Loving One Another

Romans 13:8-10 NKJV

 

Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

 

Love is Obeying God

 

Now, most of the time that you will see this word “love” in the New Testament Scriptures, it will come from the Greek word “agape.” And it means “to prefer,” and in this case to prefer what God prefers, which is all that is holy, just, honest, faithful, morally pure, upright, godly, and obedient to our Lord and to his commands. For the believer in Christ it means to prefer to live through Christ, choosing his choices, and obeying them in his power and strength and wisdom, all for the glory of God, by God’s grace.

 

So, when this talks about loving one another, it is speaking of doing for others what is for their good, not to harm them. For love is action, not just feelings and emotions. And we love others with the love of God in the ways in which God loves us. And Jesus loved us so much that he willingly put himself in a position where he would give his life up for us on a cross in order to put our sins to death with him so that, by faith in him, we will deny self, die to sin, and walk in obedience to God’s commands, in practice.

 

Hated and Persecuted

 

Now none of us can do exactly what Jesus did for us on that cross, and it is not necessary that we should even think that possible, for what Jesus did, only he could do. And what he did has been done and does not need to be done again. But what we can do is to be those who are willing to speak the truth of the gospel to the people of the world, and in that way we are laying down our lives for the salvation of human souls for eternity. Because when we do that, we will be hated and persecuted, even by other “Christians.”

 

For so many people professing Jesus as Lord today are being convinced that they do not have to give up their sins and that they do not have to obey God’s commands, for they are being told that is “works salvation” which is not of God. But our salvation from sin, although it is not of our own doing, is not absent of the works that God prepared in advance that we should walk in them. Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught that faith in Jesus Christ means dying to sin and obeying God’s commands as a matter of life practice.

 

Don’t Sin Against Others

 

So, if we are loving God, and if we are loving one another with this agape love, which comes from God, we will not deliberately and habitually sin against each other, especially as a matter of life practice. For those who make it their practice to commit adultery, to be unfaithful to their spouses, and to make moral impurity their practice, they are not acting in love but in selfishness, self-indulgence, and hate. And to murder people literally, or with your words only, or to steal from others what is not yours, is also to hate.

 

In other words, we can’t live like the devil and then expect that God is going to receive us as belonging to him, and that he is going to forgive all deliberate and habitual sin being done against God and against other humans, just because we profess him as Lord with our lips. For love does no harm to other humans because it is not based in our feelings and in our emotions, but it is based in God, who is love, and thus it is committed to treating other humans with kindness and to obeying our Lord’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]

 

Send a Revival 

 

An Original Work / June 25, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Send a revival to this nation, Lord, I pray.

Bring us to our knees, Lord, humbly today.

Teach us to daily walk in your footsteps.

Guide us in your truth, and may we find rest.

Send a revival to this nation, Lord, I pray.

Bring us to our knees, Lord, humbly today.

 

Be our desire and our hearts’ pure devotion, Lord.

Make us a people who walk close to you.

Change our hearts to conform to your likeness.

May we love others who are in distress.

Be our desire and our hearts’ pure devotion, Lord.

Make us a people who walk close to you.

 

Teach us to be an example of your love, Lord.

May we serve others as though serving you.

Keep us in fellowship with you, I pray.

May we obey you in all things today.

Teach us to be an example of your love, Lord.

May we serve others as though serving you.

 

https://vimeo.com/126020794

 

Loving One Another

An Original Work / June 8, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Behave Like You Love Jesus

Romans 12:9-13 NKJV

 

“9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. 10Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another; 11not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; 12rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer; 13distributing to the needs of the saints, given to hospitality.”

 

The Video Portion

 

Now at the end of this you will see a link to a video talk I did on this passage of Scripture. These talks are mostly all not preplanned and prescripted video talks, but generally I just read the passage and then just talk about it as the Lord leads. It is a lot like we are just sitting in the living room across from one another and I am just sharing what I get out of the passage as I read it. And while the video is being uploaded to the internet, then the Lord has me write the written portion, which is not going to be an exact replica of what is in the video. But again, I am trusting the Lord to give me the right words.

 

Love Without Hypocrisy

 

This word “love” means to prefer, more specifically to prefer what God prefers. And what he prefers is all that is godly, righteous, morally pure, upright, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to his commands. And to be hypocritical is to pretend something you are not, to give the outward appearance of being one way while in private, when no one else is looking, you are the opposite of that. It is to claim love with your lips, but while you do what is unloving, usually deliberately and habitually, without conscience.

 

Abhor What is Evil

 

We learn about what God regards as evil when we read the Scriptures. But if we are true followers of Christ, we have the Holy Spirit living within us giving us a conscience and biblical discernment to know what is evil as opposed to what is good. And yet the Scriptures teach that if we do evil that we are without excuse because God has revealed himself to us through his created works. So if we choose evil, we do so in rejection of the Lord because our flesh prefers evil over good. But we are to be those who truly hate evil.

 

Cling to What is Good

 

What is good is to be determined by God and by the teachings of the Scriptures and not by human flesh. What is good is what God prefers which is all that is holy, morally pure, upright, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to his commands. This is what we are to embrace. This is what we are to hold on to. This is to be what we look like and how we live, in practice. And this goes right along with abhorring evil. So what is good is not ignoring evil, but it is calling evil what it is, and calling people to repentance.

 

Brotherly Love

 

Now this kind of love is more of an affectionate and friendly and relational kind of love among followers of Christ. But it still needs to be the kind of love which comes from God and which prefers what God prefers. The two go hand-in-hand. We should love the sinners, but we should hate the sin. We should not give people permission to keep living in sin, doing evil to others, because we want to show them “brotherly kindness.” For it is never kind to lie to people by giving them permission to keep on in habitual sin.

 

Serving the Lord

 

As those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, we are to be followers of Christ who obey him and his commands and who put sin to death, by the Spirit, and who walk in holiness and in righteousness, all in the power of God. Our lives are to be surrendered to the Lord, in his service, diligent and fervent in spirit in our desire to serve the Lord and to do his will. We are not to be lazy and slothful people who give God a short nod of notice while we go on living in the flesh. We are to be serious about obeying him daily, in practice.

 

Rejoicing in Hope

 

Now here we need to test the spirits to see which ones are of God. And we need to be testing what we hear as “the gospel” message against the teachings of the Scriptures in their correct biblical context. Many people are teaching lies and are giving people a false hope of eternity with God. But Jesus taught that to come after him we must deny self, die to sin daily, and follow him in obedience to his commands. And this involves tribulations and suffering for the sake of the truth of gospel at the hands of the deceivers.

 

Meeting Needs

 

Now this one requires much spiritual discernment. Yes, we should be loving and compassionate people who care about what others are going through who reach out to help where we can. And we are to be those who are actively ministering to the needs of our fellow Christians who are followers of Christ. We are not to be selfish and stingy. But so many liars and con artists are preying upon the compassionate hearts of others in order to take advantage of them. So pray for discernment to know what true needs are.

 

Safe in the Arms of Jesus

 

By Frances J. Crosby and William H. Doane 1868

 

Safe in the arms of Jesus,

Safe on His gentle breast;

There by His love o’ershaded,

Sweetly my soul shall rest.

Hark! ’tis the voice of angels

Borne in a song to me,

Over the fields of glory,

Over the jasper sea.

 

Safe in the arms of Jesus,

Safe from corroding care,

Safe from the world’s temptations;

Sin cannot harm me there.

Free from the blight of sorrow,

Free from my doubts and fears;

Only a few more trials,

Only a few more tears!

 

Jesus, my heart’s dear Refuge,

Jesus has died for me;

Firm on the Rock of Ages

Ever my trust shall be.

Here let me wait with patience,

Wait till the night is o’er;

Wait till I see the morning

Break on the golden shore.

 

https://youtu.be/BllH3EmH-og?si=mijnyAEtsN8JYV-K

 

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Video Talk on The Same Subject

 

https://youtu.be/dfoBeUNQ2s8

 

Behave Like You Love Jesus

An Original Work / June 7, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Let Us Use Them

Romans 12:3-8 NKJV

 

“For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. 4For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. 6Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; 7or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; 8he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.”

 

One Body in Christ

 

As followers of Jesus Christ we are all one body, the body of Christ. But we are all different. We are all uniquely who we are individually. God didn’t make us all the same. He didn’t gift us all the same. And we are not all called in the same way to the same exact ministries. And even if we were all teachers, our teaching style may differ one from the other. For God did not make us to be clones of each other. He made us uniquely who we are by his design, for his purposes. And he is not going to use us in all the same ways.

 

Yes, in the gatherings of the church, the biblical body of Christ, i.e. those of genuine biblical faith in the Lord Jesus, there needs to be law and order. We need to have overseers to make sure things are done in order and according to the will and purposes of God. But just because a man is a pastor, elder,  deacon, or overseer, it does not make him superior to the rest of us, and he should not treat us as though he is a cult leader who we must follow blindly wherever he leads us. Overseers must lead by example, not by an iron fist.

 

Also, in today’s world, many of these pastors, elders, deacons, and overseers are not following in the ways of the Lord, but in the ways of the flesh. Jesus is not their commander in chief, but they are following business models for how to “do church.” So many of them are not leading the church, the body of Christ, in service to the Lord, but they are teaching them lies, and they are training them in the ways of the culture and not in the ways of the Lord. For many of them are acting just like cult leaders.

 

And so many gatherings of the church are not biblical gatherings at all. One man serves as king over all, and he does all the preaching, and no one is testing what he is teaching to see if it is of God or not. The people are not given opportunity to minister to one another, for the “pastor” is considered the sole “minister.” And he is raised up above all the rest. So he is more like a cult leader almost to be worshipped as though he is a god. And what he says goes whether or not it is of God and is biblical and righteous.

 

Not a Business

 

So, please understand that the church is not a building or an organization incorporated under the state called “church.” The church is the biblical body of Christ comprised of all who are of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ via dying with Christ to sin, and being raised with Christ to walk in newness of life, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as servants of God and of his righteousness. And all of us are given gifts of the Spirit and assignments from God called our “body parts,” and all of us are necessary parts.

 

So our gatherings should not be for the purpose for all of us to sit in pews or in chairs and in rows while we all listen to one man do all the preaching and one small group of musicians do all the ministering in music. But, in an orderly and biblical way, we should be ministering to one another, using the spiritual gifts given us by God in our body parts assigned to us by God. All of us should be speaking the truth of God’s Word to one another in love in order to help each other to grow to maturity in our walks of faith in Christ.

 

We are to be those who are exhorting one another daily so that none of us may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. And we are to be stirring up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, but encouraging one another. And we are to be addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, with each body part doing its work. For when each part is working properly, the body grows and builds itself up in love.

 

We are All Necessary!

 

So God did not design his church, the body of Christ, comprised of all who are of genuine biblical faith in Christ Jesus, to just be bench warmers while only a select few get to do all the ministering. We are all necessary to the proper working of the body of Christ. And the Bible teaches that in the last days that both men and women will prophesy (preach, proclaim the Word of God) and will dream dreams and see visions (Acts 2:16-18). So we need gatherings of the church where each part is able to do his/her work.

 

And this is why the Lord put me on the internet 22 years ago, so I would have a voice, so I would have a place where I could minister using the spiritual gifts given me by God in my body part assigned to me from God. And here I am able to connect with other Christians (other body parts) and we can and do encourage one another in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord. We each have a voice and a place where we can be used of God to share his gospel message and to help each other to grow in Christ Jesus.

 

[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 Peace of Christ 

 

Based off of Colossians 3:1-17; Ephesians 5:19-20

An Original Work / October 31, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Let the word of Christ dwell in you,

As you teach with all wisdom,

Teaching one another to not

Think on earthly things;

Think instead on things above,

Where Christ sits with God, in love,

Saving us from all of our sins,

Cleansing us; made new within.

 

Let the peace of Christ rule your hearts,

As you sing songs unto Him;

Speak to one another with psalms,

Hymns, and spir’tual songs;

Always giving thanks to God,

In the name of Christ, His Son,

Who gave His life up for us all,

And gave us eternal life.

 

Let the love of Christ within you

Rule in your hearts; grace within,

Purifying you from your sin,

Make you whole within.

Forgive as the Lord forgave.

Show His kindness ev’ry day.

In word or deed, whate’er you do,

Glory give to Jesus Christ.

 

https://vimeo.com/125863950

 

Let Us Use Them

An Original Work / June 7, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Our Bodies a Living Sacrifice

Romans 12:1-2 NKJV

 

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

 

Living Sacrifice

 

This word “beseech” is not a casual word to be overlooked. For literally it means to exhort, to intreat, to urge, to implore, to encourage strongly, to urgently ask for or to request or to admonish, all of which are to be taken deeply seriously. So this is not a casual request, but this is urgent, critical, and regarding life and death. And to exhort is to insist. And to admonish is to caution and to warn, as well as to reprove. And to intreat is to plead. So this is of a critical nature that we pay close attention to what is said here.

 

So, what does it look like if we, by the mercies of God, present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, and acceptable to God? Well, it means first of all that this originates with God, by his design and purpose, and that this is not something we can do of our own will or in our own strength and flesh. It is only because of God’s grace in sending Jesus Christ to the cross to put our sins to death with him that any of us can now deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in walks of surrender to him in obedience to his commands.

 

So, only by God’s grace, and by his divine persuasion, can any of us turn from our sins and now follow Jesus and walk in his ways and in his truth and righteousness. And this is what it really means to present our bodies to him as living sacrifices, for to sacrifice is to give up something, in this case it is to give up our flesh and our sinful practices and our stubborn wills to now surrender our lives to the will of God and to his service. It means to put self on the altar of sacrifice to God so that he now has command of our lives.

 

Holy Living

 

And to be holy is to be different, unlike the world, because we are being transformed by God into the likeness of Jesus Christ, by his grace, in his power, via our full cooperation with his work of grace in our lives. And his grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce (say no to) ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we await our Lord’s return. For we are now clay in the hands of our Potter God who is shaping and molding us into his likeness.

 

And when we have, by God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ, denied self, died to sin, and we are now following our Lord in surrender to his will, in walks of obedience to his commands, in holy living, in practice, then we are acceptable to God. And all of this is our reasonable service to God in our worship of God. And to worship God is not done just with the raising of hands and the singing of songs, but true worship of God involves death to sin and obedience to his commands in holy living – all in his power.

 

Transformed and Conformed to God

 

And if we are no longer conformed to this world, that means that we are no longer living and following after the desires of the flesh and worldly living. We no longer follow after the pattern of the world, but we now follow Christ in being who he wants us to be. Rather than imitating the world and its desires, we imitate Christ and we obey his desires for our lives. We do not prefer the world – the lusts of the flesh and of the eyes and the pride of life – but we prefer holiness, honesty, faithfulness, and obedience to God.

 

For if truly we are transformed of God in the renewing of our minds, so that by our actions (behaviors, habits) we prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God, then our lives (our lifestyles) should reflect Christ and his will and purpose for our lives. Our lives should no longer reflect what is wicked, immoral, dishonest, prideful, selfish, and unfaithful to our Lord, as a matter of life practice. And this is not claiming absolute sinless perfection, but that in practice we serve Jesus Christ.

 

[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]

 

Living Sacrifices 

 

Based off Romans 12:1-2; Romans 6:11-14 NIV

An Original Work / September 14, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Oh, holy ones, I counsel you,

In view of God’s mercy,

To give yourselves to God in love

As living offerings,

Pleasing to God, holy in love.

This is your true worship.

Do not conform to worldly lives.

Let God transform you today.

Then you’ll be able to

Test and approve of what

God’s will is – His pleasing

And perfect will. Oh, holy ones,

I counsel you – Offer yourselves unto God.

 

Oh, holy ones, I counsel you –

Do not be conceited.

Humble yourselves before your God.

Do not be self-righteous.

The strength you have to live in love

Comes from your Lord God, so

Live your new lives in pow’r of God.

Be changed in heart, mind and will.

Do this because of what

Christ did for you when

He died on the cross to save

The world from sin. Oh, holy ones,

I counsel you – Humble yourselves before God.

 

Oh, holy ones, I counsel you –

Count yourselves dead to sin,

But be alive to God in Christ.

Do not let sin reign in

Your earthly lives so you

Obey its evil desires.

Offer yourselves unto your God

As those who’ve been born again.

For sin shall no longer be

Your lord and master.

Give of yourselves to God

For righteousness. Oh, holy ones,

I counsel you – Be alive to God in Christ.

 

https://vimeo.com/118480946

 

Our Bodies a Living Sacrifice

An Original Work / June 6, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

God's Word Has Not Failed

“I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.” (Romans 9:1-3 ESV)

 

“But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but ‘Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.’ This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.” (Romans 9:6-8 ESV)

 

“If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” (Galatians 3:29 NIV)

 

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

 

Physical Birth vs Spiritual Birth

 

Now, I am not going to get into all the history behind this, for I believe the Lord wants me to focus on one main specific topic which can be applied to the church today, as well. And that has to do with what constitutes genuine faith in the Lord and who are the ones who are the children of God, God’s chosen people today. And what is the present day criteria for being a child of God and an heir according to the promise God made to Abraham?

 

Paul made it a point to point out that he was speaking of his “brothers” according to the flesh, and not according to the Spirit. They were the Israelites of the Old Covenant, and Paul was deeply concerned for them, because most of them did not believe in Jesus Christ, the promised seed of Abraham, and the Messiah who was to come and who did come to the Jewish people. So they were not part of Spiritual Israel.

 

And we can apply a similar principal to “Christians.” Just because someone claims to believe in Jesus and to be a Christian, it doesn’t necessitate that is the truth, in reality. For just as the Jews who did not believe in Jesus were no longer the spiritual children of Abraham and part of Spiritual Israel, so those who profess faith in Jesus but whose faith is not biblical faith, and so there is not the evidence that true faith exists, are not the children of God.

 

So, it is not by lip service only, nor by physical birth, nor by being physical descendants of those who worship the one and only true God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – that we are or that we become children of God and heirs of the promise God made to Abraham, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. Only if we belong to Christ are we Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise God made with Abraham.

 

Belonging to Christ and Biblical Israel

 

So, what does it mean to belong to Christ? It means we are his possession and we are no longer our own, doing whatever it is that we desire to do, but now our lives are given over to the Lord in death to sin and in walks of obedience to his commands in surrender to his will and purpose for our lives. He owns us and now we are his possession, and so we are no longer the ones in charge of our lives, but Jesus is. So we now follow him.

 

Jew and Gentile alike, by physical birth, are only biblical Israel and heirs of the promise God gave to Abraham and to his seed by genuine faith in the Lord Jesus via dying with him to sin and now being raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer as slaves to sin, but as slaves to God and to his righteousness. And only those who have died to sin and who are now walking in obedience to our Lord are God’s children and biblical Israel.

 

It doesn’t matter if we prayed a prayer to receive Christ, and/or that we were baptized, or that we went through catechism, or that we joined a local institutional “church,” or that we attend “church services” weekly if all that we are doing is going through religious exercises but we have not surrendered our lives to the Lord Jesus, died with him to sin, and if we are not walking (in conduct) in obedience to his commands, by the Spirit.

 

And if a Jew by physical birth has not done the same, i.e. surrendered his life to the Lord Jesus, died with him to sin, and is now walking in obedience to the Lord and to his commands, by his grace, he is not part of Spiritual Israel, the Israel of God. But all Gentiles whose faith in Jesus Christ is genuine are part of biblical Israel, and we are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise God made with Abraham and his seed.

 

We are God’s chosen people, both Jew and Gentile by spiritual birth via genuine faith in the Lord Jesus. We are his holy nation who are heirs of the promise God made with Abraham. All who do not believe in Jesus Christ, who have not died with him to sin, and who are not walking in obedience to his commands, are not the children of God, and are not heirs of the promise. The only way to God the Father is through faith in Jesus Christ, his Son.

 

[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]

 

In Harmony 

 

Based off Romans 12:9-21; 1 Peter 3:8-17

An Original Work / September 2, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Love each other truly. Cling to what is good.

Hate all that is evil. Never lack in zeal.

Serve the Lord with fervor. Joyful in hope be;

Patient in affliction; Praying faithfully.

Honor one another. Live in harmony.

 

Share with all God’s people who are found in need.

Do not be conceited. Sympathetic be.

Love, and show compassion in humility.

Keep your tongue from evil. Peaceful you must be.

Honor one another. Live in harmony.

 

God sees who are righteous; Listens to their prayers.

But He’s against evil – Is His to avenge.

Do not fear what they fear. Suffer patiently.

In your hearts, make Christ Lord. Serve Him faithfully.

Honor one another. Live in harmony.

 

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God’s Word Has Not Failed

An Original Work / February 18, 2025

Reposted on June 6, 2026, w/slight editing

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

If God is For Us

Romans 8:31-39 NKJV

 

“31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36As it is written:

 

“’For Your sake we are killed all day long;

We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.’

 

“37Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

 

From the Beginning

 

I was raised in an institutional church setting most all my life, following what they were teaching me, which early on was mostly good, and mostly biblical, but which later on began to drift away from the teachings of Christ and of his New Testament apostles in order to attract the people of the world to their gatherings. And so they got very caught up in marketing their “churches” to the people of the world, and I joined in with them on that journey for some time before God opened my eyes to see that was of the flesh, and not of God, and it was not God’s way to win people over to faith in Jesus Christ.

 

Most all of my life I have been a serious student of the Scriptures, believing what God’s Word teaches, that it is truth, although I was taught some things wrongly, too. As I have shared before, I did have a short period of time in my life where I got off base, and I wandered from what I knew to be the truth, in and out, with some large gaps in between, and I followed after the lies, at times, until the Lord brought me back, and he put me back on solid ground, where I have remained ever since then. But mostly I walked with God in obedience to his commands and I followed his leading in my life.

 

Persecuted for My Faith

 

Now, when I was doing wrong, they left me alone. They were fine with me. But when I stood strong in my faith, and I walked the walk God had marked out for me, then I got rejected, persecuted, mistreated, and cast aside as unwanted and as unnecessary to the body of Christ, the church. And they didn’t care where I ended up as long as I left them so they would be rid of me. For so much of “the church” was becoming so worldly, and they were following men in their marketing schemes, and so I didn’t fit in with their schemes. I stood out as different, and “different” didn’t fit with their plans.

 

Then the Lord called me to the internet where he intended to use me to share with the people the Words of the Lord in the Scriptures, and to share what he was teaching me each day from my times spent with him in prayer and in the study of his Word. Early on he taught me all sorts of things about my nation and about the institutional church and its partnership with the government. I was ignorant of so many things, so in a lot of ways he was giving me a history lesson I had never had before, and he was showing me the corruption going on in my government and in the institutional church.

 

And he had me reading from Genesis to Revelation, and again, and then from the Psalms to Revelation, and again, and again, multiple times before he had me reading individual passages of Scripture. For in so doing he was teaching me context, and context is critical to correct biblical interpretation. So many lies are being taught today from Scriptures pulled out of context and twisted to say what they do not teach in the correct context, so it was of critical importance that I learned the correct context, for I had been taught some things wrong because they were taught out of biblical context.

 

What’s The Point?

 

So, what is the point of all of this, and how does this relate to this passage of Scripture? Well, if we are following Jesus with our lives, and if we are spreading the truth of the gospel, in the correct biblical context, we are going to stand out as different, and we will be rejected, even by others who claim to be Christians, and even by some church pastors who are following the ways of the world and so they are compromising the gospel to make it less offensive and more attractive to human flesh. So, we may indeed be invited to leave and to go someplace else where we will be a better fit.

 

For we are now on the narrow road leading to life eternal, and we are not on the broad road so many are traveling on today, in the name of Jesus, which leads to destruction. We are no longer partnered with the world, marketing the church to the people of the world, but we are following the Scriptures taught in their correct biblical context, to the best of our understanding. And so that sets us up to be persecuted, for we are now “accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” But if we keep following the Lord, we will be victorious in not letting how others treat us decide the direction which we take in this life.

 

So, don’t let how other people treat you determine your destiny. I did that for a short period of time, and that is not the right way to go. Keep the faith! Keep obeying the Lord. Walk in his ways. And keep sharing with the people the truth of the gospel that faith in Jesus Christ, which is of God, will result in us denying self, dying to sin daily, and us walking (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to our Lord and to his commands. But if we should continue to walk in sin, and not in obedience to our Lord, then we won’t have eternal life with God when Jesus returns. So keep speaking and keep living the truth no matter how others treat you. For we are conquerors through Jesus Christ.

 

[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

 

If God is For Us

An Original Work / June 6, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

In Our Weaknesses

Romans 8:18,26-30 NKJV

 

18For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us… 26Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

 

28And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 29For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

 

Human Emotions

 

Life is hard sometimes. Things don’t always go the way we had hoped. We have disappointments sometimes that hurt us emotionally, sometimes which bring us to tears. We were hoping for one thing to happen when the opposite of that happened, instead. And I know that these things are minor compared to the bigger more tragic things which are going on in the world around us, but God gave us feelings. He gave us emotions. He made us capable of loving and of getting hurt, too. And so we have to work through these.

 

For suffering isn’t all just the big stuff, though it certainly is the big stuff. But I think sometimes it is the little stuff which hits us harder, because it is what is closer to our hearts, to our emotions, to what we feel. For we are feeling people. But the Spirit of God helps us in our weaknesses when the difficulties and challenges of this life hit us where it hurts emotionally, if we will turn to him for help and not let our emotions get the best of us. We just have to let go and let God take control and trust him with our circumstances.

 

He Makes Intercession

 

Do you ever feel like you are all alone in this world? You may have people all around you, and yet you feel alone, you feel isolated, perhaps even deserted. Perhaps people have deserted or abandoned you because of what you stand for and what you share publicly because that is not in their comfort zone. You stand on truth and righteousness in a day when so many people are making compromises with the world. And so you stand out as different. And different doesn’t always make people want to be with you.

 

And since God made us as people who generally want to be with other people, for that was his design, and he made us people with feelings and emotions, there might be those times in our lives when our emotions are weak when we feel this more than at other times. And so it is comforting to know that the Spirit of God is making intercession for us in our weaknesses. For in those times we need help. We need encouragement. We need the strengthening of the Lord to fight our emotional battles to victory.

 

For Our Good

 

Now, what may seem like circumstances in our lives which are without hope, God can turn around for good in our lives. And “good” doesn’t necessarily mean what feels good to our emotions, but what is for our ultimate good, i.e. what is best for us, what is needed or necessary in our lives in order for our Lord to conform us and to transform us into the likeness of Jesus Christ and to make us the people of God he wants us to be. But we must be those who love (obey) God and who are the called according to HIS purpose.

 

And HIS purpose for us is that we deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands in daily surrender to his will. And it is that we live for him, and that we do his will, that we go where he sends us and that we do and say all that he commands. And it is that we surrender to our Lord in allowing him to conform us to the likeness of Christ. And it is that we answer his call upon our lives and we have that change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior, and that we live to do HIS will.

 

[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]

 

I AM WILLING, LORD 

By Joni Eareckson Tada

Sometimes when I am down,
And I don't feel like You're around, Oh Lord
Feeling so sorry for me,
Not knowing that all the while You're working to see,

If when I'm put through the fire,
I'll come out shining like gold,
Oh, Lord, please don't ever stop working with me,
'til You see I can be all You want me to be.

Often when I ask why, Teach me then on You to rely O Lord,

You surely know what is best

May I learn that in confidence and strength I can rest

Then, leaning fully on You, my questions fall one by one.

Oh, dear Lord, please don't ever stop working with me
'til You see I can be all You want me to be

I am willing Lord, I am willing Lord,

To be just exactly what You want me to be 

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In Our Weaknesses

An Original Work / June 6, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love