“But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings, partly by being made a public spectacle through reproaches and tribulations, and partly by becoming sharers with those who were so treated. For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one. Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.
“For yet in a very little while,
He who is coming will come, and will not delay.
But My righteous one shall live by faith;
And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.” (Hebrews 10:32-39 NASB1995)
All throughout the New Testament writings we are taught that our salvation from sin, which is God’s gift to us, and which is not of our own flesh, is conditional upon us dying to sin, by the Spirit, and us walking (in conduct) in obedience to our Lord and to his commands. For Jesus gave his life up for us on that cross to put our sins to death with him so that, by God-persuaded faith in him, we will now die to sin and walk in obedience to our Lord in the power and wisdom of God, as we yield control of our lives over to God.
And we are taught that if we go on sinning, and if sin remains our practice, and not obedience to our Lord and to his commands, that we will not inherit eternal life with God, regardless of what our lips have professed. So our salvation is not based on lip service only, and it is not this one-time thing that takes place in our lives which guarantees us heaven when we die, but regardless of how we live. Our salvation is progressive sanctification which we must continue in to the end for us to have heaven as our destiny.
[Matthew 10:22; John 8:31-32; John 15:1-12; Romans 8:24; Romans 11:17-24; Romans 13:11; 1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 15:1-2; Colossians 1:21-23; 2 Timothy 1:8-9; 2 Timothy 2:10-13; Hebrews 3:6,14-15; Hebrews 9:28; 1 Peter 1:5,9; 2 Peter 1:5-11; 1 John 2:24-25]
Now some people will call this legalism, or they will call it “works salvation,” but it is neither of those, if taught in the correct biblical context. What this describes is biblical salvation, which was taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles. Yes, we do nothing to earn or to deserve our own salvation, but we need to know what biblical salvation is, for it is us being delivered out of our slavery (addiction) to sin so that, by the grace of God, and in his power, we will now walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands.
[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 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 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 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]
So many people today are teaching a false gospel of salvation absent of biblical repentance (turning from sin to obey God), and without God’s requirements that we now put sin to death in our lives, not just once, but daily, by the Spirit, and that we walk (in conduct, with purpose) in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice. And so we have a large number of people professing faith in Jesus whose lives are not much different from those who do not believe in Jesus, for sin is still their practice.
But the whole purpose of our salvation and our walks of faith is that we no longer walk in sin deliberately and habitually, but that we now walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in following our Lord wherever he leads us in being who he wants us to be, and in doing what he has called us to do, and in being his witnesses who live the gospel, in practice, and who are sharing the true biblical message of the gospel with the people of the world for their salvation from sin and for their hope of eternal life with God.
“For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries.” (Hebrews 10:26-27 NASB1995)
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).
Seek the Lord
Based off Isaiah 55
An Original Work / July 20, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Musical Instrumentation by Mark Bradley
“Come to Me all you who thirst; come to waters.
Listen to Me, and eat what’s good today,
And your soul will delight in richest of fare.
Give ear to Me, and you will live.
I have made an eternal covenant with you.
Wash in the blood of the Lamb.”
Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him.
Let the wicked forsake his way, in truth.
Let him turn to the Lord, and he will receive mercy.
Freely, God pardons him.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,”
declares the Lord, our God.
“My word that goes out of My mouth is truthful.
It will not return to Me unfulfilled.
My word will accomplish all that I desire,
And achieve the goal I intend.
You will go in joy and be led forth in peace.
The mountains will burst into song… before you,
And all of the trees clap their hands.”
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When You Have Done the Will of God
An Original Work / September 24, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
