"Jude"

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Jude, the brother of James, and the half-brother of Jesus, begins his short epistle to some Jewish Christians that he wanted to write "about the salvation we all share" (v.3). He was speaking about the Spirit led life, our sanctification, a process in which the believer is conformed to the moral image of Jesus. But he felt compelled to address a more somber issue -- the danger of false teachers. Apparently, some had already entered into the church (v.8). These men were not students of the Word, but rather, promoters of sexual sin. They used God's grace as a license for passion (v.4). The only solution? "Fight hard for the faith that was given the holy people of God once and for all time"(v.3). Jude knows that false teachers our spiritual termites that will eventually destroy a church from within by eating away the spiritual foundation which is Christ and Him alone, Christ's sufficiency without any additional works preformed by man.

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