False Teachers

CONTENTING FOR THE FAITH ()

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CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH ()

CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH ()

Jude 3 NASB95

Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.

1. Recognize the Subversion

Jude 4 NASB95

For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

They subvert by permitting others to define morality.

They subvert by seizing personal authority.

2. Remember the Truth

Jude 5–7 NASB95

Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

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The false teachers are condemned. ()

The false teachers are condemned.

Jude 5–7 NASB95

Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

The false teachers are conceded. ()

Jude 12–13 NASB95

These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.

The false teachers will come. ()

Jude 17–18 NASB95

But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, that they were saying to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.”

3. Remain in His Love

Jude 21–22 NASB95

keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. And have mercy on some, who are doubting;

His love reminds us of His place and our place. ()

His love reminds us of His place and our place. ()

Remaining requires work: building and praying .()

4. Respond with Grace and Mercy

Jude 22–23 NASB95

And have mercy on some, who are doubting; save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.

Jude 22-

This is not a closing off from others, but an opening up to their true need.

This is not a closing off from others, but an opening up to their true need.

We are to actively help the struggling.

We are to recognize, respect, and reject the potential to fall.

Jude 21 NASB95

keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

Morning and Evening Morning, April 30

There are murmurers amongst Christians now, as there were in the camp of Israel of old. There are those who, when the rod falls