Understanding the Antichrist

“Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour… Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.” (1 John 2:18,22 NASB1995)

“For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.” (Matthew 24:24 NASB1995)

What if the antichrist, in claiming to be God, doesn’t actually verbalize the words, “I am God”? But his claim is more in how he presents himself as though he is God, as though he is a supreme being to be worshipped above all else, who has golden statues of himself made and put on display for the world to see. For he is egotistical, loud mouthed, hateful, blasphemous, arrogant, immoral, and crude, and he boasts of how great he is and of all his many accomplishments, and how he is better than everyone else. For he thinks he owns the whole world, and that the world should all bow to him.

For, remember, he is a man of deception and trickery. And remember how the Scriptures describe false teachers/prophets as those who are “wolves in sheep’s clothing.” What if the antichrist, in order to fool the people of the world, disguises himself as a Christian, and as one who believes in Jesus and in the one true God of this world? And what if he fakes worship of Jesus and the one true God in order to deceive Christians into thinking he is one of them so that they will follow him? For they will assume a profession of faith constitutes genuine faith in Jesus, and then he will have their support.

And what if “taking his seat in the temple of God” (see Revelation 13:1-10), has to do with him faking Christianity in order to place himself in a position of superiority within the gatherings of the church, i.e. among all who profess faith in Jesus Christ? And so the majority (perhaps) of those who claim to be Christians end up following him blindly, almost in a worshipful way, as though he is a god to be worshipped and/or as though he was sent by God as some kind of a “savior” for all of mankind, who can do no wrong. And so they believe everything he says, and support him no matter what.

So, you say, the antichrist is the one who denies the Father and the Son, which is true (1 John 2:22). But then how do you think he will deceive even the elect? Certainly the elect will not be fooled by someone who verbally denies God the Father and God the Son, Jesus Christ. But he is a deceiver who disguises himself, initially, in order to gain followers, just like the “wolves in sheep’s clothing.” For denying Christ doesn’t have to be verbal at all if one denies him by their lifestyles, by their words, their deeds, their actions, and their behaviors. Many who profess Jesus deny him in action.

And this is where it gets interesting. In Revelation 13 we read about two beasts, one coming out of the sea, and another from the earth. And this second beast (with two heads, which I believe could be representative of the church in a marriage relationship with the government, i.e. the institutional church) makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed. So what if a false prophet who also claims to believe in Jesus, who is highly regarded in the Christian community, is promoting this first beast, which is then getting “Christians” to follow him?

We have to not have blinders on so that we miss all of what is happening in our present age in fulfillment of the prophesies of the Scriptures, so that we end up worshipping the beast instead of (in place of) God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit. For there is so much deception going on in our day. So many liars and deceivers and wolves in sheep’s clothing all over the place teaching lies to the people and convincing so many to believe the lies and to reject the truth of the gospel taught by Jesus and his New Testament apostles, taught in the correct biblical context, and not out of context.

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).

So, please understand that the antichrist is not going to be obvious. Otherwise he loses his power to deceive. But also realize that the Scriptures teach that there are many antichrists and that all who deny Jesus as the Christ (in action, not just in words) are the antichrist. So the antichrist (one person or many people or a group of people) is not going to be wearing a sign saying, “I am the antichrist.” So don’t assume you are going to easily spot him, for even the elect will be deceived by false christs and false prophets who claim to be speaking for God, in his name (Matthew 24:24).

[Matthew 7:15-23; Matthew 24:11-24; Luke 6:26; John 10:1-15; Romans 16:17-19; 2 Corinthians 11:3,13-15; Ephesians 4:11-16; Philippians 3:2; 2 Peter 2:1-22; 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22; 1 Timothy 1:3-7; 1 Timothy 6:3-10; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; 1 John 2:18-22; 1 John 4:1-6; 2 John 1:7; Jude 1:1-25] 

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

Understanding the Antichrist

An Original Work / February 11, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Why Am I Here?

There are certain people today called “cessationists” who believe that some of the Spiritual gifts of God, listed for us in the Scriptures, are no longer valid. But that theory is anti-biblical. And they will use 1 Corinthians 13:8-10 as one of their main sources for this theory of theirs. But, when taught in the correct biblical context, their theory does not “hold water.” For in the last days (now) God will pour out His Spirit on both male and female, and they will prophesy (proclaim God’s Word), and will have dreams, and see visions (see Acts 2:15-18 and Joel 2:28-32). Test them. Yes! But don’t disregard all.

“Do not quench the Spirit; do not despise prophetic utterances. But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil.” (1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 NASB1995)

Now, to be honest, the only reason that I am on the internet is that 21 years ago the Lord called me to this ministry, some through dreams and visions, and some through the passage in Habakkuk 2:2-3, but all through the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking within me showing me the way that the Lord had planned for me from even before he created the world. But the cessationists would have none of that. They would tell me that God doesn’t speak to us that way, but only through the written word of God. And if I had listened to them, instead of to the Holy Spirit, I would never have come to the internet.

So, let’s look at what that would look like if I had ignored God’s calling upon my life, and if I had listened to the cessationists, instead. And none of this I am mentioning is of my own doing, nor could it ever be, but all this is of God, and of his working in my life and through me for his glory. So there is no pride in any of what I am going to share with you, for all this was God working through me as I yielded to his control, and I did what he said, and I said what he gave me to write and to share with the people on the internet.

In a way, this is kind of like one of those “if you had never been born” kind of stories where they show you what the world would look like if you had not existed, and if you had not had the impact that you had on the people of the earth. Only this will be looking more at the kinds of things which would not have happened if you had not listened to the Lord, and if you had listened to other humans, instead, who were teaching the Scriptures out of context, and who would tell you that God cannot speak to you in that way.

So, this is for all of you who have heard the Spirit speaking within you, showing you the way that he has for you, and the gifts and ministries he has for you, but who have been shot down by cessationists who tell you that God doesn’t work that way, and that God can speak to you only through the written word. But the written word does not say, “Sue Love, I am calling you to write down what I talk with you about, to the best of your understanding, and to post these writings on the internet for a ‘herald to run with it.’”

And, again, none of this is of me or of my flesh or my doing. I just listen to the Lord, write down what I hear him say, and I post it on the internet. What happens before, during, and after that is in the hands of God, not mine!

Over the past 21 years the Lord has given me over 10,000 documents to write, and/or to record, and to post on the internet, now on seven different internet sites. Some of them are/were dreams and visions (primarily at the beginning), which were primarily used as parables. Some of them are songs, some are poems, some are memes (devotions), and some are video talks (not writings), but they have writings to go with them. And a few were testimonies in the form of short books. Most of them are me sharing my times of fellowship with the Lord and what I am hearing from him.

Now, at first, I didn’t even know if anyone was reading, viewing, or listening to any of these, for I got few responses, until I discovered “Stats.” And then I realized that people from over 100 different nations were/are viewing these documents or videos, and these posts were getting a large number of reads, even if I did not get many responses. And that encouraged my heart. But did I do this? No! God did! He just did it through me, but it all came from him, and I am just the messenger. So all the glory goes to God and not to me.

But think with me a moment on this. What if I had listened to cessationists, and not to God. None of this would have happened. None of these over 10,000 documents would have ever gone out to people in nations all over the world. And most of what I write about is the gospel of our salvation, and I share what I am getting from the Lord in my times with him in his word each day. So these presentations of the gospel would not have reached the people of the world, either, well not through me, anyway. But so many people today are not teaching the truth, but lies to coddle people in their sin.

So, don’t listen to the naysayers who tell you that God no longer speaks through dreams and visions, or through other sources that are not specifically the canon of the Scriptures, and that he no longer uses some of the spiritual gifts he provided for his people. The Lord even uses cockroaches and lady bugs and spiders, in what they represent, in what they are doing, kind of like dreams, as symbols of what the Scriptures talk about, and to let me know what he would have me write about that day. And none of this is antibiblical. For they can be just like the kind of parables that Jesus spoke.

But we need to be aware that the devil will try to counterfeit God and his voice and his messages, so we need to test everything we believe is of God against the Scriptures to make sure that what we are hearing or seeing does not contradict the Scriptures and their teachings. But don’t limit God to just the canon of the Scriptures, for Jesus did send us the Holy Spirit to indwell us, to teach us all things, and to counsel, to encourage, and to warn. So, we have to be able to hear the Spirit speaking within us so we know God’s calling on our lives and we know what he wants us to do and to say.

Body of Christ, Spiritual Gifts, Spiritual Ministries

[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]

The Lord’s Anointed  

Based off Isaiah 61

An Original Work / December 16, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Spirit of the Sov’reign Lord on me;

Anointed to preach the Good News;

Sent me to bind up the brokenhearted;

Proclaim freedom for the captives.

He sent me to preach release for pris’ners

Who are walking in sin’s darkness;

Proclaim God’s grace to all men who’ll listen;

And tell them about God’s judgments;

Comfort all who mourn;

Give crowns of beauty;

Oil of gladness and thanksgiving. 

They will be called oaks of God’s righteousness,

A planting of our Savior, God,

For the display of our Lord’s splendor, and

They will rebuild God’s holy church.

God will renew them, and will restore them,

And you’ll be called priests of the Lord.

You will be ministers of our God, and

You will rejoice in salvation.

The Lord loves justice;

He is faithful to 

Reward those who are seeking Him.

I delight greatly in the Lord;

My soul rejoices in my Savior, God.

He has clothed me with His salvation,

And in a robe of His righteousness.

He has given me priestly garments to wear, 

As the bride of Jesus Christ.

As the garden of our Lord and Savior, 

He causes us to grow in Him.

He makes righteousness, 

Praise, and thanksgiving

Spring up before all the nations. 

https://vimeo.com/114836524

Why Am I Here?

An Original Work / February 11, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Gifts of The Spirit

“Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.” (1 Corinthians 13:8-10 NASB1995)

What do cessationists believe? According to Google’s AI, “Cessationists believe that miraculous sign gifts—specifically prophecy, tongues, and healing—ceased after the Apostolic Age (end of the 1st century) once the New Testament canon was completed. They argue these gifts were intended to validate the apostles' message, not to continue throughout church history. They still believe God performs miracles today but no longer uses individuals with specific ‘gifts’ of healing or miracles.” But is that biblical? No!

Jesus said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.” (John 14:12 NASB1995)

Jesus said, “greater works.” The cessationists say, “lesser works.”

And one of the Scripture passages the cessationists use to support their case is this passage in 1 Corinthians 13. So, let’s break that down to see if their theory “holds water.” 

Yes, the passage of Scripture speaks of a time when the gifts of the Spirit will be done away with. But when is this to take place? When the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. And who is “the perfect” who is coming? Jesus Christ. When Jesus returns for his bride, and he takes us to be with him in glory, there will be no more need of the gifts of the Spirit. And then it goes on to describe that time:

“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.” (v. 12)

When will that take place? When Jesus Christ returns for his faithful ones, and he takes us to be with him for eternity, which is when we will then see him “face to face.” So what this is contrasting here is our time here on this earth compared to what it will be like when we are with our Lord in glory for eternity. Here our understanding and our knowledge of things is incomplete. But when we are out of these earthly tents, and we are in our glorified bodies with Christ for eternity, then we will have complete understanding.

So, the gifts of the Spirit are not to cease while we live here on this earth. And in our present reality we need to be exercising those gifts of the Spirit even more. But they must be exercised with much spiritual maturity and discernment, and done biblically, and of the Holy Spirit, and not of human flesh. For there is much fakery and misuse of the gifts of the Spirit going on within the gatherings of the church (or what is falsely being referred to as the church). So we must test the spirits to see if truly they are of God.

But what happened on the day of Pentecost when the believers in Christ (male and female) were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages (the languages of the people present)? They were accused of being drunk. So, what was Peter’s response to that accusation?

“For these people are not drunk, as you assume, since it is only the third hour of the day; but this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:

‘And it shall be in the last days,’ God says,

‘That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind;

And your sons and your daughters will prophesy,

And your young men will see visions,

And your old men will have dreams;

And even on My male and female servants

I will pour out My Spirit in those days,

And they will prophesy.” (Acts 2:15-18 NASB; see also Joel 2:28-32)

And where are we now? Certainly we are in the last days, for they were, too. And who are these gifts bestowed upon? Male and female. No differentiation. And, poetically speaking, the way this is written does not mean that only young men will see visions and only old men will have dreams. And looking at the interlinear for Acts 2:17, it appears to me that all are included in those who will prophesy and see visions and dream dreams. But these prophecies, dreams, and visions must not contradict the teachings of the Scriptures. For God will not contradict himself and his word.

And to prophesy is not just in the area of future telling, but the word means to “speak forth” the messages of God, to proclaim the Word of the Lord. Another word for this is to “preach.” But this proclaiming of the Word of the Lord must be under the guidance and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, who will lead us in what to say, and in what subjects to discuss, and to make these messages relevant to our world today, practical, and applicable to our daily living. And this must not rewrite nor contradict the Scriptures. And all should be tested against the Scriptures to be sure they are of God.

Body of Christ and Spiritual Gifts

[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]

The Spirit Calling

An Original Work / November 12, 2019

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Hear the Spirit calling.

He’ll keep you from falling.

Tenderly He’s calling,

“Come and follow Him.”

Walk with Jesus daily.

Don’t give in to lazy.

Folks may call you crazy.

Fellowship with Him.

Follow where He leads you.

Eat what Jesus feeds you.

His love will renew you

If you follow Him.

Do what Jesus tells you.

Don’t let your faith fail you.

His love will avail you

If you walk with Him.

Jesus, Lord and Savior,

Reigneth now forever.

He gave us His favor

So we’d live with Him.

Turning now from our sin,

Holy Spirit live-in.

Holiness we walk in,

Purified by Him.

https://vimeo.com/373006449

Gifts of The Spirit

An Original Work / February 10, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Out of Context 2

The Free Gift of God

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23 NASB1995)

From the time I was a teenager through early to mid-adulthood, I was taught this Scripture passage, out of context, in a grouping of other Scriptures, also taught out of context, which, combined all together, taught what they said was “The Gospel of Christ.” But it wasn’t the gospel, because they taught this in the context of a cheapened and diluted “gospel” which taught “inviting Jesus into your heart” forgave you all your sins and secured you heaven for eternity, but without biblical repentance and obeying God. 

But here is the context..

“For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (vs 20-23).

In Summary..

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).

If You Confess With Your Mouth

“But what does it say? ‘The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart’—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.” (Romans 10:8-10 NASB1995)

Now, the context had to do with some Jews needing to believe in Jesus for salvation, and this was during the time of transition from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant, and from having to obey a long set of liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, circumcision, dietary, and Sabbath laws, to now being freed from having to obey those types of laws. So this was letting the people know that their righteousness was not based off the Old Covenant liturgical laws, but off of genuine faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.

But then God’s word says…

“What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?” (Romans 6:15-16 NASB1995)

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

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18] 

Gift of God  

Based off Various Scriptures 

An Original Work / October 25, 2016

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Jesus Christ, Son of God,

Died for us on a cross;

Conquered death, sin, and hell,

So, with Him, we would dwell.

For, by His grace, we are saved.

He set us free from all sin.

Thanks be to God for His Gift.

Through faith in Him, we’re forgiven.

Holy Spirit of God,

Given to us who believe,

Gives us new life in Christ;

Made to be just like Him.

We died with Christ to our sin.

New lives in Him we begin,

Walking with Christ day by day.

We read His Word, and we pray.

Jesus, He is our Lord.

Follow Him where He leads.

Tell the world of His grace.

We’ll see Christ face to face.

Soon He is coming again.

We’ll be forever with Him.

He’ll wipe our tears all away.

Oh, what a wonderful day!

https://vimeo.com/188931779

Out of Context 2

An Original Work / February 10, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Are We Lacking in Love?

“If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.” (1 Corinthians 13:1-3 NASB1995)

What’s this in reference to? It is in reference to the teaching in the previous chapter which ends with “And I show you a still more excellent way.” For when this was written, there were no chapters and verses. This was all one continuous letter from the Apostle Paul to the church of God in Corinth, in which he gave them all kinds of exhortations. So, it is good for us to know the context here, which was Paul teaching on Spiritual gifts. And, the previous chapter, chapter 12, is a preface for what he taught in chapter 13.

The main point I get from chapter 12 is that, by the Spirit, we are all gifted in different ways, so we won’t all be the same. Even if we have the same gift category, we may not all exercise it the same way. All should be exercised in the power of the Holy Spirit, according to the teachings of the Scriptures on Spiritual gifts. But none of us should operate in “the gifts” from a worldly or fleshly perspective. And all of us who have been assigned by God our specific “body parts” in the family of God, we are not all going to be the same.

For, there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord. There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons, i.e. in all people of genuine biblical faith in the Lord Jesus whose lives are committed to the will and purposes of God, who have the Holy Spirit living within them, gifting them, and using them for the glory of God to minister God’s love and grace to the rest of the body of believers in Jesus Christ, and to share the gospel with the world.

Therefore, not one of us is to say to another part of the body of Christ that we have no need of them. Now, if they are living in sin, that is a totally different situation which must be addressed and resolved for them to be active parts of the body ministering to the rest of the body. But that is not the issue here. The issue here is body parts, operating in the power of the Holy Spirit, who are being told that they “don’t fit,” and they should go “someplace else where they will be a ‘better fit’.” This should not be!!

“But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked, so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.” (1 Corinthians 12:24-26 NASB1995)

And this then takes us to chapter 13. We who say we love God, and that we are filled with the Spirit of God, and that we are operating in the gifts of the Spirit, are not to be those who treat the other body parts with disdain and disapproval just because they have different body parts from us, or because the manner in which they exercise their spiritual gifts does not meet with our approval. Their exercise of their spiritual gifts, though, needs to meet with God’s qualifications, and his approval, and that should be enough for us.

For our approval of one another should not be based in human thinking and reasoning, nor in marketing schemes and goals, nor out of fear that the ungodly of this world might be offended by our actions. But how we view one another, and how we treat one another, should be based in the teachings of the Scriptures, and in the model set before us in the person of Jesus Christ. But I will give this one caution. The fruit of the Spirit is “self-control,” so if our “gifting” is “out of control,” it is not of the Holy Spirit.

And, lastly, this love we are to have for one another is not based in human feelings and emotions which fluctuate, for we are to love even our enemies, and those who do evil against us, and even those within “the church” who reject us and cast us aside as unwanted because we don’t fit in with their modern-day marketing schemes and goals on how to “draw in large crowds of people from the world” into their gatherings. But just because someone else’s gifts are different from ours, it doesn’t make them wrong or us right.

[Matthew 5:43-46; Luke 6:27-28; Luke 10:27; John 13:34-35; John 15:12]

Love Never Fails 

Based off 1 Corinthians 13 NIV

An Original Work / August 20, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love 

If I speak 

With tongues of men and angels,

But do not have love,

My speech is but noise;

It sounds like thunder from above.

If I have the gift of preaching,

Knowledge, faith and prophecy,

But I do not love my brothers,

Oh, what vanity!

If I give all I possess 

To help a neighbor who’s in need,

But I do not love my sisters,

I gain not a thing.

Love is patient; love is kind;

It does not envy; is not proud.

It is not rude; not self-seeking;

Selflessly gives out.

Love does not delight in evil,

But rejoices with the truth;

Protects always; hopes and trusts,

And always perseveres.

Love is not easily angered;

Keeps no record of the wrongs.

It forgives when wrong’s intended;

Returns hate with love.

Love will never fail when it is

God’s love reaching out through us,

Selfless in its care for others;

Yielding to the cross.

Prophecies and tongues 

And knowledge,

Wisdom, teaching, miracles,

Gifts of healing, helping others –

These will all be stilled.

When perfection comes 

The imperfect will surely disappear.

Faith and hope and love remain; 

The greatest of these, love. 

https://vimeo.com/118621887

Are We Lacking in Love?

An Original Work / February 10, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Apostasy

“Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, regarding the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit, or a message, or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. No one is to deceive you in any way! For it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?” (2 Thessalonians 2:1-5 NASB)

The Apostasy

The day of the Lord will not come unless the apostasy comes first. So, what is “the apostasy”? What does it look like? Well, it means to depart from the faith of the gospel of our salvation and from obedience to our Lord. It is a defection, a falling away from true faith and true biblical worship of God to go after the gods of this world. It is a defection or a falling away from the truth of the gospel to go after the lies that this world and the enemy of our souls are offering. And has that already come? In the USA it certainly has!

For, in the USA, where I live, a cheapened and altered and diluted “gospel” message has largely taken the place of the gospel taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, taught in the correct biblical context. In the USA the most popular “gospel” message is teaching that a mere verbal confession of Christ as Lord, and of his bodily resurrection, is enough to secure for the “believer” salvation and forgiveness of all sins, and eternal life with God, but regardless of how the person lives in lifestyle, by habit.

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).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18] 

The Man of Lawlessness

Now, I make no claims to being a prophet of God. I am a servant of the Lord, as all should be who profess faith in Jesus Christ. And my assignment from God is just to write down what I am learning from the Lord each day during my times with him in his word, and then to post these writings on the internet for the encouragement and strengthening of the body of Christ in their walks of faith, to inform of world events which are or may be impacting the church, and to share the biblical truth of the gospel of our salvation.

So, what I am sharing here are just my observations, and you can take it from there and pray about it to see what the Lord is revealing to your spirit. This “man of lawlessness” could, indeed, be just one man who raises himself up to god-like status to be worshipped by other humans, who makes golden statues of himself to put on display, who is loud mouthed, hateful, boasting of all his accomplishments, egotistical, arrogant, blasphemous, immoral, and who thinks he owns the world and that the world should bow to him.

Or the man of lawlessness could be more than one person…

Now, first of all, “the temple of God” is not a physical building, and it will never again be a physical building. For God does not live in buildings built by human hands (Acts 17:24). Ever since Jesus Christ died on that cross in taking upon himself the sins of the world, and he was resurrected from the dead, the temple of God has been the people of God who have, by faith in Jesus Christ, died with Christ to sin, and who are walking in obedience to him and to his commands, by God’s grace, in the power of God within them.

So, we need to translate this passage in 2 Thessalonians in that light. This is speaking about the “man of lawlessness” taking his seat in the hearts and minds of the people of God who by faith believe in Jesus Christ. Collectively we are the church, so the man of lawlessness is taking his seat in the gatherings of the church, the body of Christ, the temple of God, God’s only temple. And this man of lawlessness is displaying himself as being God, to be worshiped as though he is a god. And he is deceiving many people.

When I was a young child in the 1950s, those who professed faith in Jesus Christ (plus family) met together in a building which they called “the church.” There was a large room in this building which was then called “the sanctuary,” which is where the church services were held. And we were taught that coming into that building meant that we were now entering “the house of God.” And the room called “the sanctuary” was regarded as “holy ground.” So there were some definite carryovers from the Jewish temple.

So, here is where it gets interesting. In “the sanctuary,” at the very front of the room, largely displayed on one side of the platform (from where the preacher taught his sermon), was the flag of the United States of America. And in some of these gatherings we were taught to put hand over heart and to pledge (vow) our allegiance (loyalty, fidelity, faithfulness) to the US government, as though they were a god to be worshiped. And we were taught to sing patriotic songs of worship of the government and to honor our military as though they were our saviors who protected us from evil.

And as I was contemplating this, then in my mind I heard these words, “the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.” And then I remembered that, in such gatherings where we pledged our allegiance to the flag, that there was another flag on display, and it was called “the Christian flag.” But we always vowed our fidelity first and foremost to the government, and the Christian flag second. And all this took place in the gatherings of “the temple of God.”

Then, also in the 1950’s, the church at large (not every congregation) in the USA was talked into incorporating (merging, combining, uniting, partnering) with the state (with the government, with the world) via the 501c3 tax exempt nonprofit organization status, which puts them underneath the rule of the government and answerable to the US government for what they do or don’t do. So, overall, there has been no more separation of church and state, as a general rule. And the government was now put in a position of authority over the church (“he takes his seat in the temple of God”).

So, take this to the Lord in prayer, and ask the Lord to lead you to all truth. Study the Scriptures in their correct biblical context, and then obey them.

The Apostasy

An Original Work / February 9, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Is Your Faith Growing More and More?

“We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.” (2 Thessalonians 1:3-4 NIV)

What is faith, in this biblical context? What does this faith look like, in word and in deed? Well, the word “faith” means “persuasion.” In this case, since it is faith in Jesus Christ, it is the divine persuasion of God as to our sinfulness, of God’s righteousness, and of our need to repent of (turn from, die to) sin, by the grace of God, and to commit our lives to following our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands, empowered by God. We believe God and his Word, and so we surrender to God and we obey the teachings he has for us.

So, if we who believe in Jesus are increasing in faith, what should that look like? Well, the more that we know God and what God has for us to be and to do, because we want to know and to do his will, because we are studying the Scriptures in their correct biblical context, the more we should be obeying him in doing his will. We should be maturing in our walks of faith on a daily basis, becoming more and more like Jesus in godly character and in doing and speaking the kinds of things he did and that he spoke to people.

We should be stepping out of our comfort zones more and more, even more willing to speak truth to the people, many of whom we know will not listen to us, and some of whom will mock us, laugh at us, disregard us as crazy, and otherwise just ignore us because they think that we are religious fanatics of some kind. And some of them may rebuke us, and treat us like trash, and lie about us, and treat us with disdain and abuse. But know they treated Jesus and his New Testament apostles and the prophets before them the same.

But Christian persecution isn’t just about attacks on us and on our character because of what we believe and put into practice. But this about attacks on the truth of the gospel of our salvation. This is about people falsely claiming to believe in Jesus and to speak the truth of the gospel who are, in reality, “wolves in sheep’s clothing,” out to steal, kill, and destroy, not only the people of God, but the message of the gospel of our salvation. And so they teach the Scriptures out of context, and they speak lies disguised as truth.

So they teach God’s grace as free license to continue living in deliberate and habitual sin against God, only now without feelings of guilt. And they teach that, even if you are living in deliberate and habitual sin, that you can just “claim who you are in Christ” to relieve any feelings of guilt. But we are not “in Christ” by lip service only. “In Christ” means we have died with Christ to sin and we are now walking in obedience to his commands, by the grace of God, in practice. So don’t believe the lies! Believe God’s Word (in context).

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; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18] 

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

 

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Is Your Faith Growing More and More

An Original Work / February 9, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love