If We are Willing and Obedient

[Sue J Love]

“Woe to the sinful nation,
a people whose guilt is great,
a brood of evildoers,
children given to corruption!
They have forsaken the Lord;
they have spurned the Holy One of Israel
and turned their backs on him.”

“Wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
stop doing wrong.
Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.

“’Come now, let us settle the matter,’
says the Lord.
‘Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.
If you are willing and obedient,
you will eat the good things of the land;
but if you resist and rebel,
you will be devoured by the sword.’
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” (Isaiah 1:4,16-20 NIV)

I believe that God is speaking this same message to my nation (the USA) today. For she touts herself as a Christian nation, one nation under God, with about ¾ of the population proclaiming some element of faith in Jesus Christ. But so many have now gone the way of the world, living to please the flesh, living in deliberate and habitual sin against the Lord Jesus and not in walks of surrender to his will and in obedience to his commands. And the gospel message has been altered to make the way for them to keep on in sin.

So, what is the solution? What can be done to change all that? What this teaches here is what the New Testament teaches, too, and it is the message of the gospel, too. For Jesus died on that cross to put our sins to death with him so that we, by God-persuaded faith in him, might now die with him to sin and walk in obedience to his commands in holy living, in daily practice. So we are to stop doing wrong, and we are now to do what is right in the sight of God, in the power of God, by the grace of God, in obedience to God.

If we are willing and obedient to our Lord and to his New Covenant commands in the forsaking of our sins and in our walks of faith and obedience to him, then we have the promise and the hope of deliverance from our bondage to sin and heaven as our eternal destiny. But if we resist and rebel, and so we continue in deliberate and habitual sin, and not in walks of obedience to our Lord, then we will die in our sins and we will not have eternal life with God, regardless of what faith we profess with our lips.

I believe that my nation (the USA) is presently under the judgment of Almighty God because the church at large here in America has forsaken the ways of the Lord to go after the ways of the world, and few are they who are actually walking in obedience to our Lord in surrender to his will in walks of righteousness and holiness and not in deliberate and habitual sin. And sin doesn’t have to be something really horrible like murder or adultery, but it can be the sin of ignoring God’s will for your life and pleasing yourself.

And because of the sinful condition of my nation, as a whole unit, I believe that is why the things which are presently taking place are happening in America. Now some people see these changes as a good thing, and I do believe that God has sent the present leaders as his instruments of judgment on my nation to “clean house,” so to speak, but I also believe that this is kind of like what Habakkuk wrote about where even more evil people are being used of God to discipline his wayward people to bring them back.

So, I pray for the people of my nation to be confronted with “the Holy One of Israel,” but biblical Israel, comprised of all who believe in Jesus Christ, whether Jew or Gentile by physical birth. And I pray that the rebellious ones, who are living for themselves, and not for the Lord, will be brought to their knees in order that they would look to Jesus for their salvation from their addiction to sin so that they will now walk with the Lord in his ways, according to his will and purpose, and in his power, strength, and wisdom.

And I pray that all of us will be drawn to closer walks of faith and obedience to our Lord, and that, with the time we have remaining, that we will be spreading the truth of the gospel to the people of the world, but not just in words only, but in practice, by our deeds. I pray that we will be examples of what biblical faith should look like as we give testimony to Jesus Christ and to his saving grace. And I pray we will all spread the truth and not the lies so that many will die to their sins and now walk in obedience to God’s ways.

[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 5:16-21; 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

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.

If We are Willing and Obedient
An Original Work / March 4, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

[Johanabrahams]

At the heart of the salvation of our friends, family, community and nation is our Walk with the Living God as our "Abba Father". That is "Witnessing Jesus". When the Word of Jesus manifest in our Lives through the Power of the Holy Spirit in a Living Reality.

The downfall of Christianity is the Rebuking of it being a religion. A mind concept. With 45 000 different denominations in different mind concepts. Where they all have their "opinions/religion" on who God an Jesus actually is. And they all know Jesus and His Father "very well" in having studied them. From books and seminary education. Where they all ate the "tree of knowledge". And this tree only create more knowledge and not more Life.

God does not exists in knowledge. God is Alive and we can only know Him as our "Abba Father/Daddy" in Living with Him in one body. Any father and The Father is only known in Living with Him. Where this Live is that of a Child being raised by its Daddy in Love. In being one. Just as the Word of Jehovah, Jesus, shows us.

John 17:
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Only in this being "One" just as we saw in the Word of our Creation in Jesus, will the "World know".