Jude: Part 1- A Call to Contend for the Faith
Jude writes to Believers whose fellowship was infiltrated by false teachers. Many were being falsely guided by false teachers which had already arrived on the scene of the local church at the time of Jude’s epistle. In light of the efforts of these false teachers to dilute fundamental doctrine, Jude demands that his readers stand deliberate in their defense of the Word of God. It is no wonder why Jude is known as The Fighting Apostle. Our reading this morning is Jude: 1-4. This letter is from Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and a brother of James. I am writing to all who have been called by God the Father, who loves you and keeps you safe in the care of Jesus Christ. May God give you more and more mercy, peace, and love. Dear friends, I had been eagerly planning to write to you about the salvation we all share. But now I find that I must write about something else, urging you to defend the faith that God has entrusted once for all time to his holy people. I say this because some ungodly people have wormed their way into your churches, saying that God’s marvelous grace allows us to live immoral lives. The condemnation of such people was recorded long ago, for they have denied our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.