Sue J Love
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Jeremiah 29:10-14 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
10For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place. 11For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope. 12Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. 14I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”
Introduction
The children of Israel of the Old Testament were living in exile in Babylon as a punishment from God for their rebellion against the Lord and for their unwillingness to heed His commands. And God promised them 70 years of exile before He would deliver them. But they had prophets in their midst who were deceiving the people into thinking that they would not have to be in exile the whole 70 years. So, they were not to listen to the prophets who were speaking lies to them, for they prophesied falsely in the name of God.
False Prophets
What this brings to mind are the teachings of the Scriptures on the gospel of Christ and what it means to be “in Christ,” and what it looks like if we are not “in Christ” by biblical faith in Him. All throughout the New Testament writings we are taught that faith in Jesus Christ, which comes from God, and which is not of human flesh, will result in the believers in Christ denying self, dying to sin (repenting of sin) and obeying our Lord and His commands, as a matter of life practice, yet not necessarily in absolute sinless perfection.
However, we are taught that if sin remains our practice, and not obedience to our Lord and to His commands, that we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. But we have prophets and preachers and teachers among us who are teaching lies to the people, and they are telling them that they do not have to repent (die to sin) and obey God and His commands as required of God for believing faith which saves. And they are telling them that God will not judge them for their sins if they say, “I believe in Christ.”
Speaking Lies
So, in essence, they are doing the same thing these prophets of old did. They are speaking lies to the people. And they are putting words in the mouth of God He did not say. They are saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace, for they are promising all who give lip service to the Lord that they are saved from their sins, and heaven is guaranteed them when they die, and that nothing can take that away from them, not even their continued deliberate and habitual sinning against God via no repentance.
They are teaching a false gospel and a false grace of God which permits the sinners to keep on in their sin, with no requirement for obedience to God’s commands (New Covenant), while promising them that God will not judge them, that he will not punish them for their rebellion against Him and for their refusal to surrender their lives to Him. So they are giving the people false hopes of safety and security. And many are teaching that God can no longer see when we sin but He only sees Jesus when He looks at us. Lie!
God’s Words
But the teachings of the Scriptures do not agree with what the false prophets are telling the people. They teach us that we must deny self, die to sin, and obey God and His commands in life practice for our faith in Jesus Christ to be genuine biblical faith. We must turn from our sins and now surrender our lives to the Lord to doing His will His way from this day forward. Sin must no longer be what we practice or we will not have salvation from sin, and we will not have eternal life with God.
For God’s plans for us via Jesus’ death and resurrection are that we must die with Him to sin and now obey Him and His commands in life practice. His plans to prosper us have to do with us living in Him, growing in our walks of obedience to our Lord, succeeding in doing His will. And the future and the hope that He has for us is that we will leave our lives of sin behind us and that we will follow Him wherever He leads us in doing all that He commands, and that we will be a blessing to others as He has been a blessing to us.
Call Upon Him
But all this is not the result of lip service only. We cannot just “claim who you are in Christ” while continuing to live in sin. We must come to the Lord in humility, seeking to know Him and to do His will. We must bow before Him in genuine repentance and in surrender of our lives to Him. And then we must follow Him in obedience to His commands. And we may not do this perfectly, but lack of perfection is never to be used as an excuse for deliberate and habitual sin, or we will not have salvation from sin.
[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]
Giving People False Hopes
An Original Work / August 19, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
My Prayer
An Original Work / May 30, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
“Fill me with Your Spirit; help me to love others;
Let me know Your power; be an overcomer.
Show me how to follow Jesus Christ, my Savior;
Be His faithful servant to obey Him always.
“Lead me with Your presence; help me know the right way;
Teach me love and kindness, generous compassion.
Give me grace and courage to be Jesus’ witness,
Teaching His salvation to a world who needs Him.”
Won’t you come and follow Jesus Christ, your Savior?
He died so you’d be free of control of your sin;
Free to follow His ways in complete surrender;
Living sacrifices – let His grace transform you.
10For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place. 11For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope. 12Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. 14I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”
Introduction
The children of Israel of the Old Testament were living in exile in Babylon as a punishment from God for their rebellion against the Lord and for their unwillingness to heed His commands. And God promised them 70 years of exile before He would deliver them. But they had prophets in their midst who were deceiving the people into thinking that they would not have to be in exile the whole 70 years. So, they were not to listen to the prophets who were speaking lies to them, for they prophesied falsely in the name of God.
False Prophets
What this brings to mind are the teachings of the Scriptures on the gospel of Christ and what it means to be “in Christ,” and what it looks like if we are not “in Christ” by biblical faith in Him. All throughout the New Testament writings we are taught that faith in Jesus Christ, which comes from God, and which is not of human flesh, will result in the believers in Christ denying self, dying to sin (repenting of sin) and obeying our Lord and His commands, as a matter of life practice, yet not necessarily in absolute sinless perfection.
However, we are taught that if sin remains our practice, and not obedience to our Lord and to His commands, that we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. But we have prophets and preachers and teachers among us who are teaching lies to the people, and they are telling them that they do not have to repent (die to sin) and obey God and His commands as required of God for believing faith which saves. And they are telling them that God will not judge them for their sins if they say, “I believe in Christ.”
Speaking Lies
So, in essence, they are doing the same thing these prophets of old did. They are speaking lies to the people. And they are putting words in the mouth of God He did not say. They are saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace, for they are promising all who give lip service to the Lord that they are saved from their sins, and heaven is guaranteed them when they die, and that nothing can take that away from them, not even their continued deliberate and habitual sinning against God via no repentance.
They are teaching a false gospel and a false grace of God which permits the sinners to keep on in their sin, with no requirement for obedience to God’s commands (New Covenant), while promising them that God will not judge them, that he will not punish them for their rebellion against Him and for their refusal to surrender their lives to Him. So they are giving the people false hopes of safety and security. And many are teaching that God can no longer see when we sin but He only sees Jesus when He looks at us. Lie!
God’s Words
But the teachings of the Scriptures do not agree with what the false prophets are telling the people. They teach us that we must deny self, die to sin, and obey God and His commands in life practice for our faith in Jesus Christ to be genuine biblical faith. We must turn from our sins and now surrender our lives to the Lord to doing His will His way from this day forward. Sin must no longer be what we practice or we will not have salvation from sin, and we will not have eternal life with God.
For God’s plans for us via Jesus’ death and resurrection are that we must die with Him to sin and now obey Him and His commands in life practice. His plans to prosper us have to do with us living in Him, growing in our walks of obedience to our Lord, succeeding in doing His will. And the future and the hope that He has for us is that we will leave our lives of sin behind us and that we will follow Him wherever He leads us in doing all that He commands, and that we will be a blessing to others as He has been a blessing to us.
Call Upon Him
But all this is not the result of lip service only. We cannot just “claim who you are in Christ” while continuing to live in sin. We must come to the Lord in humility, seeking to know Him and to do His will. We must bow before Him in genuine repentance and in surrender of our lives to Him. And then we must follow Him in obedience to His commands. And we may not do this perfectly, but lack of perfection is never to be used as an excuse for deliberate and habitual sin, or we will not have salvation from sin.
[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]
Giving People False Hopes
An Original Work / August 19, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
My Prayer
An Original Work / May 30, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
“Fill me with Your Spirit; help me to love others;
Let me know Your power; be an overcomer.
Show me how to follow Jesus Christ, my Savior;
Be His faithful servant to obey Him always.
“Lead me with Your presence; help me know the right way;
Teach me love and kindness, generous compassion.
Give me grace and courage to be Jesus’ witness,
Teaching His salvation to a world who needs Him.”
Won’t you come and follow Jesus Christ, your Savior?
He died so you’d be free of control of your sin;
Free to follow His ways in complete surrender;
Living sacrifices – let His grace transform you.
