Sue J Love
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Psalm 95:6-11 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
6 O come, let us worship and bow down;
let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
7For He is our God,
and we are the people of His pasture,
the sheep under His care.
Today, if you hear His voice,
8do not harden your hearts
as you did at Meribah,
in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
9where your fathers tested and tried Me,
though they had seen My work.
10For forty years I was angry with that generation,
and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they have not known My ways.”
11So I swore on oath in My anger,
“They shall never enter My rest.”
[See also: 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13]
Faith in Jesus Christ
Once saved always saved is not to be regarded as the biblical doctrine of salvation. Yes, we can do nothing in ourselves to earn or to deserve our own salvation. All we like sheep have gone astray. And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all (see Isaiah 53:6). Jesus Christ took the penalty of our sin on Himself when He was crucified on that cross in order that we might die to sin and live to Him and to His righteousness in obedience to Him.
None of us can even come to faith in Jesus Christ of our own selves but only as we are called of God to His service. For our faith comes from God. It is not of our own doing. And it is gifted to us by God, and it is persuaded of God as to His righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of God’s requirement that we deny self, die to sin, and obey Him as a matter of life practice, by His grace, although not necessarily in absolute perfection.
[Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Hebrews 12:1-2; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Peter 2:24]
Let Us Bow Down
As those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, our lives are to be surrendered to Him to doing His will for our lives. Our lives are no longer our own to be lived however we want to live them. By faith in Him we deny self, die daily to sin, and follow our Lord in obedience to His commands, by His grace and in His power at work within us. And our worship of Him is in submission to His will and purpose for our lives, and not in lip service only to God as Lord.
For Jesus said that if anyone would come after Him that he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin and to self) and follow Him in obedience to His commands. For if we hold on to our lives of sin and for self, and if obedience to God and to His commands is not what we practice, but sin is still what we practice, then we do not have salvation from sin, and we do not have eternal life with God, no matter what our lips profess.
If You Hear His Voice
How do we hear God’s voice? Well we hear His voice through the voice of the Holy Spirit living within us, and through His written Word, and through the preaching and the teaching of the biblical gospel of Christ, of our salvation. But we need to read the Scriptures in their correct biblical context, and we need to test the spirits of people and what they are teaching to make certain that what we are hearing and receiving is truly of God and not of the flesh.
But please know that many preachers and teachers of “The Word” are teaching the Scriptures out of context, and they are ignoring the words of God they do not want to hear and to put into practice. They are removing Scriptures from their correct biblical context, and they are twisting them to make them say what itching ears want to hear. And so they are teaching lies to the people in the name of God, and multitudes are following their lead.
Do Not Harden Your Hearts
So, make certain that what you are hearing or reading is the truth of the Scriptures, taught in their correct biblical context. And then pay careful attention to what the Scriptures are actually teaching, if taught in the correct biblical context. And then don’t ignore the messages you don’t like to hear in favor of messages which make you feel good and which you believe give you permission to sin against God without consequence, although taught falsely.
For, if we harden our hearts against the teachings of the Scriptures, and we go with whatever makes us feel good, and so we keep on in our sins, or only in certain specific and habitual sins, and we choose our sins over God, and over submission to his will and purpose for our lives, and so we do not obey his commands, then we will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God unless we genuinely repent (turn from) our sins to obey God in practice.
[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]
Do Not Harden Your Hearts
An Original Work / August 2, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Your Heart
An Original Work / October 24, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Tenderly He speaks, softly so.
Gently He calls - His will to know.
Won’t you invite Him in your heart?
Humbly accept Him now.
Bow before Him with contrite heart.
May you obey His will.
Seek Him with all your heart and soul,
And your heart, His Spirit fill.
Jesus died to free you from sin,
Giving you new life to begin,
Walking with Him ev’ry hour,
Obeying His commands.
Won’t you trust Him to be your Lord?
His grace you can’t afford.
Freely He gives you peace within,
When you turn from all your sin.
Live for Him ev’ry passing day.
Meet with Him; read His word and pray.
Serve Him in the way He leads you,
Doing all that He says.
Do unto others as you would
Have them do unto you.
Love them with Jesus love within you.
Your hearts to God be true.
6 O come, let us worship and bow down;
let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
7For He is our God,
and we are the people of His pasture,
the sheep under His care.
Today, if you hear His voice,
8do not harden your hearts
as you did at Meribah,
in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
9where your fathers tested and tried Me,
though they had seen My work.
10For forty years I was angry with that generation,
and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they have not known My ways.”
11So I swore on oath in My anger,
“They shall never enter My rest.”
[See also: 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13]
Faith in Jesus Christ
Once saved always saved is not to be regarded as the biblical doctrine of salvation. Yes, we can do nothing in ourselves to earn or to deserve our own salvation. All we like sheep have gone astray. And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all (see Isaiah 53:6). Jesus Christ took the penalty of our sin on Himself when He was crucified on that cross in order that we might die to sin and live to Him and to His righteousness in obedience to Him.
None of us can even come to faith in Jesus Christ of our own selves but only as we are called of God to His service. For our faith comes from God. It is not of our own doing. And it is gifted to us by God, and it is persuaded of God as to His righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of God’s requirement that we deny self, die to sin, and obey Him as a matter of life practice, by His grace, although not necessarily in absolute perfection.
[Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; Acts 26:18; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Hebrews 12:1-2; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Peter 2:24]
Let Us Bow Down
As those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, our lives are to be surrendered to Him to doing His will for our lives. Our lives are no longer our own to be lived however we want to live them. By faith in Him we deny self, die daily to sin, and follow our Lord in obedience to His commands, by His grace and in His power at work within us. And our worship of Him is in submission to His will and purpose for our lives, and not in lip service only to God as Lord.
For Jesus said that if anyone would come after Him that he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin and to self) and follow Him in obedience to His commands. For if we hold on to our lives of sin and for self, and if obedience to God and to His commands is not what we practice, but sin is still what we practice, then we do not have salvation from sin, and we do not have eternal life with God, no matter what our lips profess.
If You Hear His Voice
How do we hear God’s voice? Well we hear His voice through the voice of the Holy Spirit living within us, and through His written Word, and through the preaching and the teaching of the biblical gospel of Christ, of our salvation. But we need to read the Scriptures in their correct biblical context, and we need to test the spirits of people and what they are teaching to make certain that what we are hearing and receiving is truly of God and not of the flesh.
But please know that many preachers and teachers of “The Word” are teaching the Scriptures out of context, and they are ignoring the words of God they do not want to hear and to put into practice. They are removing Scriptures from their correct biblical context, and they are twisting them to make them say what itching ears want to hear. And so they are teaching lies to the people in the name of God, and multitudes are following their lead.
Do Not Harden Your Hearts
So, make certain that what you are hearing or reading is the truth of the Scriptures, taught in their correct biblical context. And then pay careful attention to what the Scriptures are actually teaching, if taught in the correct biblical context. And then don’t ignore the messages you don’t like to hear in favor of messages which make you feel good and which you believe give you permission to sin against God without consequence, although taught falsely.
For, if we harden our hearts against the teachings of the Scriptures, and we go with whatever makes us feel good, and so we keep on in our sins, or only in certain specific and habitual sins, and we choose our sins over God, and over submission to his will and purpose for our lives, and so we do not obey his commands, then we will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God unless we genuinely repent (turn from) our sins to obey God in practice.
[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]
Do Not Harden Your Hearts
An Original Work / August 2, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Your Heart
An Original Work / October 24, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Tenderly He speaks, softly so.
Gently He calls - His will to know.
Won’t you invite Him in your heart?
Humbly accept Him now.
Bow before Him with contrite heart.
May you obey His will.
Seek Him with all your heart and soul,
And your heart, His Spirit fill.
Jesus died to free you from sin,
Giving you new life to begin,
Walking with Him ev’ry hour,
Obeying His commands.
Won’t you trust Him to be your Lord?
His grace you can’t afford.
Freely He gives you peace within,
When you turn from all your sin.
Live for Him ev’ry passing day.
Meet with Him; read His word and pray.
Serve Him in the way He leads you,
Doing all that He says.
Do unto others as you would
Have them do unto you.
Love them with Jesus love within you.
Your hearts to God be true.
