The Ultimate Legacy
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Thank people who made this week possible
webster staff
Super summer staff
collegiate staff
band
Recap
Night One - You and I are called into the battle for the legacy of the gospel
Night Two - There have always been threats to the legacy, but God is the one who punishes
Night Three - The threats now are those who have snuck in like rocks under the water, that are a danger to you, and might break your tailbone, or wreck the ship
Last Night, how do we fight, we extend the mercy that we have been given by Christ and snatching some from the fire as we go
Some of you accepted Christ last night… celebrate that
Many of you went back for other things … celebrate that, God is working in your life
Many went back and surrendered to the ministry… praise God!
We are going to look at the end of Jude, v24-25 but I want you to hear the letter as they would have heard it
now that it has been explained to you, I would like you to hear the letter read to you as those would have been at the time
1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James: To those who are the called, loved by God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ.
2 May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
3 Dear friends, although I was eager to write you about the salvation we share, I found it necessary to write, appealing to you to contend for the faith that was delivered to the saints once for all.
4 For some people, who were designated for this judgment long ago, have come in by stealth; they are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into sensuality and denying Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.
5 Now I want to remind you, although you came to know all these things once and for all, that Jesus saved a people out of Egypt and later destroyed those who did not believe;
6 and the angels who did not keep their own position but abandoned their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deep darkness for the judgment on the great day.
7 Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns committed sexual immorality and perversions, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
8 In the same way these people—relying on their dreams—defile their flesh, reject authority, and slander glorious ones.
9 Yet when Michael the archangel was disputing with the devil in an argument about Moses’s body, he did not dare utter a slanderous condemnation against him but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
10 But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct—like irrational animals—by these things they are destroyed.
11 Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, have plunged into Balaam’s error for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.
12 These people are dangerous reefs at your love feasts as they eat with you without reverence. They are shepherds who only look after themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead and uprooted.
13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.
14 It was about these that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied: “Look! The Lord comes with tens of thousands of his holy ones
15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly concerning all the ungodly acts that they have done in an ungodly way, and concerning all the harsh things ungodly sinners have said against him.”
16 These people are discontented grumblers, living according to their desires; their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering people for their own advantage.
17 But you, dear friends, remember what was predicted by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
18 They told you, “In the end time there will be scoffers living according to their own ungodly desires.”
19 These people create divisions and are worldly, not having the Spirit.
20 But you, dear friends, as you build yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting expectantly for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life.
22 Have mercy on those who waver;
23 save others by snatching them from the fire; have mercy on others but with fear, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.
24 Now to him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, without blemish and with great joy,
25 to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority before all time, now and forever. Amen.
Jude ends with a doxology but it is very important to grasp what he is saying here
because it is easy to look at all the things that we’ve talked about this week and start setting up our rules to accomplish all these things on our own
A doxology is just a writing of praise to God, a song of praise
Jude tells us that it is in the Power of God that we battle go into this battle that he is calling us to
24 Now to him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, without blemish and with great joy,
25 to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority before all time, now and forever. Amen.
Warning! You will not be perfect when you go home… you will fall, stumble
Remember what the gospel is that we stated on the first night
We have all sinned, and we will sin again
Muscle memory - Jimmy and Ethan in the gym
to keep you from stumbling does not mean you will stop sinning
it means that your sin is not going to remove you from God’s love
Kaitlynn jumping out of my arms
why can I say that, because you did not do anything to cause God to love you
he is the one who makes it possible for you to stand in the presence of his glory
spotless! without sin!
When Jesus died for your sin, it was for the past present and future sin
his death was enough to present you spotless, keep you spotless and in his presence
he protects, us, keeps us
this is a different word from earlier, where we are watching out for things,
God protects, keeps means that he fends things off
he keeps us safe in the battle
1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus,
therefore points backwards in Romans, I believe to chapter 5
1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Since we have been justified by faith, now there is now condemnation
you are clean
last night we talked about the mercy we will fully know
but if you are a believer in Jesus Christ, right now there is no condemnation
condemnation = the punishment that is owed because of our sin
Illustrate with Holland - She is is being adopted by Kaitlynn, she has been a foster girl for the last 10 months, she has been, my granddaughter
not she will be when the adoption is finalized, she is right now
for those who are in Christ Jesus
Romans 8:38–39 (CSB)
38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,
39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
It is all for and by his glory, majesty and authority
