Nowhere to Hide from God

The land is full of adulterers. Their course is evil, and their might is not right. Prophet and priest and pastor are polluted. Within the gatherings of the church is found their wickedness. Some of the prophets and priests and preachers and pastors are teaching what is of false gods, the gods of this world, and they are leading the people astray by their lies and by their deceptions, to what is false. The committing of adultery and the walking in falsehood is commonplace. And the pastors end up strengthening the hands of the evil doers, so that the sinners do not turn back from their wickedness.

That was a summary of Jeremiah 23:10-14, but updated somewhat to today. And it is just as relevant today as it was then. For this is a fair description of the church and its leaders and its people in the USA today, by the majority, but not including every church congregation or every individual Christian.

So, what is happening in the church (or in what is falsely being referred to as “the church”) in the USA today that makes this so relevant? It is that there has been a movement which has swept across our nation over my lifetime which has slowly and carefully been altering the character of God (Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit), and of his church, and of his gospel message, to make them less offensive to the people of the world and more acceptable to human flesh. And the most popular gospel now denies God’s requirements for death to sin and walks of obedience to the Lord.

So, combined with the invention of smartphones and personal computers, that has opened the door wide to the whole world of evil at one’s fingertips. And anyone driven by the lusts of the flesh can get to whatever source of evil they want on their handheld devices via the internet any time of day or night in the privacy of a corner of a room where no one else can see what they are viewing. And many children are now being handed these devices which they then take into the privacy of their bedrooms, and not all of them are being monitored by their parents. And this is just horrible!!

And pastors and elders and deacons of “churches” are engaged in the same stuff, not all, but possibly as many as half or more. And this is probably one of the determining factors in their willingness to compromise the truth of the gospel to make it not so strict to where a “Christian” can keep living in sin, in deliberate and habitual sin, in adultery against their spouses, and in willful defiance of God’s commands, only now without conscience, and without feelings of guilt, but with the blessings of “the church” which is catering to the sinful desires of the flesh to attract the ungodly to their gatherings.

So the hands of these pastors are indeed strengthening the hands of the evildoers, because so many of them are teaching that we don’t have to repent of (turn from, die to) our sins, and we don’t have to obey God and his commands, for they call that “works salvation.” And so they give the people the impression that all that is required of God is some profession of faith in Jesus and now all their sins are forgiven, and heaven is guaranteed them when they die, but regardless of how they live. But that is not the gospel that Jesus and his New Testament apostles taught. They taught repentance.

And so rather than confront the adulterers and the liars and habitual sinners with their sinful practices, and of their need to die to sin and to obey God, so many are teaching them that if they are steeped in sin, and they begin to feel guilty for their sin, that they should just “claim who you are in Christ.” But you aren’t in Christ if you have not died to sin and if you are not obeying the Lord and his commands, in practice. In fact, the Scriptures teach that you don’t know God, you are not born of God, and you don’t have eternal life with God unless you turn from your sin and you obey God in practice.

But many professing Christians are living on the assumption that because they made that profession of faith in Jesus Christ that God will not judge them for their sins. So even though they are sinning against God deliberately and habitually, they take comfort in the lie which guarantees them heaven as their eternal destiny. But please know that you cannot hide from God. He sees everything you do. And you can’t hide from the truth of the Scriptures, either. If you choose to continue in deliberate sin, and not in obedience to God, you will face the judgment of God, and hell will be your destiny.

[Matt 7:13-14,21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 10:27-30; Ac 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

My Sheep

Based off John 10:1-30 NIV
An Original Work / June 24, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

My sheep hear me. They know me.
They listen to my voice and obey.
I call them and lead them.
They know my voice, so they follow me.
They will never follow strangers.
They will run away from them.
The voice of a stranger they know not;
They do not follow him.

So, I tell you the truth that
I am the gate, so you enter in.
Whoever does enter
Will find forgiveness and will be saved.
Nonetheless whoever enters
Not by the gate; other way,
He is the thief and a robber.
Listen not, the sheep to him.

Oh, I am the Good Shepherd,
Who laid his own life down for the sheep.
I know them. They know me.
They will live with me eternally.
The thief only comes to steal and
Kill and to destroy the church.
I have come to give you life that
You may have it to the full…

They know my voice, so they follow me.


Nowhere to Hide from God
An Original Work / June 25, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love