We Are to Live for The Lord

“One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God. For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself; for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.” (Romans 14:5-8 NASB1995)

Under the Old Covenant God had with his people Israel (Jews only at that time), they had to obey a set of liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, circumcision, dietary, and Sabbath laws, in addition to God’s moral laws. But when Jesus Christ gave his life up for us on that cross to deliver us out of our slavery to sin and to empower us to live holy lives, pleasing to him, in obedience to our Lord’s commands (New Covenant), he did away with the Old Covenant law, except he did not do away with God’s moral laws ever.

But some of the Jews who had believed in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of their lives were having a difficult time letting go of the dietary and Sabbath laws. Yet, although they were regarded as being “weak in faith” because of this, they were not chastised by God for holding on to the dietary restrictions and the Sabbath laws. But rather they were regarded as those who obeyed the Sabbath and who restricted their diet as doing so unto the Lord, the same as those who regarded every day alike and ate whatever.

But what both groups were chastised for was fighting with each other over these differences. For this was not a matter of rebellion or immorality or disobedience to God, which would be regarded as sin. But this was a matter of a difference of opinion and a difference of practice. And many Christians today still hold on to at least the concept of keeping the Sabbath, for they have this idea that we are to gather together once a week on a Saturday or a Sunday for a worship service, which they call “going to church.”

And many of them are fixated on this to the point to where they pass judgment on their brothers and sisters in Christ who are not compelled to raise one day above another, for their worship of Christ is not confined to one day of the week, nor is their fellowship with other believers in Christ. Yet the one day of the week people often add on to that that we have to be in a building called “church” where we sing songs and listen to one man preach and then we go home until the next week when we repeat the same routine.

But all of us who are of faith in Jesus Christ should be worshiping God every day of the week, and we should be students of the Scriptures who are obeying the teachings of our Lord under the New Covenant God has with his people Israel (Jew and Gentile by faith in Jesus Christ). And we should be gathering with other believers in Jesus Christ daily for fellowship and biblical encouragement and spiritual growth, even if it is just via a text message or an email or a Facebook post or a phone call when in person does not work.

For, the folks who regard one day a week above the other days are still given the same instructions from God as the rest of us, that we are to gather daily with other believers in Christ for mutual encouragement and exhortation so that we grow to maturity in our walks of obedience to our Lord, and so that we help one another to not fall into the trap of sin and to not be taken in by “wolves in sheep’s clothing” who will feed them lies that pull them away from God and from biblical fellowship with other Christians of like faith in Christ.

So, although it is perfectly fine to raise one day above another, those who do so must still regard all days in the week as unto the Lord for his service. And all of us should be ministering to one another within the body of Christ, using the gifts of the Spirit we have been given by God, in the body part assignments given us by God. For we are not called of God to be part-time servants of the Lord, but we are called to be his followers, doing his will, living for his glory every day in obedience to our Lord and to his commands.

[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]

Abide in Him  

Based off Psalm 27:14; Isaiah 40:31; John 14-15

An Original Work / July 31, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

If you wait for the Lord, put your hope now in Him, 

He will give you His strength and endurance within.

He will renew your strength, so you will not lose heart.

You will soar on wings like eagles, never depart.

“If you abide in Me, and My words live in you,

You will walk with Me daily and follow what’s true.

I will live now in you; give you peace now within,

If you obey My teachings and turn from your sin.”

“If you listen to Me, and do all that I say,

I will give you My comfort; be with you always.

I will heal all your pain; life with Me now you’ll gain,

If in fellowship with Me you always remain.”

https://vimeo.com/115029858 

We Are to Live for The Lord

An Original Work / April 23, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

What is Good for Edification

“Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.” (Ephesians 4:29-32 NASB1995)

What is an “unwholesome word”? It isn’t just a cuss word, or something vulgar, or slander. It is the opposite of beneficial and helpful and useful, i.e. it is contrary to what is good and healthful. It could be a false accusation against someone, or an unkind and unnecessary remark to them. It could be someone just being nasty or cruel to someone else just because they think differently on a subject. So, we must guard against such as this in our own lives and in our own speaking, and in our own responses to other people.

However, this does not mean that we ever compromise the truth of the Scriptures in order to not offend other people. We can speak the truth in love without being hateful and nasty in our approach. For the truth, spoken in love, is what is kind. Lying to people, even if meant to make them feel good, is never kind. Truth spoken in love is kind even if it is not received as kindness but it is rejected and disdained. But, with regard to the gospel, truth is what saves lives. Lies send people to hell. So tell them the 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).

But this goes beyond just speaking the truth of the gospel versus speaking lies to people just to make them feel good or so that they will like us and not reject us. This goes to all of our speaking. All of us need to guard our hearts and minds and words against speaking hurtful and unnecessary words to other humans just because they look different, or they act different, or they believe different from us. Especially in the political realm, we are not to get caught up in the “attack” the other side just because they think differently. 

We who claim Jesus as Lord and Savior of our lives need to be those who represent him well. And I know that none of us are perfect, and we are not always going to say all the right things in all the right ways. But we should make it our goal and our purpose to be kind to all people no matter who they are or what they do or what they believe. And, again, kindness is not lying, and it is not compromising truth to not offend people. Love speaks the truth people need to hear even if they reject us and the truth we speak.

Your Life 

Based off of Colossians 3:1-17

An Original Work / October 22, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Set your hearts and minds

On things up above

Where Christ sits with God;

Not on earthly things.

For you died and your life

Is now hidd’n with Christ.

When Christ, who is your life, is seen,

You will be with Him.

Your sins, put to death.

Don’t walk in these ways.

Don’t lie to yourselves

Or to others, too.

Since you have taken off

Your old sinful past;

Put on the new self in Jesus,

Get rid of such things.

Therefore, holy ones,

Put on gentleness;

Kindness; patience, too;

Be compassionate.

Bear with one another;

Forgive others, too.

Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

O’er all, put on love.

Let the peace of Christ

Rule in your hearts now.

You were called to peace.

Be ye so thankful.

Let the word of Christ dwell

In you richly now

As you teach and instruct others;

Sing songs unto Christ. 

Spoken: “And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him” (Colossians 3:17 NIV 1984). 

https://vimeo.com/125740353 

Video Talk on the Same Subject

https://youtu.be/r0ZWnFHde90 

What is Good for Edification

An Original Work / April 22, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Question About D Trump Reading Scripture

Yesterday President (of the USA) Donald Trump read a passage of Scripture from 2 Chronicles 7:11-22 to the public in a video message recorded in the White House’s Oval Office. I would love to hear your thoughts on this. Why do you think he did this? For what purpose? And why this specific passage of Scripture at this particular time in our world and in our nation? And why this Scripture passage while he is at war with other nations? And please refrain from vulgarity in expressing your opinions on this subject. I just want to hear your thoughts on any side of this, not the opinions of others whose thoughts you have read somewhere else. Thank you.

P.S. I don't generally get responses on this site, although I do get reads, but if any of you have any thoughts you would like to share on this subject, I would love to hear from you. Thank you. You ae welcome to email me your responses at cfservant@gmail.com. 

Those Who Suppress The Truth

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.” (Romans 1:18-23 NASB1995)

It is not okay with God for us who profess the name of Jesus to keep on sinning, to keep making sin our practice. God’s grace is not free license to keep on sinning deliberately and habitually without conscience, and without biblical remorse, and without genuine repentance. 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 our Lord Jesus’ return (see Titus 2:11-14; Matthew 7:21-23).

Jesus Christ, in his death and resurrection, put our sins to death with him, and he rose from the dead victorious over sin, hell, death, and Satan so that, by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in him we will now deny self, die to sin daily, and walk (in conduct) in obedience to his commands in holy living – all in the power of God at work now within us in changing and purifying us and making us holy vessels fit for his service to be used for his glory and praise. All glory to God! (see Romans 6:1-23; Luke 9:23-26).

Lip service only to God will get us nowhere good. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of human beings who suppress the truth which can be known about God and his righteousness, via their deliberate and habitual acts of unrighteousness. For if we choose our sins over God, we are dishonoring our Lord and what Jesus did for us on that cross in putting our sins to death with him so that, by faith in him, we can now die to sin and obey our Lord in holy living, by his power.

So many who profess faith in Jesus Christ are far from God in how they live and in what they practice. So many have gone the way of the world and are living worldly and immoral lives for self-pleasure, and they are not living holy lives for the glory of God. So many are followers of other human beings rather than being followers of Christ. And then those other humans end up being their gods rather than God being their God. And so they end up believing and living the lies rather than believing and living the truth.

Now God will pursue us to bring us to himself. And if we fall, he will pursue us to bring us back to himself in holy living. But he will not force himself on anyone who does not want him in their lives. He will hand us over to our own devices if we choose our sins over obedience to his commands (see vs. 24-32). But sadly so many who profess to know Christ, who know the will of God, that those who make sin their practice will die in their sins, still they continue in deliberate sin and they approve of others who practice sin, too.

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

[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] 

Love Must Be Genuine 

Based off Romans 12:9-21

An Original Work / October 22, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Love must be genuine.

Hate what’s evil; cling to good.

Love each other with affection.

Show respect for ev’ryone.

Never lack in your zeal.

Serve the Lord with diligence.

Rejoice in steadfast hope.

In affliction, patient be.

Keep on praying; share with others.

Practice hospitality.

Bless those who persecute.

Feel with others sympathy.

Be not filled with conceit.

Daily sit at Jesus’ feet.

Live in harmony with others.

Live at peace with ev’ryone.

Repay not to someone

With the evil he begot.

Do not take your revenge;

Leave it to the wrath of God.

If your enemy is thirsty,

Give to him something to drink.

Do what’s right for mankind.

Evil: overcome with good.

https://vimeo.com/114695549

Those Who Suppress The Truth

An Original Work / April 22, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Measure The Temple of God

“Then there was given me a measuring rod like a staff; and someone said, ‘Get up and measure the temple of God and the altar, and those who worship in it. Leave out the court which is outside the temple and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations; and they will tread under foot the holy city for forty-two months.’” (Revelation 11:1-2 NASB1995)

Time and Place

To correctly understand what this is teaching us here, we need to consider the time period in which these events are taking place. For this is in the Messianic age after Jesus Christ’s death, resurrection, and ascension back to heaven to be with God the Father. This is the church age. And so the church, the body of believers in Jesus Christ, are now the temple of God. And God’s Spirit dwells in us. And we are the holy city of God, not physical Jerusalem.

See: [Galatians 4:22-31; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Ephesians 2:8-22; Colossians 3:12-15; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 8:8-10; Hebrews 10:30; Hebrews 11:25; Hebrews 12:22-24; 1 Peter 2:9-10]

And who are the nations who will tread underfoot the holy city for forty-two months? They are all who are not followers of Jesus Christ. They are all who are antichrist. And this includes the physical and political nation called “Israel,” which, as a nation, does not believe in Jesus Christ to be their Lord and Messiah, the Christ. And the holy city is no longer a physical place in the physical nation called “Israel,” but we who believe in Jesus are that city.

Persecution of Christians

So, this is not about physical nations foreign to the physical and political nation called “Israel” attacking that nation in the physical city of Jerusalem in another building which is a replica of the Old Covenant temple of God. This is about all who are antichrist coming against us who are true followers of Jesus Christ to persecute, destroy, put to death, and silence us and our voices. This is about the persecution of Christians, not of the Jews.

For, all Jews and Gentiles who do not believe in Jesus Christ are antichrist (1 John 2:22). And all who believe in Jesus Christ, in truth, are for Christ. And all Jews who rejected Jesus as their Lord and Messiah were cut out of biblical Israel, and all Gentiles who believed in Jesus were grafted into Israel, the Israel of God. And Jesus Christ and his followers are that Israel of God. And all who yet believe in Jesus Christ will also be included in biblical Israel.

But even some other professers of Christ will abandon, persecute, ignore, ostracize, ridicule, and want nothing to do with us if we are truly following Jesus Christ with wholehearted devotion and if we are doing and saying the kinds of things Jesus and his New Testament apostles did and said. For our opponents, although many of them profess to believe the Scriptures, some of them don’t do so in practice, and they will not approve of us if we do.

Measuring The Temple

And what does it mean that John was to measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship in it? This is not a measurement of a physical building called “the temple of God.” This is a spiritual evaluation of the spiritual temple of God, the church, which is comprised of all who are of genuine faith in Jesus Christ. This is a testing of our faith to see who is truly of God and who is not, and who needs to change, for time is running out.

Have we died with Christ to sin, and are we continuing to do so daily? Are we living in submission to him as Lord? Are we walking in fellowship with him according to his commands? Are we living holy lives pleasing to God, no longer living in sin? “Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid? Your heart does the Spirit control? You can only be blest, and have peace and sweet rest, as you yield Him your body and soul” (Elisha A. Hoffman, hymn writer).

[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] 

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

Measure The Temple of God

An Original Work / April 22, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

But Since You Say, "We See"

And Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.” Those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, “We are not blind too, are we?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.” (John 9:39-41 NASB1995)

What did Jesus mean when he said, “For judgment I came into this world”? It meant to distinguish between right and wrong and good and evil, to separate light from darkness and truth from lies. It was to teach us, the people, cause and effect, to let us know the eternal results of the decisions that we make in life for good or for evil. For Jesus’ messages were not all feel good messages. He continually stated what God expected of us in the way of thought, word, and deed, and what will result if we do not follow his instructions but if we should decide to go our own stubborn way, instead. 

For the results of Jesus’ teachings were that many who were spiritually blind, and who knew that they were, by faith in Jesus Christ were delivered out of their spiritual blindness so that they could now see truth and righteousness and what God expected of them, with a desire to submit to God and to obey him. But those who thought they could see, who were full of pride, were made blind because they rejected Jesus Christ and his teachings. Instead of them being receptive to Christ and to his teachings, their hearts were hardened against him and they willfully shut their eyes and ears to the truth.

I liken this a lot to some who have been brought up under Christianity, who have been taught the Scriptures from very early on in their lives, some of whom even taught the truth of the Scriptures to others, perhaps for many years, some of whom may be (or were) pastors of church congregations. They are not ignorant of the truth, but in their pride they ignore and reject the truth that Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught so that they can continue in their sin. They have all the head knowledge that they need to obey God, but they want their sin more than they want Jesus in their lives.

For, the Pharisees were not ignorant of the truth of God’s Word. They were taught it, and they taught it to others from the Old Covenant. So they knew right from wrong and good from evil. They knew God’s moral laws, that they were to obey them. They were also taught about the Christ (the Messiah) who was to come, but when he came, they largely rejected him, and they fought against him. They did, and so did the Scribes and the Sadducees and the rulers in the Temple of God. And eventually they had him put to death on a cross, although he had done no wrong, but because they hated him.

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 the will of God. For Christ gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession.

[Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23; Titus 2:11-14; 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; 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] 

And Jesus is still warning us against such attitudes and hypocrisy in our own lives, and against following after such leaders or becoming just like them. 

Seven Woes  

Based off Matthew 23

An Original Work / May 31, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love 

Woe to you, teachers of the law;

Hypocrites, you keep men from God.

You refuse to obey the truth,

Nor will you permit others to.

You travel o’er land and sea

To win a single convert to you.

When he becomes one 

You make him twice as much

A “son of hell” as you are.

Woe to you, blind guides of mankind.

You distort the words of your God.

By your practices you declare

Your oaths mean nothing, though you swear.

You give a tenth of your spices,

But you neglect justice, mercy.

When you focus your 

Time and talents on

What is external, you miss out.

Woe to you, who appear so clean,

When inside you are crass and mean.

You work hard to look so upright,

While you hide all your sins inside.

You deceive yourselves when you think

You would not have done what others

Did to God’s messengers 

And prophets of old,

For you will do much the same.

You’re to blame.

https://vimeo.com/125489388

But Since You Say, “We See”

An Original Work / April 21, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

An Alliance Not Of God

“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the Lord,

“Who execute a plan, but not Mine,

And make an alliance, but not of My Spirit,

In order to add sin to sin;

Who proceed down to Egypt

Without consulting Me,

To take refuge in the safety of Pharaoh

And to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

“Therefore the safety of Pharaoh will be your shame

And the shelter in the shadow of Egypt, your humiliation.

“For their princes are at Zoan

And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.

“Everyone will be ashamed because of a people who cannot profit them,

Who are not for help or profit, but for shame and also for reproach.” (Isaiah 30:1-5 NASB1995)

“I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.” (John 10:11-15 NASB1995)

What is the message to us who believe in Jesus Christ today from both of these Scripture passages? It is that we are not to put our trust in other human beings to the point to where they become our gods and the ones we run to when we need help and on whom we depend to tell us the truth and to rescue us from evil. We are not to follow their plans that they have for our lives while we ignore God and the plan that he has for our lives. And we are not to make an alliance with those who are not following our God.

We are not to follow any people or people groups or nations with undivided loyalties and devotion. God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – is to be our only God to whom we bow and worship and to whom we pledge our loyalties and devotion. And we should not give our support to any people or people groups or nations without knowing really who they are and what they are doing and if truly they are following Jesus Christ with their lives, which should be evident by their attitudes, actions, behaviors, and words.

We are not to follow anyone with blinders on, not paying attention to what they truly believe and who they really are and what they are up to just because we were told to follow them, or that is what we were taught to do from childhood on up. For many are wolves in sheep’s clothing out to steal, to kill, and to destroy, and not to save. They put on a show of righteousness in order to deceive and to gain followers, but they are just hired hands who will desert the people as soon as things get bad enough for them to leave.

Many are false shepherds of the people who are leading the people astray to follow after the false gods of this world and to follow after the lies of the enemy. So many are teaching a false gospel of salvation which promises many people salvation from sin and eternal life with God based on lip service only and not on the truth of the Scriptures taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles. For many are not teaching that faith in Jesus Christ requires that we die to sin and obey God’s commands in practice.

So, test those who are in positions of power and rule and authority, whether in the gatherings of “the church” or in our governments, who proclaim Jesus Christ with their lips, to see if what they are proclaiming and doing is in agreement with the Scriptures, and to see if they are truly righteous, godly, morally pure, upright, honest, faithful, and obedient to God and to his gospel message (taught in the correct biblical context). And then believe God and follow God over and above everyone else from now to eternity with 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] 

Only in Him  

Based off Isaiah 30

An Original Work / February 19, 2014

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love 

Woe to those who look to man’s help;

Who turn away from Jesus Christ;

Forming an alliance not in step with God;

Making their own plans, and praying not.

Willing not to listen to truth,

They close their ears to what is right.

Pleasing words are all that they’ll hear;

Feel good messages that bring cheer.

Trust in your Lord; turn from your sin.

Put your faith now ONLY IN HIM.

Do not turn to idols. They’ll not satisfy.

Jesus will save you. That’s why He died.

Your Lord will be gracious to you.

He cares all about you, ‘tis true.

He forgives you all of your sin

When you give your life up to Him.

Oh, how truly gracious He’ll be

When you bow to Him on your knees;

Turning now from your sin; walking in his ways.

He’ll lead and guide you all of your days.

Now you will sing praises to Him.

He delivered you from your sin.

You’ll tell others now of His grace,

So they may see Christ face-to-face. 

https://vimeo.com/87181019

A Video Talk on the Same Subject

https://youtu.be/8VVbTBLvMC8 

An Alliance Not of God

An Original Work / April 21, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love