WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.870 Henry: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.988 --> 00:00:03.608 Day 50. 00:00:04.092 --> 00:00:05.352 the letter to Jude. 00:00:08.052 --> 00:00:13.002 This letter is from Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and a brother of James. 00:00:14.592 --> 00:00:19.302 I am writing to all who have been called by God the Father who loves you and keeps 00:00:19.302 --> 00:00:21.372 you safe in the care of Jesus Christ. 00:00:22.812 --> 00:00:26.682 May God give you more and more mercy, peace and love. 00:00:28.782 --> 00:00:32.322 Dear friends, I had been eagerly planning to write to you about 00:00:32.322 --> 00:00:33.882 the salvation we all share. 00:00:34.572 --> 00:00:38.382 But now I find that I must write about something else urging you to defend 00:00:38.382 --> 00:00:42.282 the faith that God has entrusted once for all time to his holy people. 00:00:43.422 --> 00:00:47.382 I say this because some ungodly people have warmed their way into your 00:00:47.382 --> 00:00:52.332 churches saying that God's marvelous grace allows us to live immoral lives. 00:00:53.202 --> 00:00:57.612 The condemnation of such people was recorded long ago for they have denied 00:00:57.612 --> 00:01:00.582 our only master and Lord Jesus Christ. 00:01:01.542 --> 00:01:05.652 So I want to remind you though you already know these things, that Jesus 00:01:05.652 --> 00:01:09.732 first rescued the nation of Israel from Egypt, but later he destroyed 00:01:09.732 --> 00:01:11.352 those who did not remain faithful. 00:01:11.952 --> 00:01:15.222 And I remind you of the angels who did not stay within the limits of 00:01:15.227 --> 00:01:19.092 authority God gave them, but left the place where they belonged. 00:01:19.842 --> 00:01:24.312 God has kept them securely chained in prisons of darkness, waiting 00:01:24.312 --> 00:01:25.632 for the great day of judgment. 00:01:26.292 --> 00:01:30.612 And don't forget Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which 00:01:30.612 --> 00:01:34.032 were filled with immorality in every kind of sexual perversion. 00:01:34.692 --> 00:01:38.292 Those cities were destroyed by fire and serve as a warning of the 00:01:38.292 --> 00:01:40.212 eternal fire of God's judgment. 00:01:41.007 --> 00:01:44.937 In the same way, these people who claim authority from their dreams 00:01:45.177 --> 00:01:50.217 live immoral lives, defy authority and scoff at supernatural beings. 00:01:50.727 --> 00:01:54.927 But even Michael, one of the mightiest of the angels did not dare 00:01:54.927 --> 00:01:59.697 accuse the devil of blasphemy, but simply said, the Lord rebuke you. 00:02:00.447 --> 00:02:03.957 This took place when Michael was arguing with the devil about Moses' body. 00:02:04.617 --> 00:02:07.767 But these people scoff at things they do not understand. 00:02:08.367 --> 00:02:12.927 Like unthinking animals, they do whatever their instincts tell them, and so they 00:02:12.927 --> 00:02:14.607 bring about their own destruction. 00:02:15.267 --> 00:02:18.927 What sorrow awaits them for, they follow in the footsteps 00:02:18.927 --> 00:02:20.817 of Kane who killed his brother. 00:02:21.417 --> 00:02:25.437 Like Balaam, they deceive people for money and like Cora, they 00:02:25.442 --> 00:02:26.817 perish in their rebellion. 00:02:27.657 --> 00:02:30.597 When these people eat with you in your fellowship meals commemorating 00:02:30.597 --> 00:02:35.067 the Lord's love, they are like dangerous reefs that can shipwreck you. 00:02:35.652 --> 00:02:39.252 They're like shameless shepherds who care only for themselves. 00:02:39.852 --> 00:02:43.752 They're like clouds blowing over the land without giving any rain. 00:02:44.382 --> 00:02:48.822 They're like trees and autumn that are doubly dead for they bear no fruit 00:02:49.122 --> 00:02:50.892 and have been pulled up by the roots. 00:02:51.432 --> 00:02:55.392 They're like wild waves of the sea churning up the foam 00:02:55.392 --> 00:02:56.892 of their shameful deeds. 00:02:57.402 --> 00:03:01.902 They're like wandering stars doomed forever to blackest darkness. 00:03:02.787 --> 00:03:06.717 Enoch who lived in the seventh generation after Adam prophesied 00:03:06.717 --> 00:03:11.307 about these people, he said, listen, the Lord is coming with countless 00:03:11.312 --> 00:03:15.357 thousands of his holy ones to execute judgment on the people of the world. 00:03:15.927 --> 00:03:19.707 He will convict every person of all the ungodly things they have done, 00:03:20.037 --> 00:03:23.787 and for all the insults that ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 00:03:24.327 --> 00:03:29.577 These people are grumbler and complainers living only to satisfy their desires. 00:03:30.312 --> 00:03:34.782 They brag loudly about themselves and they flatter others to get what they want. 00:03:36.342 --> 00:03:40.722 But you, my dear friends, must remember what the apostles of 00:03:40.727 --> 00:03:42.642 our Lord Jesus Christ predicted. 00:03:43.452 --> 00:03:47.682 They told you that in the last times there would be scoffers, whose purpose in 00:03:47.682 --> 00:03:50.412 life is to satisfy their ungodly desires. 00:03:51.132 --> 00:03:54.162 These people are the ones who are creating divisions among you. 00:03:54.762 --> 00:03:57.672 They follow their natural instincts because they do not 00:03:57.672 --> 00:03:59.292 have God's spirit in them. 00:04:00.147 --> 00:04:05.577 But you dear friends, must build each other up in your most holy faith. 00:04:06.177 --> 00:04:10.647 Pray in the power of the Holy Spirit and await the mercy of our Lord Jesus 00:04:10.647 --> 00:04:13.227 Christ, who will bring you eternal life. 00:04:13.887 --> 00:04:19.407 In this way, you will keep yourselves safe in God's love, and you must show 00:04:19.407 --> 00:04:21.447 mercy to those whose faith is wavering. 00:04:21.807 --> 00:04:25.047 Rescue others by snatching them from the flames of judgment. 00:04:25.767 --> 00:04:30.447 Show Mercy to still others, but do so with great caution, hating the 00:04:30.447 --> 00:04:32.847 sins that contaminate their lives. 00:04:34.437 --> 00:04:39.807 Now, all glory to God, who is able to keep you from falling away and will 00:04:39.807 --> 00:04:43.797 bring you with great joy into his glorious presence without a single fault. 00:04:44.487 --> 00:04:45.837 All glory to him. 00:04:46.017 --> 00:04:49.977 Who alone is God our Savior, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 00:04:50.757 --> 00:04:56.397 All Glory, majesty, power and authority are his before all time, and in 00:04:56.397 --> 00:04:59.487 the present and beyond all time. 00:05:00.387 --> 00:05:01.047 Amen. 00:05:02.907 --> 00:05:05.787 This concludes today's Immer reading experience. 00:05:05.907 --> 00:05:07.137 Thank you for joining us.