Truth in Love Video Ministry Jude 17-23

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Truth in Love, Speaking the Truth in Love

Truth in Love, it's still early and I always wait too long to get going in the mornings. Truth in Love comes from Ephesians chapter 4 verse 15. It says, but speaking the truth in love we are to grow up in all aspects into him who is the head even Christ.

I hope that message will sink in for all of us that there is a truth out there. There's no gray areas with God. He has intentions, he has purposes, he has a reality and there's no gray areas with God and he has given us his word.

He teaches us and there is truth in his word. I hear this language used today, I spoke my truth, we spoke our truths to each other. So in other words, we talked about our feelings, what we believe in, what is good for me and what is good for the other person in our relationships.

I hear that language, we spoke our truths and what's good for you might not be good for me but in reality there is truth, there is a truth and it's the Lord Jesus Christ, it's his word, it's God and I know that even when it comes to interpreting or an interpretation of God's word, there are differences and we have differences of opinions when it comes to interpretation but in that disagreement I think we can do it in love and we can work towards discovering what God's truth is.

It doesn't really matter what our truths are ultimately. Ultimately we're going to find that out, it's not going to matter what I believe or what I think my truth is, it matters what God's truth is because he has the final say, he has the final judgment.

So we can disagree, we can disagree in love but we want to speak that truth, God's truth in love to one another so that we can grow up in all aspects. We don't want to, because for the sake of it being hard and difficult to talk about or understand, we don't want to shove it to the side, put it on the shelf.

Things are hard. Studying God's word can be difficult sometimes. It can be difficult to communicate with somebody that we disagree with but it is worth it because it's God's word, it's God's truth. So I hope you will join me in that endeavor to discover God's word and God's truth so that we can grow up in all aspects into him who was the head even Christ.

He is our head and we love him and we praise him. On my videos, the things that I do, the floor is always yours. I love to be able to communicate with you and talk with you, know what's going on. Let me know what church you go to, let us know what what's going on at your church, if you have any events, what time your services are.

If you have any questions about the Bible, about a particular passage of scripture you would like to discuss, I'd love to be able to do that with you. Anything that's going on in the world that we can look at from a Christian perspective, I'd love to be able to do that with you as well.

So the floor is open that we can discuss things and talk. I do want to say this this morning as we're going to have a time of prayer at the end and if I can pray for you, just let me know. Two weekends in a row now.

Within my circle of people that I know, we have lost two people. One last weekend and one this weekend. It's been a very sad week if you put these two weekends in a parenthesis. It's been a very, very sad week and a very difficult week and I know for the families it's been and it is continuing to be very sad and very difficult.

These individuals that we care about, that we lost, were very young and it's very difficult and this is a very difficult situation. My appeal this morning as we reflect on these things happening is to ask the question, why do we wait?

I'm lumping myself into this category as I do with all this teaching because I need God's Word. I need God's truth. I need it to transform me but I asked myself this question and I ask you this question, why do we wait?

I think normally, the normal experience for us as human beings here on this earth is we live this day and we live this moment this night. We go into the weekend. We work for the weekend. We can't wait until Friday.

Friday comes and we've got plans and we do the things that we want to do and we live as if we are guaranteed tomorrow. Do we not? We live as if life is guaranteed for us tomorrow or the people that we know, they will be here tomorrow so we live it up and we do the things that we want to do that don't always have eternal value.

It's more for us and our pleasure and our enjoyment. Am I right on that? Do you think that that's pretty common for us and how we live that we don't live with an eternal perspective? We barely even live with a long-term perspective.

We live more for a weekend perspective. We live for ourselves with no regard to we may not be here and our friends and our family may not be here tomorrow and so I ask myself and I ask us and I appeal I make this appeal to us this morning.

Why do we wait? Why do we wait? Why do we wait to live for the Lord? Why do we wait to make those decisions that affect our relationship with God? Why do we wait to communicate and have those conversations, those spiritual, those emotional conversations with our loved ones and with our friends?

Why do we put it off? Why do we wait? Why do we live without an eternal perspective and just live with a weekend perspective where life is just about us? Why do we wait until tragedy strikes that we begin to think about these things?

I pray for us. Pray for me and I'll pray for you and that we would we would that God would change our hearts. That it wouldn't take tragedy for us to think on eternal things. That it wouldn't take tragedy for us to think on spiritual things.

That we all this has happened or I've got this diagnosis. I need to get things right with the Lord. Let it not be so for us that we have to wait on those things that happen before we begin to have an eternal perspective and our gaze and our focus turns to the Lord.

May our gaze and our focus turn to the Lord Jesus Christ every day. That we may live for him every day with our thoughts, with our attitudes, with our relationships and see him as precious every day. Submit to him every day.

We want to pray for those families who have lost those loved ones this morning and continue to pray for them in their time of grieving, in their time of loss because it's difficult. It's difficult and we want to continue to pray for them.

Again, thank you for watching and thank you for your support. If you would like, share, comment. I'd love to know that you're watching. If you have any questions, I'd love to talk about those questions.

I don't have all the answers but I'd love to talk about those questions and we can we can search and dig in together on those questions. This morning before we pray and before we lift up those families, before we lift up each other, we're going to continue in the in the book of Jude.

Last Tuesday we looked at verses 1 through 4 in Jude. So if you have your Bible, if you want to follow along, we're going to look at Jude verses 5 through 11. And speaking of opening up God's Word, I'd like to make this announcement as well before we get started.

I have sought out interest on Facebook to see if there's an interest out there for folks to gather publicly to read God's Word. And I think there's an interest out there. I started a Facebook group and I think if you're not already a member of it, I think that you can find it.

It's Reading God's Word Publicly LCNC, which means Lincoln County, North Carolina. We plan to meet at the courthouse August 16th at 2 p .m. I would love to have you there. You're welcome to come. You are invited.

Invite your family and your friends. Share the invite if you see it come across Facebook. We'd love to have you join us. We still need several more readers to volunteer. We're going to read the Gospel of John and I need 21 volunteers to read a chapter a piece.

And I'd also like for some folks to confirm if they will that they will film or do a live Facebook live and film so we can get the public reading of God's Word out there. I think I think reading God's Word is helpful when it comes to unity among Christians.

I think it is a good thing because of what God says in His Word about His Word. He says His Word is powerful. His Word holds together the universe. His Word will not return to him void. His Word is a lamp unto our feet, a light into our path.

It says faith comes by hearing and hearing from the Word of God. So there's so many reasons, even from Scripture, that we should read God's Word publicly and get God's Word out there. Just to read it.

Simple as that. Just reading God's Word and let the Holy Spirit do His work in our lives. So if you will, join me in that. Let me know if you're coming by acknowledging that on the event that was created on Facebook.

Let's get excited. Let's pray about that. That we're together getting God's Word out there. So let's look at Jude verses 5 to 11. Let me read it real quick and then we'll just go through the verses together.

It says, Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe, and angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

Yet in the same manner these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh and reject authority and revile angelic majesties. But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke you.

But these men revile the things which they do not understand, and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed. Woe to them, for they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

Jude's Warning About Apostates

Now just a reminder, verse 5 of course, in the context, is preceded by verse 4, which we learned that, you know, Judas, his main topic, his main idea, his focus here, because he wanted to write to them about their common salvation as an encouragement, as a teaching to go deeper, whatever his intention was, he wanted to write to them about their common salvation and how glorious it was, but there was something that come in, whether it was a word from another person, inspiration of the Lord, all these things were coming together that changed his mind in writing this letter, because he said that there are people, certain persons, have crept in, it's already happened, they have crept in unnoticed, and it's what we call in theological terms, apostates.

Hey mom, dad, thank you all for watching. We call them apostates, false teachers, and we call the false teaching apostasy. It's just big words that we use to describe the situation, and so Judas is discussing apostasy and apostates, false teachers, folks, certain persons that have already crept in unnoticed, and so that is the context leading into to verse 5, and he says in verse 5 that he desires to remind us.

This is similar to what Peter does. Peter sees the need to remind, and the fact that it's okay to continue to remind them of these truths, because that's a part of being a good leader, is knowing who we are as human beings, that we forget, that we need reminding, that we need another dose.

We need it every day to remind ourselves, to preach the gospel to ourselves. We need a reminder all the time, a refresher to turn our gaze back toward the Lord Jesus Christ, to keep our mind focused on who he is and who we are and what we should be doing.

It's just part of being a good leader and to remind folks that it's okay in your teaching when you're sharing and preaching to give reminders, to say the same thing sometimes. So that's what he's doing here.

He was reminding them of though you know all things once for all, and that we remember that similar language he used earlier in verse 3. He wants them to contend earnestly for the faith, and what was that contend earnestly?

Remember the Greek word, you can see the word agonized. It's not a passive word where we say all the preacher wants us to watch out for that certain television evangelist, televangelist, and so we just we write his name down and we kind of remember to turn the channel, not listen to him.

It is not in any way a passive verb, a command to be passive, a passive action. No, you can see the word agonized in that word that's translated contend. It is a striving for, it is a defense, this is a very aggressive approach to protecting and defending the gospel in such a way that he proclaims mercy and peace and love be multiplied to us because he knows the difficulties that come with contending for the faith, agonizing for the faith, defending the faith in such a way.

In no means is it passive, but this faith that we are supposed to contend earnestly for, it was once for all delivered to the Saints and now he has a desire to remind them, though you know all things once for all.

So this gospel, this teaching, they know it. They know this information, but they also need this reminder, this refresher continually that the Lord, and I just wanted to share this for a moment. If you look in verse 5 where it says that the Lord, have you seen going through Facebook here recently, some people are sharing posts where they're talking about these certain versions of the Bible take out verses, take out words, and that we shouldn't be taking out verses and words and changing God's Word, and it's often quoted, the verse that says we shall not add to or take away from God's Word.

Be careful with those posts and what you're letting influence you. If you look in the foot, if you have a Bible that has footnotes, what's interesting in verse 5 here, when it says that the Lord, now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, so the Lord has done something here, and then in the footnotes, if you happen to look in your footnotes, it will say some early manuscripts say Jesus.

Now the attack on these newer translations is that they they take away verses, they take away words, or they'll take out the name Jesus and just just put in he there. Well here, the earlier manuscripts say Jesus, and the later manuscripts don't.

So, and I know that's confusing, and we can we can do a whole video on just that topic, but I say that to say, or I say this to say, the original language is our standard, and the closer that we can get to the the Apostles and the earlier manuscripts, the closer we can get to Jesus and the Apostles and the church, early church fathers, the better off we are.

This certain one version is is not the be-all end-all and not our ultimate standard. It's it's the original language, and if the earlier manuscripts have Jesus here, and the later manuscripts don't, it's the later manuscripts that have changed, that have added to, or or taken away from.

So it works both ways. The ultimate goal is to give back to to the original, and that's what we want to do. But it's it's interesting that if these early manuscripts are telling us what what Jude actually said, he is he is speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He is speaking of his his his master, whom he says he's a bondservant of, Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ. That Jesus, what did Jesus do here? After saving a people out of the land of Egypt. So what he's what he's doing here, and let me say this real quick, Jude's method of writing here, he's going to give us three sets of three.

So he's wanting us to contend earnestly for the faith. He's warned us about these certain persons who have crept in, these apostates, and now he's going to give us three sets of three of warnings when it comes to these apostates, and the and how they apostatized, and the judgment that come along with them.

So let's look at these three sets of threes, these warnings from Jude. The Lord Jesus, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. So you had you had an apostate Israel.

God did so much for them. He sent Moses. He brought them out of the land of Egypt. They saw signs and miracles. You know, Moses held up the staff, which Jesus refers to, and people had to gaze upon it, and they were they were healed.

They walked on dry land through a Red Sea, and then the Red Sea collapsed and killed the enemies, drowned the enemies that were that were in pursuit of them. You know, he took care of them in the wilderness, despite the fact that they were in the wilderness because of themselves, and then when they got and approached the promised land, many of them that were that began this journey did not enter.

Why? He says he destroyed those who did not believe. They were in the nation of Israel, but they become apostate Israel. They left the faith. Why? Because they did not believe, and in fact, they were millions, millions who did not enter the promised land.

So apostasy against God, turning, rejecting God, is serious business. That he would take them and rescue them, but yet leaving the faith, rejecting him, unbelief, requires this punishment. Not only did they not, they were not allowed to enter the promised land, he destroyed them.

So we have apostate Israel. This is the first set of three, number one. Number two, and angels, and angels who did not keep their own dominion, but abandoned their proper abode. So we get that from Genesis, Genesis chapter 6, and these angels who were supposed to, you know, do the will of the Lord, do the will of the Father, they abandoned their own domain, and he is kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of that great day.

So you have apostate Israel, and you have apostate angels who reject God the Father, and do their own thing. And what's the, what's the judgment here? They are in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of that great day.

There's no escape from rejection of God the Father. So you have apostate Israel, apostate angels, and then you apostate everybody else, Gentiles. Verse 7, just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these, so what does he mean right there, since they in the same way as these?

We have to go back to the context. He is referring to these certain persons who have crept in unnoticed. They are doing the same things as apostate Israel, as apostate angels, as apostate cities. They're doing the same things, and what, and what were these cities doing?

What, what were they all doing? Well, we know that they, they rejected God's authority, rejected, they did not submit to him, they wanted to go about their own way of, their own way of doing things, and then they also, if you remember Sodom and Gomorrah, and we continue to read the verse, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality, fornications, and went after strange flesh, and without fleshing all that out, um, they went, they went after strange flesh.

That means sexually they went after, um, that's, that which they were not designed for. We were designed to be with someone else of God's design, and I know, I know I'm being super vague here, um, but, but it goes against God's design.

If you're going to get strange flesh, you go against God's design, and you will go against nature. Genesis, God's design, and Romans speaks of God's design. Nature, um, go back to Genesis, and you go to Romans chapter 1.

Um, we go against God's design, and we go against nature when we go against strange, when we go after strange flesh, and that's what these, these folks are doing. They're, they're after sexual, gross sexual immorality, and going after strange flesh, going after that which God did not design us to be with, and are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire, and this, this should really sober us up when we hear those, that language, when we hear this sentence, in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

There's a lot in scripture that, that's figurative language, where, where God is, uh, using an analogy, but I don't think that eternal fire is, is figurative, or, or an analogy here. I think because Jude is referencing things that are historical, that are factual, that are little literal, that I think he, to follow along in the context, he is speaking of a literal eternal fire, and that should bring a soberness to us, a shock to reality, that rejection of God, you know, a claiming, a claiming God with our lips, but then rejecting Him with our, our behavior, and our teaching, leads to destruction, leads to bonds, and, and a waiting for the great day of judgment, and leads to the punishment in eternal fire.

That should bring a soberness to us. So that's, that's the first set of three, apostate Israel, apostate angels, and apostate everyone else, Gentiles, the cities, and then we have the next set, number two of three, starting in verse eight, yet in the manner of these men, who were these men?

Certain persons who have crept in unnoticed, that, uh, that are the apostates, that he's warning, that are of Jude's time, that he's warning the people about, yet in the same manner, these men also, by dreaming, and what does he mean by dreaming here?

Some people say that, you know, dreaming, we can sin while we're dreaming. I'm not so certain that he is necessarily talking about our, our natural dreaming at night here in this verse. What I think he's talking about here is he's, these men who are apostates, who have, who have fallen from the faith, rejected God, they are in a different, in their thinking, they are in a different reality.

They are, they are delusional in their thinking. They think this, they think that reality is, is a certain way that it's not. They're trying to mold reality in their own mind, the way they think it should be, so they're delusional.

They're in a, they're in a different reality, instead of God's reality, so by their dreaming, they're, they're being outside of reality. They defile the flesh, and that goes back to, you know, the fornication that we talked about, the, the going after strange flesh that we talked about, so they, they defile the flesh.

This is the fruit of these, these apostates, these that, that have crept in unnoticed, that, that may speak the name of Jesus, that, you know, may be flamboyant, that energetic, they, they may draw a crowd, and have a lot of followers, and we could say, oh, the Lord is, is blessing that pastor, blessing that church, they're doing so good, we can see the fruit, but that's not the fruit that we should be looking for.

We should be looking for these things. They, they defile the flesh, they reject authority, that's number two, defile the flesh, reject authority, and they revile angelic majesties. That's a little bit deeper than, than just what the words try to tell us there, revile angelic majesties, so I don't think it's necessarily talking about angels themselves, they're rejecting angels, I don't think that's what it's talking about, so the word revile means blasphemy, so that's, that's what it means there, it's the word blasphemy, angelic majesties, so the, the word that's used right there for angelic majesties is d-o-x-a, doxa, and it has multiple definitions, and I think because of the context, and the example that's given after that, they, they kind of, the interpreters combined, and, and they think that Jude was referring to a combination of all the definitions of doxa, and I don't even know that I'm pronouncing that right, because I'm not a scholar, but you have three, basic three different definitions, opinion, glory, and, and angels, and that's just very simplistic, opinion, glory, and angels, and so to combine the three, you have angelic majesties, all right, so we get, we get the word orthodox from, from doxa, and orthodox is the agreed-upon truth of, you know, of a certain belief system, a certain religion, that if we're being orthodox, we're, we're staying within the standards, approved standards of that belief, so angelic majesties, it does have to do with, with the heavenlies, and with, with those who dwell in the heavenlies, which would be the angels, and it has to do with their, their opinions, or their accepted truths that are, that are true of God, their beliefs that they follow, and so these people blaspheme the, the ways of the, those who dwell in the heavenlies by, by not following their example, and we'll, we'll see that here, starting in verse nine, they, they blaspheme and reject how things are, are done in the heavenlies.

The things that, that live in the heavenlies honor God, submit to God, and do things His way, and they don't, they don't, they don't find themselves dreaming or, or in this other reality, where they, they make up reality in their own mind, the way things should be.

No, it's the way the Lord wants it to be. Reality is reality to them, and, and so these, these folks who have crept in unnoticed, they blaspheme that, that order of things in the heavenlies, and so how do things work in the heavenlies?

Verse nine, but Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil, and argued about the body of Moses, and did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, so Michael the head angel, the head angel in the heavenlies, he did not dare pronounce against him, the devil, a railing judgment.

He didn't come after the devil, but said, the Lord rebuke you. So in the heavenlies, the way things work in the heavenlies, even the head angel does not come after the devil, does not pronounce to him a judgment, does not come after him, and, and you, you hear it said often in, in our world and TV, uh, you hear people say, um, talk to the devil, tell the devil to do this, and tell the devil to do that, and, and rebuke the devil in Jesus name, and that's not following the example of those who live in the heavenlies.

That's not the order of things in the heavenlies. Michael the archangel did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, and, and saying I rebuke you in the name of Jesus sounds like we're getting close, but we're still off the mark, because we say I rebuke you, and Michael the archangel didn't even do that, but what did Michael do?

He said, the Lord rebuke you. He left the judgment upon the devil up to the Lord. He, he left the devil in God's hands. He did not take them upon himself. He didn't tell the devil what to do. He didn't pronounce judgment on him.

He left the devil up to the Lord. The Lord rebuke you, not I rebuke you in the name of Jesus, or in the name of the Lord. He left it up, so we need to follow the example of those who live in the heavenlies, and not blaspheme it, and not reject it, but leave, leave those things, those judgments, those railings to the Lord, and let him fight those battles, battles.

You know, the Lord says vengeance is mine, declares the Lord. I will repay, so those things are up to him, and we leave those things in his hands. So that was, um, that was the second set of three. Uh, these, these folks defile the flesh, they reject authority, and they revile against the way things are done in the heavenlies.

They revile angelic majesties, and now, uh, verse, verse 10, but these men revile things which they do not understand. Like I was talking about, they, they begin to blaspheme what goes on in the heavenlies, and they don't understand what goes on in the heavenlies, and things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things, they are destroyed.

Another great warning to us to stay true to the Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching of the apostles, and strive in our disagreement to work together to get to his truth, but not be, not be overcome, and not be so steadfast in our belief that comes from our emotion, but be willing to be transformed by the word of God, and reason together by the word of God, instead of our emotions and our experiences.

You know, it, we find it difficult sometimes to, to have a conversation with folks who base their beliefs on their experiences and their emotions. Well, you can't argue with me. I've experienced that.

We, we need to, I think the warning here is, we will be destroyed if that's how we get our theology, if that's how we get our beliefs, and they end up being wrong. They were, they revile things which they don't understand, and the things that which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals.

We need to be not unreasoning, but reasoning, and logical, and willing to submit to the authority of God's word, and not, and not stand on theology that comes from our experience and emotions. And then verse 11, the, the great warning here, woe to them, woe to them, for they have gone the way of Cain.

What was the way of Cain? And here's the last set of three. The way of Cain is, he rejected God's authority. He rejected, he didn't submit to the way God would have him do sacrifices. He, he rejected God's authority, and did not submit to him in how God wanted to be approached, how God wanted to be worshiped.

Cain rejected that, and these people come in and teach us, they do the same thing, and they teach us to do the same thing. To, to reject the way God would have us to do things. It's, and we need to look at our, our, how we worship God in our church.

How we, how we order things in our church. Go about our ministries in our church. We need to do them God's way, according to the Bible. And not, and not have a committee meeting and, and strategize on which is the best way to approach the culture.

We need to start with God's word. And Cain rejected God's word, God's way of doing things. He rejected God's authority. And then the number two, and for pay, for financial gain, they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam.

What was the error of Balaam? Well, Balaam tried to get, um, Balak, um, let's see, yeah, Balak, king of Moab, to, to entice or, or get the, the people of Israel to turn from God and to worship in idolatry.

And he tried to get the king to do this for financial gain, for financial gain. And then the last one and perished in the rebellion of Korah. And what was the rebellion of Korah? It's when the Jewish leaders rejected God's chosen leadership of Moses and Aaron and tried to do things their own way.

So we need to watch out for those things within our midst, rejecting God's authority, rejecting the, uh, the way God wants things to be done. And it's, and it's not all, it's not always visible and noticeable when we reject God's authority by not doing things his way.

Our leaders don't come to us and say, we're not going to do things according to such and such verse. They don't make it that obvious. They come to us appealing to us in such a way that it, it makes, uh, it makes sense or it looks good.

It looks enticing. Um, just like how Satan in Genesis made the fruit look good to them, even though it was against God's word, he made it look enticing to them, appealing, uh, appealing and good for, for, for taste good for them.

And it would have good results. I mean, he totally twisted and changed God's word. And that's how these folks will be. And we have to be, we have to contend earnestly. We have to agonize to know God's word and know when these things are coming at us, we have to be aware, have our eyes open for the schemes of, of the devil, for the schemes of these men who are, are in it for financial gain or in it for themselves.

They they're rejecting God at his authority. They're not submitting to him. They want to do things their way, but it's coming at us in a way that's appealing. And I think for many years now, we have become ignorant of God's word.

There are so many of us that are illiterate of God's word for so many years now that we don't know the difference between, we just trust what the preacher says. We just trust what our leaders say. And we don't know God's word ourselves.

We don't become students of God's word. We put it on the shelf. We put it aside and we think other things in our lives are important. We live for the weekend instead of living for the Lord. And then when the preacher says, this is what, this is the way things should be.

And it appeals to us and it makes sense. And we think it's good. And we think it will have good results because that's how it's presented to us. But in the end it's destruction. Jude tells us it's eternal fire.

It's being bound for eternity for that great day of judgment and it's death and destruction. So be on your guard, become students of God's word and be on your guard when you're approached with ideas and thoughts, compare it to God's word because there's a warning against falling away.

So I hope that was encouraging. I know it was probably long. Yeah, it absolutely was, absolutely was long. But it was, it's good stuff. It's good. It's God's word. And I hope it was encouraging to you.

If you have any questions, you want to talk about anything, just send me a message and we'll have that conversation. Well, join me Tuesday. We'll continue in Jude. I think we're only looking at a couple of verses next time.

But what we want to do now is we want to pray for those families that I mentioned earlier. And if I can pray for you, let me know. If you watch the video later, I'd love to be able to pray for you whenever I get that notification and I see that.

But I ask you to continue, if you don't mind, like, share, and definitely pray for me and my family. Pray for this ministry. And thank you for your support that we continue getting God's word out there, the truth of his word, the gospel out there.

The truth of the matter is Jude, being a member, being a half brother of Jesus, being a member of the family of Jesus, once rejected him himself, did a complete 180, and now is a bond servant of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus says he is the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes to the Father, but by him. And if you don't know him, know him today. Come to him today. Submit to him today. We have all sinned and fallen short of God's glory.

We all need a Savior. We all need a rescuer. God commands us to repent of our sins and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. It's not a magic formula. It's not a magic prayer. It's not a magic place. It's where you are, lifting up your eyes, lifting up your heart, gazing on the Lord Jesus Christ, and calling out to him.