vast majority do not know what it means. Very simply put, it means all of God’s will and purpose concerning his plan of salvation for us who were born into this world in the image of Adam, with sin natures, separate from God.

 

“The Whole Counsel of God” is the whole “kit and caboodle” of God’s redemptive plan for humanity, which means everything, the entire package, the whole lot, nothing left out – all of the essentials, basically, from start to finish. So not just the beginning, and not just the beginning plus the middle, but the beginning all the way into the middle and through to the end, nothing deleted, nothing altered, and nothing tampered with to make it less offensive and more acceptable to human flesh, but the unadulterated truth.

 

And Jesus said it well when he said, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.” And “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven” (see Luke 9:23-26 and Matthew 7:21-23).

 

For Jesus Christ gave his life up for us on that cross to put our sins to death with him, and he rose victorious over death, sin, Satan, and hell so that, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in him (which is not of our own doing) we might deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands. Thus, 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; Ephesians 2:8-10).

 

[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

 

According to The Will of God

An Original Work / June 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Examining Ourselves

 

With a Godly Jealousy

2 Corinthians 11:1-4 NKJV

 

“Oh, that you would bear with me in a little folly—and indeed you do bear with me. 2For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!”

 

Betrothed to One Husband

 

What was Paul saying here? By him sharing with the people the gospel of our salvation, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord, and by the people believing in Jesus, dying with him to sin, being reborn of the Spirit, and then walking in obedience to the Lord’s commands, in practice, he served as the pastor who married the two together. For he essentially performed the wedding ceremony where they said, “Yes!” to Jesus, to be his bride, and for Jesus to be their husband. But they were now beginning to accept the lies as truth.

 

And so he let them know that he was jealous for them with a godly jealously, much like a Christian man or woman might be jealous with a godly jealousy when their spouse begins to drift away and to show interest in someone else in place of them. But the concern for their spouse is not from selfish motives, but it is out of a heart of love for them, and a desire to see them walk with the Lord in obedience to his commands and to have a godly marriage where they treat each other with honor, love, value, and respect.

 

So, if we have spouses who, although they may profess faith in Jesus, are living in adultery against the Lord and their spouse, in practice, we should be concerned. We should be grieved in our spirits. And if many professing Christians are giving lip service only to the Lord while their true god is themselves and entertainment and sexual adultery and idolatry, this should grieve us, as well (see 1 Corinthians 5:1-13). We should be burdened for those who have lost their way and pray for them to repent and obey God.

 

For we live in an age when it appears that the majority of them calling themselves “ministers of the gospel” are spreading lies to the people, instead of the truth. So many have diluted and altered the gospel to exclude the need for biblical repentance and obedience to our Lord’s commands, in practice. And many who teach the need to repent and to obey God teach it as something optional, i.e. as something we should do, but with an open door to not do and still be regarded a Christian on one’s way to heaven.

 

What is the gospel Jesus and Paul and the other apostles taught?

 

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

 

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

 

For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for Jesus’ return. For it is not the one who claims he is “in Christ” who is “in Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. We have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God in heaven (see Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1-3).

 

Not of Ourselves

 

Ephesians 2:8-10 NKJV

 

“8For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”

 

So, what’s this saying? Well, we know that the grace of God, by which we are saved, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives. So grace is not a free ride to heaven based off lip service only. And salvation, which is progressive, is deliverance out of bondage (addiction) to sin so we can now walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands. And faith comes from God and it is persuaded of God as to his righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to deny self, die to sin, and obey our Lord.

 

And since it is not of ourselves, not of our own fleshly works, not only can we do nothing to earn or to deserve our salvation, but we do not get to define what that salvation looks like, either, for it is not of human flesh, but of God. And Jesus died on that cross to put our sins to death with him so we will die to sin and obey God in practice. And “works” are not excluded from our salvation, for we are, by faith in Jesus Christ, his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk (in conduct, in practice) in them, all for the glory 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

 

With a Godly Jealousy

An Original Work / June 19, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love