September 28, 2016 Show with Daniel R. Hyde on “Content Yet Contending: Jude” PLUS Michael Gaydosh on “Literary Treasures Unearthed”

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And we've got two very good guests returning to the iron sharpens iron program today. The first hour We have on the broadcast Daniel R. Hyde pastor of Oceanside United Reformed Church in Oceanside, California.

Who will be discussing his new book that will soon be in print. God willing. Content yet contending which is an exposition on the epistle of Jude. And then in the second hour We have Michael Gaydosh founder of solid ground Christian books, and he's going to be discussing Some more literary treasures that he has unearthed and brought back into print through solid grand Christian books.

But first of all, it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to iron sharpens iron pastor Danny Hyde. Hey, it's my pleasure brother and as we typically do with pastors because not everybody is familiar with you and we Have people discovering iron sharpens iron nearly every day it seems.

So they may have not heard you on this program before tell our listeners something about Oceanside United Reformed Church.

Sure, I think or find us online Reformed church and basically in a nutshell are celebrating the gospel of Jesus Christ all very reverent community. Know more about our church online. Oceanside.

URC.

Great, and that's the denomination that many who made an exodus out of the Christian Reformed Church entered into correct.

Yes, that's right. Yeah, this is the United Reformed. Yeah founding that you are see the United Reformed coming out of the the old Christian Reformed Church, which has its roots back in Europe. Reformation and.

Yeah, this does have why art for the or not ordination of to the ministry started new although confident in that knows no shame in the gospel and.

Trumpet that word and there are still a remnant of good faithful men that chose to remain in the CRC. I believe Joel Niederhood remained in there if I'm not mistaken. But I still applaud your choice. To leave over those very serious issues, especially on the reliability and authority of the Word of God.

We're going to be discussing a book that is not yet in print yet, but to God willing soon will be content yet contending. Which is your new exposition on the epistle of Jude? What led you to take this very short epistle and write an entire book on it?

Why Jude Became a Full-Length Exposition

Yeah, Jude's always they want to look at it and I think wow.

You know.

Maybe to give you a break or sort of transition from one large book to another and so many years ago. Thinking you know, I can do it in one sermon or maybe two. It turned out to be a little longer than that full of typical Old Testament images and a lot of things in there that I really drew my attention to it.

And then I had a for many years he was at one point the editor of banner truth and He he had given some. It's got me got me thinking more about you so I had gone back over through it again and thinking and thistle a good way to segue into a book and so.

Yeah, that's how I got interested was basically preaching it studying it hearing lectures from a professor that I trusted.

Well, if you don't mind since it is a very short epistle, I'm going to read it. So This is the epistle of Jude. Jude a bondservant of Jesus Christ and brother of James to those who are the cold beloved in God the Father and Kept for Jesus Christ may mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.

Beloved. While I was making every effort to write to you about a common salvation I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith Which was once for all handed down to the Saints for certain persons have crept in unnoticed Those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and Deny our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, I desire to remind you Through you now all things Once and for all that the Lord after saving a people out of the land of Egypt Subsequently destroyed those who did not believe all angels who did not keep their own domain But abandoned their proper abode.

He has kept in eternal bonds and her 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 and exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire yet in the same way 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 care to pronounce 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. These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear Caring for themselves clouds without water carried along by winds autumn trees without fruit Doubly dead uprooted and wild waves of the sea casting up their own shame like foam Wandering stars for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.

It was also about these men that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam Prophesied saying behold the Lord came with many thousands of his holy ones to execute judgment upon all and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way and of all the harsh things which Ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

These are grumblers finding fault following after their own lusts. They speak arrogantly flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage. But you beloved ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand By the Apostle of our Lord Jesus Christ that they were saying to you in the last time there will be mockers Following after their own ungodly lusts.

These are the ones who cause divisions Worldly-minded devoid of the spirit, but you beloved building yourselves upon your most holy faith Praying in the Holy Spirit keep yourselves in the love of God waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life and Have mercy on some who are doubting saving save others Snatching them out of the fire and on some have mercy with fear hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.

Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of his Lord his glory blameless with joy To the only God and Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord be glory majesty dominion and authority before all time and now and forever.

Amen, and of course most of our listeners will recognize that as probably the most frequently under uttered benediction at the end of a worship service that I've ever heard but Even though that is a quite a small Epistle it is very powerful and probably the I don't know this for a fact.

But it seems probably the repetition of the word ungodly is more frequently made than any other place. I can recall in the scripture.

Jude’s Warning Against Novelty, Hyper-Preterism, and Ecumenical Drift

Yeah.

Now it's great.

Go ahead. Oh, yeah, this is timeless obviously.

Now this was this being spawned from General evil that was taking place in various ways in different places or was Jude reacting to specific people in the midst of those he was writing.

Nation to those who are calling to whom. It does sound and seem like somewhere and I would know the old testers today. Society. You know right in our mentioned at the very beginning about those in the church.

I have heard perhaps you have a different opinion on this But I have heard from some that the third verse Which I will read it in a few different translations We have dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all Entrusted to God's holy people.

That's the NIV. We have the ESV beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all Delivered to the Saints and going back to the NASB that I was reading from beloved.

While I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith, which was once for all Handed down to the Saints and last but not least the King James Bible Beloved when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation It was needed It was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith Which was once delivered unto the Saints.

I have heard that that is a warning that if you have come up with some kind of novel idea that you are claiming to be exegeting from the scriptures. And may likely be is a cheating something rather than executing it that this is a warning that if the if the Saints of God have never heard of this concept that you have Developed or that you think that you have has been revealed to you that that it is nearly With certainty a falsehood is that?

Or perhaps even You know, there are some horrible things that That have been taught that seem very novel. Well, I'm certain that the people who have developed these ideas may not think that they're horrible, but they're certainly Anticlimactic and to me utterly depressing like the concept of the full or hyper preterist Understanding the wet Jesus has already come back.

He's not coming back again physically invisibly 80 -70 was when he returned and we're not gonna be seeing him again. This world is gonna go on forever and ever. I mean, I don't know how they take joy in that but That that's just another example Of something that I think is I mean, I know that there was some precedent.

But it's not something that goes back to the ancient church. Is it?

Yeah, that I that idea specifically hyper preterism, of course, you could say Hymenaeus and Philetus.

And.

Salvation that we're used to hearing from Romans a was going on and so. Yet contending and so that's thinking of our Christian life in terms of it's just not. It's looked upon.

Warning Against Ecumenism, False Gospels, and the Sin of Easy Believism

Yeah, in fact. You were constantly hearing today even from many professing conservative evangelicals, it's not just The backyard of liberalism anymore where ecumenism is running rampant and people are being excused for really disturbing heresies that used to be really the exclusive property of liberalism, but now you have professing conservatives doing it all the time with Roman Catholicism and Mormonism and other aberrant heretical Teachings and false Gospels where they are considered brethren.

Just because they are fighting against some moral evils that we oppose with equal fervor. But that's a that's a real danger in our day and age, isn't it for? You know, we used to think that this was something that was just manifesting itself with liberalism.

But it's really in our own in our own backyard now, isn't it? That's right. And no I have not Affiliation, you know, you know, you know the denomination so you can filter it out and so appalling. Pulled out only.

Agree.

Just to have just to have you repeat that because I just want to let you know. You are breaking up a little bit and perhaps when we go to a break you can read Phone in or something, but you said that.

That a great percentage of evangelicals did not believe that sin. Warranted any condemnation. Is that what you said? That's pretty disturbing. Their own personal efforts, is that what you said?

Yeah, three quarters of evangelicals, you know.

That's kind of ironic that they would believe in that heresy because they seem to be more guilty of The the sin of easy believism and cheap grace, you know, I'm saying they don't even they don't even work at all let alone.

Yes, and we're gonna go to a break and if you could Pastor Danny if you could call back so that we could perhaps reconnect with a stronger connection because you are breaking up and I wouldn't want our listeners to miss a word and We do have some listeners who are waiting to have their questions asked.

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The Meaning of Contending for the Faith

And if you'd like to join us on the air, our email address is Chris Arnson at gmail .com. Chris Arnson at gmail .com coming up on the second hour Mike Adosh of solid ground Christian books will be joining us.

We do have a listener and this is from a city in Wales that I know well because I have met a pastor who is just retired from there a very well-known pastor Jeff Thomas who was written for banner of truth and Has is a very well-known theologically reformed conference speaker.

And he taught me how to say this city and I may still be butchering it because it's been a while since he taught me how to pronounce it correctly, but I think it's Aberystwyth Wales and Perhaps Mike and Aberystwyth Wales Will correct me if I pronounced it wrong.

But he asks you could you ask Daniel to comment on? Verse 5 where Jesus is specifically named in the English Standard Version as the destroyer. But not in other translations. I find this to be a very powerful testimony that the deity and sigh and sovereignty and the power of Christ.

If you could pastor Daniel I'm sorry. Yes, I can. Yes, he will yet for some reason you're breaking up again, and I can't figure out why but he asks Why is it that the ESV specifically? Names Jesus the destroyer and that's not in any other translations.

Oh.

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Thank you, Mike and Mike from and now I remember exactly what? Jeff Thomas said when he was teaching me how to pronounce it. He said Aberystwyth said remember rust. That's what the trick was Mike and Aberystwyth Wales says my eldest son Chris is a deacon There at Alfred Place Baptist Church in Aberystwyth where Jeff Thomas was pastoring before he retired and Jeff's grandson has just been inducted as the new pastor now that Jeff is retired.

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What would you say? as this. This epistle was obviously can intended by Jude to be a The sound of an alarm he was he was basically Warning the Saints about charlatans and those with evil motives and teachings Creeping into the church.

What do you think in our day and age? especially when it comes to those who are theologically reformed or those who are known for Biblical Orthodoxy, what what would you say that we should be? Disturbed about and warning others about that.

It's creeping up around our own midst.

The Danger of Treating the Pastoral Office as a Right

Yeah, good people. Defend it broken and hurting at least millennia. Writing books and we're gonna see people reformed. Well, you know, the Lord has been plus year. Live our lives.

Yeah, would you say that men like them?

Are.

Mistaken and that they seem to have developed the conclusion that being a pastor is a right and not a privilege. It seems that some people think that the church owes them Some kind of a position of authority just because they have gifts or perhaps well-read learned and in other Theological camps other than our own it might be just because the guy's a good orator or has drawn very large crowds or whatever the case may be.

Or.

Claims of miraculous manifestations. But in our in our camps, it would be more in areas regarding the brain and so on. You think that's a large part of it is. They're looking at it as a right rather than a privilege.

Yeah, I think I mean there's website and some of the quotes out of context Romans 11 work. Amen and.

And when I said amen, I didn't mean that necessarily specifically about you. What you said. Regarding us the theologically reformed camp if you will. You know that we have that interesting phrase that Festus cried out against Paul.

You are insane Paul. Your great learning has made you mad or Paul you are out of your mind. Your great learning is driving you mad. Obviously, he was very wrong Festus when he said that to the Apostle who was being divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit.

But do you think sometimes that that could be rightly said of some of our reformed brethren who really are Digging so deeply looking for something in the scripture that they're they're they're throwing out the truth with the dirt that they're digging out and.

They are really inventing things. Maybe unconsciously, but they're trying to be so meticulous and in perhaps even a quest to with some kind of an unconsciously Gnostic motivation. Wanting to be amongst some elite group that has seen something that nobody else sees they're coming up with things.

They're really heretical. I mean, do you think do you see that amongst folks that would fly under the banner reform?

Cessationism, Eschatological Excitement, and the Priority of the Word

Yeah.

Cultural Christ and evangelizing I even therefore if it's important not. When they walk into. Yeah, do you think one of the reasons for that could be?

Especially if you're dealing with those that are from cessationist churches like typically reformed churches are where the the second coming is Going to be the next monumental earth-changing miracle that that that is going to be globally experienced and Since that it hasn't happened yet.

Unlike what our hyper preterist friends say. That that is what they're focusing on because they're titillated by it. They're just they just like there are others who Want to read into the newspaper and the magazines and the internet and the TV news that the current events are all fulfillments of biblical prophecy and They like they love the excitement and the adrenaline of being a part of the unfolding of Revelation if you follow me.

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Who says. I have heard that the early church Did not know for certain at one point whether Jude was to be included in the Canon. And I've also heard Roman Catholics say that Jude proves that the apocryphal books are a part of the Old Testament canon Since Jude is quoting from it.

You have any comment on that as far as the Canon and and so he's using them to bring them back around truth.

Right just like Like you were mentioning in Apostle Paul on Mars Hill, correct. It was not only quoting from Scripture. He was bringing about contemporary Extra biblical teachings and using it to drive home a point, correct.

Right. And Christians have done that throughout the centuries. John Calvin quoted Augustine many preachers quotes Charles Adams Spurgeon or J. Gresham Machen or whoever they're, you know among their heroes of the faith are they you know.

It's just something that's commonly done and it's a very appropriate thing to do.

I.

Would like you to now summarize what you most want etched in the hearts and minds of our listeners today. Especially in regard to your new exposition on Jude that's coming out content and yet contending.

Sure, I think the same time as for Deposited him in the near future with evangelical press. Well, I also want to remind our listeners that.

The the Oceanside United Reformed Church is the congregation Where our guest pastor Danny Hyde is the minister and their website is Oceanside URC which stands for United Reformed Church Oceanside URC org.

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Well, it's been a pleasure having you back on the program pastor Danny. I look forward to having you back and Let us know when the book is in print so we can perhaps revisit this whole subject. All right, well god bless you and don't go away ladies and gentlemen because we are going to be joined any moment now.

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