Seek After What is Good

Caution!! There are a lot of people in our world and in the USA today who appear to be diligently laboring among us, and who have charge over us, either in our nations, states, and cities, or in the gatherings of what are at least called “churches,” many of which are not the biblical body of Christ, but are businesses being marketed to the people of the world so as to grow their numbers. And a large number of these diligent laborers who have charge over us are those who are human cockroaches, figuratively speaking.

For they are the morally unclean, malicious, deceivers, manipulators, opportunists, liars, fakers, not trustworthy, egocentric, who fake who they really are, some or many of whom fake their Christianity in order to get large followings of Christians to support them and to listen to them and to regurgitate their lies and their deceptions, to deceive even more people. These are people who are opposite of what is good whose goal is to lie and to deceive in order to capture as many as possible in their webs of deceit.

So, when we read passages of Scripture like this in 1 Thessalonians 5 about the need for us to appreciate those who diligently labor among us, and who have charge over us in the Lord, and who give us instruction, that we should esteem them very highly, please be discerning! Please test the spirits to see which ones really are of God. And we test them against the Scriptures, taught in their appropriate context. So make certain that these people really are of God and that what they are teaching is biblically sound in doctrine.

And then if we find that what they are teaching are lies, and that the lies are spreading rapidly to many people, and that the multitudes appear to be accepting the lies, while rejecting the truth, then we need to be those who are refuting the enemy’s lies, and who are speaking the truth of the gospel to the people. But first, if those in authority over us are people we know personally, with whom we have a relationship, we should pray and ask God for wisdom, and we should biblically, in love, approach them first.

But we should never yield to accepting lies and to doing what is against the Scriptures just to be in submission to those in authority over us. Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, as well as Jesus Christ and his New Testament apostles, give us plenty of examples in how to submit to those in authority over us while not yielding to anything contrary to the will of God for our lives. God’s word always must be obeyed, and there are always biblical exceptions to obedience to human authority we must adhere to.

Now the Scriptures do teach that we must be in submission to our governing authorities in our nations, with biblical exceptions. But we do not have to be part of and we do not have to submit to anything called “church” or “the gospel” or anyone with the title of pastor or elder if they are not biblically qualified to be pastors and elders and if what they are teaching are lies and not the truth. There are many instructions for us to be those who test the spirits and who do not put up with false teachers and false teachings.

[Matthew 7:15-23; Matthew 24:11-24; Luke 6:26; John 10:1-15; Romans 16:17-19; 2 Corinthians 11:3,13-15; Ephesians 4:11-16; Philippians 3:2; 2 Peter 2:1-22; 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22; 1 Timothy 1:3-7; 1 Timothy 6:3-10; 2 Timothy 3:1-9; 1 John 4:1-6; Jude 1:1-25]

And going right along with that, please know that just because an institution is called “the church,” it does not make it the church. For the biblical church is the body of Christ, comprised of all who are of biblical God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, our Lord. The church is not a building, not a church denomination, and not an institution of man incorporated (unified, combined, merged) with the ungodly, i.e. under the state, which is then being marketed to the world. For God forbids and repudiates all of that.

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2-3; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

So, be discerning people who test the spirits to see which ones are truly of God, but test them against the Scriptures taught in the appropriate context. And follow the teachings of Jesus and of his New Testament apostles, and not charlatans and wolves in sheep’s clothing who are out to deceive you. And encourage one another with the teachings of the Scriptures so that none will be led astray by people in their deceitful scheming (the cockroaches).

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

Living Water

An Original Work / November 21, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Based off Various Scriptures

My people have forsaken Me,
Their Savior, who died on a tree;
Made idols, and they worshipped them;
So empty, they will ne’er fulfill.

Lord, You are the hope of Your chosen ones.
Those who turn away from You will be shamed;
The Spring of Living Water left behind.

Living Water satisfies.

The thirsty, let them come and drink;
Believe in Jesus as their King;
The gift of Jesus given them,
So they will never thirst again.

Indeed, the Living Water flows within.
It springs up like a fountain cleansing sin.
Eternal life in heaven promised them.

Living Water glorifies.

Oh people, won’t you come to Him?
Obey Him and repent of sin.
Let Jesus come and live within.
Surrender all your life to Him.

My people, won’t you turn your hearts to Me?
Forsake your idols and then you’ll be free.
Won’t you come now to Me on bended knee?

Living Water sanctifies.


Seek After What is Good
An Original Work / June 5, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love