Sue J Love
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Background
The Israelites of Jeremiah’s time were sinning greatly against God. They were dishonest, liars, rebellious, idolatrous, adulterous, sexually immoral, senseless, stubborn, wicked, self-indulgent and treacherous people who did not honor God but who rejected the Lord and his commandments, and who gave themselves up to idols (other gods) to serve them, instead. And they were those who were listening to false teachers and accepting their lies.
So God sent his prophet Jeremiah to them to call them to repentance, to call them to return to the Lord and to put away their false gods, and then to be faithful to the Lord. They were to put away the deeds of the flesh, and to set themselves apart for the Lord. They were to wash their hearts from sin, that they may be saved, for their sinful thoughts were ever with them. They were skilled at making sin their practice, but not at walking in obedience to God.
Since they did not repent of their wickedness, but they continued in their sins, and not in obedience to the Lord, the Lord cast his judgment upon them, which he had warned them about, and he sent them into captivity in Babylon for a predetermined period of 70 years. But they had false prophets among them who were lying to them, and who were telling them that they would not have to be in captivity for 70 years, so this was God’s response:
“For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream. For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them,’ declares the Lord.
“For thus says the Lord, ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you,’ declares the Lord..” (Jeremiah 29:8-14 NASB1995).
Today
And this is the issue we are being faced with today. But a “dream” doesn’t have to be just something which takes place while we are sleeping, but it can be something we create in our own minds or others create in their own minds which is of their own way of thinking or philosophizing, or believing, or whatever. It can be something totally made up, invented in the minds of other people, which can include scheming and willful deceiving. And this is our parallel situation today, which we have happening in America.
We have such false teachers among us today who are leading God’s people, his church, to believe the lies and not the truth, to believe that God will not judge them, and that he will not discipline them for their acts of rebellion against him, and for their idolatry and sinful addictions, and for their lack of faithful obedience to his commands. And they are feeding the people these lies, and so many people are believing the lies, thinking that they can live however they want and that they will not be judged by God. Not true!
Our situation today is that we have so many different substitutes (replacements) now for the truth of the gospel which are permeating the church and the world, and the gospel. Rather than it being one solid “one way to heaven” definite truth, it is being taught more like a smorgasbord with a wide range of truth to choose from and to take into your minds and hearts. There seems to be no definite right or wrong, but that people can kind of choose their own interpretation of right and wrong, instead.
So, this is not at all unlike the situation in Jeremiah’s day where God had to bring judgment on his people in order to discipline them so that they would repent of their wicked deeds and now surrender their lives to the Lord in full submission to him as their only Lord. For there are so many false teachers and teachings and gospel messages now, and the masses appear to be being gravitated to the lies, and are being discouraged away from the truth of what the gospel teaches (in context).
So, what I believe on this is that God is indeed bringing judgment on this nation, and particularly on the leaders of this nation, both politically and spiritually speaking. And I believe that is what we are seeing take place before our eyes right now. And the purpose, I believe, is the same purpose as what God had in Jeremiah’s day in judging the people of God, for the same reasons, because of their idolatry, sexual immorality, adultery, self-indulgence, and their refusal to make God their only Lord (Master).
And I believe, as well, that this judgment of God on my nation, at present, is for the same purpose as God’s judgment on his people of old, to bring all who will to genuine repentance, to deny self, to die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and to walk in obedience to the Lord and to his commands. For the plans God has for our welfare, future, and hope, is that we submit to his Lordship, that we surrender our lives to Jesus Christ, that we now follow in his ways, that we obey his commands, and that we no longer walk in sin.
And then we have the hope of salvation from sin and eternal life with God, not as a means of doing “good deeds” to try to earn our own salvation, but as a heart and love response to God (Jesus is God) who died to deliver us out of our slavery to sin so that we will now serve him in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living. For this is his plan for us. This is for our welfare, for our good, that we no longer walk in sin but now in walks of obedience to our Lord in holy living. For then we have eternal life in 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; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-21; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]
How Deep the Father’s Love for Us
By Stuart Townend
How deep the Father's love for us
How vast beyond all measure
That He should give His only Son
And make a wretch His treasure
How great the pain of searing loss
The Father turns His face away
As wounds which mar the Chosen One
Bring many sons to glory
Behold the man upon the cross
My sin upon His shoulder
Ashamed I hear my mocking voice
Call out among the scoffers
It was my sin that held Him there
Until it was accomplished
His dying breath has brought me life
I know that it is finished
I will not boast in anything
No gifts, no power, no wisdom
But I will boast in Jesus Christ
His death and resurrection
Why should I gain from His reward
I cannot give an answer
But this I know with all my heart
His wounds have paid my ransom
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God’s Plan for Our Lives
An Original Work / February 24, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
The Israelites of Jeremiah’s time were sinning greatly against God. They were dishonest, liars, rebellious, idolatrous, adulterous, sexually immoral, senseless, stubborn, wicked, self-indulgent and treacherous people who did not honor God but who rejected the Lord and his commandments, and who gave themselves up to idols (other gods) to serve them, instead. And they were those who were listening to false teachers and accepting their lies.
So God sent his prophet Jeremiah to them to call them to repentance, to call them to return to the Lord and to put away their false gods, and then to be faithful to the Lord. They were to put away the deeds of the flesh, and to set themselves apart for the Lord. They were to wash their hearts from sin, that they may be saved, for their sinful thoughts were ever with them. They were skilled at making sin their practice, but not at walking in obedience to God.
Since they did not repent of their wickedness, but they continued in their sins, and not in obedience to the Lord, the Lord cast his judgment upon them, which he had warned them about, and he sent them into captivity in Babylon for a predetermined period of 70 years. But they had false prophets among them who were lying to them, and who were telling them that they would not have to be in captivity for 70 years, so this was God’s response:
“For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream. For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them,’ declares the Lord.
“For thus says the Lord, ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you,’ declares the Lord..” (Jeremiah 29:8-14 NASB1995).
Today
And this is the issue we are being faced with today. But a “dream” doesn’t have to be just something which takes place while we are sleeping, but it can be something we create in our own minds or others create in their own minds which is of their own way of thinking or philosophizing, or believing, or whatever. It can be something totally made up, invented in the minds of other people, which can include scheming and willful deceiving. And this is our parallel situation today, which we have happening in America.
We have such false teachers among us today who are leading God’s people, his church, to believe the lies and not the truth, to believe that God will not judge them, and that he will not discipline them for their acts of rebellion against him, and for their idolatry and sinful addictions, and for their lack of faithful obedience to his commands. And they are feeding the people these lies, and so many people are believing the lies, thinking that they can live however they want and that they will not be judged by God. Not true!
Our situation today is that we have so many different substitutes (replacements) now for the truth of the gospel which are permeating the church and the world, and the gospel. Rather than it being one solid “one way to heaven” definite truth, it is being taught more like a smorgasbord with a wide range of truth to choose from and to take into your minds and hearts. There seems to be no definite right or wrong, but that people can kind of choose their own interpretation of right and wrong, instead.
So, this is not at all unlike the situation in Jeremiah’s day where God had to bring judgment on his people in order to discipline them so that they would repent of their wicked deeds and now surrender their lives to the Lord in full submission to him as their only Lord. For there are so many false teachers and teachings and gospel messages now, and the masses appear to be being gravitated to the lies, and are being discouraged away from the truth of what the gospel teaches (in context).
So, what I believe on this is that God is indeed bringing judgment on this nation, and particularly on the leaders of this nation, both politically and spiritually speaking. And I believe that is what we are seeing take place before our eyes right now. And the purpose, I believe, is the same purpose as what God had in Jeremiah’s day in judging the people of God, for the same reasons, because of their idolatry, sexual immorality, adultery, self-indulgence, and their refusal to make God their only Lord (Master).
And I believe, as well, that this judgment of God on my nation, at present, is for the same purpose as God’s judgment on his people of old, to bring all who will to genuine repentance, to deny self, to die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and to walk in obedience to the Lord and to his commands. For the plans God has for our welfare, future, and hope, is that we submit to his Lordship, that we surrender our lives to Jesus Christ, that we now follow in his ways, that we obey his commands, and that we no longer walk in sin.
And then we have the hope of salvation from sin and eternal life with God, not as a means of doing “good deeds” to try to earn our own salvation, but as a heart and love response to God (Jesus is God) who died to deliver us out of our slavery to sin so that we will now serve him in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living. For this is his plan for us. This is for our welfare, for our good, that we no longer walk in sin but now in walks of obedience to our Lord in holy living. For then we have eternal life in 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; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-21; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]
How Deep the Father’s Love for Us
By Stuart Townend
How deep the Father's love for us
How vast beyond all measure
That He should give His only Son
And make a wretch His treasure
How great the pain of searing loss
The Father turns His face away
As wounds which mar the Chosen One
Bring many sons to glory
Behold the man upon the cross
My sin upon His shoulder
Ashamed I hear my mocking voice
Call out among the scoffers
It was my sin that held Him there
Until it was accomplished
His dying breath has brought me life
I know that it is finished
I will not boast in anything
No gifts, no power, no wisdom
But I will boast in Jesus Christ
His death and resurrection
Why should I gain from His reward
I cannot give an answer
But this I know with all my heart
His wounds have paid my ransom
Caution: This link may contain ads
God’s Plan for Our Lives
An Original Work / February 24, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
