Sue J Love
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2 Peter 3:15-18 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)
“15Consider also that our Lord’s patience brings salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom God gave him. 16He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
“17Therefore, beloved, since you already know these things, be on your guard so that you will not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure standing. 18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity.”
Safety on The Internet
I am obviously on the internet or else you would not be reading what I am writing here today. The internet is a means for the people of the world to communicate with one another on all sorts of topics and in many different ways, some of them bad, and some of them good, meaning that there is both good and evil on the internet. So we must be wise and discerning about where we go on the internet, and what we view, that we are not taking into our eyes and minds and hearts what might lead us astray to sin against God.
For not everyone is wise and discerning, sadly so, even among many who profess faith in Jesus Christ. Many are still living selfish lives, given over to self-indulgence, without regard for God or for others who might be hurt by their actions. They are easily led astray to what entices them on the internet and to giving into their fleshly desires. Even though many of them know what the Scriptures teach, and perhaps have even taught those lessons themselves, they are easy targets to be led astray to sin against God.
Distorting the Scriptures
And some of them are those who are distorting what the Scriptures teach in order to appease their own consciences and to excuse away their sins as “no big deal.” They know right from wrong and good from evil, and yet they distort those words and their meanings to their own destruction. So many people today are teaching that you can make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and it guarantees you salvation from sin and eternal life with God, but regardless of whether or not you die to sin and obey the Lord in practice.
So all of us who profess to believe in Jesus Christ need to be on our guard so that we will not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from our secure standing. Especially if we are on the internet, we need to guard our hearts and minds and eyes from all that is evil and that which could possibly lead us in the wrong direction. We need to set our faces “like flint,” fully determined and resolved that we will not give way to temptation to go where we should not go and to do what we should not do (see Isaiah 50:7).
The Danger of Falling
And to “fall from your secure standing” is not just to stray from your obedience to the Lord and to be out of fellowship with him as you ought to be, but this is a warning against falling away from your faith and therefore ultimately losing your salvation because you chose your sins over God. For if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to our Lord, and if we do not repent (turn from our sin) and return to obeying our Lord, but that is where we remain, we will not have salvation from sin and eternal life with God.
So, don’t be someone who plays with temptation to sin and who regularly yields to the control of sin over your life. Instead, grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Learn from him. Let him teach you from his word. And then follow him in obedience. Resist the devil. And draw near to God in full assurance of faith. Put on the full armor of God with which to fight off the schemes of the devil. And follow Jesus wherever he leads you in doing all that he requires of all of us as his followers.
Jesus Christ Taught
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).
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; 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; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; 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 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]
Distorting The Scriptures
An Original Work / July 17, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Seven Woes
Based off Matthew 23
An Original Work / May 31, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Woe to you, teachers of the law;
Hypocrites, you keep men from God.
You refuse to obey the truth,
Nor will you permit others to.
You travel o’er land and sea
To win a single convert to you.
When he becomes one
You make him twice as much
A “son of hell” as you are.
Woe to you, blind guides of mankind.
You distort the words of your God.
By your practices you declare
Your oaths mean nothing, though you swear.
You give a tenth of your spices,
But you neglect justice, mercy.
When you focus your
Time and talents on
What is external, you miss out.
Woe to you, who appear so clean,
When inside you are crass and mean.
You work hard to look so upright,
While you hide all your sins inside.
You deceive yourselves when you think
You would not have done what others
Did to God’s messengers
And prophets of old,
For you will do much the same.
You’re to blame.
“15Consider also that our Lord’s patience brings salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom God gave him. 16He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
“17Therefore, beloved, since you already know these things, be on your guard so that you will not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure standing. 18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity.”
Safety on The Internet
I am obviously on the internet or else you would not be reading what I am writing here today. The internet is a means for the people of the world to communicate with one another on all sorts of topics and in many different ways, some of them bad, and some of them good, meaning that there is both good and evil on the internet. So we must be wise and discerning about where we go on the internet, and what we view, that we are not taking into our eyes and minds and hearts what might lead us astray to sin against God.
For not everyone is wise and discerning, sadly so, even among many who profess faith in Jesus Christ. Many are still living selfish lives, given over to self-indulgence, without regard for God or for others who might be hurt by their actions. They are easily led astray to what entices them on the internet and to giving into their fleshly desires. Even though many of them know what the Scriptures teach, and perhaps have even taught those lessons themselves, they are easy targets to be led astray to sin against God.
Distorting the Scriptures
And some of them are those who are distorting what the Scriptures teach in order to appease their own consciences and to excuse away their sins as “no big deal.” They know right from wrong and good from evil, and yet they distort those words and their meanings to their own destruction. So many people today are teaching that you can make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and it guarantees you salvation from sin and eternal life with God, but regardless of whether or not you die to sin and obey the Lord in practice.
So all of us who profess to believe in Jesus Christ need to be on our guard so that we will not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from our secure standing. Especially if we are on the internet, we need to guard our hearts and minds and eyes from all that is evil and that which could possibly lead us in the wrong direction. We need to set our faces “like flint,” fully determined and resolved that we will not give way to temptation to go where we should not go and to do what we should not do (see Isaiah 50:7).
The Danger of Falling
And to “fall from your secure standing” is not just to stray from your obedience to the Lord and to be out of fellowship with him as you ought to be, but this is a warning against falling away from your faith and therefore ultimately losing your salvation because you chose your sins over God. For if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to our Lord, and if we do not repent (turn from our sin) and return to obeying our Lord, but that is where we remain, we will not have salvation from sin and eternal life with God.
So, don’t be someone who plays with temptation to sin and who regularly yields to the control of sin over your life. Instead, grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Learn from him. Let him teach you from his word. And then follow him in obedience. Resist the devil. And draw near to God in full assurance of faith. Put on the full armor of God with which to fight off the schemes of the devil. And follow Jesus wherever he leads you in doing all that he requires of all of us as his followers.
Jesus Christ Taught
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).
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; 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; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; 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 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]
Distorting The Scriptures
An Original Work / July 17, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Seven Woes
Based off Matthew 23
An Original Work / May 31, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Woe to you, teachers of the law;
Hypocrites, you keep men from God.
You refuse to obey the truth,
Nor will you permit others to.
You travel o’er land and sea
To win a single convert to you.
When he becomes one
You make him twice as much
A “son of hell” as you are.
Woe to you, blind guides of mankind.
You distort the words of your God.
By your practices you declare
Your oaths mean nothing, though you swear.
You give a tenth of your spices,
But you neglect justice, mercy.
When you focus your
Time and talents on
What is external, you miss out.
Woe to you, who appear so clean,
When inside you are crass and mean.
You work hard to look so upright,
While you hide all your sins inside.
You deceive yourselves when you think
You would not have done what others
Did to God’s messengers
And prophets of old,
For you will do much the same.
You’re to blame.
