“For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. A Mikhtam of David, when Saul sent men and they watched the house in order to kill him.
“Deliver me from my enemies, O my God;
Set me securely on high away from those who rise up against me.
Deliver me from those who do iniquity
And save me from men of bloodshed.
For behold, they have set an ambush for my life;
Fierce men launch an attack against me,
Not for my transgression nor for my sin, O Lord,
For no guilt of mine, they run and set themselves against me.
Arouse Yourself to help me, and see!” (Psalm 59:1-4 NASB1995)
If we are those who are following Jesus Christ with our lives, in walks of surrender to the Lordship of Christ, in obedience to his commands, in holy living, by the grace of God, then who are our enemies? They are anyone opposed to God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – and to his gospel message, taught in the correct biblical context. And this can include many people who also profess faith in Jesus Christ, even some pastors of “church” congregations, but whose “faith” is not of God, but of human flesh.
For, if truly we are walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, and now serving the Lord with our lives is our practice, and not indulging in the sinful pleasures of the flesh, then we are going to have enemies. And those enemies are not going to just be people out in the world who make no professions of faith in the Lord Jesus. In fact, our worst enemies may be those closest to us, who profess faith in the same Savior as we do, but who take a less than serious approach to their walks of faith.
And who were Jesus’ strongest opponents, whose goal it was to destroy him? They were rulers in the temple of God, and they were teachers of the Scriptures, and they were the “religious” who went through the motions of religious practices but whose hearts were far from God. They may have had all the appearance of righteousness, but their hearts and minds were full of wickedness, and they did evil in the eyes of the Lord. And so it is today that many religious people are literally enemies of God and of his servants.
For, we live in a day and time when the church has largely gone the way of the world, and they have adopted worldly ways, and many have partnered with the world and with the government in unholy unions. And so they have also altered the gospel message to make it less offensive and more appealing to human flesh and to the ungodly in the world. For their goal is to draw in large crowds of people from the world into their gatherings. And so they compromise with the world to win the world, but not to Jesus Christ.
So, if we are serious about our walks of faith, in obedience to the Lord, and we hold strongly to the teachings of the Scriptures, taught in their correct biblical context, and we are at all verbal about our faith and our convictions, we are likely to not be accepted among those who take a less than serious approach about their relationships with Jesus Christ, and who have made compromises with the world to be accepted by the world and to please their flesh. For we will be going in opposite directions from one another.
And some of these people, including pastors of “churches,” may have been taught in their training sessions to get rid of people like us “with strong convictions,” and to invite us to go elsewhere where we will “be a better fit.” And some of them may use all kinds of craftiness and deceitful scheming in order to get us to leave their midst so that we do not offend the ungodly with the truth of the gospel. And that would qualify under them setting “an ambush” for our lives and them “launching an attack against” us.
So, in situations such as this, we should pray for wisdom in knowing how we are to respond. But the Scriptures do teach us that we are not to be partners with the ungodly, which is what many of these institutional “churches” have done, and so we are to come out from among them and to be separate. And we are to come out from among “Babylon,” so that we do not partake with them in their sins, lest we should end up suffering the same punishment as they will suffer for their rebellion against God and against his commands.
[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]
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
Those Who Rise Up Against Me
An Original Work / February 3, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
