The Enemy Has Damaged Most Everything

[Sue J Love]

“O God, why have You rejected us forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
2 Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,
Which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your inheritance;
And this Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.
3 Turn Your footsteps toward the perpetual ruins;
The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.
4 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place;
They have set up their own standards for signs.
5 It seems as if one had lifted up
His axe in a forest of trees.
6 And now all its carved work
They smash with hatchet and hammers.
7 They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground;
They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name.
8 They said in their heart, ‘Let us completely subdue them.’
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
9 We do not see our signs;
There is no longer any prophet,
Nor is there any among us who knows how long.
10 How long, O God, will the adversary revile,
And the enemy spurn Your name forever?
11 Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand?
From within Your bosom, destroy them!” (Psalms 74:1-11 NASB1995)

When I read this today, I could not help but think immediately of what is happening in my nation (the USA) and in the rest of the nations in our world right now. Now, this was speaking specifically of “the sheep” of God’s pasture who now are those who believe in Jesus Christ with God-persuaded faith in the Lord. We are those who have died with Christ to sin, and who have been 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.

[Lu 9:23-26; Jn 10:27-30; Ac 26:18; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24]

But, as the Bible prophesied, a large majority of “the church” has become lukewarm (like the church of Laodicea) and they have become worldly (2 Peter 2:1-22; Jude 1:1-25; 2 Peter 3:1-18; Revelation 2-3), and some have apostatized (renounced their faith in the Lord – see 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12; 1 Timothy 4:1-5). And I believe very much so that the present day worldly and modern “church” is under the judgment of Almighty God because she has drifted from her pure devotion to Christ to follow worldly ways.

But she (the present day worldly church) is not under the judgment of God just because she wandered off to follow after the ways of man and of the flesh and of the world, but because she has refused time and time again to hear the Lord speaking to her through his written word, and through his messengers (those speaking the truth of God’s word), and she has not repented of her worldly ways, but she has continued in them. And she has not pursued righteousness and holiness and obedience to her Lord.

And I believe that the worldly church is presently under the judgment of God and that is why everything is going crazy as it is, and not much of it makes sense anymore, and there is so much chaos and disruptions. And lies and liars abound in ways we would not even thought of many years ago. And the enemy has definitely damaged everything within the sanctuary (the church) to where “the church” is barely recognizable as the body of believers in Jesus Christ, but has been turned into businesses marketed to the world.

But it isn’t just that. But the gospel of our salvation and the character of God/Christ, and of his church, have severely been damaged and altered to make them more acceptable and appealing to the world and to human flesh in order to “draw in large crowds from the world” into their gatherings, in order to “grow their numbers.” And many (or most) of these gatherings (in America) have been turned into stage productions to attract the world and are being led by a small group of “dictators” not following God’s Word.

And this is the reason that “the church,” at least here in America, but perhaps in other nations, too, is under the judgment of God. But I believe this judgment, at least in part, is intended to bring many to repentance before the day when Jesus returns to judge, when many end up in hell on the promise of heaven because they would not obey the Lord, in practice, but they went their own way, and they continued in their sins, instead. And in the book of Revelation some do repent and turn to obey the Lord.

[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]

One of the biggest ways in which the church has turned away from her Lord and has gone after the ways of the world is in diluting and altering the gospel of our salvation to make it more acceptable to human flesh. So many have done away with God’s requirements that we must die to sin and now walk in obedience to his commands, as essential elements of believing faith which saves, and they are catering to human flesh, instead. For they are willfully teaching the Scriptures out of context and twisting what they teach.

So we must know that the Scriptures teach that all of us are going to stand before the Lord on the day of judgment and we will have to give an account to God for what we did with Jesus and with his gospel message and with our lives in response to his message to us. And all who continued in deliberate and habitual sin against God, and who did not repent of their sinful ways, and who did not follow the Lord in obedience, in practice, will not inherit eternal life with God, regardless of what their lips professed. Believe this!

[Matt 7:21-23; Rom 2:6-8; 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 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

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.

The Enemy Has Damaged Most Everything
An Original Work / March 1, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

[Johanabrahams]

When the enemy take us into slavery it is our own lack of Love towards our "Abba Father/Daddy" which opens the door for it to happen.

2 Cor. 11: 19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

In the Word of Jesus our Daddy gave us for our Restoration we have His Perfect Restoration. To create Perfect Sons.

Gal. 4:
1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

And by the Word of God and His Gifts given to us, who are Brothers with Anointing and not "titles" of honor, we grew up to become Adults in the Word of Jesus given to us to do just that.

Eph. 4:
8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:


But we never took heed to His New Commandments. Where we have an open door in the Name of Jesus to enter that Great Relationship with Him in the Righteousness and Holiness He creates Himself in us in Jesus. We allowed "Rabbis with titles" to teach us. When He gave us Gifts. We allowed them to take us slaves in their "Synagogues of Satan" while we were Free to meet everywhere in 2 and 3 Persons in Edifying in Love. But we didn't take heed of everything. Those of us who did take heed are still Free.

Gal. 4:
21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.