All God's Promises Have Conditions

Genesis 17:7-9 KJV

 

“And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.”

 

Genesis 18:19 KJV

 

“For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.”

 

Galatians 3:16,26-29 NKJV

 

16Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ.

 

“26For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

 

All God’s Promises

 

All God’s promises have stipulations which must be abided by in order for those promises to be fulfilled. They are not open-ended promises, i.e. they are not commitments without specific clearly defined limits or conditions. In the covenant that God made to Abraham and to his seed (although we learn in the New Testament that the seed was/is Jesus Christ), Abraham and his descendants were required that they must keep (obey) God’s covenant. They were required of God that they had to keep (obey) the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. All God’s promises have conditions!!

 

So, what happened to the Israelites when they were in the wilderness for 40 years? The majority of them did not obey God. They were idolaters, drunks, revelers, the sexually immoral, and those who craved sin, and who tested Christ, and who grumbled against God and against his servant Moses. So most of them died in the wilderness. And not only did they not get to go into the Promised Land, but they also did not get to enter into God’s eternal rest. And all Jews who rejected Jesus Christ as their Messiah were cast out of biblical Israel, and the believing Gentiles were grafted into biblical Israel, who is Jesus Christ. And all who deny Jesus as the Christ are antichrist.

 

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

 

Heirs of the Promise

 

So the true heirs of the promise God made with Abraham are all who by faith in Jesus Christ have become children of God. They are not the Jews who have rejected Christ as their Messiah and who have been removed from biblical Israel. Therefore, the unbelieving Jews do not believe in nor do they worship the same God as us who believe in Christ – the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. And all who do not obey God and his commands, but who walk in sin, also do not worship the only true God, and therefore they also are not heirs of the promise God made with Abraham and with his seed (Christ).

 

So the political nation called “Israel” is NOT the Israel of God. They are not God’s chosen people because the majority of them do not believe in Jesus Christ as their Messiah and Lord. Many of them are atheists or those who call themselves Jews but who do not adhere to the Jewish faith practices. According to the Scriptures, they are the antichrist, in fact. So we are not to give our loyalties and devotion to the physical and political nation calling itself “Israel,” for they are not biblical Israel. Biblical Israel are all who are of biblical faith in Jesus Christ who have died with Christ to sin and who are walking in obedience to God’s commands, in the power of God, by his grace.

 

Baptized into Christ

 

Please understand, that even though water baptism traditionally followed a profession of faith in Jesus Christ in the New Testament Scriptures, being baptized with water is no assurance of anyone having faith in Christ and of being obedient servants of the Lord Jesus Christ. Water baptism saves no one. Many people go through the waters of baptism who never put their trust in Jesus Christ. But water baptism represents what takes place in the life of the believer in Christ, for by faith in Jesus we are buried with Christ in baptism into death to sin, and we are raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him in walks of obedience to his commands. Then we are Christ’s.

 

And if we are Christ’s, then we are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise God made to Abraham and to his seed, meaning Christ.

 

2 Chronicles 7:13-14 NKJV

 

“13When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, 14if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

 

[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]

 

Return to Me

 

Based off Jeremiah 31; Cf. Revelation 2-3

An Original Work / September 5, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

I have loved you with an eternal love,

Which I give to you, in my faithfulness.

 

Keep your voice from weeping,

And your eyes from tearing.

You will be rewarded

With much fruitfulness.

 

There is hope for you that My family

Will return to Me; live in victory!

 

Though I discipline in My love for you,

My heart longs for you that you walk in truth.

 

Turn your thoughts to your Lord.

Choose to walk in His ways.

Turn from your sins daily.

Follow Jesus Christ.

 

Oh, how long will you wander in your sin?

Give your hearts to Me; be restored within.

 

I will satisfy ev’ry weary soul

Who repents of sin; is renewed within.

 

Behold, days are coming;

It will surely happen;

Though I discipline them,

They will thrive again.

 

I will be their One and their Only God.

They shall walk in white; be in Me, made right.

 

https://vimeo.com/115536688

 

All God’s Promises Have Conditions

An Original Work / June 21, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Should We Seek to Please People?

Galatians 1:6-10 NKJV

 

“6I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, 7which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed. 10For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.”

 

The Gospel Taught to Them/Us

 

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

 

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

 

For 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 Jesus’ return. For it is not the one who claims he is “in Christ” who is “in Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. We have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God in heaven (see Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1-3).

 

The Different Gospel

 

The different gospel taught to them then, and to us today, is anything which contradicts the teachings of Christ and of his New Testament apostles on what constitutes genuine salvation from sin and eternal life with God. So the “other gospel” is just a perversion, a twisting, and an altering of what the true gospel of Christ teaches. And the reason so many are perverting the gospel of Christ is that they want to please people instead of desiring to please God. They want to attract the ungodly to their worldly gatherings.

 

I would say that the primary perversion of the gospel being taught and largely accepted today is a very diluted message which is intended to attract the ungodly and to appease human flesh. So what they are teaching is that faith in Jesus Christ is a mere verbal confession of Christ as Lord and an acknowledgment of Jesus’ death and resurrection. No death to sin, and no obedience to God and to his commands required. For they call that “works salvation,” which they teach is not of God and contrary to the Scriptures.

 

Secondary to that is where they still teach that we can be saved from our sins and on our way to heaven just by “praying the prayer to receive Christ.” They may or may not teach that we must repent of (turn from) our sins and follow Jesus in obedience to his commands, but if they do, they often will teach repentance and obedience as something we “should do” but is not required of God for salvation from sin and for eternal life with God. So they still teach that we can be saved by lip service only, nothing else required.

 

A Bondservant of Christ

 

But if we are genuine believers in Christ who are his followers, we will obey his teachings and those of his New Testament apostles on the subject of the gospel of our salvation. But we need to study the Scriptures in their appropriate biblical context, comparing Scripture with Scripture, for many lies are being taught from Scriptures removed from their true context and then twisted to say what they do not say if taught in the correct biblical context. So context is critical to correct biblical interpretation.

 

And in sharing the truth of the gospel with other people, we are never to soften the truth of what Jesus and his apostles taught in order that we do not offend other humans or turn them away from “the church.” We are not to hold back the truth we know offends just so people will like us and so they will not reject us, for that is utterly selfish, thinking only of ourselves without genuine regard for the salvation of other human lives. We are not here to be people pleasers but those who seek to please God with our lives always.

 

So, don’t rely on other humans to tell you the truth. Do not rely on “Gospel Tracts” in order to present the gospel message, either. For so many of them cut corners and teach Scriptures out of context and leave out some of the most essential elements of the gospel message. For Jesus did not die just to forgive us our sins so we can go on living in sin without guilt. He gave his life up for us in order to deliver us out of our addiction to sin so we will now serve him with our lives in walks of obedience to his commands always.

 

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 28:18-20; Luke 9:23-26; John 4:31-38; John 10:27-30; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 10:14-15; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-14; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Peter 2:9,21,24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

 

Should I Not Preach Jesus

 

Based off 1 Corinthians 9:16-10:13

An Original Work / July 4, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Woe to me should I not preach Jesus.

I’m compelled to preach the full gospel.

I make myself a slave to ev’ryone

To win their hearts to Christ.

All this I do for my Lord Jesus,

And for the sake of His Name;

Do it for the sake of His gospel,

So that I, its blessings gain.

 

Scripture notates the sins of others;

Written down for us as examples

To keep us from setting our hearts

On evil as did those of old.

Do not worship other gods of man;

Do not give your hearts to them;

Not partake in immorality.

Do not test your Lord and King.

 

So, be careful if you think you are

Standing firm in your faith in Jesus.                        

God has given his word to warn us,

So through faith we will not fall.

No temptation has o’ertaken you

Except what is commonplace.

God is faithful to not let you be

Tempted past what you can bear.

He gives the way of escape.

 

https://vimeo.com/116057811

 

Should We Seek to Please People?

An Original Work / June 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

According to The Will of God

Galatians 1:3-5 NKJV

 

“3Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, 4who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.”

 

The Whole Counsel of God

 

We read in Acts 20:27 that the apostle Paul, when speaking to the elders from Ephesus, testified to them that he had not shrunk from declaring to them “the whole counsel of God.” Many (or perhaps few) Christians have heard this phrase, “The Whole Counsel of God,” but I sense that the vast majority do not know what it means. Very simply put, it means all of God’s will and purpose concerning his plan of salvation for us who were born into this world in the image of Adam, with sin natures, separate from God.

 

“The Whole Counsel of God” is the whole “kit and caboodle” of God’s redemptive plan for humanity, which means everything, the entire package, the whole lot, nothing left out – all of the essentials, basically, from start to finish. So not just the beginning, and not just the beginning plus the middle, but the beginning all the way into the middle and through to the end, nothing deleted, nothing altered, and nothing tampered with to make it less offensive and more acceptable to human flesh, but the unadulterated truth.

 

And Jesus said it well when he said, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.” And “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven” (see Luke 9:23-26 and Matthew 7:21-23).

 

For Jesus Christ gave his life up for us on that cross to put our sins to death with him, and he rose victorious over death, sin, Satan, and hell so that, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in him (which is not of our own doing) we might deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands. Thus, we are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23; Ephesians 2:8-10).

 

[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

 

According to The Will of God

An Original Work / June 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Examining Ourselves

 

With a Godly Jealousy

2 Corinthians 11:1-4 NKJV

 

“Oh, that you would bear with me in a little folly—and indeed you do bear with me. 2For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!”

 

Betrothed to One Husband

 

What was Paul saying here? By him sharing with the people the gospel of our salvation, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord, and by the people believing in Jesus, dying with him to sin, being reborn of the Spirit, and then walking in obedience to the Lord’s commands, in practice, he served as the pastor who married the two together. For he essentially performed the wedding ceremony where they said, “Yes!” to Jesus, to be his bride, and for Jesus to be their husband. But they were now beginning to accept the lies as truth.

 

And so he let them know that he was jealous for them with a godly jealously, much like a Christian man or woman might be jealous with a godly jealousy when their spouse begins to drift away and to show interest in someone else in place of them. But the concern for their spouse is not from selfish motives, but it is out of a heart of love for them, and a desire to see them walk with the Lord in obedience to his commands and to have a godly marriage where they treat each other with honor, love, value, and respect.

 

So, if we have spouses who, although they may profess faith in Jesus, are living in adultery against the Lord and their spouse, in practice, we should be concerned. We should be grieved in our spirits. And if many professing Christians are giving lip service only to the Lord while their true god is themselves and entertainment and sexual adultery and idolatry, this should grieve us, as well (see 1 Corinthians 5:1-13). We should be burdened for those who have lost their way and pray for them to repent and obey God.

 

For we live in an age when it appears that the majority of them calling themselves “ministers of the gospel” are spreading lies to the people, instead of the truth. So many have diluted and altered the gospel to exclude the need for biblical repentance and obedience to our Lord’s commands, in practice. And many who teach the need to repent and to obey God teach it as something optional, i.e. as something we should do, but with an open door to not do and still be regarded a Christian on one’s way to heaven.

 

What is the gospel Jesus and Paul and the other apostles taught?

 

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

 

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

 

For 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 Jesus’ return. For it is not the one who claims he is “in Christ” who is “in Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. We have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God in heaven (see Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1-3).

 

Not of Ourselves

 

Ephesians 2:8-10 NKJV

 

“8For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”

 

So, what’s this saying? Well, we know that the grace of God, by which we are saved, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives. So grace is not a free ride to heaven based off lip service only. And salvation, which is progressive, is deliverance out of bondage (addiction) to sin so we can now walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands. And faith comes from God and it is persuaded of God as to his righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to deny self, die to sin, and obey our Lord.

 

And since it is not of ourselves, not of our own fleshly works, not only can we do nothing to earn or to deserve our salvation, but we do not get to define what that salvation looks like, either, for it is not of human flesh, but of God. And Jesus died on that cross to put our sins to death with him so we will die to sin and obey God in practice. And “works” are not excluded from our salvation, for we are, by faith in Jesus Christ, his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk (in conduct, in practice) in them, all for the glory of 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]

 

My Sheep 

 

Based off John 10:1-30 NIV

An Original Work / June 24, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

My sheep hear me. They know me.

They listen to my voice and obey.

I call them and lead them.

They know my voice, so they follow me.

They will never follow strangers.

They will run away from them.

The voice of a stranger they know not;

They do not follow him.

 

So, I tell you the truth that

I am the gate, so you enter in.

Whoever does enter

Will find forgiveness and will be saved.

Nonetheless whoever enters

Not by the gate; other way,

He is the thief and a robber.

Listen not, the sheep to him.

 

Oh, I am the Good Shepherd,

Who laid his own life down for the sheep.

I know them. They know me.

They will live with me eternally.

The thief only comes to steal and

Kill and to destroy the church.

I have come to give you life that

You may have it to the full…

 

They know my voice, so they follow me.

 

https://vimeo.com/114938263

 

With a Godly Jealousy

An Original Work / June 19, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Seed You Have Sown

2 Corinthians 9:10-15 NKJV

 

“10Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness, 11while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God. 12For the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God, 13while, through the proof of this ministry, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal sharing with them and all men, 14and by their prayer for you, who long for you because of the exceeding grace of God in you. 15Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!”

 

Persecuted for Speaking the Truth

 

Now I will say here that I am still being faced with some strong opposition to the writing that the Lord gave me on the subject of women in ministry, which was titled, “She Loved Much.” There are some people who believe that God intends that his daughters have absolutely no voice whatsoever within the gatherings of the church, the body of Christ, i.e. those of genuine faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. But if we have no voice at all, then we cease to be part of the body of Christ, ministering to one another as God intends.

 

If we have no voice, but we are to exist in silence only when we are with other believers in Christ, then most of the teachings in the Scriptures on the body life do not apply to us. So it is okay then for parts of the body to say to other parts, “We have no need of you”? No! It isn’t! Did Jesus send women to share the gospel with men? Yes! Did he not honor a woman for doing what the man should have done, but did not do? Yes! Did Peter allow for women and men to prophesy together on the day of Pentecost? Yes!

 

So, why do so many take Paul’s instructions on the silencing of women in the gatherings of the church as to mean that women are to have no voice at all? It was clear that what he was teaching was in regard to women who were usurping authority over men, and who were causing a disturbance, and who were asking questions out loud and were disrupting the gatherings. And it is clear in Paul’s words that he was speaking of order within the gatherings, which has men as the heads, and women as in submission to the men.

 

But some will insist that God intends for all women to be in absolute silence always and to never speak, even if called upon to speak, and even if given permission to speak within the gatherings of the church. Even though God spoke through his prophet Joel that in the last days that his sons and daughters would prophesy, so many women are being silenced and are not being permitted at all to share in the gatherings of the church what they are being taught by God via their times spent with him each day in his word.

 

Encouragement From God

 

So, when I read this passage of Scripture this evening from 2 Corinthians 9:10-15, the Lord immediately began to encourage me. For the Lord called me 22 years ago to be one of his messengers, to take the message of the Gospel and the teachings of the Scriptures to the people of the world and to the church, via the internet. And he has given me thousands of writings which he has had me post on the internet which have gone to the people of the world and to the gatherings of the church throughout the world.

 

And so he was saying to me through this passage of Scripture, “Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness.” For “the seed I have sown” is in the words which God has given me to write in sharing with the church and with the world what the Scriptures teach with regard to salvation and our roles as followers of Christ, and with regard to obedience to God and holy living and being his servants and messengers.

 

And he encouraged me through these words, “For the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God while, through the proof of this ministry, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal sharing with them and all men.” So what he was saying to me here is that these writings are supplying the needs of the saints, and there are those who glorify God for the obedience of my confession of Christ.

 

And then he encouraged me through these words, “and by their prayer for you, who long for you because of the exceeding grace of God in you. Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” The Lord encouraged me that there are people throughout the world who are receiving these messages who are being blessed by them who are praying for me and who are thankful to God for the ministry he has given to me and that I did not remain silent, but by faith in Jesus I obeyed the Lord and I spoke his messages to the people.

 

All Glory to God!

 

This blessed my heart! This gave me such encouragement! All that I am and have that is good is from God and not from me, so he gets all the glory!!

 

A Believer’s Prayer

 

An Original Work / July 31, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

With my whole heart, Lord, I pray

To be Yours, and Yours always.

Lead me in Your truth today.

May I love You, and obey.

Lead me in Your righteousness.

When I sin, may I confess;

Bow before You when I pray;

Live for You and You always.

 

Love You, Jesus, You’re my friend.

Life with You will never end.

You are with me through each day,

Giving love and peace always.

You will ne’er abandon me.

From my sin You set me free.

You died on that cruel tree,

So I’d live eternally.

 

Soon You’re coming back for me;

From this world to set me free;

Live with You eternally.

Oh, what joy that brings to me.

I will walk with You in white;

A pure bride, I’ve been made right

By the blood of Jesus Christ;

Pardoned by His sacrifice.

 

https://vimeo.com/114796263

 

The Seed You Have Sown

An Original Work / June 19, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

God Loves a Cheerful Giver

2 Corinthians 9:6-8 NKJV

 

“But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. 8And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.”

 

Freewill Offerings

 

As best as I understand this, under the Old Covenant God had with his people Israel, they were required to tithe 10% of their income to support the Levitical priesthood, the needy, and other temple needs. But under the New Covenant, where the believers in Christ met from house to house, and in the temple courts, the Christians were not required to give 10% of their income to the ministry of the saints, and to the poor, but they were to give freely as they each purposed in their hearts to give, and not as a grudging obligation.

 

But the important thing to remember here is not just that they should give freely from their hearts, and not as under obligation, but to what they should be giving. Their giving was to meet the needs of the poor within the Christian community, but it was also to help support those who were serving as full-time ministers of the gospel, to meet their basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter. But in our world today that is not the picture I am getting of what so many people’s offerings are really going to, sadly so.

 

The Temple Today

 

The Temple of God, after Jesus’ death, resurrection, and ascension back to heaven to be with The Father, was no longer the temple of the Jews, but now it was and is we the people of God via biblical faith in Jesus Christ. We are those who by faith in the Lord Jesus were crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but now as servants of our Lord and of his righteousness. We the people of God are that temple in whom God dwells by his Spirit.

 

No building called “church” is the church. And all buildings called “church” are not the temple of God. They are not God’s house. God does not dwell in buildings, but he dwells in human hearts and lives. So the church is not something we go to, for we are the church. But the church does gather together in various places. But it is not for entertainment and for our “weekly fix” until the next week. We the church are to gather together daily for mutual encouragement and edification, as EACH PART does its work.

 

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:14-18,42-47; 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; 1 Peter 2:9,21; James 5:19-20; 1 John 2:6]

 

Where is the Money Going?

 

If we are part of any gatherings of the church, i.e. of the people of genuine faith in Jesus Christ, we are NOT under biblical obligation to tithe 10% of our income to support those gatherings. But we should give freely from our hearts to the work of the ministry (by biblical standards) and to the needs of the poor among us. Sadly there is so much corruption in so many gatherings of what are being called “churches,” and there is enormous misuse and abuse of the offerings gathered which are going to non-essentials and to the extravagant things of this world which are not approved by God at all.

 

For the church is for the purpose that we should be encouraging one another in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord. And “ministers” of the gospel are all of us who are sharing the truth of the gospel with the people of the world. And “full-time ministry” is working full time for the Lord in ministering to the people as Jesus did, and as his New Testament apostles did, not in building huge buildings for large crowds, and for entertainment, and for marketing, but actually working full-time in sharing the true gospel and in ministering to the physical and spiritual needs of the people of God.

 

Sowing and Reaping

 

So, sowing and reaping isn’t about giving money to “the church” so they can build big buildings and entertain the world and market “the church” to the world, and so that they can pay their pastors enormous salaries so that they can give their time to marketing and entertaining and not to spreading the truth of the gospel full-time. And it isn’t just about giving money and seeing what that produces in other people’s lives. But it is about sharing the gospel with the people so that many will believe in Jesus and follow his leading.

 

But this is also about how we spend our time and what we spend our time on, and what that produces in our own lives, and what that produces in how we impact other people’s lives, either for good or for evil. Are we living for the Lord full-time? Doing what his word teaches us that we must do? And are we sharing the truth of the gospel with the people of the world? Or is all our spare time spent on what is of the flesh, and on entertaining ourselves, and not on what is of God and ministering God’s love and grace to others?

 

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 28:18-20; Luke 9:23-26; John 4:31-38; John 10:27-30; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 10:14-15; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-14; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Peter 2:9,21,24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

 

Servant of the Lord

 

Based off Romans 1:1-17

An Original Work / July 26, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Servant of the Lord;

For the gospel you’re set apart.

Promised through the prophets of old:

Jesus, Son of God.

Through Him, and for His name alone,

We receive His grace

To call people, Him to obey;

Coming from their faith.

 

You belong to Christ;

Loved by God, and called to be saints;

Serving God with whole heart and mind;

Preaching Jesus Christ;

Always praying for others’ needs;

Helping hand to lend;

Giving courage to others’ faith,

For the praise of God.

 

Servant of the Lord;

Of the gospel, I’m not ashamed;

For salvation, power of God

To those who have faith.

In the gospel find righteousness:

Being right with God.

Turn from sin, and trust Jesus Christ.

By faith, live in Him.

 

https://vimeo.com/119511640

 

God Loves a Cheerful Giver

An Original Work / June 19, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Time is Precious

Time is precious, don’t neglect to

Follow Jesus with your life.

Follow Him where’re He leads you.

Trust in Him, give not to strife.

Jesus gently, gently leads us

In the way that we should go.

Harken to Him, follow His ways,

Make it real, and not for show.

Die to sin and follow your Lord,

Do all that He now commands.

Be a witness, share the gospel

With a world, without Him stands.

We are all born with sin natures,

In the image Adam, came.

All fall short of our God’s glory,

But by faith we’re not the same.

Faith in Christ, He now transforms us

To His image, be like Him.

Walk with Jesus, do what He says,

No longer live life for sin.

World about us, what disaster!

Liars now all everywhere!

Fear of future holds in bondage

Those who give up in despair.

Don’t be fooled by politicians

Who pretend be on your side.

Put your trust in Jesus only,

From now on in HIM abide!

Give the future to the Master,

Jesus Christ our ONLY KING!

Let Him hold you, lead you, guide you.

Peace in Christ to you He’ll bring!

An Original Work / June 18, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love