Jude 1-4: Little Books, Big Messages (NT Edition): The Preservative Impulse to Contend for the Faith, Part 6
Update: 2025-07-20
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Jude 1-4: Summary: Even in the church, weeds find their way in among the wheat. Their presence threatens to choke out the life of what God has planted. Let a church become negligent as to her duty and calling, and she will soon find herself in need of an appeal: contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints! It's not what Jude preferred for his subject, but shepherds, to mix metaphors, realize that need triumphs over want, and the perversion of grace in their midst triggers this shepherd's devotion to protection. Jude is about the divine preservation of the church, invoking means; and that means is the church's own contention for the body of divinity (stability critical and biblical truth) and, in particular, the power of grace, which is an indispensable part of what Jude calls 'the faith.' Assuring them of God's faithfulness to keep them for Christ, Jude assures them that they must arise and responsibly contend for the Christianity of Christ's church. This is no new need. It's a perpetual aspect of a church's usefulness that she remain pure as she can be to the Day of Eternity.
Sermon Outline:
The Christian will contend because we are being kept. (1-2)
The Christian will be kept because we will contend. (3)
The kept of God will contend for the power of grace. (4)
Sermon Outline:
The Christian will contend because we are being kept. (1-2)
The Christian will be kept because we will contend. (3)
The kept of God will contend for the power of grace. (4)
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