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Acts 13:44-52 NKJV
A Parallel to Today’s World
From soon after I was born in 1949, up unto 13 years ago, I attended institutional churches on a weekly basis. From my teenage years on up I was mostly an active participant in these institutional churches incorporated under (partnered with) the state. I sang in their choirs and ensembles, did special music, taught Sunday School and children and ladies’ Bible studies, helped with office work as a secretary (both volunteered and paid), and participated in evangelism and home Bible studies and other ministry efforts.
But beginning in my late 20’s, the Lord began calling me to an even deeper walk of faith in obedience to him and to a greater understanding of his word and what it teaches us and how that must be lived out in our daily lives. And I took God and his word very seriously, to put it into practice in my daily life. And the closer my walk of faith with my Lord the more I began meeting with disapproval from those in positions of authority over me within these institutional churches. For so many of them were becoming so worldly.
So many of them had turned away from what God intended for his church to be and they were marketing “the church” to the people of the world in order to grow their businesses (their “churches”) and to draw in large crowds of people from the world. So I became “collateral damage,” i.e. I was among the “fallout,” the injured, those having harm afflicted to them as a result of these “institutional churches” deciding to partner with the world and to reject so much of what is of God and of his commandments to his people.
There was a period of time in my life where I had endured so much suffering from so many different sources that I finally gave up, but then the Lord brought me back around, and he made me stronger in my walk of faith in him than I had ever experienced before. And after a while he then called me to this present ministry. And he put me on the internet. And eventually he convinced me that the institutional church is not the church, but we who are of true biblical faith in Jesus Christ, we are the church, the body of Christ.
And eventually he convinced me to come out from among those who were partnered with the world and with the government and to just serve him full time on the internet where he has given me a voice, and where there are people who want to hear what the Lord gives me to share. So this was a lot like the apostles who were largely rejected by the Jews then turning to the Gentiles who were willing to listen to what God had for them to share with the people. And I have been following the Lord in this for 22 years now.
But this isn’t just about me. The Lord is calling all of us who profess the name of Jesus to come out from among those who are partnered with the world and with the ungodly lest we take part in her sins and in her punishment. We are to come out from their midst, and to be separate from them. And we are to touch no unclean thing, i.e. we are not to participate in what is ungodly, and immoral, and what is opposed to the teachings of the Scriptures regarding our need to die to sin and to obey God in practice.
We are not to be partners with those who have turned the church into a place of business to be marketed to the people of the world just like any other business, and which has mostly compromised the truth of the gospel of our salvation to make it less offensive and more palatable to human flesh. And we are not to give our pledge of allegiance to the government or to any organization or nation, but to God alone. And the church is not a building or a business, but it is the people of genuine faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]
Zeal for Your House
Based off John 2:17; Psalms 69:9
An Original Work / August 1, 2016
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Zeal for Your house, it consumes me.
Lord, I love my times with You.
I love to worship You and sing Your praises.
Time in Your Word brings me closer to You,
List’ning to You speaking to me,
Gently guiding me in truth.
Lord, You are my life’s example,
Showing me how I should live.
I love to walk with You where’er You lead me.
No greater joy have I when serving You.
Loving, giving, resting in Your strength,
I’m yielding to Your will.
Zeal for Your house, it consumes me.
See the church turned upside down:
Marketing ventures taking place of worship,
Men of the gospel turning into clowns.
Gospel message made appealing,
So the world will feel at home.
Lord, we need a great revival.
Turn their hearts, Lord, back to You.
Open the blind eyes, turn them all from darkness,
Lord, to the light. May they return to You,
Turn from their sin, forsake idols,
Be restored to God again.
Come Out of Her, My People
An Original Work / May 29, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God. 45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy; and contradicting and blaspheming, they opposed the things spoken by Paul. 46Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold and said, “It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken to you first; but since you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles. 47For so the Lord has commanded us:
‘I have set you as a light to the Gentiles,
That you should be for salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ”
48Now when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.
49And the word of the Lord was being spread throughout all the region. 50But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, raised up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region. 51But they shook off the dust from their feet against them, and came to Iconium. 52And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
A Parallel to Today’s World
From soon after I was born in 1949, up unto 13 years ago, I attended institutional churches on a weekly basis. From my teenage years on up I was mostly an active participant in these institutional churches incorporated under (partnered with) the state. I sang in their choirs and ensembles, did special music, taught Sunday School and children and ladies’ Bible studies, helped with office work as a secretary (both volunteered and paid), and participated in evangelism and home Bible studies and other ministry efforts.
But beginning in my late 20’s, the Lord began calling me to an even deeper walk of faith in obedience to him and to a greater understanding of his word and what it teaches us and how that must be lived out in our daily lives. And I took God and his word very seriously, to put it into practice in my daily life. And the closer my walk of faith with my Lord the more I began meeting with disapproval from those in positions of authority over me within these institutional churches. For so many of them were becoming so worldly.
So many of them had turned away from what God intended for his church to be and they were marketing “the church” to the people of the world in order to grow their businesses (their “churches”) and to draw in large crowds of people from the world. So I became “collateral damage,” i.e. I was among the “fallout,” the injured, those having harm afflicted to them as a result of these “institutional churches” deciding to partner with the world and to reject so much of what is of God and of his commandments to his people.
There was a period of time in my life where I had endured so much suffering from so many different sources that I finally gave up, but then the Lord brought me back around, and he made me stronger in my walk of faith in him than I had ever experienced before. And after a while he then called me to this present ministry. And he put me on the internet. And eventually he convinced me that the institutional church is not the church, but we who are of true biblical faith in Jesus Christ, we are the church, the body of Christ.
And eventually he convinced me to come out from among those who were partnered with the world and with the government and to just serve him full time on the internet where he has given me a voice, and where there are people who want to hear what the Lord gives me to share. So this was a lot like the apostles who were largely rejected by the Jews then turning to the Gentiles who were willing to listen to what God had for them to share with the people. And I have been following the Lord in this for 22 years now.
But this isn’t just about me. The Lord is calling all of us who profess the name of Jesus to come out from among those who are partnered with the world and with the ungodly lest we take part in her sins and in her punishment. We are to come out from their midst, and to be separate from them. And we are to touch no unclean thing, i.e. we are not to participate in what is ungodly, and immoral, and what is opposed to the teachings of the Scriptures regarding our need to die to sin and to obey God in practice.
We are not to be partners with those who have turned the church into a place of business to be marketed to the people of the world just like any other business, and which has mostly compromised the truth of the gospel of our salvation to make it less offensive and more palatable to human flesh. And we are not to give our pledge of allegiance to the government or to any organization or nation, but to God alone. And the church is not a building or a business, but it is the people of genuine faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]
Zeal for Your House
Based off John 2:17; Psalms 69:9
An Original Work / August 1, 2016
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Zeal for Your house, it consumes me.
Lord, I love my times with You.
I love to worship You and sing Your praises.
Time in Your Word brings me closer to You,
List’ning to You speaking to me,
Gently guiding me in truth.
Lord, You are my life’s example,
Showing me how I should live.
I love to walk with You where’er You lead me.
No greater joy have I when serving You.
Loving, giving, resting in Your strength,
I’m yielding to Your will.
Zeal for Your house, it consumes me.
See the church turned upside down:
Marketing ventures taking place of worship,
Men of the gospel turning into clowns.
Gospel message made appealing,
So the world will feel at home.
Lord, we need a great revival.
Turn their hearts, Lord, back to You.
Open the blind eyes, turn them all from darkness,
Lord, to the light. May they return to You,
Turn from their sin, forsake idols,
Be restored to God again.
Come Out of Her, My People
An Original Work / May 29, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
