You go to fight a fire without water you just get burned along with the fire.”
–Cliff Hudgins (McNally Texas Ranger)
“Thus, I will demonstrate my glory among the nations. Everyone will see the punishment I have inflicted on them and the power I have demonstrated.”
–Ezekiel 39:21 (NLT)
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How to Live in a Pagan, Apostate, and Foolish World
Key Verse: “We know that we are children of God and that the world around us in under the power and control of the evil one.” –1 John 5:19 (NLT)
It seems that Jude was compelled to deal with the problem of false teaching drifting into the church by false teachers. Evil and misguided men were spreading destructive teaching. The Epistles are full of warnings that we are to guard the truth, to adhere firmly to sound doctrine. Jude sees that there is a breakdown of this among some in the church. They are being deluded by the evil one. Jude says that we must “contend for the faith.”
Foolishness abounds. I saw that a group of people somewhere in Europe identify themselves as sheep. They dress like sheep, act like sheep, and I’m sure that if they do not come to their senses they will be devoured like sheep. I knew of a person who was part of the furry fetish–claiming to be a wolf. They were so confused with their life they eventually took it. Furries they are called–stupid, confused, deluded is what I call them. Lost, and in need of Christ. They do not want to accept the truth, but let me tell you, the truth has finality and is no subject to change. There is no relative truth no matter what the humanists, postmodernists, and new agers say. Jesus Christ is the Truth and that will not change; it will hold up through eternity.
Beware! Jude tells us that there are those who “crept in.” This indicates a stealthy insinuations of something evil in society. These people pervert the grace of God into an excuse for blatant immorality.
“For certain men, who were designated for this judgment long ago, have come in by stealth; they are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into promiscuity and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.”
–Jude 4 (HCSB)
The NIV states it this way, “a license for immorality,” the NASB, “turn the grace…into licentiousness,” while the NKJV uses the term “lewdness.” They teach one of two things but only with partial truth. First, God in His grace will freely forgive all their sins, and therefore, second because of that sin magnifies the grace of God. These people publicly do shameless things, they have ceased to care for any decency. They flaunt their sins.
So I will write again, Beware! Do not be deceived, remember God is not mocked. There is a holy justice, God though in His mercy also has a holy patience. In this waiting period before justice is given we are to beware of our surroundings, beware of what teaching we listen to, beware of our practices and not compromise or become complacent. The evil one is working hard, that is why Jude writes his little letter to encourage us to “contend earnestly for the faith.” (vs 3)
“Thus, I will demonstrate my glory among the nations. Everyone will see the punishment I have inflicted on them and the power I have demonstrated.”
–Ezekiel 39:21 (NLT)
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How to Live in a Pagan, Apostate, and Foolish World
Key Verse: “We know that we are children of God and that the world around us in under the power and control of the evil one.” –1 John 5:19 (NLT)
It seems that Jude was compelled to deal with the problem of false teaching drifting into the church by false teachers. Evil and misguided men were spreading destructive teaching. The Epistles are full of warnings that we are to guard the truth, to adhere firmly to sound doctrine. Jude sees that there is a breakdown of this among some in the church. They are being deluded by the evil one. Jude says that we must “contend for the faith.”
Foolishness abounds. I saw that a group of people somewhere in Europe identify themselves as sheep. They dress like sheep, act like sheep, and I’m sure that if they do not come to their senses they will be devoured like sheep. I knew of a person who was part of the furry fetish–claiming to be a wolf. They were so confused with their life they eventually took it. Furries they are called–stupid, confused, deluded is what I call them. Lost, and in need of Christ. They do not want to accept the truth, but let me tell you, the truth has finality and is no subject to change. There is no relative truth no matter what the humanists, postmodernists, and new agers say. Jesus Christ is the Truth and that will not change; it will hold up through eternity.
Beware! Jude tells us that there are those who “crept in.” This indicates a stealthy insinuations of something evil in society. These people pervert the grace of God into an excuse for blatant immorality.
“For certain men, who were designated for this judgment long ago, have come in by stealth; they are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into promiscuity and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.”
–Jude 4 (HCSB)
The NIV states it this way, “a license for immorality,” the NASB, “turn the grace…into licentiousness,” while the NKJV uses the term “lewdness.” They teach one of two things but only with partial truth. First, God in His grace will freely forgive all their sins, and therefore, second because of that sin magnifies the grace of God. These people publicly do shameless things, they have ceased to care for any decency. They flaunt their sins.
So I will write again, Beware! Do not be deceived, remember God is not mocked. There is a holy justice, God though in His mercy also has a holy patience. In this waiting period before justice is given we are to beware of our surroundings, beware of what teaching we listen to, beware of our practices and not compromise or become complacent. The evil one is working hard, that is why Jude writes his little letter to encourage us to “contend earnestly for the faith.” (vs 3)