Thursday, July 18, 2013

Contend for the Faith!


Jude 1:3-4
Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jude warned Christians that those who do not know Him work their way into church assemblies to live in and promote sin (disobedience to God) and deny Jesus Christ is the only way to God and the only truth.  We do not always see them immediately, and they blend in if we do not pay attention.  This is why the truth matters; false believers will tell another gospel or change the truth to excuse immorality or our accountability, often substituting entertaining stories or psychology for truth.  Acts 17:11 reminds us to go to the source for what is true and right. 

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