Sermon Tone Analysis

Help I’ve Fallen And Can’t Get Up!

The Passion Translation (About Jude (Judah))

ABOUT JUDE (JUDAH)The name of this book from the Greek text is Judas, which is taken from the Hebrew/Aramaic name Judah.

The actual name of this book is Judah!

One of the most neglected letters in the New Testament, Judah carries a message for every believer today: there is a truth worth fighting for.

It is not only written to you, as one who loves the truth; it is also entrusted to you—to preserve, defend, contend, and struggle for.

Though Judah wrote to a specific community who had been influenced by false teachers and foreign ideas to the gospel, his warning to persevere in both believing in our faith and living out our faith is timeless—for the church has always had to contend with false teachers who have tried to pervert the message of God’s grace and distort the nature of our salvation.

How Can A Christian Avoid Falling?

Contend For The Faith

Jude 3 (AV)

3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised (Contend; Contender; Contention; Contentious)

CONTEND; CONTENDER; In the OT “contend” usually translates Heb.

rîḇ, “dispute” or “quarrel” (AV also “plead,” “strive,”“debate,” “chide”; NEB also “dispute,” “defy,” “fight,” “accuse,” etc.),

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised (Contend; Contender; Contention; Contentious)

The word in Dnl.

10:21 is a form of ḥāzaq,

“be strong,” “take courage.”

Fighting For Your Faith By any Means Necessary

2. Learn How To Identify Ungodly Christians

Take 3 Min on each Scripture

3. Remember The Words Of The Apostles

4. Build Yourselves Up In Your Most Holy Faith

23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh

You can’t pull anyone out of what you haven’t been Built for!

Tell Your brother or sister

You’ve Been Built For This

Jude’s doxology compares most closely with the form as it appears in Romans 16:25–27 and Ephesians 3:20–21:

2 Peter & Jude (Blessing and Doxology (24–25))

The point of comparison with these two far better known Pauline doxologies is the to him who is able acknowledgement of God.

In the case of the Romans doxology and Jude’s, the acknowledgement of God’s ability is linked with a critical prayer concern in each letter’s context

2 Peter & Jude (Blessing and Doxology (24–25))

In Jude 24–25 the prayer embedded in the praise of God’s ability is just what is needed to support the faithful who have been urged to expose themselves to the dangers of the heresy for the sake of mission

The force and technique of this closing device can best be seen by examining the twofold embedded prayer and the description of the God to whom Jude makes this appeal.

The needs of embattled Christians (24) Among the many things we could think of to pray for in the case of missionaries or ministers, Jude concentrates on two.

But in fact let us remember that his prayers are not for professional ministers; rather, he envisions all faithful believers among his audience as called to deliver a missional ministry in dangerous surroundings.

2 Peter & Jude (The Needs of Embattled Christians (24))

First on Jude’s prayer agenda is the pressing need for the present: they must be “guarded from stumbling” (NIV: keep you from falling).

2 Peter & Jude (The Needs of Embattled Christians (24))

The language is metaphorical, transferring the vivid imagery of one traversing a precarious path, filled with pitfalls and dangerous obstacles to the life of faith with its peculiar hazards.

I Wonder if theres anyone besides me thats experienced some pitfalls in life that could have had you laying around still filling sorry for yourself!!!

2 Peter & Jude (The Needs of Embattled Christians (24))

The embedded prayer asks God to keep (or “guard”; the believer upright, safe and moving steadily along the path toward the goal.

to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy.

The language of “presentation” and “blamelessness” comes from the sphere of sacrifice.

The acceptable sacrificial animal was to be “blameless”

Now we Know Ain’t none of us Blameless, there is fault, sin, weights etc.. in all of us.

So how can we be presented blameless?

Tell Somebody its working Together for good

Foreknow:

Predestinate:

Conformed:

Called:

Justified:

Glorified: