The USA

In 1776 my home became a nation.

Today they celebrate with many jubilations.

For many this seems good, believe what they were given;

Believe their forefathers are living now in heaven.

From early on in life we’re taught to vow to nation

Our all undying love, our loyalty, devotion.

We’re told we are one nation, it’s God who we do serve,

There is no separation. From truth, that is a swerve.

We’re taught that we were founded on Christian principles,

That God did bless our nation; in Him we were unfurled.

And then down through the ages the truth did now unfold,

Not everything they told us was true, so oh, how bold!

The more we did the research, the more that we did see

That so much that they taught us were lies that they did feed.

They’re not the greatest nation with much humanity,

But they’re the world’s worst terrorists from many want to flee.

It’s written in the symbols, not Christian as they said,

For many who interpret know we were falsely led.

Our nation was not founded on Christian principles,

But on syncretism, with religions they were merged.

The plan from the beginning, The Harlot they would be,

Conquering all the nations, combined they meant to be.

It’s all in preparation, the ruling of the Beast,

With many tribulations unfolding is the feast.

So, do not worship nations and rulers of the earth,

For they are bound to fail you, make you feel like a jerk,

For you believed their stories, them you did celebrate,

But you can change your story, it never is too late.

An Original Work / July 4, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Terrible Times Have Come

2 Timothy 3:1-5 BSB

 

“1But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. 2For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, 4traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!”

 

Media Influence in Human Lives

 

We are definitely living in the last days! I live in the USA, and I see this in my nation in abundance! Although the internet definitely has some good uses and purposes, which I am very grateful for, it also has opened the door wide to every form of evil imaginable, I believe. And so much of this is being daily fed into people’s hearts and minds. And the young and the vulnerable are especially susceptible to believing the lies and to rejecting the truth, because the lies often make them feel good, which the truth may not.

 

Radio first, then television, then computers, then the internet, and then smart phones (also the internet) can be and are being used as means of mind control, mind manipulation, propaganda, and influence in people’s hearts and minds, also influencing their attitudes, values, and behaviors. For as the saying goes, “garbage in, garbage out.” What gets stored up in our minds and hearts can and will come out in our attitudes and behaviors. But the media does have some plusses, such as what I am able to write now.

 

So, the media (radio, television, and the internet) can be a good thing, or it can be a bad thing depending upon what we do with it, and how we use it, and whether or not we are mature and sensible and godly people who are able to discern what we should not be viewing and what is safe for us to view. Children should not be handed computers, tablets, and smart phones and then not be supervised, for they lack the maturity to make the right kinds of decisions. And honestly, it appears that applies to many adults.

 

What’s Permeating the Church

 

And I know you may think that I rail on this subject, but pornography use has skyrocketed via the internet and smart phones. And this is permeating the church and the lives of people who profess faith in Jesus Christ, including probably half the pastors (or greater than half), according to recent statistics. And this is destroying people’s lives and their marriages and their families, and the church at large. So many are now embracing this sin, and few seem to be willing to do what needs to be done to put it to death.

 

And this doesn’t just impact the person doing the sinning, but it affects all who are impacted by the sinners, via their sins, one way or another. For those who are addicted to sin and to disobeying God will also be those who lie and who cheat and who hate and abuse those they are supposed to love. And the sin will completely distort the meaning of the word “love,” and it will damage the minds and hearts of those addicted to the sin. And they will easily accept the lies of Satan and reject the truth, to justify their actions.

 

And “love” is not just feelings and emotions. Love is action. And God is love. And “love” means to prefer what God prefers, which is all that is holy, righteous, godly, morally pure, upright, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to his commands. And love does no harm to its neighbor. So it isn’t love for God or for anyone else if how you treat them comes from a heart set on sin and selfish desire and the lusts of the flesh. For viewing porn is adultery, and it is traitorous, conceited, and thinking only of self. It is hate.

 

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

 

Wake Up! 

 

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

An Original Work / November 25, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead.

Your God awaits you to do what

He says to you.

Be not conformed to your selfish will.

Trust in the Lord. Do what He says.

He will give you victory.

Do not walk in darkness;

Come into the light of love.

 

Listen to your Savior calling

You to obey all His teachings.

Repent of your sin, and

Christ will shine His love on you.

He waits patiently for you to

Heed His whispers to your heart.

Will you hasten to obey Him;

Not from Him depart?

 

Live your life from this day forward,

Walking in His love and mercy.

Let Him cleanse you of all your sins.

Dwell with Him today.

Do not insult God’s grace to you.

Do not make light of your sin.

Let the light of His truth come

And free you from within.

 

https://vimeo.com/125863007

 

Terrible Times Have Come

An Original Work / July 4, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

If We, Then We

2 Timothy 2:11-13 BSB

 

“11This is a trustworthy saying:

If we died with Him,

we will also live with Him;

12if we endure,

we will also reign with Him;

if we deny Him,

He will also deny us;

13if we are faithless,

He remains faithful,

for He cannot deny Himself.”

 

The Gospel of our salvation is not a free ride to heaven based off lip service only. Once Saved Always Saved is NOT a biblical doctrine of salvation, but a creation of human origin to appease human flesh. There are conditional “if” statements all throughout the New Testament Scriptures with regard to our salvation from sin and our eternal life with God, and we need to know them and to take them seriously, for where we will spend eternity depends on us knowing and obeying the truth and not the lies which are being spread.

 

If We Died With Him (2 Timothy 2:11)

 

“If we died with Him, we will also live with Him.”

 

When Jesus Christ was put to death on that cross it was to put our sins to death with him. And when he rose from the grave, it was in victory over sin, death, hell, and Satan. And all this was on our behalf in order that, by biblical faith in Jesus, we will now deny self, die to sin daily, and follow our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands, in surrender to his will, and no longer as slaves to sin. He does not demand absolute perfection, but he does demand that now death to sin and obedience to God be what we practice.

 

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

 

If We Endure (2 Timothy 2:12)

 

“If we endure, we will also reign with Him.”

 

And to endure is to persevere in, to remain in, and to abide in Christ. And to abide is to comply with, obey, follow, conform to, uphold, and to continue with Christ in his teachings, to put them into practice in our daily lives. For our salvation from sin is not a one time deal and now we are good to go for eternity. Our salvation is progressive. We are saved (past). We are being saved (present active). And we will be saved (future) when Jesus returns, but provided that we continue in him in walks of obedience to his commands and that we do not deny him and return to living in sin in rejection of him.

 

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

 

If We Deny Him (2 Timothy 2:12)

 

“If we deny Him, He will also deny us.”

 

So what does it mean to deny Christ? It means to refuse him, to reject him, to contradict him, and to disallow him, which is what we do if we choose our sins over obedience to our Lord. If sin is still what we practice (by habit) and not obedience to our Lord and to his commands, then according to the Scriptures, we do not know Christ, we are not in fellowship with Christ, and we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. For Jesus taught that to come to him we must deny self, die to sin, and obey his commands.

 

[Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; 1 Peter 2:24]

 

If We Are Faithless (2 Timothy 2:13)

 

“If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.”

 

Please pay careful attention to what this says, and then compare it to the teachings in 2 Timothy 2:11-12. For many people are teaching this out of context, and they are teaching the faithless (i.e. those who are still living in deliberate and habitual sin against God, and not in walks of obedience to his commands), that even if they are faithless, that God will remain faithful to them to secure them salvation from sin and to give them eternal life with God. But that is antibiblical! And it contradicts the three previous statements in the previous verses. So context is critical to correct biblical interpretation.

 

So read the whole passage! If we die with him to sin, we will live with him. If we endure with him, we will reign with him. But if we deny him, by how we live, he will deny us and we will not have salvation from sin, and we will not have eternal life with God, because God remains faithful to his promises, which includes his warnings. God does not change if we change. What he said he will do, he will do, which includes denying us entry into eternal life with him because we refused to obey him and we obeyed sin, instead.

 

[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]

 

Keep On! 

 

An Original Work / December 15, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Praise the Lord! Praise Him now!

Before Him humbly bow.

Repent of your sins now.

Turn to Him; obey now.

Walk in fellowship with Him daily,

And abide in His truth.

He will forgive you,

And He’ll cleanse you,

And He’ll give you new life.

 

Trust in Him. He is truth.

He will not forsake you.

Rest in Him. Let Him lead.

He will meet all your needs.

Obey His ev’ry word to you,

And listen to all He says.

He will be faithful

In all His promises,

So rest in Him.

 

Do not bow – gods of men.

Let Christ rule in your hearts.

Do not stop – share your faith.

Keep on: speak Jesus’ name.

Share His truth with all He leads you to

Be a witness for Him.

Never yield to sin

Against your God.

Obey Him in ev’ry way.

 

https://vimeo.com/125862760

 

If We, Then We

An Original Work / July 4, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Affairs of This Life

2 Timothy 2:3-7 BSB

 

“3Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4A soldier refrains from entangling himself in civilian affairs, in order to please the one who enlisted him. 5Likewise, a competitor does not receive the crown unless he competes according to the rules. 6The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops. 7Consider what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all things.”

 

What does it look like if we suffer like good soldiers of Christ Jesus? It means that we are following our commanding officer, for one, and because we are following his instructions to us, we are also actively engaged in spiritual warfare. For the devil does not want us obeying our Lord and living holy lives, pleasing to God. And he especially does not want us teaching the truth of the gospel of Christ and calling sinners to repentance and to obedience to our Lord. So he will use all means possible at his hands to try to destroy us.

 

Affairs of This Life

 

And what are these “civilian affairs,” i.e. “the affairs of this life”? The word “affairs” also means “transaction, or negotiation.” And “of this life” means of this world, so this would be about worldly pursuits and transactions and negotiations. And worldly is opposite of godly. And a negotiation can be a compromise, which can be a spiritual compromise, i.e. a concession with regard to God’s commands and his moral values. And “affairs” also carries with it the meaning of an adulterous relationship outside of marriage.

 

Now, an adulterous affair is not necessarily the intended context here, but it is also not out of context. For if we are good soldiers of Christ we will refrain from entangling ourselves in what is worldly and immoral and that which compromises the truth of the gospel in order to appease human flesh. We will not live in addiction to sin, making sin our practice, while making excuses for why we are not living righteously, in obedience to the Lord, obeying our commanding officer, and living to please him in all we do.

 

But sadly, and I just read some recent statistics on this subject, it appears that around 80% of Christian men, and about 40% of Christian women are engaged in pornography. And I think it was 50% or greater, the number of pastors who also engage in pornography. But it isn’t just that they all engage in the viewing of porn on a somewhat habitual or consistent basis, but this has been accepted among many pastors and church fellowships as the norm, it would appear, from what I just read, and which I have also observed.

 

God’s Call To Righteousness

 

And so what took place in the church in Corinth has multiplied beyond counting, it is now so enormous (see 1 Corinthians 5). And not many are doing anything to stop it, either. For so many are living that way themselves and it is becoming socially acceptable within the gatherings of “the church.” So many are claiming Jesus as Lord and Savior and heaven as their eternal destiny while they deliberately and habitually are engaged in what they know is sinful, immoral, hateful, selfish, and against God’s commands.

 

Even though they know that what they are doing is sinful, and is against God, yet they continue in addictive sin, in what is corrupt, vile, wicked, immoral, dishonest, and hateful towards those they are sinning against. But many who engage in this put on a show of righteousness on the outside, just like the Pharisees, and they pretend all goodness while secretly they are still living in sin. For their lives are not surrendered to the Lord. They are still operating in the flesh and so they lie and they cheat as a matter of practice.

 

According to The Rules

 

But genuine soldiers of Christ refrain from entangling themselves in the affairs of this life in order to please our commanding officer, the Lord Jesus Christ, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But all this is of God, and is done in the power of God, and not by human flesh. We can only be those who follow the rules (God’s commands) because of God’s grace in delivering us out of bondage to sin. And God empowers us to live holy lives pleasing to him, not perfect, but obedient in practice.

 

So please pay close attention to what this is teaching us here. If we live by the flesh, and so we engage in the sinful desires of the flesh, in habitual and deliberate defiance of God’s commands which say we must live holy lives, pleasing to God, and that we must put sin to death in our lives, and then we put on a show of righteousness to hide what we are doing in secret, we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. And we will not receive that long awaited crown if we do not live by the rules, by God’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]

 

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

 

The Affairs of This Life

An Original Work / July 3, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Guard Your Hearts and Minds

2 Timothy 1:13-14 BSB

 

“13Hold on to the pattern of sound teaching you have heard from me, with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 14Guard the treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.”

 

I Pledge Allegiance to Whom?

 

The “sound teaching” that Timothy heard from Paul covered more than just the presentation of the gospel of our salvation, but it included all sorts of teachings on how we are to live, and what we are to reject, and what we are to approve and accept. And the thought that came to my mind this morning has to do with what or who we worship, i.e. what or who we give reverence, devotion, adoration, loyalty, allegiance, faithfulness, and our fidelity to. To God alone? Or to idols, which can be people and nations and governments?

 

And that brought to mind the fact that my nation (where I live), in the USA, is getting ready tomorrow to celebrate the USA’s 250 years as a nation. And that brings to mind how, from early childhood on up, I was taught both in the church and in public schools that I must stand at attention, when instructed, and put my hand over my heart, and pledge (vow) my allegiance (loyalty, devotion, fidelity) “to the flag, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

 

Well, besides the fact that my nation is not one nation under God, the one true God, nor have they ever been, and it is not indivisible, and liberty and justice for all has never been true of my nation, we as the people of God are not to give our vow of fidelity to any nation or people group, but to God and to God alone. Are we to obey those in authority over us? Yes, but not if what they require of us contradicts the teachings of Christ and the whole Word of God. But obeying the authorities is not to be equaled with worship of them.

 

Don’t Give Your Allegiance to Them

 

Now the internet as we know it is fairly controlled, and it seems now to be being ruled by AI (artificial intelligence). But when the Lord sent me to the internet 22 years ago, it was still fairly open, and we could find articles about all sorts of things, including multiple articles on the history of our nation and its beginnings and what “god” was really influencing our leaders in what they were to do and in how things were to be done. And so much of what we were taught were lies about our government and their doings.

 

I believe that the US government (including the military and all their financial controls) is the harlot which rides the beast spoken of in the book of Revelation in chapter 17. And the beast is some kind of global conglomerate of people of wealth and power who are the ones truly running the world and the US government. And the US government has been working for them in taking down the nations of the world, one at a time, in order to bring all nations into this one world order of the Beast. But the beast will destroy her.

 

But no matter your opinion of the US government, we as followers of Jesus Christ are to have no other gods before us other than the One True and only God. And we are not to give our worship, our fidelity, and our undying devotion and loyalty to the US government or to any other government in the world. We are not called of God to give our worship to men or nations or governments, but to God and to God alone. Obey those in authority? Yes, as long as they don’t command that we disobey God and his commands. But do not idolize any human government or their leaders. You will be disappointed.

 

Don’t put your trust in man, but in God, and in God alone. See:

 

[Psalms 118:9; Psalms 146:3; Psalms 147:10-11; Isaiah 40:23; Jeremiah 17:5-6; Hosea 8:4; Hosea 13:10; 1 Corinthians 2:1-5; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9,18-23; 1 Corinthians 7:23; Galatians 1:10; Galatians 2:12; Ephesians 4:14-16; Ephesians 6:5-8; Colossians 2:8,20-23; Colossians 3:23-24; 1 Thessalonians 2:3-8; 1 Peter 4:1-5; 2 Peter 3:17-18]

 

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

 

Guard Your Hearts and Minds

An Original Work / July 3, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Called to a Holy Calling

2 Timothy 1:8-11 BSB

 

“So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me, His prisoner. Instead, join me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God. 9He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began. 10And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel, 11to which I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher.”

 

Now this was Paul speaking to Timothy, but there is definitely a message from God for all of us here, as well. None of us should be ashamed of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of his gospel message. Not one of us should shy away from speaking the truth of the gospel out of fear of being rejected, mocked, criticized, and falsely accused of wrong. All of us who profess faith in Jesus must be willing to suffer for the sake of the gospel as did Jesus and Paul and the other New Testament apostles. And we will suffer if what we are teaching is the truth of the gospel and not the lies being spread today.

 

So, what does it mean that Jesus has saved us and called us to a holy calling? It means that the whole purpose of his death on that cross was to deliver us out of our bondage (addiction) to sin so that we will now serve Jesus Christ with our lives in walks of obedience to his commands, in holy living, by the grace of God, and in the power of God, and not of the flesh. For we can do nothing in ourselves to earn or to deserve our own salvation. But Jesus didn’t give his life up for us on that cross so that we will now go on living in deliberate and habitual sin, but so we will follow him in obedience.

 

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 Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (See Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10) So God’s grace is not permission to keep living in sin while ignoring God’s commands.

 

Called to a Holy Calling

An Original Work / July 3, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Guard What Has Been Entrusted

1 Timothy 6:20-21 BSB

 

“O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid irreverent, empty chatter and the opposing arguments of so-called “knowledge,” which some have professed and thus swerved away from the faith. Grace be with you all.”

 

Our Faith

 

This was written by Paul to Timothy, but the instructions here are fitting to all Christians, not just to this one man. So, as followers of Jesus Christ, what has been entrusted to us by God which we must guard? Our faith, for one. For our faith is a gift from God, and not of our own doing, and it comes from God, and it is persuaded of God as to his righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of God’s requirement that we deny self, die to sin, and that we follow him in obedience to his commands, in practice, for it to be biblical faith. So to guard it is to keep it from being corrupted by the enemy.

 

God’s Grace

 

2: The grace of God in our lives, which we should not take for granted. For God’s grace to us was in sending Jesus Christ (God the Son) to the cross to take on himself the sins of the entire world, to put our sins to death with him, and then to rise from the dead victorious over our sin. And in his death he put our sins to death with him so that, by faith in him, we will now deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands. For the grace of God, 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 await our Lord’s return (see Titus 2:11-14).

 

The Holy Spirit

 

3: When we believe in Jesus Christ with genuine biblical faith in him, in denying self, dying to sin, and following him in obedience, we are indwelt with the Holy Spirit of God. And the Holy Spirit serves as God/Christ now living within us, reminding us of all things that Jesus taught when he lived on this earth. As well, he counsels, instructs, encourages, guides, and directs us in the way of holiness and righteousness. And he warns us against temptation to sin, and he helps us to resist the devil and to flee from sin, if we will listen to his voice and if we will obey him who is God living within us.

 

The Gospel Message

 

4: When we put our faith and trust in Jesus Christ we are also entrusted with the message of the cross, the gospel of our salvation. And Jesus taught that if anyone would come after him, he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin and to self), and follow him in obedience to his commands. For if we hold on to our lives of sin, and so we obey sin, and not God, and not his commands, then we will lose them for eternity. But if for Jesus’ sake we deny self, die to sin, and obey God, in practice, then we have the hope of salvation from sin and eternal life with God (Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23).

 

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

 

Avoid Empty Chatter

 

What is “empty chatter”? It is words spoken which are unproductive, aimless, lacking in substance and in depth or purposeful intent. What does it mean if it is “irreverent”? It is lacking in respect and honor for God and for his word and for his commands which teach us how we are to live. And it is ignoring God’s commands in how we are to treat one another. And it can include mocking God and/or his servants who are presenting to us the truth of the Scriptures. And it involves senseless arguments and name calling which is insulting to God and to other people and which goes nowhere good.

 

But, and this is important that we get this. There is a huge difference between getting into senseless arguments with other people which go nowhere good and which accomplish nothing good, and that of defending our own honor when we are accused falsely of what we did not do or of who we are not, or if we are told that we should do something against the will of God. And this includes defending the honor of God and of the teachings of the Scriptures, especially what they teach as The Gospel, against the lies of the enemy. But we should do so as led by the Spirit and not by the flesh.

 

See: https://runwithit.blog/2026/06/27/in-defense-of-ones-own-honor/

 

So, don’t shrink back from speaking the truth of God’s Word to the people out of fear of how they might treat you in return. Be loving, be kind, but be truthful and bold in sharing what Jesus and his apostles taught the people.

 

That Man

 

Based off John 3:22-36

An Original Work / May 23, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

An argument between some men

Erupted out of resentment.

They came to John and said,

“That man is baptizing everyone.

They’re going to Him.”

 

So, John replied, “A man can

Only receive what is given him.

You yourselves can testify that

I said, ‘I am not the Christ.

I’m sent before Him.’”

 

The bride belongs to the bridegroom.

His friends await and watch for Him.

They are full of joy when they hear

His voice speaking words to them.

That now is our joy!

 

Jesus, the One who comes from heav’n –

He testifies of forgiveness.

Yet so many do not trust in

His words, and do not repent.

They will face judgment.

 

The one who trusts in Jesus Christ

Has certified that God is truth.

Jesus Christ speaks the words of God.

Those who put their faith in Him,

Eternal life gain!

 

https://vimeo.com/116487342

 

Guard What Has Been Entrusted

An Original Work / July 2, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love