Sue J Love
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“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 NASB’95)
Jesus Christ is God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He was with God from the beginning, he is God, and he is our creator God, the one who formed us in the wombs of our mothers. He was with God the Father in heaven, but he came down to the earth to be born as a human baby to a human mother, conceived of the Holy Spirit. So when he lived on the earth he was fully God and fully human (God incarnate), not born with a sin nature, because he was not born of man, but of God.
During his years of ministry on the earth he healed the sick and afflicted, raised the dead, comforted the sorrowful, delivered people from demons, fed the hungry, and performed many other miracles in the presence of the people. Because of his miracles he had large crowds of people who followed him, but the majority of those eventually deserted him because they said his teachings were “too hard.” And that was because he taught that we must die to sin and walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands, by faith in him.
Now Jesus had enemies. He had people who strongly opposed and persecuted him for what he stood for, for what he taught, and for the things that he did and said. And they tried to trip him up with his words so that they would have cause to accuse him of wrongdoing. And who were they? They were his fellow Jews, his people, his relatives, his family, his neighbors, and they were the rulers and people of influence and the teachers of the Scriptures in the temple of God, many of whom were religious hypocrites.
And they hated him so much that they arranged for him to be tried unlawfully for a crime he did not commit and to be crucified on a cross, as though he as a common criminal, when he had done no wrong, but only good. And his persecutors who plotted his death persuaded the crowds to join in with them in calling for his crucifixion, which was then carried about by the Romans, I think because the Jews were not allowed to do this. But God the Father resurrected Jesus from the dead on the third day.
Then he appeared to his remaining disciples, and to many other people, over the course of 40 days (I believe it was) before he ascended back to heaven to be with God the Father. And after a certain period of time he then sent his Holy Spirit to indwell the lives of his followers, just as he had promised. And we were given the Holy Spirit to teach us all things pertaining to Christ and to give us counsel, guidance, direction, instructions, corrections, warnings, and encouragements in our walks of faith in the Lord Jesus.
But Jesus’ death on that cross, and his bodily resurrection, is what made it possible for us who believe in him to die with him to sin and to now walk with him in obedience to his commands, which is the evidence that genuine faith in Jesus is at work within our individual lives. And the Holy Spirit is given to us to help us to walk worthy of God and to follow him in his ways, and to do what he commands, and to forsake our sinful practices. The Holy Spirit is God in us living out his life through us, as we yield to his control.
So, by faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, but which is persuaded of God, we are crucified with him in death to sin, and we are raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but now as servants of righteousness in walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands. And we are to follow daily the leading of God’s Spirit in our lives in where to go, and what to do, and what to say, and how to live. But if sin is our practice, and not obedience to God, then eternal life with God is not promised to us. We must die to sin and obey God, in practice.
[Isaiah 53:1-12; Matt 7:21-23; Matt 26:26-29; Lu 9:23-26; Lu 17:25; Jn 1:1-36; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 8:24,58; Jn 10:27-33; Jn 20:28-29; Rom 5:8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 9:5; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 11:23-32; 1 Co 15:1-8; 2 Co 5:15,21; Eph 4:17-24; Php 2:5-11; Col 2:9; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 1:8-9; Heb 2:14-15; Heb 4:15; 1 Pet 2:24; 2 Pet 1:1; 1 John 3:4-10]
Lead Me Gently Home, Father
By Will L. Thompson, 1879
Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home;
When life’s toils are ended,
And parting days have come,
Sin no more shall tempt me,
Ne’er from Thee I’ll roam,
If Thou’ll only lead me, Father,
Lead me gently home.
Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home, Father,
Lest I fall upon the wayside,
Lead me gently home.
Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home;
In life’s darkest hours, Father,
When life’s troubles come,
Keep my feet from wand’ring,
Lest from Thee I roam,
Lest I fall upon the wayside,
Lead me gently home.
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To Mock, Scourge, and Crucify Him
An Original Work / April 2, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Jesus Christ is God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He was with God from the beginning, he is God, and he is our creator God, the one who formed us in the wombs of our mothers. He was with God the Father in heaven, but he came down to the earth to be born as a human baby to a human mother, conceived of the Holy Spirit. So when he lived on the earth he was fully God and fully human (God incarnate), not born with a sin nature, because he was not born of man, but of God.
During his years of ministry on the earth he healed the sick and afflicted, raised the dead, comforted the sorrowful, delivered people from demons, fed the hungry, and performed many other miracles in the presence of the people. Because of his miracles he had large crowds of people who followed him, but the majority of those eventually deserted him because they said his teachings were “too hard.” And that was because he taught that we must die to sin and walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands, by faith in him.
Now Jesus had enemies. He had people who strongly opposed and persecuted him for what he stood for, for what he taught, and for the things that he did and said. And they tried to trip him up with his words so that they would have cause to accuse him of wrongdoing. And who were they? They were his fellow Jews, his people, his relatives, his family, his neighbors, and they were the rulers and people of influence and the teachers of the Scriptures in the temple of God, many of whom were religious hypocrites.
And they hated him so much that they arranged for him to be tried unlawfully for a crime he did not commit and to be crucified on a cross, as though he as a common criminal, when he had done no wrong, but only good. And his persecutors who plotted his death persuaded the crowds to join in with them in calling for his crucifixion, which was then carried about by the Romans, I think because the Jews were not allowed to do this. But God the Father resurrected Jesus from the dead on the third day.
Then he appeared to his remaining disciples, and to many other people, over the course of 40 days (I believe it was) before he ascended back to heaven to be with God the Father. And after a certain period of time he then sent his Holy Spirit to indwell the lives of his followers, just as he had promised. And we were given the Holy Spirit to teach us all things pertaining to Christ and to give us counsel, guidance, direction, instructions, corrections, warnings, and encouragements in our walks of faith in the Lord Jesus.
But Jesus’ death on that cross, and his bodily resurrection, is what made it possible for us who believe in him to die with him to sin and to now walk with him in obedience to his commands, which is the evidence that genuine faith in Jesus is at work within our individual lives. And the Holy Spirit is given to us to help us to walk worthy of God and to follow him in his ways, and to do what he commands, and to forsake our sinful practices. The Holy Spirit is God in us living out his life through us, as we yield to his control.
So, by faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, but which is persuaded of God, we are crucified with him in death to sin, and we are raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but now as servants of righteousness in walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands. And we are to follow daily the leading of God’s Spirit in our lives in where to go, and what to do, and what to say, and how to live. But if sin is our practice, and not obedience to God, then eternal life with God is not promised to us. We must die to sin and obey God, in practice.
[Isaiah 53:1-12; Matt 7:21-23; Matt 26:26-29; Lu 9:23-26; Lu 17:25; Jn 1:1-36; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 8:24,58; Jn 10:27-33; Jn 20:28-29; Rom 5:8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 9:5; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 11:23-32; 1 Co 15:1-8; 2 Co 5:15,21; Eph 4:17-24; Php 2:5-11; Col 2:9; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 1:8-9; Heb 2:14-15; Heb 4:15; 1 Pet 2:24; 2 Pet 1:1; 1 John 3:4-10]
Lead Me Gently Home, Father
By Will L. Thompson, 1879
Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home;
When life’s toils are ended,
And parting days have come,
Sin no more shall tempt me,
Ne’er from Thee I’ll roam,
If Thou’ll only lead me, Father,
Lead me gently home.
Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home, Father,
Lest I fall upon the wayside,
Lead me gently home.
Lead me gently home, Father,
Lead me gently home;
In life’s darkest hours, Father,
When life’s troubles come,
Keep my feet from wand’ring,
Lest from Thee I roam,
Lest I fall upon the wayside,
Lead me gently home.
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To Mock, Scourge, and Crucify Him
An Original Work / April 2, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
