Hypocritical Liars and Abusers, Video

This was the church in Philadelphia. This is a short summary of the 6^th of the 7 letters to the churches in Revelation 2-3. This was an encouragement to the church who kept God’s word and who did not deny His name during trying times. Jesus was letting them know that He could open doors of opportunity for them that no man could shut and that He can shut doors that no man can open. And those are comforting words! But to those who belonged to the synagogue of Satan, Jesus would bring them to their knees, and they would acknowledge one day God’s love for His followers.

 

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Why Was Jesus Hated?

Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God,

Taught the narrow way, not the way that’s broad.

Did not participate He in the ways of man,

But He followed God, and He lived God’s plan.

Walked the narrow way, led a righteous life,

Obeyed God’s commands, free from sin and strife.

Shared the gospel truth, He opposed the lies,

Called out hypocrites, told them they would die.

Said to follow Him we must deny self,

Die to sin each day and put self on shelf.

Said if we hold on to our lives of sin

We will lose our lives, not be forgiven.

If we die to sin and we live to Christ

Free from sin’s dark grip, in Him we’ll have life.

So, repent of sin, obey His commands,

Walk with Him in truth, your life in His hands.

An Original Work / August 12, 2023

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

P.S. If you walk the walk that Jesus walked, and if you speak the truth as He spoke the truth, the Bible teaches that you will be hated and persecuted as he was hated and persecuted, even by those closest to you.

See: [Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21]

Called of God

Jeremiah 1:4-5 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

4The word of the LORD came to me, saying: 5“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

 

Called of God Before Birth

 

Before Jeremiah was even formed in the womb of his mother God knew him, because God is the one who formed him in his mother’s womb, i.e. God created him. And before Jeremiah was even born God set him apart and He appointed him as a prophet to the nations. And God created all of us. He formed us in our mother’s wombs. Those God foreknew “He also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son.” He “chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.”

 

See [Romans 8:29; 2 Timothy 1:8-9; Ephesians 1:3-4; 1 Peter 1:14-16]

 

“13For You formed my inmost being;

You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14I praise You,

for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Marvelous are Your works,

and I know this very well.

15My frame was not hidden from You

when I was made in secret,

when I was woven together

in the depths of the earth.

16Your eyes saw my unformed body;

all my days were written in Your book

and ordained for me

before one of them came to be.” (Psalm 139:13-16 BSB)

 

Called to Share the Gospel

 

Jeremiah was called of God to be a prophet of God. But not all of us are called to be prophets. However, all of us who are of faith in Jesus Christ, who have died with Christ to sin, and who have been raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in Him, no longer as slaves to sin, but now as servants of righteousness in walks of obedience to His commands, we are called of God in much the same ways in which God called Jeremiah. For all of us are called of God to share the message of the gospel of our salvation with the people.

 

Sharing the Gospel: [Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 28:18-20; John 4:34-38; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 26:16-18; Romans 10:14-15; Ephesians 2:10; Ephesians 5:11-14; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 John 2:3-6]

 

We are to let our lights shine before men, that they may see our good deeds and glorify our Father in heaven. We are to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey all that Jesus Christ commanded us. And we will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon us, and we will be God’s witnesses to the ends of the earth. And we are to proclaim the virtues of Him who called us out of darkness into His marvelous light.

 

Jeremiah 1:6-10 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

6“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!” But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak. 8Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.

 

9Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me:

“Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. 10See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant.”

 

No Excuses

 

Now, I don’t believe that Jeremiah was just making excuses for why he could not obey God in this. I believe he just lacked the maturity to comprehend what all God was capable of doing in his life, and all that God could do in him and through him in the power of God. So the Lord explained to him that it would be God sending him, and that God would give him the words to speak, and that God would be there to deliver him from all who might oppose him. So he was not to be afraid of the people or what they might do to him.

 

But I do believe there are many who God has called to ministry who have made excuses for why they cannot serve the Lord according to the calling He has placed on their lives (and on all of our lives). For all of us who are faith in Jesus Christ are to be sharing the truth of the gospel, as taught by Jesus and by His New Testament apostles, in the correct biblical context. And we are to call the people to faith in Jesus Christ, to deny self, die to sin, and follow Jesus in walks of obedience to His commands, empowered by 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]

 

So, listen for God’s voice. Hear what He says. Then obey Him in practice.

 

Called of God

An Original Work / October 18, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Near the Cross 

 

Hymn lyrics by Fanny J. Crosby, 1869

Music by William H. Doane, 1869

 

Jesus, keep me near the cross;

There a precious fountain,

Free to all, a healing stream,

Flows from Calvary's mountain.

 

Near the cross, a trembling soul,

Love and mercy found me;

There the bright and morning star

Sheds its beams around me.

          

Near the cross! O Lamb of God,

Bring its scenes before me;

Help me walk from day to day

With its shadow o'er me.

 

Near the cross I'll watch and wait,

Hoping, trusting ever,

Till I reach the golden strand

Just beyond the river.

        

In the cross, in the cross,

Be my glory ever,

Till my raptured soul shall find

Rest beyond the river.

 

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What Do We Live By?

Revelation 21:1-8,27; 22:14-15 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

 

3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying:

“Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man,

and He will dwell with them.

They will be His people,

and God Himself will be with them as their God.

4‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’

and there will be no more death

or mourning or crying or pain,

for the former things have passed away.”

 

5And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.” 6And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life. 7The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.

 

8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

 

27But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

 

Revelation 22:14Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates. 15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

 

The Old is Gone, The New Has Come

 

One day the world as we now know it will be no more. We who believe in Jesus Christ, who have died with Him to sin, and who are living for Him in walks of obedience to His commands, in surrender to His will, we will be forever with our Lord. There will be no more sadness; no more pain; no more death. All those things will be gone. To those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, who long to do the will of God, and who no longer live to please the flesh, we will be with our Lord for eternity without end.

 

Lip Service is Not Enough

 

But not everyone who professes faith in Jesus Christ will be with the Lord for eternity where there will be no more death and pain and sorrow. Those who give lip service only to God, but who do NOT bow the knee to Him in worship of Him and in walks of surrender to His will, in obedience to His commands, and no longer as slaves to sin, they will not have the hope of eternity with our Lord. For all those who practice sexual immorality, sorcery, idolatry, lying, or murdering, etc., their place will be in the lake of fire for eternity.

 

No one who lives a spiritually unclean and immoral life, in practice, will enter into the gates of the Holy City of God. No one who makes a practice of lying or who practices an abomination (what is morally disgusting and abhorrent to God) will enter into God’s eternal kingdom. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life will be able to enter into God’s holy presence. And they are those who, by faith in Jesus Christ, died with Christ to sin and who obeyed Him and His commands in life practice until the end.

 

All those who have denied self, died to sin, and obeyed God and His commands in life practice, by the grace of God, and in the power of God, have the hope of eternity with God where there will be no more crying and dying and pain and sorrow, where the devil will be no more. But all who practice sorcery, sexual immorality, idolatry, lying, murder, and the like, in life practice, by habit, and who do not repent of their sins, and who do not obey the Lord’s commands, they will not enter into eternal life with God.

 

The Gospel Truth

 

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; 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]

 

Take This to Heart

 

So, take God and His Word to heart to obey them. For God means what He says. If sin is your practice, and not obedience to God and to His commands, it does not matter what your lips profess. You will not have eternal life with God. And this is not saying you must be absolutely perfect in everything that you do and that if you fail once you lose your salvation. This is speaking of your life practice. Is obedience to God and death to sin what you live by? Or are you still walking in sin and disobedience to God as your life practice?

 

What Do We Live By?

An Original Work / October 17, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

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

 

[A Prayer of Devotion to God Alone]

Are You Dead or Alive, Video

This is the fifth in a series of videos on the Letters to the 7 churches in Revelation, chapter 2-3. This is with regard to the church in Sardis. They had a reputation of being alive but they were mostly dead spiritually. So they were to remember what they had received and heard from God, to keep it and repent, or they would face the judgment of God. But not everyone professing faith in Jesus in Sardis were in that category. Some of them were living holy lives pleasing to God and they were approved by God.

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Today

Today is not an ordinary day

Today is not just a time to play

Today’s not to be a time lived for self

Today is time to put self on the shelf

Today is a day to commit life to God

Today is a day to stop being a fraud

Today is a time to make Jesus your Lord

Life that’s without Him you cannot afford

Tomorrow may be what you not want to be

Tomorrow you may not be free as a bee

Tomorrow you can’t really anticipate

And by tomorrow it may be too late

So, please do not take the life you are given

For granted and think you’ll end up in heaven

For Jesus has said if you say to Him, “Lord,”

But then you live idly, His grace not afford

For you not obey Him and do what He says

But you walk in sin, live for self, now instead

You live for your idols, what pleases your soul

For you’re not in Jesus, your life not made whole

So give of your life, give it now all to God

Surrender your will to Him, not be a fraud

Die to your sin and deny what is self

No longer put God and His Word on a shelf

Live for Him daily, do all that He says

Walk in His fellowship, praise Him, instead

Walk in His holiness, purity vow

Give up your idols and to HIM now bow

An Original Work / June 17, 2023

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Passion of Her Immorality

Revelation 18:1-5 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

1After this I saw another angel descending from heaven with great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his glory. 2And he cried out in a mighty voice:

 

“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!

She has become a lair for demons

and a haunt for every unclean spirit,

every unclean bird,

and every detestable beast.

3All the nations have drunk the wine

of the passion of her immorality.

The kings of the earth were immoral with her,

and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy

from the extravagance of her luxury.”

4Then I heard another voice from heaven say:

“Come out of her, My people,

so that you will not share in her sins

or contract any of her plagues.

5For her sins are piled up to heaven,

and God has remembered her iniquities.”

 

Babylon the Great

 

Who is Babylon the great? There are varied opinions and perspectives on this subject. I believe “Babylon” to be an ungodly and a worldly influence which is coming from people in positions of power and influence within the world, as a whole. But I also believe she has a physical location from which most of this influence stems and spreads throughout the world. And I believe that physical location is in the USA. For what physical nation in the world has the most influence and power over the other nations of the world?

 

“The United States has the most military bases throughout the world, operating roughly 750 to 887 foreign installations across about 80 countries and territories.” “The Department of Defense manages roughly 4,790 military sites worldwide.” And “the U.S. controls roughly 75% to 85% of all foreign military bases globally.” And “the US accounts for roughly 44% of NATO’s overall composite military capabilities.” (source: Google)

 

And what other physical nation in the world has been going throughout the world conquering one nation after another after another in nations such as Afghanistan, Tunisia, Egypt, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Turkey, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, Greece, Syria, Ukraine and Iran? And no one is stopping them yet. First they create a false flag scenario which then gives them the excuse to go into other nations in order to conquer them for the New World Order and to steal from them their natural resources and to kill their people.

 

Her Influence

 

But her influence is not coming just from the government. It is coming from the institutional market-driven “churches” in our nation, too, which have taken on her character and values. For, from the time I was a small child we were taught, both in the public schools and in the church gatherings, that we are to pledge our allegiance to our government, and that we are to sing patriotic songs of worship of our government, and that we are to honor our military as our heroes who are keeping us safe from “the bad guys.”

 

And her influence is multifaceted. It is a combination of church and government in one big package. For so much of what is being referred to today as “church” are these institutions of human origin which are partnered with the world and with the government in unholy unions, which God forbids, and they are turning their gatherings into businesses to be marketed to the people of the world, which God also forbids. And so many of them are teaching a false gospel which does not require repentance and obeying God.

 

[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]

 

Come Out of Her

 

So, if you live in the USA, and if you are still putting hand over heart and pledging (vowing) allegiance (fidelity) to the US government, please stop! We who believe in Jesus Christ are to give our worship to none other than God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit. Yes, we are to obey our governing authorities unless they insist we disobey God. But we are not to vow our fidelity to an ungodly and immoral and wicked government. We, as the people of this nation, are to come out from underneath their influence.

 

And if your “church” is busy marketing your “church” to the world via entertaining them and via teaching a half-truth (lie) gospel which does not require that by faith in Jesus Christ we deny self, die to sin, and obey God’s commands in life practice, then this is a call for you to come out from among them, too, so that you do not share in her sins and in her punishment. For if your “church” is pacifying the people in their sins instead of calling them to repent and to obey God, you are to come out from among them.

 

For the Gospel Teaches

 

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; 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]

 

The Passion of Her Immorality

An Original Work / October 17, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Walking in The Light 

 

Based off 1 John 1-2

An Original Work / November 16, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

When I lift up my voice, and sing praise unto God,

I will fellowship with my Lord and Savior, King.

In Him there is no darkness. He is in the light of truth.

If we walk in His light, from sin He purifies.

 

If we repent of our sins, He’ll forgive us now,

When we humble ourselves, and before Jesus bow.

The man who says, “I know Him,” but does not obey His truth,

There is no truth in him. In darkness still he’s found.

 

Do not love the world of sin, for it is hell bound.

If you follow the world, you’ll not in Christ be found.

The world and its desires will not last; they’ll expire.

The one who does God’s will, receives eternal life.

 

See that what you have heard from Christ remains in you.

Then, you’ll remain in Christ, and in His Father, too.

This is what He promised us – His eternal life with God.

So, continue in Him, and you’ll receive a crown.

 

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