Sue J Love
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“You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,
“’My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;
For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines,
And He scourges every son whom He receives.’
“It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.” (Hebrews 12:4-11 NASB’95)
This was addressed to believers in Jesus Christ, perhaps to those who were fairly new to the faith, I do not know, and they were strongly being encouraged to forsake all their sinful practices and not to hold on to any of them, but to resist the devil, to flee temptation, and to draw near to God in walks of obedience to him and to his commands. And they were to keep their focus on Jesus Christ and his example that he set before us in how to resist the devil, as he did to the point of shedding his blood on that cross.
And we are now to run the race (or walk the walk of faith), with endurance, that God has set before all of us to run. And that means daily denying self, putting sin to death, by the Spirit, and walking (in conduct, in practice) in walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in the power of God and in his strength and wisdom, under his direction and guidance. And this means following his leading in our lives daily in where he would send us and in what he would have us to do and to say, all for the glory of God.
Now, since we still live in flesh bodies, and we still live on this earth, and Satan is still actively at work in trying to take us down, we are going to be tempted to sin at some time or another, in some way. Or we may be tempted to let our emotions get the best of us to where we easily get discouraged and we run away from situations we feel are too hard to have to endure. So, if we are of genuine faith in the Lord Jesus, he is going to bring difficulties into our lives to try our faith to make us strong in our faith.
So, when we go through hard times, like when we are rejected by others, and we are mistreated by them, this is God allowing these hardships in our lives to test us in order to make us strong in our faith so that we will persevere and not give up when things get much worse, which they will. So God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share his holiness, i.e. so that we will be holy as he is holy in all our conduct, which means to live lives which are different from the world because we are becoming like Jesus.
And he is letting us know in advance that when these times of discipline come upon us, not only are they for our good, but they will be painful. But for us who have been trained by such discipline as this, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. So God allows trials and tribulations and persecutions to come into our lives to strengthen us in our walks of faith, in obedience to him, so that we will serve him with our lives as he intended in ministering to others the love, grace, and righteousness and holiness of God.
But if you are someone who “prayed the prayer to receive Christ,” but then nothing changed, and you just went on living in deliberate and habitual sin against the Lord, not willing to submit to him as Lord in walks of obedience to his commands, if you do not turn from your sins, and if obedience to God does not become your practice, then you will not inherit eternal life with God regardless of what profession of faith you made with your lips. This is what the Scriptures teach all throughout the New Testament writings.
[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
The Discipline of The Lord
An Original Work / April 3, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
“’My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;
For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines,
And He scourges every son whom He receives.’
“It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.” (Hebrews 12:4-11 NASB’95)
This was addressed to believers in Jesus Christ, perhaps to those who were fairly new to the faith, I do not know, and they were strongly being encouraged to forsake all their sinful practices and not to hold on to any of them, but to resist the devil, to flee temptation, and to draw near to God in walks of obedience to him and to his commands. And they were to keep their focus on Jesus Christ and his example that he set before us in how to resist the devil, as he did to the point of shedding his blood on that cross.
And we are now to run the race (or walk the walk of faith), with endurance, that God has set before all of us to run. And that means daily denying self, putting sin to death, by the Spirit, and walking (in conduct, in practice) in walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in the power of God and in his strength and wisdom, under his direction and guidance. And this means following his leading in our lives daily in where he would send us and in what he would have us to do and to say, all for the glory of God.
Now, since we still live in flesh bodies, and we still live on this earth, and Satan is still actively at work in trying to take us down, we are going to be tempted to sin at some time or another, in some way. Or we may be tempted to let our emotions get the best of us to where we easily get discouraged and we run away from situations we feel are too hard to have to endure. So, if we are of genuine faith in the Lord Jesus, he is going to bring difficulties into our lives to try our faith to make us strong in our faith.
So, when we go through hard times, like when we are rejected by others, and we are mistreated by them, this is God allowing these hardships in our lives to test us in order to make us strong in our faith so that we will persevere and not give up when things get much worse, which they will. So God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share his holiness, i.e. so that we will be holy as he is holy in all our conduct, which means to live lives which are different from the world because we are becoming like Jesus.
And he is letting us know in advance that when these times of discipline come upon us, not only are they for our good, but they will be painful. But for us who have been trained by such discipline as this, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. So God allows trials and tribulations and persecutions to come into our lives to strengthen us in our walks of faith, in obedience to him, so that we will serve him with our lives as he intended in ministering to others the love, grace, and righteousness and holiness of God.
But if you are someone who “prayed the prayer to receive Christ,” but then nothing changed, and you just went on living in deliberate and habitual sin against the Lord, not willing to submit to him as Lord in walks of obedience to his commands, if you do not turn from your sins, and if obedience to God does not become your practice, then you will not inherit eternal life with God regardless of what profession of faith you made with your lips. This is what the Scriptures teach all throughout the New Testament writings.
[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
The Discipline of The Lord
An Original Work / April 3, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
