According to Our Deeds

“Behold, the Lord God will come with might,

With His arm ruling for Him.

Behold, His reward is with Him

And His recompense before Him.

Like a shepherd He will tend His flock,

In His arm He will gather the lambs

And carry them in His bosom;

He will gently lead the nursing ewes.” (Isaiah 40:10-11 NASB’95)

As soon as I read this passage of Scripture, I immediately made a connection between this and some of the New Testament Scriptures: 

“For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.” (Matthew 26:27)

God “will repay each one according to his deeds. To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.” (Romans 2:6-8)

“From now on there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but to all who crave His appearing.” (2 Timothy 4:8)

“And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away.” (1 Peter 5:4)

“Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.” (Revelation 2:23)

“Behold, I am coming soon, and My reward is with Me, to give to each one according to what he has done.” “He who testifies to these things says, ‘Yes, I am coming soon.’ Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!” (Revelation 22:12,20)

Now, this definitely dispels the theory that our works have no impact on our salvation whatsoever. Are we saved by our own works of the flesh? NO! We are not! We can only come to faith in Jesus Christ if God the Father first draws us to Christ, i.e. only if he persuades us as to his righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to die with him to sin and to walk with him in obedience to his commands, by God’s grace, in his power.

So our salvation is not of ourselves, not of our own works. The gift of God’s grace and of our salvation and the faith to believe in him comes from God and not from ourselves. Thus, our faith and salvation must align with God and with his moral character, and with his word, and with his expressed will and purpose for our lives. And he taught that we must die to sin and walk in obedience to his commands as evidence that genuine faith is what we have.

And God’s grace is not just forgiveness of sins so that when we die we get to go to heaven, and not to hell. 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. For Jesus Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” (See Titus 2:11-14)

And Jesus taught that if anyone would come after him that he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin) and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to our lives of living in sin and for self, we will lose them for eternity. But if we deny self, and by the Spirit we put sin to death daily, and we walk (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to his commands, in the power of God, then we have the hope of eternal life with God. (See Luke 9:23-26)

And Paul taught that by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ we are crucified with Christ in death to sin, and we are raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to God and to his righteousness. So we are not to let sin continue to reign in our 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 righteousness and sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God. (See Romans 6:1-23)

Thus, our salvation is not something that happens once in our lives and now heaven is guaranteed us when we die. If we read the Scriptures, in their context, we will come to realize that our salvation and our eternal life with God are contingent on us dying with Christ to sin, by the Spirit, and us walking in obedience to our Lord, in his power, from the time we first believe in Jesus until the day that we die. But this doesn’t mean that we will never sin again, but that sin should no longer be our practice. We must obey God.

So, one day Jesus is going to return to judge and to take his faithful ones to be with him for eternity. And all of us will be judged by our deeds (works). Not one of us will be saved by our own fleshly works. That’s a given. But if sin is what we practice, and if obedience to God is not what we practice, we will not have eternal life with God, regardless of what our lips profess. For, as those who believe in Jesus, we must be followers of Christ, and sin must not be our practice or we will not inherit eternal life with God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 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 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

Lead Me Gently Home, Father

By Will L. Thompson, 1879

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lead me gently home;

When life’s toils are ended,

And parting days have come,

Sin no more shall tempt me,

Ne’er from Thee I’ll roam,

If Thou’ll only lead me, Father,

Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lest I fall upon the wayside,

Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lead me gently home;

In life’s darkest hours, Father,

When life’s troubles come,

Keep my feet from wand’ring,

Lest from Thee I roam,

Lest I fall upon the wayside,

Lead me gently home.

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According to Our Deeds

An Original Work / March 31, 2025 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

It All Has Purpose

The world is turning topsy turvy,

Everything seems upside down.

Our leaders we call into question:

Are they real, or are they clowns?

Each day is changing, different stories,

Where to listen? Who truth tells?

Each day is filled with much confusion,

Who is who? What do they sell?

The craziness is overwhelming

Many people truth not know.

The madness that is all about us – 

Truth? Or is it all for show?

It seems it goes in all directions,

One day this, and that day that.

We never know what we’ll encounter,

All agree? Or all do spat?

It seems that all these are distractions,

Keep us guessing, fear do dwell,

While leaders plot all their disasters

Meant for us to spread, to tell.

The Bible warns us days are coming,

Like we’re seeing up to date,

It tells of storms and wars and famines,

Of the ones who do Christ hate.

It says that we’ll be persecuted

For our faith in Jesus Christ,

And tells of how the gospel message

Will by some be taken heist.

But do not worry, all has purpose,

God is surely in control,

So share the gospel, give the message:

Give your life to Jesus whole.

An Original Work / March 31, 2025 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

A Voice is Calling

“A voice is calling,

‘Clear the way for the Lord in the wilderness;

Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God.

Let every valley be lifted up,

And every mountain and hill be made low;

And let the rough ground become a plain,

And the rugged terrain a broad valley;

Then the glory of the Lord will be revealed,

And all flesh will see it together;

For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.’” (Isaiah 40:3-5 NASB’95)

If you were to be a voice calling, “Clear the way for the Lord in the wilderness” today, what do you believe that should look like? What is a wilderness symbolic of? It is something neglected and abandoned and wasted. In the context of the gospel message today, that could have to do with the idolatrous and adulterous church, or with those who give lip service to the Lord only but whose hearts are far from him. It could be about those who know the truth, but who do not put the truth into practice.

So, if you are calling out to clear the way for the Lord in the wilderness, what should you be saying to the people? Well, you should be sharing with them the full truth of the gospel as Jesus and as his New Testament apostles taught it, in the correct context (not out of context). And so you would be calling all who are wandering from the faith, and who give lip service only to the Lord, to repent of (die to, turn away from) their sinful practices, and you would be calling them to walks of obedience to the Lord’s commandments.

For faith in Jesus Christ, which comes from God, is of God, is persuaded of God, and is gifted to us by God, will lead us to deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and walk in obedience to the Lord, in the power of God. For that is what the Scriptures teach, and it is for that purpose that Jesus gave his life up for us on that cross, to buy us back for God (to redeem us) out of our lives of slavery (addiction) to sin so that we will now serve the Lord with our lives in following him wherever he leads us, and in doing his commands.

And not only should you be sharing the truth of the gospel of our salvation with the people, as Jesus and as his New Testament apostles taught it, in the proper context, but you should also be refuting the lies of the enemy which are coming against the truth of the gospel. For many are teaching that we can make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and now all our sins are forgiven, and heaven is guaranteed us when we die, but regardless of how we live. Many are teaching no need to repent or to obey our Lord.

But Paul taught that faith in Jesus, which comes from God, and which is persuaded of God, results in us dying with Christ to sin and us being raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but as slaves to righteousness. So, we are not to let sin reign anymore 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 righteousness, and in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God.

And Jesus taught that if anyone would come after him that he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin) and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to our lives of living in sin and for self, we will lose them for eternity. But if we deny self, put sin to death, by the Spirit, and walk in obedience to our Lord, and to his commands, we have eternal life with God. For not everyone claiming Jesus as “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only those who are DOING (obeying) God the Father who is in heaven.

So, if we are going to be those voices in the wilderness clearing the way for the Lord, so that the glory of the Lord will be revealed, then we need to be teaching what Jesus taught and what his New Testament apostles taught, but in the appropriate context. For far too many lies are being spread by people who are deliberately teaching the Scriptures out of context to make them say what they do not say when taught in context. And most are not teaching that we must die to sin and walk in obedience to our Lord.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 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 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

For Our Nation  

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Trust Him with your life today.

Make Him your Lord and your Savior.

Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.

He will forgive you of your sin;

Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.

On our knees to God we’re praying,

Seeking God to give us answers

That are only found in Him.

God is sovereign over all things.

Nothing from His mind escaping.

He has all things under His command,

And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing

In our Lord, and interceding

For our nation and its people

To obey their God today.

He is our hope for our future.

For our wounds He offers suture.

He is all we need for this life.

Trust Him with your life today.

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

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A Voice is Calling

An Original Work / March 31, 2025 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Here is Your God

 

He Gives Strength to The Weary

“Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel,

‘My way is hidden from the Lord,

And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God’?

Do you not know? Have you not heard?

The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth

Does not become weary or tired.

His understanding is inscrutable.

He gives strength to the weary,

And to him who lacks might He increases power.

Though youths grow weary and tired,

And vigorous young men stumble badly,

Yet those who wait for the Lord

Will gain new strength;

They will mount up with wings like eagles,

They will run and not get tired,

They will walk and not become weary.” (Isaiah 40:27-31 NASB’95)

Do you ever feel forgotten by God? Do you ever feel overwhelmed by your circumstances and so you cannot see clearly to see how God fits into what is going on in your life? Do you ever look at the world all around you and stand amazed at all the evil that exists? Does that ever discourage you? Does it all ever feel hopeless to you? Do you have difficulty making sense of it all? And do you wonder, sometimes, why God does not intervene and stop it all?

Do you ever feel as though you just don’t have the strength to keep doing what you are doing? As though you are just going to drop if you have to go one more inch, or one more mile, or one more minute? Are you someone who lets every pain, every hindrance, and every difficult circumstance convince you that you can’t do it, that you can’t go on? You see a hindrance, and so you just back up and retreat, instead of pushing forward?

I know that I have gone down that road many times in my life. And sometimes I may still feel some of those things, but the Lord has taught me much about how I can do in his strength what I cannot do in my own. He has moved me to write these daily devotions regardless of how I feel, and regardless of my circumstances, and even if I have a pounding headache, or a fever, or it feels as though I am at death’s door. He still has me write.

And he has proven to me that his strength is perfect when my strength is gone. And I am not suggesting that we take high risks or that we do anything foolish, but it is true that if the Lord has something that he wants us to do that he will give us the strength and the courage to do it. And Satan will do all in his power to try to convince us that we cannot do it, that we cannot move forward, and he will fill our minds with lots of excuses.

Does God know what is going on in our lives? He absolutely does! He made us. He knows everything about us. He knows us inside and out, and all our whereabouts, and everything that is behind us, and that is ahead of us, and what is taking place in the present in our world. And he knows what the leaders of our nations are up to, and what their plan is for the people, which is not for our good, but for their good, i.e. what they call “good,” anyway.

None of this surprises him. None of what we are going through takes God off-guard. And none of it can take place unless God allows it. And he allows evil to exist. Otherwise he would have to destroy all human life, because we are all born with sin natures, and we all still have the propensity to sin, and we will all be tempted sometimes to sin. But he does set limits, like he did when he gave Satan permission to do what he did to Job and to his family.

And if we read the Scriptures in their full context we will learn that God promised us that we would have to suffer for the sake of the name of Jesus, and for the sake of the gospel, and for the sake of righteousness, like he suffered at the hands of his enemies, and like the saints before us suffered at the hands of their enemies. And he said there would be fires, storms, earthquakes, wars, famines, and the like, and that is what is happening.

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:1-51; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; 1 John 2:18-25; Jude 1:17-23; 2 Peter 2:1-22; 2 Peter 3:1-18; 1 Timothy 4:1-5; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13]

So, no matter what you are going through, what trials you are facing, what hardships you are having to endure, what obstacles are standing in your way, in sickness and in health, possessing much or little or nothing, turn to the Lord. Trust him to help you to get through this, even if in the end of it all you die. For if Jesus is your Lord, and you have died with him to sin, and by faith in him obedience to him is your practice, you have eternal life with God.

But if all you have done is give lip service to God, and you have continued in deliberate and habitual sin, as your life course, just living to please your flesh, and so obedience to God is not your practice, then please know that lip service alone is not going to guarantee you heaven when you die. By the grace of God, and in his power, we must all die with him to sin and now walk in obedience to his commands, and eternal life with God will be ours to have.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 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 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

His Strength Is Perfect

Steven Curtis Chapman

I can do all things

Through Christ who gives me strength

But sometimes I wonder what He can do through me

No great success to show

No glory of my own

Yet in my weakness He is there to let me know..

We can only know

The power that He holds

When we truly see how deep our weakness goes

His strength in us begins

Where ours comes to an end

He hears our humble cry and proves again

His strength is perfect when our strength is gone

He'll carry us when we can't carry on

Raised in His power, the weak become strong

His strength is perfect, His strength is perfect

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He Gives Strength to The Weary

An Original Work / March 31, 2025 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

He Died to Free Us

It was God’s will to crush Him,

That He might die for our sins.

By faith in our Lord Jesus,

All our sins are now forgiven.

But faith not just words spoken,

Faith results – obedience,

Our sins all now forsaken,

As we now do walk with Him.

We walk with Him now daily,

Our desire now for Him,

We follow where He leads us,

And now daily die to sin.

We love our times spent with Him

In our fellowship with Him,

Our desire to learn from Him,

And to listen now to Him.

He died so He would free us

From control of sin’s allure,

So we would now obey Him,

And in Him we’d now mature.

So if sin is still your practice,

Trust in Christ for your escape,

Die to sin, give your life to Him,

And now follow in His ways.

For if sin, we still walk in it,

And to God no obedience,

Then we do not have the promise,

Of a home there up in heaven.

An Original Work / March 30, 2025 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

It Was God's Will to Crush Him

“But the Lord was pleased

To crush Him, putting Him to grief;

If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,

He will see His offspring,

He will prolong His days,

And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.

As a result of the anguish of His soul,

He will see it and be satisfied;

By His knowledge the Righteous One,

My Servant, will justify the many,

As He will bear their iniquities.

Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,

And He will divide the booty with the strong;

Because He poured out Himself to death,

And was numbered with the transgressors;

Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,

And interceded for the transgressors.” (Isaiah 53:10-12 NASB’95)

This is a prophecy by the prophet Isaiah, of the Old Testament, regarding the coming of Jesus Christ as Savior of the world. Jesus always existed with God, and he was/is God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He was with God in the beginning and he is our creator God, the one who made us. And he left heaven, came to this earth, was born as a baby to a human mother, and while on the earth he was fully human and yet fully God (God incarnate), but he was not born into sin as we are.

During his years of ministry on the earth he healed the sick and afflicted, raised the dead, delivered people from demons, fed the hungry, and performed all sorts of miracles before the eyes of the people. And the multitudes followed him, for a while, because of the miracles he performed, and because he was healing their diseases, and because he fed them. But the rulers in the temple hated him because he claimed to be God, he healed people on the Sabbath, and because of his popularity among the people.

But they hated him also because of the things that he taught, and because of the things that he said about them in pointing out their hypocrisies, and because he confronted them in their sins. They assumed because they were in the physical family line of Abraham that they were God’s children, in right relationship with God. But he let them know that, because they wanted to kill Jesus, that God was not their Father, and Abraham was not their father, but the devil was their father, and they were doing the deeds of the devil.

For Jesus Christ did not teach the diluted and altered gospel message which is so popularized in America today. He taught that we must die to sin and walk in obedience to his commands, in holy living, and not in deliberate and habitual sin, if we want to have salvation from sin and eternal life with God. And this is not “works salvation.” This is living out the salvation already provided for us via Jesus’ death on a cross, in the power of God, by the Spirit, by God-persuaded faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

But probably most of the Jews in the vicinity of where Jesus lived called for Jesus to be crucified on a cross, although he had done no wrong, but because they did not like it that he claimed to be God, and that he taught with the authority of God, and because he healed people on the Sabbath, and he did not conform to their traditions, and he confronted them with their sins, and he called them to repentance and to obedience to God, as living sacrifices to God, holy and acceptable and pleasing to God.

So, they arranged for him to be put to death on a cross because they wanted to put an end to him and to his teachings, and to his followers, too. For they assumed that by killing Jesus that it would be the end of him and of his teachings, and of his followers, too, I believe. But they thought wrong. For God the Father resurrected Jesus from the dead on the third day. Jesus appeared to his disciples, and to many other people, before returning to heaven. And later he sent his Holy Spirit to indwell his followers.

Was it evil what they did to Jesus? Yes! Was it wrong? Yes! But it was necessary that Jesus Christ should give his life up for us on that cross so that we can now, by faith in him, be crucified with him in death to sin, and raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness, in walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands. By faith in Jesus Christ we can now be free from the control of sin and follow Jesus according to his ways.

Therefore, it was the will of God that Jesus should be persecuted and crushed and put to death on that cross. For when he died on that cross he put our sins to death with him so that, by God-persuaded faith in him we might now die to sin and walk in obedience to his commands in holy living. He died so that we would no longer live for self-pleasure, but for the will of God for our lives, in doing all that he commands that we do, and in going wherever he sends us, and in speaking his words of wisdom to the people.

For only by the grace of God in sending Jesus to that cross to die for our sins can any of us be saved from our slavery to sin and be assured heaven as our eternal destiny. But the grace of God paved the way for us to be delivered from our addiction to sin and to empower us to now live holy lives, pleasing to God, in walks of obedience to his commands. But if we choose to refuse to bow the knee to God, and we do not repent of (turn from) our sins, but we continue in deliberate and habitual sin against God, and not in walks of obedience to his commands, we will not have eternal life with God.

[Isaiah 53:1-12; Matt 7:21-23; Matt 26:26-29; Lu 9:23-26; Lu 17:25; Jn 1:1-36; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 8:24,58; Jn 10:27-33; Jn 20:28-29; Rom 5:8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 9:5; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 11:23-32; 1 Co 15:1-8; 2 Co 5:15,21; Eph 4:17-24; Php 2:5-11; Col 2:9; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 1:8-9; Heb 2:14-15; Heb 4:15; 1 Pet 2:24; 2 Pet 1:1; 1 John 3:4-10]  

Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer 

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897

Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,

This is my constant longing and prayer;

Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,

Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,

Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,

Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,

Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,

Holy and harmless, patient and brave;

Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,

Willing to suffer others to save.

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,

Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;

Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,

Fit me for life and Heaven above.

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,

Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;

Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;

Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

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It Was God’s Will to Crush Him

An Original Work / March 30, 2025 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Like a Lamb Led to Slaughter

“He was oppressed and He was afflicted,

Yet He did not open His mouth;

Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,

And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,

So He did not open His mouth.” (Isaiah 53:7 NASB’95)

 

When Jesus was arrested for a crime he did not commit, and when he was given a mock trial, and he was beaten beyond recognition, and he was hung on a cross to die as though he was a common criminal, there were a few times when he did not open his mouth, but he spoke plenty, as well. So, this could be referring to the few times when he was silent, and/or it could be referring to the fact that he did not resist his enemies, which he could have. But he submitted himself to dying on that cross for the sins of the world.

 

When Judas came with a large crowd of men with swords and clubs to arrest Jesus, Jesus said to Judas, “Friend, do what you have come for.” Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and seized him. And when Peter cut off the ear of one of the men, Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword. Or do you think that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels? How then will the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that it must happen this way?” (see Matthew 26:47-54)

 

So, Jesus was not silent the whole time, and he did not resist those who came against him, but he accepted that this was the will of God the Father, and that this was the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Scriptures about himself, and he did mention that he could have, indeed, stopped it from happening, but he did not, because it had to happen that way.

 

And then he said to the crowds who came to arrest him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you would against a robber? Every day I used to sit in the temple teaching and you did not seize Me. But all this has taken place to fulfill the Scriptures of the prophets.” Then all the disciples left Him and fled. (see Matthew 26:55-56)

 

Now, when false witnesses came forward with an accusation against Jesus, quoting something that he had said, out of context, and when the high priest said to Jesus, “Do you now answer?” Then Jesus kept silent. But when the high priest asked Jesus to tell them whether he was the Christ, the Son of God, then Jesus spoke again and said to him, “You have said it yourself; nevertheless I tell you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.” (see Matthew 26:59-64)

 

Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor questioned Him, saying, “Are You the King of the Jews?” And Jesus said to him, “It is as you say.” And while He was being accused by the chief priests and elders, He did not answer. Then Pilate said to Him, “Do You not hear how many things they testify against You?” And He did not answer him with regard to even a single charge, so the governor was quite amazed. (Matthew 27:11-14)

 

So, you see, sometimes Jesus spoke, and sometimes he was silent. He chose when to speak and when to be silent, but he was not always silent. And he had his reasons for why sometimes he spoke and sometimes he did not. And a good reason for his silence, I believe, is because he was not resisting them and what he knew had to be fulfilled, but he was letting it happen, because he had to die on that cross. He had to give his life up for us on that cross so that we, by faith in him, could be delivered from our slavery to sin.

 

But Jesus did not stay dead. He rose victorious over sin, Satan, hell, and death for you and for me so that we could now live for him in walks of obedience to his commands free from slavery to sin. And after he went back to heaven, he sent his Holy Spirit to indwell all those who are of genuine faith in him. And the Spirit helps us to do the will of God. He counsels and encourages and urges us to obey our Lord and to die to sin, and to follow our Lord wherever he leads us in doing his will and purpose for our lives.

 

[Isaiah 53:1-12; Matt 7:21-23; Matt 26:26-29; Lu 9:23-26; Lu 17:25; Jn 1:1-36; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 8:24,58; Jn 10:27-33; Jn 20:28-29; Rom 5:8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 9:5; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 11:23-32; 1 Co 15:1-8; 2 Co 5:15,21; Eph 4:17-24; Php 2:5-11; Col 2:9; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 1:8-9; Heb 2:14-15; Heb 4:15; 1 Pet 2:24; 2 Pet 1:1; 1 John 3:4-10] 

 

Lead Me Gently Home, Father

 

By Will L. Thompson, 1879

 

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lead me gently home;

When life’s toils are ended,

And parting days have come,

Sin no more shall tempt me,

Ne’er from Thee I’ll roam,

If Thou’ll only lead me, Father,

Lead me gently home.

 

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lest I fall upon the wayside,

Lead me gently home.

 

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lead me gently home;

In life’s darkest hours, Father,

When life’s troubles come,

Keep my feet from wand’ring,

Lest from Thee I roam,

Lest I fall upon the wayside,

Lead me gently home.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Y9cb0f76A

 

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Like a Lamb Led to Slaughter

An Original Work / March 30, 2025

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Our Sorrows He Carried

“Surely our griefs He Himself bore,

And our sorrows He carried;

Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,

Smitten of God, and afflicted.

But He was pierced through for our transgressions,

He was crushed for our iniquities;

The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,

And by His scourging we are healed.

All of us like sheep have gone astray,

Each of us has turned to his own way;

But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all

To fall on Him.” (Isaiah 53:4-7 NASB’95)

When Jesus Christ gave himself up for us on that cross, and he put our sins to death with him, so that by faith in him we might die with him to sin and now live to him and to his righteousness, in walks of obedience to his commands, it was not just our sins that he bore. He took upon himself our griefs, our sorrows. And that brings comfort to my heart knowing that he cares about what we are going through. He knows our pain for he suffered for us. He can empathize with us, because he went through it, too.

But Jesus didn’t die that horrible death on that cross just to forgive us our sins and to promise us eternal life with God when we die. He died so that we would die with him to sin and so that we would walk with him (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to his commands. He died and rose from the dead so that by faith in him we can now live free from the control of sin and Satan, and that we can live holy lives, pleasing to God, in the power of God, by the grace of God, and so that we can serve him with our lives.

But this isn’t just about freedom from slavery to sin and walks of obedience to his commands. This is about a love relationship between us and God. For faith in Jesus Christ is a covenant of marriage to Christ, not in a physical sense, but in a spiritual sense. We are to see our relationship with him as we would a covenant of marriage to our spouses, if we are people who literally take those covenants of marriage and fidelity and devotion to our spouses seriously, to forsake all others and to cleave only to our spouses.

We are to think of him as a marital partner, and our intimacy of relationship with him in a spiritual, and not in a physical sense. We should want to be close to him, and to spend time with him, and to share with him in what he desires for our lives, and to do the things that he wants us to do because we love him, and we want to please him, and we want to be near him. We should consider that he is right beside us at all times, and that he is fully aware of everything that is going on in our lives. And he feels our pain.

Believing in Jesus, and in what he did for us on that cross, should not be just so that we can escape hell and go to heaven when we die. Our faith in him should be about developing a love relationship with him. And we should want to go with him wherever he calls us, and wherever he leads us in doing what he planned for our lives even before he laid the foundations of the earth. Our lives should be about him and his purpose for our lives and no longer about self, living to do just what pleases us. And this is all the time, every day.

And worship of Jesus is not just about singing “worship songs” in a “worship service” and moving our hands and bodies back and forth to the music. All the time I am seeing images of people doing this and it is always called “worship of God/Jesus.” But true worship of God/Jesus is us denying self, dying with him to sin, and walking in obedience to his commands, in conduct, in practice, daily, and following him in doing whatever he has called us to do according to his will and purpose for our lives, by his Spirit. 

Now all of us were born into this world with sin natures, in the image of Adam, the first man to sin against God, and the first he created. In our unregenerated state of mind we were separate from God, unable within ourselves to meet with God’s divine approval. For not one of us can be saved and on our way to heaven via our own works. It is only by the grace of God, through divinely persuaded faith in the Lord Jesus, that any of us can be saved from our sins and on our way to heaven (Ephesians 2:8-10).

But God’s grace sent Jesus to that cross to put our sins to death with him so that, by faith in him, we will die with him to sin and now live to him and to his righteousness in walks of obedience to his commands. And 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’s soon return. For Jesus “gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds” (see Titus 2:11-14).

[Isaiah 53:1-12; Matt 7:21-23; Matt 26:26-29; Lu 9:23-26; Lu 17:25; Jn 1:1-36; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 8:24,58; Jn 10:27-33; Jn 20:28-29; Rom 5:8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 9:5; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 11:23-32; 1 Co 15:1-8; 2 Co 5:15,21; Eph 4:17-24; Php 2:5-11; Col 2:9; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 1:8-9; Heb 2:14-15; Heb 4:15; 1 Pet 2:24; 2 Pet 1:1; 1 John 3:4-10]  

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

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZv3jzOTE70

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Our Sorrows He Carried

An Original Work / March 30, 2025 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Who Has Believed Our Message?

“Who has believed our message?

And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,

And like a root out of parched ground;

He has no stately form or majesty

That we should look upon Him,

Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.

He was despised and forsaken of men,

A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;

And like one from whom men hide their face

He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.” (Isaiah 53:1-3 NASB’95)

Isaiah was a prophet of old who foretold the coming of Jesus, our Lord and Messiah (the Christ). The more that I read this entire book of the Bible, the more I began to realize how much of this book is dedicated to prophesying Jesus Christ and the Messianic age. So, the subject matter of Isaiah 53 is Jesus Christ, of his life, his death, and of his sacrifice on the cross for the sins of the world. And I think, in the book’s wording, as a whole, we can picture that Jesus did not stay dead, but that he came back to life.

So, who was and is Jesus Christ? He is the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He always existed with God, he is God, and he is our creator God – the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But from the very beginning God had a plan that a woman named Mary would bear a son, Jesus, conceived of the Holy Spirit, and not of man, who while he lived on the earth would be both fully God and fully man, but without a sin nature, for he was not conceived of man, but of God, of the Holy Spirit.

Now when Jesus Christ lived on the earth, during his years of ministry, he healed the sick and afflicted, he raised the dead back to life, he delivered people from demons, and he performed miracle after miracle, even feeding thousands of people with just a little bit of bread and a few fish. And he preached repentance and obedience to God for the salvation of sin and for eternal life with God. And all this got him hated by many of the Jewish rulers in the temple, who then plotted and carried out his death on a cross.

But while he was still alive, many who had been following him deserted him, for they said that his teaching was “too hard.” For he taught that coming to him meant death to sin, suffering for the sake of righteousness, and for the sake of the gospel, and walks of faithful obedience to our Lord and to his commands. He let them know that a profession of faith in him alone would not secure them salvation from sin, and that if they did not obey him, he would say that he never knew them and they were to depart from him.

And he confronted the hypocrites in their hypocrisies, many of whom were men of power and influence in the temple who had positions of authority over the people, but who put on a show of righteousness while inside they were full of wickedness and evil deeds. And he told the Jews who wanted him dead, and who would not receive him as their Lord, that God the Father was not their Father, and that Abraham was not their father, but that their father was the devil, and that they did the works of the devil.

For all who do not believe in Jesus Christ to be Lord of their lives, who do not bow to him in submission to his will, who are unwilling to die with him to sin and to now walk in obedience to his commands, they do not know God, because Jesus is God, and because God demands death to sin and walks of obedience to his commands as evidence that genuine faith in him exists. So all who deny that Jesus is the Christ, and who refuse to bow to him as Lord, and to forsake their sins, and to obey his commands, are not of God.

So, Jesus’ teachings did not sit too well with the majority of the people. And the rulers were also threatened by his temporary popularity among the people, because of all the miracles he was performing, concerned that their own positions of power over the people could be at risk. They also hated that he healed people on the Sabbath, and that he didn’t follow all their customs, and that he claimed to be God, which is who he was and is. And so the majority called for his death on a cross, and they had him put to death.

I think they then thought that would be the end of it, that his followers would scatter, and that the message of the gospel of our salvation would die out and would no longer be a matter of concern to them. But it didn’t go down like they had hoped. On the third day God the Father resurrected his Son Jesus Christ from the dead, and brought him back to life. He appeared then to many people, including his remaining disciples, and then he returned to be with the Father in heaven, from where he sent us the Holy Spirit.

And those who were his followers continued in his ministry and in teaching the people that faith in Jesus Christ must result in us dying with Christ to sin and in walks of obedience to his commands, or it is not genuine faith which saves, but it is of the flesh, instead. But this message has been altered quite a bit by the majority over the years to where so many are teaching salvation as the result of a profession of faith in Jesus, but absent of dying with Christ to sin and walking in obedience to his commands. This cannot be!

So, please know that Jesus died on that cross to put our sins to death with him so that, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ, which is of the Spirit, and not of the flesh, we will now die with him to sin, putting sin to death daily, by the Spirit, and so that we will walk (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to the Lord and to his commands. He died so that we would now live for him and no longer for ourselves, and to deliver us out of slavery to sin so that we will now become servants of God and of his righteousness.

[Isaiah 53:1-12; Matt 7:21-23; Matt 26:26-29; Lu 9:23-26; Lu 17:25; Jn 1:1-36; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 8:24,58; Jn 10:27-33; Jn 20:28-29; Rom 5:8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 9:5; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 11:23-32; 1 Co 15:1-8; 2 Co 5:15,21; Eph 4:17-24; Php 2:5-11; Col 2:9; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 1:8-9; Heb 2:14-15; Heb 4:15; 1 Pet 2:24; 2 Pet 1:1; 1 John 3:4-10]  

Lead Me Gently Home, Father

By Will L. Thompson, 1879

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lead me gently home;

When life’s toils are ended,

And parting days have come,

Sin no more shall tempt me,

Ne’er from Thee I’ll roam,

If Thou’ll only lead me, Father,

Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lest I fall upon the wayside,

Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lead me gently home;

In life’s darkest hours, Father,

When life’s troubles come,

Keep my feet from wand’ring,

Lest from Thee I roam,

Lest I fall upon the wayside,

Lead me gently home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Y9cb0f76A

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Who Has Believed Our Message?

An Original Work / March 30, 2025 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Look to God

When life has its ups and downs,

And you’re tempted now to frown,

Look to God, of much renown,

So that, in fears, you’ll not drown.

Listen to His every word,

Listen not to what’s absurd,

Believe in Him, what you’ve heard,

Not the wrong way now do swerve.

Peace in God you want to live,

Your life to Him do now give,

Sinful ways must not relive,

Enemies you must forgive.

Walk with Jesus day by day,

Read your Bible, kneel and pray,

Faith in Him must not delay,

His commandments now obey.

He’s our Savior, King of Kings,

Give to Him our everything,

All that’s us to Him we bring,

Death to self, an offering.

Follow Him where’re He leads,

Go with Him to where there’re needs,

Jesus’ sheep we do now feed,

Share the gospel, truth to seed.

Pray that many turn to Him,

Leave their sins, not live in them,

Not let their lamps now go dim,

Not let the truth of God skim.

One day we’ll receive a crown,

Giv’n to us by God renown,

Spend eternity with Him,

Who delivered us from sin.

An Original Work / March 29, 2025 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Live Not for Ourselves, But for Jesus

“Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest to God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences. We are not again commending ourselves to you but are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you will have an answer for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart. For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.” (2 Corinthians 5:11-15 NASB’95)

What does it mean to fear the Lord? It means to give him awe, respect, honor, value, reverence, esteem, worship, and obedience. Our lives are surrendered to him to doing his will, to walking in his ways and in his truth and righteousness. We are committed to him and to his service, to being who he wants us to be, to going where he sends us, and to doing what he has called us to do and to say. We are no longer walking (in conduct, in practice) in sin, but now we are obeying him, in practice, in his power.

And what should all of us be persuading (encouraging, motivating) others to do and to believe and to put into practice? We should be sharing the truth of the gospel of Christ with them in the hope that they will turn from their sins and now follow Jesus Christ in walks of obedience to his commands. For Jesus died on that cross to put our sins to death with him so that we will die with him to sin and now walk with him in surrender to his will, in walks of obedience to his commands, in holy living, by the grace and power of God.

And faith in Jesus Christ is not just giving him lip service. We cannot just make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and now be assured heaven as our eternal destiny, as many would have you believe. We must die with him to sin and now walk in obedience to his commands, for this is what faith looks like which is of God, and which is not of our own doing. For faith is divine persuasion of God as to his righteousness and holiness, of our sinfulness, and of our need to die to sin and now obey his commands, in practice.

But many people are going to tell you that is “works salvation,” but that is not true. “Works salvation” is when we, of our own flesh, try to be good enough to earn or to deserve our own salvation. Not possible! But what is described in the paragraphs above is the salvation which God alone provides, and for which he gives us the faith to believe, and which he then empowers us to live by his grace in our daily walks of faith. This is us, in his power, living out the faith in Jesus which we claim to possess, by his grace.

And, yes, if we are teaching the truth of the gospel of our salvation, as Jesus taught it, and as his New Testament apostles taught it, in the correct context, we may be charged with being crazy, out of our minds, legalistic, judgmental, and prejudicial, by those who oppose us and who oppose the gospel message that Jesus and his apostles taught, in their fulness. And our opponents may try to convince others not to listen to us while they feed their minds with lies and with half-truth, diluted, and altered gospels.

But regardless of what others think of us or say about us, or how they might treat us, we must stay the course. We must continue to speak the truth of the Scriptures, in their fulness, and not teach these altered half-truth gospels which allow the sinners to remain trapped in their sins, and which make no requirements of them that they must obey God and his commandments. For Christ’s love compels us to tell people the truth. For if sin is their practice, and not obedience, they will not inherit eternal life.

For God’s purpose in sending Jesus Christ to die on that cross for our sins was not to give us a free ride to heaven based on a false gospel message. Jesus died so that we would die with him to sin. And he was resurrected from the dead, in victory over sin, so that we can now live in victory over sin and walk in obedience to his commands. For he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and was raised again. So, die to sin, and now live for Jesus, to do his will!

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 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 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

How Long Till the Morning

Scripture: I Thessalonians 4:17

By C. E. Couchman

Consider the mornings of this mortal land, 

Each a new beginning from the Maker’s hand. 

While the storms may gather ‘gainst the evening sky, 

The day breaks cloudless in the morning.

Rise up to the battle, for the skies dawn clear. 

Let us gather courage while the foe draws near. 

Though the night falls weary, saints of God, march on! 

And He’ll raise our banner in the morning.

When the trumpet sounds to signal Heaven’s day, 

Resurrection Morning when the dead shall wake, 

What a glorious gath’ring when the Lord descends 

And we rise to meet him in the morning.

How long, my Lord? Till we see the morning? 

How long, O, my Lord, till we see your face? 

O my Lord, guide us through our troubles 

Till we rise above them in the morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoelKw7M3aU

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Live Not for Ourselves, But for Jesus

An Original Work / March 29, 2025 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Walk by Faith, Not by Sight

“Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— for we walk by faith, not by sight— we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” (2 Corinthians 5:6-10 NASB’95)

As human beings who live on this earth, in these flesh bodies, we are going to face trials and tribulations, and persecutions and rejections, and good times and bad times. We will have times of rejoicing, and times of sorrow and suffering. And we may have times when we hope that the return of Jesus will be soon, and we may have times when we are glad that we are still living on this earth, when we are thankful for the blessings of God in our lives, especially if we are being used of God to minister his grace to others.

But, no matter what we are going through, whether good times or bad, we walk by faith and not by sight. And faith in Jesus (in God) is divine persuasion. And God persuades us as to his righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to die with him to sin and to now walk (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to his commands, by the grace of God, in the power of God. And faith is not contingent on our circumstances but on the grace of God and on our responses to him to obey him with our lives.

Just as I got to this point in this writing I received a text from an old friend, and one of her children just suffered a horrible injustice at the hands of a criminal. I will not go into the details, but if you are reading this, would you take a moment to pray for her and for her daughter and for the man who did this to her daughter? This is devastating to their family. They are believers in Jesus, and their trust is in God, but situations like this have a way of testing our faith in the Lord. They could really benefit from our prayers at this time.

And this is why we must walk by faith and not by sight, for our faith cannot be dependent on our circumstances. We have to believe God and rest in him no matter what happens to us. And things like this might lead some people to question God and his grace and mercy, and why he allowed such a thing as this to happen. God, though, is not the creator of evil, but he does allow evil to exist, otherwise none of us would still be here, because we all live in flesh bodies, and we are all born into sin and are still capable of sinning. 

So, no matter what comes our way to test our faith and to try us, and which may hurt us, we walk by faith and not by sight, and our ambition is to live in such a way as to be pleasing to God in all that we are and say and do, for the glory and praise of God. For God never promised that life would be easy for us or that we would never have to suffer or that evil people would never do evil things to us. He said these things would take place. As Jesus suffered so we will suffer, too, if our lives are surrendered to obey the Lord.

[Matt 5:10-12; Matt 10:16-39; Matt 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-19; John 15:1-21; John 16:33; John 17:14; Acts 14:22; Rom 5:3-5; Eph 6:10-20; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12; 1 Jn 3:13; Rev 6:9-11; Rev 7:9-17; Rev 11:1-3; Rev 12:17; Rev 13:1-18; Rev 14:1-13]

Now, living lives to please the Lord is not optional. And it is not true that we please God just by making professions of faith in him alone, which is what some people are teaching. We must live to please God. We must forsake our lives of sin to follow Jesus in obedience to his commands. For we are all going to appear before the judgment seat of Christ, and we are all going to be judged and rewarded according to our deeds. And if sin is our practice, and not obedience to God, then we will not inherit eternal life with God.

[Matt 7:13-14,21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 10:27-30; Ac 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

Songs in the Night  

An Original Work / December 18, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

“About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.” Acts 16:25 NIV ‘84

Lord, I praise You forevermore.

You, my Savior, I now adore.

Hope in heaven awaiting me,

Because You died at Calvary.

I have been forgiven,

And I’m bound for heaven.

Jesus set me free from

All my sin, I say.

I will praise Him always!

Lord, I love You for all You’ve done:

Overcame death, my vict’ry won!

Jesus saved me, and now I’m free!

I rejoice in His love for me.

I will walk in vict’ry!

My sin is but hist’ry!

I am free to please Him

With my life today.

I will love Him always!

Lord, I thank You for giving me

A new life bought at Calvary.

Loving Jesus, I meet with Him.

Tender mercies now flow within.

Lord, I am so thankful;

Through my Lord, I’m able

To sit at His table;

Fellowship with Him.

I will thank Him always!

https://vimeo.com/379484387

Walk by Faith, Not by Sight

An Original Work / March 29, 2025 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Be Reconciled to God

 

We Have a Building from God

“For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked. For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life. Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.” (2 Corinthians 5:1-5 NASB’95)

Our earthly tent is not a physical tent like one would use for camping outdoors, but this is speaking of our human bodies. And the older that we get, as humans, the more that body fails to function as it did when we were much younger. And I am at that age when I am not as strong physically, nor am I as astute (quick minded) mentally as I was when I was much younger. I tire more easily, I can forget something as soon as it enters my mind, I have to proofread these writings multiple times, and I am slowing down.

There is an old saying (I think it is old) which says, “Getting old is not for the faint of heart” (or for sissies, the weak, wimps). But everyone is different. Some of us age in mind and body more quickly than others. So we do not all have the same experience with aging. Some of that may have to do with the level of physical activity that we are involved in, or with the kind of food that we eat or do not eat, or with our physical circumstances or environments. But for the aged among us, at some point our bodies will stop working.

For those of us who have trusted in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives, that is not the end of the story. Those of us who, by faith in Jesus Christ, have died with Christ to sin, by the Spirit, and who have been raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness, we have a life beyond this earthly life which we are longing for. We have the promise of life with God in heaven for eternity, provided we continue in that faith to the end.

And that is what this passage of Scripture is talking about. And for us who are following the Lord Jesus with our lives, in obedience to his commands, and in obedience to his specific callings upon each of our lives, and who are in that age category of the elderly, I think we probably all do groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling and to escape these earthly bodies and this evil world in which we live. We long for the day when we will no longer suffer, when crying will be no more, and when hate will be gone.

Now there are a lot of people who take this passage of Scripture out of context, and they presume upon God that, just because they made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ at some point in their lives, that they can now claim this promise of God, for themselves, of life eternal with him in heaven, but regardless of how they live. But this pledge from God comes with stipulations (requirements) which we must fulfill, in the power of God, by faith in Jesus Christ, according to the will and purpose of God.

Jesus taught if anyone would come after him that he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin) and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to our lives of living in sin and for self, we will lose them for eternity. But if we deny self, die to sin daily, by the Spirit, and walk (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in the power of God, then we have the hope of eternal life with God. But if we claim to be in Christ, but sin and disobedience to God are what we practice, we do not have this promise.

Genuine faith in Jesus Christ will result in us dying with Christ to sin and us walking in obedience to his commands, in practice, although not necessarily in absolute sinless perfection. For our old self was crucified with Christ in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. So we are not to let sin reign in our mortal bodies, to make us obey its passions. For if sin is what we obey, it leads to death, but if obedience to God is what we obey, its end is eternal life with God.

[Matt 7:13-14,21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 10:27-30; Ac 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer 

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897

Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,

This is my constant longing and prayer;

Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,

Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,

Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,

Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,

Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,

Holy and harmless, patient and brave;

Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,

Willing to suffer others to save.

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,

Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;

Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,

Fit me for life and Heaven above.

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,

Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;

Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;

Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrYhiK2nQBg 

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We Have a Building from God

An Original Work / March 29, 2025 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Do Not Neglect Your Callings

“Command and teach these things. Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching. Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you. Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress. Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.” (1 Timothy 4:11-16 NASB’95)

Again, these were Paul’s instructions to Timothy, a godly man, who had a position of authority within the gatherings of the church, so all of this is not going to apply to all of us. But there is no need to dismiss all of this, as related to us individually, for some of the same types of encouragements are given to the body of Christ, as a whole, in the Bible. So today we will look at what ways each of us can apply these truths to our Christian lives and to our walks of faith in obedience to the Lord in holy living, by God’s Spirit.

I will say here that, in the church, women are not to be in positions of rule and authority over men, and they are not to teach (instruct) men as people in positions of authority over men. But there may be exceptions to that when there are not enough biblically qualified men to fill the positions and the men in the church are willing to be taught by a woman. And both men and women are gifted of the Spirit and given their body part assignments by God, and both men and women can prophesy (preach the word of God).

And all of us are to proclaim (prophesy, preach) the excellencies of God who called us out of darkness into his wonderful light. And all of us are to be speaking the truth in love to one another so that none of us are taken captive by men (and women) in their cunning, craftiness, and deceitful scheming, and we end up following a false gospel and not the true gospel. And all of us are to be exhorting one another daily so that none of us are hardened by the deceitfulness of sin but so we follow Jesus in obedience.

So none of us get to just sit back and do nothing while others do all the work. The body of Christ needs to have all its parts working and participating in the encouragement, and in the strengthening of one another in our walks of faith and in obedience to our Lord. The church is lopsided if only a select few do all the ministering while the rest become spectators in a theatre production for an hour once a week and then resume life as normal until the next week. The church is what we are a part of all day every day.

[Acts 2:42-47; 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 5:15-21; 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]

So, with that said, yes, women generally are not to be in positions of commanding men to where they also have the authority to exercise church discipline over men. But that doesn’t mean that we cannot teach the commands of God for his church. We can, and we should. And no man should be in such a position of authority over a church congregation if he fails to meet the biblical qualifications for overseer, elder, and/or deacon, and pastor falls into that category. If you aren’t living it, don’t preach it.

Now the Lord Jesus has put me in a unique position where I am not in authority over anyone but where I just write down what he is teaching me from his word each day, and male or female may or may not read or listen to what the Lord gives me to share and to post on the internet. No one is under my authority, and no one is forced to listen or to read what the Lord gives me to share each day. I just obey the Lord and he takes it where he wants it to go and to whom. And I have no control over any of that.

So these writings are not geared specifically to male or female. This is just me obeying the Lord in sharing what he is teaching me from his word each day. And when I was much younger I was despised for my youth, because I spoke with too much wisdom and by the authority of the Scriptures for someone so young, I was told. And I was told to wait until I had grey hairs on my head, and then people would listen to me. But I am 75 now and I still have mostly all black hair with very few grey ones. But God is using me.

But the primary thing for all of us, before we start sharing the truth of God’s word with others, is that we make certain that our hearts are in the right place, that we are being called of God, and that we are following him in walks of obedience and not in deliberate and habitual sin. This is not saying that we will be perfect in everything, but that we should set a godly example before others in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity. Then we can begin sharing with other believers that they should do the same.

And all of us should be devoting ourselves to the public reading of the Scriptures, to exhortation, and to teaching the Scriptures. And the internet is a great place to be doing that right now, for this is where the people are mostly gathering, in the USA, anyway. And anyone can read what we post, and we do not have to be concerned about making sure that women are not usurping authority over men, because this is just us sharing our times of devotion with the Lord with the people, and they choose to listen or not.

And none of us should be neglecting our callings and our giftings from God which he has for us to do as our parts in the universal body of Christ. All of us should be seeking the Lord and his will and purpose for our lives, and then we should be obeying him in doing what he has called us to do, for the glory of God, in his power and strength, and for the salvation of human lives, and for the encouragement and strengthening of the body of Christ. For to this we are all called if we are of genuine faith in the Lord Jesus.

And this is critical! We all need to keep a close watch on ourselves and on our attitudes, actions, words, thinking, and behaviors, and on the things we are teaching others. And we must be led of the Spirit in what to write and/or to say to others, for them to read or to hear, and in what to post on the internet. And we should not be quick tempered or emotionally driven with quick responses without inquiring of the Lord as to how we should respond, and as to what we should say. Doesn’t mean we will do all perfectly, though.

But the critical thing here is that we are not teaching beyond what we are living, and we are not preaching what we know we are not living ourselves. Again, it doesn’t mean we are absolutely perfect in everything that we do and say, but that we should not knowingly teach one thing while we knowingly are living the opposite of that. That is called hypocrisy, and we are not to be hypocrites. But we should not use willful hypocrisy as an excuse for resisting the Lord and his will, and choosing to do nothing at all.

[Matt 7:13-14,21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 10:27-30; Ac 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

Lead Me Gently Home, Father

By Will L. Thompson, 1879

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lead me gently home;

When life’s toils are ended,

And parting days have come,

Sin no more shall tempt me,

Ne’er from Thee I’ll roam,

If Thou’ll only lead me, Father,

Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lest I fall upon the wayside,

Lead me gently home.

Lead me gently home, Father,

Lead me gently home;

In life’s darkest hours, Father,

When life’s troubles come,

Keep my feet from wand’ring,

Lest from Thee I roam,

Lest I fall upon the wayside,

Lead me gently home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Y9cb0f76A

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Do Not Neglect Your Callings

An Original Work / March 28, 2025 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Godly Discipline

“In pointing out these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound doctrine which you have been following. But have nothing to do with worldly fables fit only for old women. On the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness; for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. It is a trustworthy statement deserving full acceptance. For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.” (1 Timothy 4:6-10 NASB’95)

 

These were Paul’s instructions to Timothy, a man of God, who was in a position of spiritual authority within the church. So all of this is not going to apply to all of us, although I believe much of it will, based off other Scriptures which were written to the church, the body of Christ, overall. For God pours out his Spirit on all of his children, male and female, and all of us are given gifts of the Spirit, and we are all to be encouraging and exhorting one another and speaking the truth in love to one another in the church.

 

[Acts 2:42-47; 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 5:15-21; 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]

 

Now, biblically speaking, women are not to be in positions of authority over men, and we are not to be those who instruct (teach) men as if in positions of authority over them. I believe there may be exceptions to this, such as a single woman missionary on the mission field, or when there are no biblically qualified men to fill the positions, which, in truth, I believe there are few biblically qualified men today. So many have gone the way of the world and are altering the gospel and are approving of sinful practices.

 

But there are ways in which the Lord can use women to do some of these things without them being in authority over anyone, such as what the Lord has been having me do about 21 years now. For I can write down what he is teaching me from his word each day, and I can post these writings on the internet, and both men and women can read them if they want to, but no man is being forced to read what the Lord has me post, and I am not in authority over anyone, male or female. So people read or don’t by choice.

 

So, in these writings, I can point out the same things that Paul told Timothy to point out, but without specifically instructing, teaching, or ruling over anyone. And the first things Timothy was to point out had to do with the later times in which some will fall away from (depart from, abandon) true biblical faith in the Lord Jesus, because they are listening to the hypocrisy of liars with seared consciences teaching what is of deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons. We all need to guard ourselves against these.

 

But pointing out what the Scriptures teach in contrast to the lies is something that all of us should be doing, male or female. All of us are assigned specific roles within the universal body of Christ, and are given gifts of the Spirit to be used within the body of Christ to encourage and to strengthen one another, and to warn one another against deceitful liars who are manipulating the Scriptures by teaching them out of context to make them say what they don’t say if taught in context.

 

And we should all be sharing the truth of the gospel, and not the lies which are so popular, with the people of the world and with the worldly church, under the authority of God, and where we are given permission to speak. And we should be telling all who will listen that Jesus died on that cross, not just to forgive sins, but to deliver us out of our slavery (addiction) to sin. And he was resurrected from the dead in victory over sin, death, hell, and Satan, so that we might now live holy and godly lives, pleasing to him.

 

For we are not saved from our sins and headed to heaven just on the basis of lip service only. According to the Scriptures, faith, which is of God, should result in us dying with him to sin and walking in obedience to his commands, in his power and strength. Our lives are now to be surrendered to the Lord, to doing his will, and no longer should be given over to sinful pleasures. For if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to God, then we do not have salvation from sin and eternal life with God guaranteed.

 

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 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 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

 

Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer

 

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897

Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

 

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,

This is my constant longing and prayer;

Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,

Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

 

Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,

Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,

Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,

Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

 

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,

Holy and harmless, patient and brave;

Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,

Willing to suffer others to save.

 

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,

Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;

Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,

Fit me for life and Heaven above.

 

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,

Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;

Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;

Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrYhiK2nQBg

 

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Godly Discipline

An Original Work / March 28, 2025

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Some Will Abandon The Faith

“But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron.” (1 Timothy 4:1-2 NASB’95)

I do believe that we are now living in those “later times” when some will depart from (fall away, abandon) the faith. And what is faith? The word means “to persuade,” and for the Christian it means to be persuaded by God, which results in fidelity and faithfulness to God and to the teachings of the Scriptures on how we are to live as those who profess the name of Jesus. For God persuades us as to his holiness and righteousness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to die to sin and to walk in obedience to him.

And the Bible teaches faith as obedience to God, and disobedience as unbelief. For if we claim to be in fellowship with God, or to know God intimately, and to be in relationship with him, but we continue in deliberate and habitual sin against the Lord, without genuine repentance, and if obedience to God is not what we practice, then we are liars who do not live by the truth. And if we do not change, but we continue on that same course, then we will not inherit eternal life with God, regardless of what our lips say.

Now the faith to believe in Jesus Christ comes from God, it is authored and perfected by Jesus Christ, it is persuaded of God, and it is gifted to us by God, and it is not of our own doing – not of the will nor of the flesh of man. And it is not of our own fleshly works – not our faith and not our salvation. But we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared in advance that we should walk in them. And he demands death to sin and walks of obedience to him, in the power of God.

For Jesus taught that if anyone would come after him that he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin) and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to our lives of living in sin and for self, we will lose them for eternity. But if we deny self, and put sin to death, by the Spirit, and we walk (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to our Lord, then we have eternal life with God. For Jesus said that not everyone professing him as “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God the Father.

[Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:23-31; Hebrews 12:1-2] 

So, to fall away from (abandon, depart from) the faith, it would seem that faith initially did exist or that there was some semblance of acceptance of at least parts of the Christian faith and practice. But many make professions of faith in Jesus Christ but they never die with him to sin and they never walk in obedience to his commands (in practice). Their confessions of faith are lip service only while they still walk in sin and do what they want to do regardless of what God demands or what is right in the eyes of God.

For they are following after deceiving spirits who are convincing them that their sins do not matter to God and that they can continue living in sin, and not in obedience to the Lord, and still have their sins forgiven, and still be in relationship with God, and still have heaven secured for them when they die. But the Scriptures dispel that notion over again. And I am not saying that a genuine follower of Jesus Christ cannot fall back into sin. We all can if we are not guarded and if we are allowing the lies to consume us, and not the truth.

But the Scriptures make a distinction between those who never did die to sin and who never walked in obedience to the Lord, but who professed faith in Jesus Christ convinced all their sins were forgiven and that heaven was secured them, and those who, by genuine faith in the Lord died to sin and now are daily putting sin to death and are walking in obedience to the Lord and to his commands. And they make it clear that if sin is our practice, and not obedience to God, that we will not inherit eternal life with God.

Yet many people today who profess faith in Jesus Christ are still walking in sin, still deliberately and habitually sinning against the Lord, and against other humans, convinced that they do not have to repent of their sins and that they do not have to obey God, and that they will still go to heaven. And this is because they are following after deceiving spirits and teachings taught by hypocritical liars, whose consciences are seared, as with a hot iron. They are insensitive to moral wrongdoings, and so they sin without conscience.

And no matter how much they have read and/or taught the Scriptures, or how much truth they have been taught, and had reinforced in their lives, it doesn’t seem to impact them to the point of genuine heartfelt change and repentance and walks of obedience to the Lord. For they listen to the deceiving spirits, instead. And they convince themselves that the sins that they are committing will not be held against them. And they may even make false promises to change, but their hearts remain the same.

The big problem we have today is that so many prominent people in the “Christian community” are teaching a very altered and diluted version of the gospel of Christ which does not require death to sin and walks of obedience to our Lord in holy living. For they call that “works salvation,” and so they feel they have the freedom to keep on living for self and in sin, without conscience, convinced that all their sins are forgiven, and that heaven is guaranteed them, no matter how they live. Bad theology!!

And so we have many people giving lip service to the Lord who are still living sinful lifestyles, many in addictive sinful patterns of behavior, such as in sexual immorality and moral perversion. And even though the Scriptures teach that if sin is our practice, and not obedience to God, that we will not inherit eternal life with God, they ignore those Scriptures, and they tag them as “legalism” or as “works salvation,” which they believe they can ignore. And they remain convinced that they are saved on their way to heaven.

So, please know what the Scriptures teach on the subject of faith, salvation, obedience, submission, and repentance, but please read these Scriptures in their proper context. And then die to sin and obey the Lord with your life.

[John 10:27-30; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 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 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

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

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZv3jzOTE70

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Some Will Abandon the Faith

An Original Work / March 28, 2025 

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love