So From Sin You'd Be Free

“As Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside by themselves, and on the way He said to them, ‘Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death, and will hand Him over to the Gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify Him, and on the third day He will be raised up.’” (Matthew 20:17-19 NASB1995)

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit, our God, three in one. So Jesus Christ always existed with God, he is God, and when he lived on the earth he was both fully God and fully man (God incarnate). And so he is also our creator God. He formed us in the wombs of our mothers. And in his mercy towards us he left his throne in heaven, came to the earth, was born as a baby to a human mother, but was conceived of the Holy Spirit, and not of man, and so he was not born with a sin nature as we are. And although tempted as we are, he never did sin.

Jesus grew to be a man, and at the age of 30 he began his earthly ministry. And he called 12 men to walk alongside him in ministry to be his disciples. And he healed the sick and afflicted, raised the dead, delivered people from demons, comforted the sorrowful, fed the hungry, and performed many more miracles than these. And he taught death to sin and obedience to God as necessary components of faith which saves, a faith which comes from God and is empowered by God, and is not of human flesh. And he taught if we do not obey God and die to sin, that we will not inherit eternal life.

Now Jesus was not well received by the majority of the Jews and their leaders. Most of them did not receive him as their promised Messiah who was to come and who had now come. And many of those in positions of authority and rule and prominence and influence among the people did not like Jesus, and they sought to destroy him. They tried to trip him up with his words so they would have cause to accuse him, but Jesus outsmarted them. And so they plotted his death on a cross, and they got the Romans to carry it out for them, and so Jesus was telling this to his disciples in advance.

And it did happen, just as Jesus said it would, but it didn’t end like Jesus’ enemies had planned that it would. For Jesus did not remain dead. God the Father resurrected him from the dead, and Jesus appeared to his disciples and to many other people over a period of about 40 days before he went back to be with the Father in heaven. And after some time he sent his Holy Spirit to indwell his followers and to be Jesus to them, to teach them the ways of the Lord, and to counsel, correct, instruct, comfort, encourage and empower them to live holy lives, pleasing to God, as a matter of life practice.

Now, Jesus’ death on that cross and his bodily resurrection were not without purpose. For in Jesus’ death on that cross he put our sins to death with him, and he rose victorious over sin, so that, by faith in him, we will now die to sin and live to God and to his righteousness in walks of obedience to our Lord’s commands in holy living, in the power of God. Jesus did not die just to forgive us our sins so we can go to heaven when we die, but he died and rose from the dead so that we, by the grace of God, will put sin to death in our lives and now live for God in purity of devotion to him in service to 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 (obeying) the will of God. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death, not in life eternal (Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23; Romans 6:1-23). 

[Isaiah 53:1-12; Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 26:26-29; Luke 9:23-26; Luke 17:25; John 1:1-36; John 6:35-58; John 8:24,58; John 10:27-33; John 20:28-29; Romans 5:8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:5; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-32; 1 Corinthians 15:1-8; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-24; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 2:9; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 1:8-9; Hebrews 2:14-15; Hebrews 4:15; 1 Peter 1:20-21; 1 Peter 2:24; 2 Peter 1:1; 1 John 3:4-10]  

To Be Like Him  

Based off Scripture

An Original Work / March 16, 2014  

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Crucified you are with Jesus.

To be like Him, oh, you’ll be,

Because He died at Calv’ry,

So from sin you’d be free.

Oh, what joy He brings into your life,

Giving life with Him endlessly. 

Oh, what plans He has for your life.

Share the gospel faithfully.

Show the people He loves them.

Now His witness you’ll be.

Tell the world of sin about Jesus,

How He died for them on a tree.

Purifying hearts, He saves them,

Who believe on Christ, God’s Son.

Turning now from their idols,

New lives they have begun.

Jesus saves from sin; we’re forgiven.

Over sin, the vict’ry He won!

When He comes again to take us

To be with Him evermore,

There will be no more crying.

Gladness will be in store.

Heavens joys will now overtake us:

We’ll be with our Lord evermore.

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So From Sin You’d Be Free

An Original Work / April 2, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love