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good to hear you lead the singing again.

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Well, the Merc led the singing in our tent meeting years ago that John conducted for two
weeks every night.

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Seven people obeyed the gospel.

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It was a great time.

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They said they wanted to do it at a time when it's cool outside and pleasant.

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I said, no, no, no.

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We want it hot and mosquitoes and everybody miserable.

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We only want people there that want to be there.

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We have filled that tent up every night for a couple of weeks out there.

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was a great time, great memory that we have.

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Well again I want thank you for the privilege of being with you in this Gospel meeting.

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I'm so proud of the church that meets here.

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I know something of what you all have been doing, endeavoring to focus your energy and
attention on the Church of Christ, to come to a place to meet, to have, to meet regularly,

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such a nice place as this.

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All the work you've done certainly does not go unnoticed.

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Heaven smiles when God's people labor together.

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It's an expression of your unity and of your spiritual strength to be able to be here in
this place.

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We commend you for it.

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commend your elders, Bill, with Carl, with Chris, for all of the oversight that you're
giving to this work here.

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I appreciate very much the invitation to come and be with you this week.

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I'm glad Sheila could be here with me.

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We're having the time of our life.

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It's so good to see all of you, many we've not seen for a long time, but all of whom are
near and dear to our hearts.

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In this evening's lesson, the title that Brother Chris just announced to you is, Are We
Contending for the Faith or Pretending?

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When you look at word contending it appears one time in our New Testament and that's in
the book of Jude, Jude verse 3.

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So I'd to draw our attention to Jude 3 as we discuss this topic, contending versus
pretending.

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One of the things we will accomplish in our lesson tonight, if you'll just be patient and
follow through the lesson is you'll be able to tell am I a contender for the faith?

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or my religious pre-tending.

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And we're gonna do that by going to this text and stating in the text here in the book of
Jude.

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Across these 25 verses we will cover these four points.

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Point number one, contending for the faith, verses one through three.

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The command to contend.

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The second point will be the cause to contend for the faith.

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And that'll cover verses four down to verse 13.

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The third point in the lesson will be the condemning of the ungodly.

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And that's going to be verses 14-19.

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And then we'll close it out, verse 20-25, with the confidence.

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of the godly.

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So we've got it broken down that way just so you'll know where we're headed.

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And I wanted to take each section of those verses and develop the thought contending
versus pretending.

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Jude begins this book, Jude the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to the
sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called.

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unto you, and peace, love be multiplied.

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Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was
needful for me to write unto you, and to exhort you that you should earnestly contend for

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the faith which was once delivered to the saints."

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a couple of things with these verses if you would.

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We find that Jude, now he is the brother of Jesus Christ mentioned for us in Matthew
chapter 13 verse 55, Mark 6 and verse 3.

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Contrary to the teaching of one of largest religions in the world that Jesus was a man who
had no siblings, that Mary was a perpetual virgin, the Word of God says otherwise and even

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lists for us the four brothers of Jesus and sisters.

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So, we four brothers and at least two sisters.

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Catholicism is wrong, ladies and gentlemen, it is wrong.

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It does not reflect the teaching of the Bible concerning our Lord Jesus Christ and His
family.

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If it gets it wrong there, don't be surprised to see the Pope arguing with the President
of the United States.

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Now then he speaks in regard to himself, Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ.

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He could make much about the fact that he is the brother of Jesus Christ, but instead he
says he is the brother of James, well known James in the early church at Jerusalem.

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He places being a servant of Christ above the physical relationship he has to Jesus Christ
because that relationship is going to be eternal and is very important.

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And it is something that all of his audience would identify with as servants of Jesus
Christ.

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It is of great merit to be a servant of Jesus Christ.

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He speaks about mercy

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and peace and love be multiplied.

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When he's talking about God the Father, we sanctified, set apart in God, we preserved in
Jesus Christ, and we called.

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And ladies and gentlemen, we are called by the Gospel.

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This is a Gospel meeting, so I'll be talking about that call in more detail as we conclude
momentarily from 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 14.

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Mercy unto you, peace, and love be multiplied.

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That's what you have in the Church of Christ, mercy, peace, and love multiplied.

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you to notice the stark contrast between something like we reading right here in our New
Testament and what you might read in a book like for example the Koran.

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The Koran does not emphasize these traits and characteristics.

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I believe you can see that when you look at the wars that are going on in this world by
people who are following that book the Koran.

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Where is mercy?

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Where is peace?

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Where is love multiplied?

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Well it is certainly not a part of that religion as is evidenced by the actions taking
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When he writes in verse 3, he says, beloved.

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when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation." He's talking about a
salvation that was common to everyone, everywhere.

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This book of Jude is in the general epistles written to everyone who are members of the
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The common salvation, the same gospel that was preached in Corinth was preached
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Paul said, preached the same thing in all the churches.

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Now that's something that is missing from modern religion.

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Something different is preached in all the churches.

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It is not a common salvation.

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There's not even a common plan of salvation.

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They can't even keep it straight among themselves.

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I'm having a discussion with a local preacher and he's got a track about pray the sinner's
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So I called him up and I said I want to talk to you about your track.

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And I said where do you get pray the sinner's prayer?

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Now instead of attempting to go to some verse of scripture to justify it he said you don't
have to pray the sinner's prayer to be saved.

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And I said well then now I wonder why are you telling people through this track that
you're putting in the restaurants in town that you need to pray the sinner's prayer and

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you don't even need to pray the sinner's prayer?

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So they don't even know what to say and have in common when it comes to telling people
what to do to be saved even among themselves.

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But when Jude is writing, he's writing about the common salvation.

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The same gospel that we preach here, I've preached in many states of this union.

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I've preached on foreign soil in Scotland and in Spain for many years.

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The same common faith preached everywhere to all men.

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That's what he's writing about.

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I gave all diligence to write to you of the common salvation.

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He saw something needful.

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It was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort, that is to urge, beg, or plead with
you, that you should earnestly, that is sincerely and devotedly, that you should earnestly

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contend for the faith which was delivered to the saints." The American Standard Version on
this passage, as you know, says, once for all delivered to the saints.

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have this common salvation right here in our New Testament.

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It was delivered.

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I think the last book written of our New Testament was penned in 96 A.D.

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by the Apostle John from the Isle of Patmos.

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And with it, it is neither to be added to nor taken away from.

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It is a common salvation that was once delivered to the saints.

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Isn't it interesting to you that the Bible closes with this prohibition against adding to
or taking away from the Bible with the most serious consequence devoted to either case?

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so that we have this common salvation and the faith once for all delivered to the saints.

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The urging is, earnestly contend for it.

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We must have a conviction about the faith and a desire to see it through, to stand for it
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So we find out at the very first about the command to contend earnestly for the faith.

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Let's see a little bit more about what's involved as we look at the next section of
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The cause that is...

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this man.

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Went right to the problem.

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Went right to the problem and solved it.

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I hope I do that in this lesson tonight with description.

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Thank you brother.

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Thank you your good example.

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Here you've got the cause to earnestly contend for the faith.

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Let's start with verse 4 and exegete these verses.

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For there are certain men crept in unawares.

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You've got to be watchful.

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We need to appreciate the elders of the church because Hebrews chapter 13 verse 7 and 17,
watch for your souls.

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The men about whom we're fixing to speak crept in unawares.

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They just slipped in.

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Next thing you know, they're right there in the middle of them.

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So much so that when they would have a meal or a dinner together, why, they were right
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They crept in unawares.

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We need to be thankful if we are members of a church that has elders because they have a
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our souls.

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There were certain men, crept in unawares, who were before ordained to this condemnation.

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He's going to describe them in three ways in this passage.

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And before we get through with this chapter, he's going to give 15 descriptions.

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of what these men were like who crept in unawares and guess what?

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They didn't even see it.

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They didn't even see it coming.

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And yet Jude is going to detail time and time and time again, 15 times what these men were
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we need to earnestly contend for the faith.

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He says, they were ungodly men.

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Jude uses the term ungodly six times in these 25 verses.

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Ungodly.

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That is the opposite of what God is.

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They are ungodly men.

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also they are turning the grace of God, the grace of our God into...

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You see that today with some of these services that you might observe on the television,
for example, how they'll have dancing as a part of their service.

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That's lasciviousness, lustful bodily movements.

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It's good where you can't get them in with instrumental music anymore.

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Everybody's heard that.

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So now they get the beautiful dancing girls up.

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In the past in the paper here in Memphis, Tennessee, there were some beautiful girls with
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coming in the aisle.

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The guy from the paper's right there taking a picture, clickety-click-click-click, saying
these people got dancing in their service.

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Well, that appeals to them.

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Now, why dancing girls?

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Why don't some of these large-bodied men with beards and rusty coming down, spinning down
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Why not that?

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I don't know how many people that would appeal to, but the beautiful girls, oh, everybody
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That's got to be right.

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You know what that is?

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Lasciviousness.

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Turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness.

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That's one of the characteristics.

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Also, he goes on to say, denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

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So he gives three characteristics of these people, denying God and denying the Lord,
that's one of their traits of those who oppose the faith.

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Next he says in verse five, I will therefore put you in remembrance though you once knew
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Now he's going to give three examples of people that were saved and then they were lost.

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There is a very popular doctrine of once saved always saved.

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Once in grace always in grace.

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As somebody said we've been graced to death.

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And these people believe once you're in Christ, once you're saved, you're always saved.

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Jude is not going give you one example.

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He's going to give you example after example after example of those you know.

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that once they were saved they did not remain in that state because they departed from
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The first one is the familiar children of Israel having been saved out of land of Egypt
afterward destroyed them that believe not.

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You remember that in Psalm 78:22 they became unbelievers in the wilderness and God states
in the book of Numbers chapter 14 verse 12 I will disinherit them

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this thing many say, once you are a child of God you could never be anything other than
the child of God.

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Yet the Bible said to those children of Israel coming out of Egypt, I will disinherit you
if you do not continue to believe in me.

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The second example that he gives is the angels which kept not their first estate but left
their own habitation hath he reserved an everlasting chains under darkness to the judgment

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of the great day.

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Any question about the angels being right in the sight of God?

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Sometimes people will say, well if you lost you never

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were really saved.

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Try to say that about the angels.

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They never really were angels.

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I don't think anybody on earth would say that.

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These angels were in heaven and they left their first estate and they reserved in chains
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Peter states the same truth in 2 Peter chapter 2 when he talks about them being cast down
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The word is tartarus, the lowest pit of hell.

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The angels sinned and fell.

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Jesus said, I will be hell's Satan if lightning fall from heaven.

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Luke chapter 10 and verse 17.

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There's your second example.

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The third one, the city's know that you can be turned away from the faith.

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And he's reminding us with it in telling about coming out of Egypt once they were in a
right relationship with God, even received the promised land and they're going to be

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turned away even later.

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And then also there were the angels that fell and then the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
overthrown with an overthrow.

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Fire and brimstone devouring them.

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We don't want that to be our fate.

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Now, I told you tonight that as we move through this section we are to see if we are
contending or pretending.

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I think already we can see I don't want to pretend anything about this.

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I don't want that faith to be in my future.

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I'm not pretending.

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I am willing to contend for the faith, for the sound doctrine of the Bible, for the common
faith about which Jude is presenting.

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And then next in verse 8 he gives three more characteristics of those opposed to the
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and its people.

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Likewise, also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh.

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How do you defile the flesh?

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Oh, I don't know.

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You might want to do something to defile the flesh like mar it, scar it, tattoo it, defile
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You may want to engage in sexual relationships with those outside marriage, 2 Corinthians
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You want to be careful about defiling your flesh.

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That is a characteristic of the false teachers.

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They defile their own flesh.

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next they despise dominion you're going to be my boss

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You know one thing that I have seen in working in prison ministry, now I worked in prison
ministry from the outside.

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And I know there's some who do a lot of good working on it from the inside.

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But I've been privileged to work on it from the outside.

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Being in jails across Arkansas, Tennessee, and going in and setting up the satellite where
people could watch GBN 24-7, meeting all of the people there, meeting the inmates.

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One of the things I found to be often characteristic of people in jail is they have a
problem with authority.

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They have a problem with authority.

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Brother Allen Hyres worked as a juvenile court judge here in Memphis for many, years.

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And he gave a lecture when he retired talking about that.

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And he saw that some of the most troubled young men had a common trend to them in
reflecting back across the years of his service in the juvenile court right here in

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Memphis.

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And that was they had a disrespect for authority.

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Well that's what Jude is telling us about these people who crept in unawares, people
before whom we must contend for the faith.

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They despised dominion.

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Nobody's going to tell me what to do.

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you'd be surprised.

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You'd be surprised.

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Sometimes folks go to jail, you'd be surprised.

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You sit in an 8x8 for a while.

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You'd be ready to go when they say go, come when they say come.

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Yeah, you'll find out about this dominion.

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when i went in the service you know they walk in there and they do the one first thing
they do, shaved everybody's head everybody looked the same we call ourselves brother we

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all look like we're the same brother whether we're white or black all of us look the same
go in there living together being together all the time and some of these guys were rough

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but they start marching you, start sitting in classes, they start having you fold your
clothes and brush your teeth and do all the things you're supposed to do, or you find out

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there are those who have dominion over you.

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You will play by the rules.

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Some despise dominion.

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They just will not have it.

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Today in the Lord's Church, some will not submit to the oversight of the elders.

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I don't want to be under the oversight of an eldership anywhere.

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I want to do my own thing.

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I don't like dominion.

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I don't want to go along with the crowd.

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I don't want to work with the church where everybody gets along and we accomplish things
together.

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I despise dominion.

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I want to be my free spirit out here.

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That's one of the characteristics, despise dominion.

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Every soul should be subject to the higher powers.

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Romans chapter 13.

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verse 1, there is no power but those that are God.

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Next he says as a characteristic, speak evil of dignities or dignitaries.

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Just criticizing those in positions of power and authority.

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They speak evil of dignities.

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Growing out of that, they have no respect for the local law enforcement.

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They have no respect for the local aldermen and mayors.

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They don't have respect for state representatives or governors.

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They don't have respect for congressmen and for presidents of United States.

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It is a matter of speaking evil of dignities.

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What's he urging?

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We need to have respect for those in positions of authority.

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And those who do not, who speak evil of dignities, you've got a lesson to learn.

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So there are three characteristics of these false teachers in verse 8.

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uh and there are three characteristics of them in verse 8.

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So we've seen six of the characteristics.

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Verse 9, Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, he disputed about the
body of Moses, durst or dared not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The

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Lord rebuketh thee.

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Now we finding out something here in Jude that we didn't know.

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We read Deuteronomy chapter 24 where Moses dies and we read about his burial in verse 5
and 6 of that chapter.

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We didn't know about this dispute.

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We didn't know about Michael the Archangel disputing with the devil.

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You know out of the innumerable company of angels that the Bible mentions in Hebrews
chapter 12 and verse 22 there are only two angels mentioned by name in all the Bible.

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They are Gabriel, Luke 1 verse 19, and Michael right here in Jude 9, also in Daniel
chapter 10 and verse 43.

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He's not mentioned back over there in Deuteronomy where this dispute very likely took
place, dispute about the body of Moses.

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Commentators wonder about that and they'll say, know it must be that the devil wanted
Moses put in a place where everybody could revere him long after his death.

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And maybe they'd come to worship him and give him reverence that wasn't really due him.

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So there speculation about what was the argument about, but we not even talking about it
until we get to Jude in the middle of the first century.

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Now what is interesting to me about this conflict, Michael the Archangel there is rank
among the angels, Seraphim and Cherubim, rank among the angels.

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He is contending with the devil and disputed about the body of Moses.

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He dared not bring against him a railing accusation.

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You're disputing with the devil.

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You're probably not going to have anything in common in this discussion.

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You'll have no common ground.

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You're talking with the devil, but he doesn't bring against him a railing accusation.

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What is that?

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The word railing translates to the Greek word blasphema.

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You notice it sounds like the English word blaspheme.

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And it is translated blaspheme in our New Testament 16 times.

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It's translated railing two times and evil speaking one time.

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What is it talking about?

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It's talking about slandering your opponent, criticizing his particular character,
assigning him motives that may not be his.

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Uh-oh.

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Reminds me what's going on in our political world today, doesn't it?

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I tell you what, I would not want to be the treasurer for the Atlantic.

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When the FBI director files a lawsuit against you for 250 million dollars, I wouldn't want
to be in charge of that money, I'm telling you now.

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It's not looking too good for the Atlantic.

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to criticize the director, say something about him that he's going to prove is not so.

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Somebody thinks they're going some serious money.

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I don't know why the BBC talked about Donald Trump like they did, but they got a lawsuit
against them for 10 billion with a B dollars.

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There are consequences to this slander.

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We're not saying everything these people do is perfect, but you don't slander if Michael
would not slander the devil.

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we don't need to be in that arena but I tell you what our country has been taught to do
that for years on the news media just slander hate hate hate hate hate that's a problem

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that is characteristic of those against whom we must defend the faith, contend for the
faith that is not a part of the faith

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It is certainly appropriate and right for us to do as Jude is doing here fifteen times.

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Point out the characteristics of these people that is wrong and shows them to be false
teachers pointing out their attitudes and their actions.

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but like Michael there's no slander.

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He didn't even name one of them in the past.

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He could, Paul does.

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It would have been appropriate for him to name them.

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But he doesn't name them because none of that which he saying is slanderous or blasphemous
to them, speaking against them personally.

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Now, with Michael there was no chance of the devil being converted.

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But with you and me, whoever our opponent is, and usually these are religious discussions
that we're talking about.

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We have an opportunity we never want to miss.

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And that opportunity is our main objective as a Christian in the mission of the church.

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What is that?

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Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit.

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That's our objective.

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You can't slander a man and expect him to be willing to hear what you have to say and
evaluate the truth of it.

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But now then we need to leave the door open that your character may be such that you could
repent.

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And think of that all of the time.

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You there have been times, and they're in the record books, the history book, Roll Jordan
Roll I think of in particular, where Marshall Keeble would go into a denominational church

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and preach the gospel and the whole church be converted to Christ.

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I'm talking about repent and be baptized for remission of sins.

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I'm talking about no longer use an instrument.

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I'm talking about take the sign down out front and put up the Church of Christ.

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You don't want to hate the people with whom you're discussing and arguing the truth.

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Because I tell you what, there is arguing that needs to be done.

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When Paul goes into Thessalonica in the book of Acts chapter 17 and goes in that
synagogue, Luke is clear to tell us he is disputing and proving that Jesus is the Son of

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God.

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There is a disputation.

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Some would say, it's wrong to dispute.

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No.

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And then opening and alleging, disputing and proving that Jesus is the Christ, giving the
proof, giving the evidence.

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That's what's needful here if we're going to earnestly contend for the faith.

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The old idea, just let them alone, just forget about them.

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out of harmony with our mission.

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The Bible says all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

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Let all that have sinned alone.

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You never get to the mission of the church.

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Go and teach them, convince them of the truth.

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Do like Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5 and verse 11, knowing therefore the terror of the
Lord we persuade men.

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We've got to do like Jesus who so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that
whosoever believeth should not perish but everlasting life.

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God gave His Son and loved the world.

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We need to love those whom we teach and preach to.

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We must expose the error.

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We must point it out but not a railing accusation, a blasphemous statement against them
where they're slandered and put so low they can never recover through repentance.

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That's what He's talking about here.

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He didn't bring a railing accusation but said, Lord rebuked thee.

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I guess when it gets so bad we can't stand it anymore and we think we're dealing with a
hard-hearted person, the Lord rebuked me.

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You in the hands of the Lord.

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Moving on to verse 10, here we find the seventh characteristic of these false teachers.

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But these things, but these speak evil of those things which they know not.

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But what they know naturally as brute beasts and those things they corrupt themselves.

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What are they doing?

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They speak evil of things they don't know.

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I see that sometimes.

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read on Facebook where a man was criticizing the Church of Christ.

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He said things like, believe there's power in the water.

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We believe in water salvation.

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We believe in our own system of works of salvation.

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That's not true.

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They're speaking evil of things that they don't know.

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As an illustration, Sheila and I were eating in Chattanooga.

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If you ever go there, this restaurant is still there.

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It's called Bee's.

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I don't know if you've ever eaten at Bee's.

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But if you go, you want to eat at Bee's, especially if you like home cooking.

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They have these lazy Susans and their grandfather did

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into that restaurant where you go and they just start sitting food on that spinning table,
fried chicken, potatoes, everything on there, just spinning around.

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You sit there with these people and you eat all you want to eat.

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And we were sitting there with this nice couple from over in Alabama one day eating,
getting to know them.

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And in talking with them, she said, what do you do?

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I said, I preach over at the Browns Ferry Road Church of Christ.

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Love to have you come visit with us sometime.

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Her immediate response was, you people believe you have to work your salvation.

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I said, don't believe you have to have any work?

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She said, no.

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No, our pastor tells us Jesus did everything for us.

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There's no work to it.

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I said, well, let me say this.

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I read ahead a little bit in Revelation, and in Revelation 14.13, here's what John said.

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He said, he heard an angel of the Lord saying to him, blessed are those who die in the
Lord, yea, from henceforth saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labor, and

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their works do follow them.

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I said, ma'am, you don't want to show up at the judgment with no works, you don't want to
do that.

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She said, I never thought of that.

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said, you all need to do is get in the car and drive from Alabama over to Brown's Fair
Road Church of Christ and worship with us.

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Start working in the kingdom.

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When you show up at the judgment you will have the works of the will you to work.

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You will be created in Christ Jesus on two good works.

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Ephesians 2 in verse 10.

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Well, she was really interested in doing that.

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I have never seen her since, but that was an interesting discussion.

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They talk of things they don't know what they're talking about.

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Go back to her pastor, oh that's that work salvation.

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Talk about things they don't know anything about.

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Next, woe to them.

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Jesus speaks of those critical of Him in Matthew chapter 23 seven times.

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scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites.

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It getting serious.

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So you can't pretend about this now.

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We are bought into this at this point.

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We are committed to this discussion at this point.

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We realize that those people who are opposed to contending for the faith, these
individuals stand under a woe, a curse from God.

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Woe unto them.

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And then he gives three examples again.

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He gave three examples of those who fell away.

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Now he is giving three examples of those who are evil.

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First one is Cain, and you remember in Genesis

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This is chapter 4, what was Cain, he was a murderer, he killed his brother.

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Second example he gives, those who ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward.

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You remember in Numbers chapter 22, Balaam was trying to get money from King Balak,
because Balak wanted him to curse the people.

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What a story.

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God was not going to let Balaam curse the people.

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but every time he would stand up, he's got that money in his pocket now and he'd stand up
and he could see all of Israel out in the valley, nothing but a blessing would come forth.

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Finally, Balak had had it.

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He told him, I have hired you to curse these people and loathe these ten times, all you do
is give a blessing.

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He said, I told you I can't do anything, say anything but what the Lord wants.

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but his greed, his covetousness, that for which he was known.

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And do you know that he dies with the Moabites in Numbers 31 and verse 8, with the
sentiment, that I might die the death of the righteous, and that my latter end might be

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like his?

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That's the last thing that will happen to you, Balaam, because you've been standing with
Balak and you've been moved by money and greed, and it controlled your life, and you're

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going to die with the wicked.

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And that's what happens.

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That's what happens to Balaam.

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then the last one, Korah, the gainsaying of Korah.

427
00:29:50,542 --> 00:29:54,045
This is the Old Testament word, K-O-R-A-H, Korah.

428
00:29:54,045 --> 00:29:57,826
And we read about him of course in the 16th chapter of the book of Numbers.

429
00:29:58,146 --> 00:30:02,588
Moses and Aaron leading the people, they're in the wilderness.

430
00:30:02,588 --> 00:30:07,214
I don't know if you could see an unhappier group of people than all the

431
00:30:07,214 --> 00:30:10,814
in the wilderness, unpleasant conditions.

432
00:30:10,814 --> 00:30:15,994
I know I had worked for people that are Jewish before and you go to a restaurant and
they're hard to satisfy.

433
00:30:16,054 --> 00:30:21,994
You go in and say, well I want to sit by table, I don't want to sit too close to a window,
too far from a door, I don't want to sit in kitchen.

434
00:30:22,154 --> 00:30:25,754
We just came to eat and take 15 minutes to get seated.

435
00:30:25,754 --> 00:30:29,194
It's so hard to please these people just by their nature.

436
00:30:29,514 --> 00:30:30,914
Finally you sit down and get to eat.

437
00:30:30,914 --> 00:30:33,934
Here Moses is in charge of all of these people.

438
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:44,464
and chorus steps up and says you and Aaron have taken a lot on yourself to lead these
people why don't some of the rest of us get to be in a leadership position you know what

439
00:30:44,464 --> 00:30:45,175
Moses did?

440
00:30:45,175 --> 00:30:46,415
you remember what he did?

441
00:30:46,415 --> 00:30:57,640
he fell flat on his face I can't believe this all the trouble we going through to lead you
and you just act like it's no problem at all to do this and you want to be in our position

442
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:02,342
and now then you're flying in the face of God who selected us to lead these people

443
00:31:03,482 --> 00:31:04,543
happens?

444
00:31:04,783 --> 00:31:14,080
The ground opens up and swallowed up not just Korah and the 250 princes that were with
them that were championing this cause, trying to drive Moses out of the leadership

445
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:15,150
position.

446
00:31:15,191 --> 00:31:24,228
Swallowed up Korah, Dathan, Abiram, 250 the princes of Israel and their wives and their
children, the ground clave underneath them.

447
00:31:24,228 --> 00:31:30,422
The children of Israel take off running lest they fall into the pit and they were
swallowed up and die.

448
00:31:31,662 --> 00:31:33,582
challenging God's leadership.

449
00:31:34,002 --> 00:31:39,162
We want to be real careful anytime we have criticism surrendered against the elders of the
church.

450
00:31:39,342 --> 00:31:46,582
In 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 17 the Bible says, against an elder receive not an
accusation but about two or three witnesses.

451
00:31:46,942 --> 00:31:53,862
You better have your act together when you go criticize an elder and if you don't have
something solid you better keep it to yourself.

452
00:31:54,188 --> 00:31:57,970
because if you can't show someone else, we've seen this and you need to correct.

453
00:31:57,970 --> 00:32:04,643
Now if that man's in the wrong, then the sin rebuked before all that others also may fear,
he will repent and he'll be corrected.

454
00:32:04,643 --> 00:32:08,164
But you don't have empty criticism against the elder in the church.

455
00:32:08,164 --> 00:32:12,366
You gotta go with two or three witnesses and you need your proof when you go and criticize
him.

456
00:32:12,366 --> 00:32:15,207
I would suggest bringing in the other elders if you see something there.

457
00:32:15,207 --> 00:32:19,869
Nobody will appreciate that more than the offending elder if he is genuinely offending.

458
00:32:19,869 --> 00:32:24,331
You will have corrected him and saved his soul and likely the destiny of that local
congregation.

459
00:32:24,331 --> 00:32:25,552
by doing that.

460
00:32:25,552 --> 00:32:33,810
But nothing is more harmful to a local congregation than empty criticism that is baseless,
that's constantly being wielded toward the eldership of the church, as if they're

461
00:32:33,810 --> 00:32:37,423
responsible for everything from the water fountain to the cutting of the grass.

462
00:32:38,244 --> 00:32:41,868
Here's Cora, here's Cain, here's Balaam.

463
00:32:41,868 --> 00:32:43,649
They've gone that way.

464
00:32:43,649 --> 00:32:48,893
They're people still that way in the first century and in our time.

465
00:32:49,718 --> 00:32:54,080
In verse 12 he says, these are spots in your feasts of charity.

466
00:32:54,100 --> 00:32:58,772
Evidently they would have meals together where they would come together and eat.

467
00:32:58,772 --> 00:33:01,324
They're called feasts of charity, love feasts.

468
00:33:01,324 --> 00:33:03,984
The congregation would be together eating.

469
00:33:04,585 --> 00:33:07,226
And these false teachers would be in their midst.

470
00:33:07,226 --> 00:33:12,468
People described after the manner we've seen in seven instances so far.

471
00:33:13,229 --> 00:33:15,310
Feeding themselves without fear.

472
00:33:15,864 --> 00:33:17,284
And then he describes the way they are.

473
00:33:17,284 --> 00:33:18,865
They're like clouds without water.

474
00:33:18,865 --> 00:33:20,294
They're like trees without fruit.

475
00:33:20,294 --> 00:33:22,156
They're like raging waves of the sea.

476
00:33:22,156 --> 00:33:24,256
They're like wandering stars.

477
00:33:24,677 --> 00:33:26,777
These people have it bad.

478
00:33:26,897 --> 00:33:33,719
When we talk about earnestly contending for the faith, we're talking about some serious
champions of error and evil.

479
00:33:34,620 --> 00:33:36,820
And so Jude describes them.

480
00:33:37,301 --> 00:33:41,862
And then he says, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

481
00:33:43,470 --> 00:33:50,030
So there you have in that second point the cause to earnestly contend for the faith.

482
00:33:50,070 --> 00:33:53,790
Next, the condemnation of the ungodly.

483
00:33:53,790 --> 00:33:55,270
Look at verse 14.

484
00:33:55,270 --> 00:33:59,610
Before we get to more of a description about that, he talks about Enoch.

485
00:34:00,130 --> 00:34:02,150
Enoch, of course, is the seventh from Adam.

486
00:34:02,150 --> 00:34:04,670
He's listed in chapter five in verse 24.

487
00:34:04,670 --> 00:34:06,070
What about Enoch?

488
00:34:06,550 --> 00:34:12,950
Enoch was there from everyone else just before the flood in the tide waters of the flood
in Genesis five.

489
00:34:12,950 --> 00:34:16,832
In Genesis chapter 6 you are about to see the flood overtake the world.

490
00:34:16,832 --> 00:34:18,744
But here is walking with God.

491
00:34:18,744 --> 00:34:24,879
He is prophesying about the judgment of God upon the wicked way back there in the book of
Genesis.

492
00:34:24,879 --> 00:34:29,682
Again, we didn't know what Enoch was doing until we got over here in the New Testament and
started reading about it.

493
00:34:29,943 --> 00:34:37,028
And he is one who did not die but he walked with God and he was not for he was taken.

494
00:34:37,609 --> 00:34:39,449
Enoch never did die.

495
00:34:39,790 --> 00:34:49,930
unlike all of us the Bible tells us that we will all die Hebrews chapter 9 verse 27 it's
appointed unto man once to die and after this the judgment only two men in the Bible

496
00:34:49,930 --> 00:35:02,530
didn't die Enoch in Genesis 5 and Elijah in 2 Kings 1 everybody else dies we don't need to
hold out any hope that we gonna make it without dying but Enoch was in such a relationship

497
00:35:02,530 --> 00:35:05,130
with God that he was taken up

498
00:35:05,900 --> 00:35:11,873
Notice he's got the attitude that Jude is conveying to you and me tonight about contending
for the faith.

499
00:35:12,073 --> 00:35:16,835
It was an understanding that God is going to judge those who are wicked.

500
00:35:16,935 --> 00:35:28,781
He says, Enoch also the seventh from Adam prophesied of these saying, Behold the Lord
cometh with ten thousand of his saints to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all

501
00:35:28,781 --> 00:35:29,801
that are ungodly.

502
00:35:29,801 --> 00:35:36,185
Among all them are their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their
hard speeches which ungodly sinners

503
00:35:36,185 --> 00:35:37,927
have spoken against him.

504
00:35:37,927 --> 00:35:39,649
They're going to be convinced.

505
00:35:39,950 --> 00:35:49,370
In Romans chapter 14 and verse 11 as you know Paul says, me as it is written every knee
shall bow and every tongue shall confess to God.

506
00:35:49,370 --> 00:35:59,690
He's quoting Isaiah chapter 45 in verse 23, when they felt they were so high and mighty
they could worship idols and there never be any retribution, never any judgment, never any

507
00:35:59,690 --> 00:36:02,030
condemnation for worshiping these idols.

508
00:36:02,210 --> 00:36:06,570
And Isaiah told them, look every knee is going to bow before me God says.

509
00:36:06,570 --> 00:36:09,904
Not only was that true with their worship of idols and they being taken into a

510
00:36:09,904 --> 00:36:21,644
captivity in the year 721 by one of the most ruthless men who ever inhabited this planet,
Tiglath Palaser, but also its traitors in our day in the first century as mentioned here

511
00:36:21,644 --> 00:36:30,364
who are going to be giving account to God for their actions to execute judgment upon all
and to convince all that are ungodly.

512
00:36:31,390 --> 00:36:35,072
times already that we've seen the word ungodly appear.

513
00:36:35,072 --> 00:36:45,658
And then in verse 16 again more characteristics watch these are murmurers, complainers,
walking after their own lusts.

514
00:36:45,922 --> 00:36:54,104
and their mouths speak of great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because
of advantage.

515
00:36:54,104 --> 00:36:55,265
Have you counted them?

516
00:36:55,265 --> 00:37:04,147
Three of these attributes in verse four, three more in eight, one in verse 10, which makes
seven, and now then we're seeing over here more.

517
00:37:04,147 --> 00:37:15,862
Murmurers, nine, complainers, 10, walking in their own lusts, 11, their mouths speaking
great swelling words, 12, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage, 13.

518
00:37:16,098 --> 00:37:18,660
He stops right there, he's got two more coming up.

519
00:37:18,660 --> 00:37:27,185
He says, but beloved remember ye the words which were spoken before the apostles of our
Lord Jesus Christ, how that they told you there would be mockers in the last time who

520
00:37:27,185 --> 00:37:29,306
should walk after their own ungodly lust.

521
00:37:29,306 --> 00:37:35,570
Five times he uses the word ungodly to show against God, opposite of God, counter to God.

522
00:37:35,788 --> 00:37:39,100
These are they who separate themselves.

523
00:37:39,100 --> 00:37:39,760
14.

524
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,101
Sensual, not having the Spirit.

525
00:37:42,101 --> 00:37:42,578
15.

526
00:37:42,578 --> 00:37:45,242
15 characteristics of the false teacher.

527
00:37:45,242 --> 00:37:46,790
They are separating themselves.

528
00:37:46,790 --> 00:37:48,104
They don't want get along with anybody.

529
00:37:48,104 --> 00:37:49,414
They're distinct and separate.

530
00:37:49,414 --> 00:37:50,725
They're their own person.

531
00:37:50,725 --> 00:37:52,896
We saw earlier they are despising dominion.

532
00:37:52,896 --> 00:37:55,987
They won't allow anybody to have any say over them.

533
00:37:55,987 --> 00:37:57,928
They are sensual, not having the Spirit.

534
00:37:57,928 --> 00:38:01,750
Cardinally minded, not thinking about the things of God.

535
00:38:02,510 --> 00:38:06,290
He says, concerning them not having the Spirit.

536
00:38:06,390 --> 00:38:16,130
So we see the condemnation of the ungodly and the book closes out with the confidence of
the godly.

537
00:38:16,130 --> 00:38:25,310
We've seen the command to contend for the faith, the cause to contend for the faith, the
condemnation of the ungodly, and finally the confidence of the godly.

538
00:38:25,310 --> 00:38:26,510
Verse 20 to 25.

539
00:38:26,510 --> 00:38:28,350
Let's read about that for a second.

540
00:38:32,288 --> 00:38:36,194
on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost.

541
00:38:36,194 --> 00:38:42,957
Building up ourselves in the most holy faith involves study and prayer and a life of
devotion to God.

542
00:38:42,957 --> 00:38:47,900
Growing in grace in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 2 Peter 3, 18.

543
00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:52,662
Praying in the Holy Ghost means praying in harmony with the teaching of the Holy Spirit.

544
00:38:52,662 --> 00:38:56,584
Praying in Jesus' name, in John chapter 16 verse 23.

545
00:38:56,584 --> 00:39:01,766
Praying through our mediator Jesus Christ, 1 Timothy chapter 2 and verse 5.

546
00:39:01,766 --> 00:39:06,128
Praying after the categories listed in the model prayer, for example, in Matthew chapter
6.

547
00:39:06,128 --> 00:39:07,148
6 to 19.

548
00:39:07,148 --> 00:39:11,532
We wouldn't know how to pray in the Holy Ghost without the teaching of the Holy Ghost.

549
00:39:11,532 --> 00:39:19,617
But because we have the teaching of the Holy Spirit we can pray in harmony with what the
Bible says about the subject of prayer, praying.

550
00:39:19,657 --> 00:39:24,500
And then verse 21, keeping yourselves in the love of God.

551
00:39:24,500 --> 00:39:26,942
I think that true of every one of us here tonight.

552
00:39:26,942 --> 00:39:29,724
We want to keep ourselves in the love of God.

553
00:39:29,724 --> 00:39:36,048
And we understand the relationship of attending a service like this devoted to worship,
and study, and singing, and prayer.

554
00:39:36,048 --> 00:39:44,430
there, association through fellowship, and the value it has to you and me of keeping
ourselves in the love of God.

555
00:39:44,591 --> 00:39:48,132
As members of the Body, if that member is cut off, it will die.

556
00:39:48,132 --> 00:39:54,414
The member must stay connected to the Body to have the life-giving flow of the blood of
Christ in the Church.

557
00:39:55,392 --> 00:40:02,685
Now the end he says in verse 22, and looking for the mercy of Jesus Christ unto eternal
life.

558
00:40:02,685 --> 00:40:06,087
And if some have compassion, making a difference.

559
00:40:06,087 --> 00:40:06,917
People are different.

560
00:40:06,917 --> 00:40:08,708
Now I want you to know I'm in that category.

561
00:40:08,708 --> 00:40:12,210
If you have to talk to me, if you need to criticize me, have compassion on me.

562
00:40:12,210 --> 00:40:13,480
I'm gonna respond to that.

563
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,812
love when you have compassion on me.

564
00:40:15,812 --> 00:40:18,713
People like you to have compassion on them.

565
00:40:18,713 --> 00:40:20,934
Sensitive about them.

566
00:40:20,934 --> 00:40:23,525
That's a good thing for us all, of course to do.

567
00:40:23,525 --> 00:40:25,256
If some have compassion,

568
00:40:25,336 --> 00:40:37,014
making a difference and others save with fear pulling them out of the fire hating even the
garment that is spotted by the flesh you know that's where these folks are headed and we

569
00:40:37,014 --> 00:40:46,790
want to pull them out of the fire on one occasion I was in Nashville Tennessee when I see
a man who had some heart surgery and it was early in the morning traffic was heavy a truck

570
00:40:46,790 --> 00:40:55,256
came around the corner one of those city trucks with a short bed that was full of stumps
and logs and the guy was going too fast maybe his brakes went out but he turned

571
00:40:55,256 --> 00:40:57,059
that truck over right in front of me.

572
00:40:57,059 --> 00:40:58,259
Wham!

573
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,384
And the cab of the truck hit the car in front of me.

574
00:41:01,465 --> 00:41:10,997
And for some reason, of course this is a diesel rig, but it's not as likely, but for some
reason all I can think about is what if that truck driver catches fire?

575
00:41:11,488 --> 00:41:19,654
and i didn't want to stand back and watch that man get cremated and i jumped out of the
car and ran over there and climbed up on the other car and reached down in there to help

576
00:41:19,654 --> 00:41:29,044
him get up he was turned all upside down his mouth bleeding where he hit the steering
wheel and i'm trying to pull him up out of there wanting to get him out and i pulled him

577
00:41:29,044 --> 00:41:33,538
out and got him up there on top of the other car and that man started to curse

578
00:41:33,742 --> 00:41:35,282
And I said, you wait just a minute.

579
00:41:35,282 --> 00:41:36,662
You wait just a minute.

580
00:41:36,662 --> 00:41:40,162
I'm up here thinking you and me both about to be burned to a crisp and you up here
cursing.

581
00:41:40,162 --> 00:41:43,722
I ain't gonna let you cuss today, not today, son, not on the...

582
00:41:43,722 --> 00:41:45,582
You almost lost your life.

583
00:41:45,582 --> 00:41:47,842
Oh, I'm sorry.

584
00:41:48,022 --> 00:41:51,542
But I thought, man, I don't wanna see that man burn up.

585
00:41:51,542 --> 00:41:53,802
I wanna help pull him out of the fire if necessary.

586
00:41:53,802 --> 00:41:57,082
I know sometimes it happens where you just can't do it.

587
00:41:57,842 --> 00:41:58,763
attitude.

588
00:41:58,763 --> 00:42:02,604
These people are headed to a place of eternal fire.

589
00:42:02,865 --> 00:42:08,767
Every effort we can make to retrieve them, and it's not going to be easy, we just can't
pretend about it, pretend they are be alright.

590
00:42:08,767 --> 00:42:11,649
Or pretend they don't believe something that is going to cost them their soul.

591
00:42:11,649 --> 00:42:20,163
We need to be contending for the faith, showing them the plan of salvation, items of
worship, organization of the Church, mission, destiny, purpose of the Church of Christ so

592
00:42:20,163 --> 00:42:23,554
they'll know and we can help snatch them out of the fire.

593
00:42:23,634 --> 00:42:27,376
Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling in that incredible

594
00:42:27,376 --> 00:42:29,927
That's why I use the word confidence.

595
00:42:29,964 --> 00:42:31,835
He's able to keep you from falling.

596
00:42:31,835 --> 00:42:33,056
You want to know how?

597
00:42:33,056 --> 00:42:36,677
Read 2 Peter chapter 1 verse 5 to 10.

598
00:42:36,677 --> 00:42:38,178
Add these Christian graces.

599
00:42:38,178 --> 00:42:40,659
get busy with those seven things.

600
00:42:40,659 --> 00:42:47,212
Add to your faith virtue the virtue of knowledge, to knowledge temperance, to temperance
patience, to patience of godliness, to godliness of brotherhood kindness, to brotherhood

601
00:42:47,212 --> 00:42:48,063
kindness of love.

602
00:42:48,063 --> 00:42:50,564
If you do these things, you shall never fall.

603
00:42:50,564 --> 00:42:55,646
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly in the everlasting kingdom of
our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

604
00:42:55,646 --> 00:42:57,317
Is he teaching you once saved always saved?

605
00:42:57,317 --> 00:42:57,887
No.

606
00:42:57,887 --> 00:42:59,888
He's teaching a Christian you get busy

607
00:42:59,888 --> 00:43:05,928
with the work of Christ in your life and you add the characteristics that please God and
you won't be falling.

608
00:43:05,928 --> 00:43:07,828
You won't be falling.

609
00:43:08,068 --> 00:43:09,488
You'll be standing.

610
00:43:09,708 --> 00:43:17,308
And he says, him that's able to keep you from falling and present you faultless before the
presence of his glory with exceeding joy.

611
00:43:17,308 --> 00:43:18,728
Will we never sin anymore?

612
00:43:18,728 --> 00:43:20,788
1 John 1-10 says, no we're going to sin.

613
00:43:20,788 --> 00:43:26,668
But we can be faultless as we walk in the light as he is in the light and the blood of his
son Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin.

614
00:43:26,668 --> 00:43:27,908
1 John 1-7.

615
00:43:27,908 --> 00:43:29,898
If we'll be faithful unto death,

616
00:43:29,898 --> 00:43:32,189
He'll give us a crown of life, Revelation 2 10.

617
00:43:32,189 --> 00:43:33,612
That's what Jude's talking about.

618
00:43:33,612 --> 00:43:38,097
He closes to the only wise God, our Savior.

619
00:43:38,178 --> 00:43:44,184
Be glory and majesty and dominion and power both now and ever.

620
00:43:44,225 --> 00:43:45,226
Amen.

621
00:43:46,508 --> 00:43:59,346
We began our study tonight back in the opening verses we saw Jews speak of God the Father
being sanctified, set apart as holy by God the Father and preserved in Christ Jesus and

622
00:43:59,346 --> 00:44:01,267
called.

623
00:44:01,267 --> 00:44:11,354
2 Thessalonians 2, 14 as I said at the outset says, Whereunto he called you by our gospel
to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

624
00:44:11,596 --> 00:44:17,788
Concerning this call, there is an eternal principle I'll share with you from Psalm 145 and
verse 18.

625
00:44:17,788 --> 00:44:23,929
That principle is the Lord will answer those who call upon Him.

626
00:44:24,490 --> 00:44:29,251
Those who call upon Him in truth.

627
00:44:29,831 --> 00:44:36,253
I'm saying what we need to do to call on the Lord, we need to be able to read it ourselves
right here in the Bible.

628
00:44:36,793 --> 00:44:40,794
If we call it on Him by any other means, it's not in truth.

629
00:44:41,004 --> 00:44:47,779
And the Lord is not anxious to hear somebody call him after man's direction, but he is
those who are calling on him in truth.

630
00:44:47,779 --> 00:44:49,119
That's what I want close with tonight.

631
00:44:49,119 --> 00:44:50,672
How do we answer that call?

632
00:44:50,672 --> 00:44:52,963
The call goes out by way of the Gospel.

633
00:44:52,994 --> 00:45:01,129
2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 4, Whereunto he called you by our gospel to the obtaining
of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

634
00:45:01,294 --> 00:45:06,654
The Bible teaches us, whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved in
Romans 10, 13.

635
00:45:06,654 --> 00:45:08,414
But read down the passage.

636
00:45:08,414 --> 00:45:12,774
Verse 17, so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

637
00:45:12,774 --> 00:45:14,154
How are we going to call on the Lord?

638
00:45:14,154 --> 00:45:16,614
Verse 13, we're going to have to have faith.

639
00:45:16,614 --> 00:45:17,934
How does that faith come?

640
00:45:17,934 --> 00:45:19,534
By hearing the word of God.

641
00:45:19,534 --> 00:45:21,594
Does come from a personal testimony?

642
00:45:21,674 --> 00:45:25,954
Me telling you what God's done for me or how bad I used to be and now how good I?

643
00:45:25,954 --> 00:45:27,954
It comes from hearing the word of God.

644
00:45:27,954 --> 00:45:29,634
Romans 10, 17.

645
00:45:29,874 --> 00:45:31,248
In Romans chapter 2, verse 4,

646
00:45:31,248 --> 00:45:34,708
we learned that the goodness of God leads deep to repentance.

647
00:45:34,788 --> 00:45:36,208
I need a change of life.

648
00:45:36,208 --> 00:45:37,568
I'm not right in the sight of God.

649
00:45:37,568 --> 00:45:38,288
God is good.

650
00:45:38,288 --> 00:45:39,348
He wants me to be saved.

651
00:45:39,348 --> 00:45:40,748
Christ died for me.

652
00:45:40,748 --> 00:45:43,888
The Church is for me and I can have entrance into it.

653
00:45:43,888 --> 00:45:45,348
I need to repent of my sins.

654
00:45:45,348 --> 00:45:48,648
I need to get my life right in the sight of God.

655
00:45:48,748 --> 00:45:51,688
Jesus said, repent or perish, Luke 13.3.

656
00:45:51,688 --> 00:45:59,848
And then in Romans chapter 10 the Apostle says, the heart man believes unto righteousness,
and with the mouth confessions made unto salvation.

657
00:45:59,908 --> 00:46:01,188
Romans 10, 9 and 10.

658
00:46:01,188 --> 00:46:03,892
to confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

659
00:46:03,892 --> 00:46:06,115
Do you know right here so many have it wrong?

660
00:46:06,115 --> 00:46:08,558
Listen closely to them, they'll say, confess your sins.

661
00:46:08,558 --> 00:46:09,278
You want to be saved?

662
00:46:09,278 --> 00:46:11,641
Confess your sins and call on Jesus.

663
00:46:11,842 --> 00:46:14,625
If we start confessing our sins tonight...

664
00:46:14,764 --> 00:46:21,667
say there's four or five people want to be that time will be so you start confessing how
much time do you have how many sins have you committed?

665
00:46:21,667 --> 00:46:23,436
Can you remember them all?

666
00:46:23,436 --> 00:46:27,094
And yet these people stand flat footed and say confess your sins to Jesus.

667
00:46:27,094 --> 00:46:28,440
You'll be there all day.

668
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:39,295
He never told a sinner confess your sins, he told him repent of your sins and confess your
faith in Christ Matthew sixteen sixteen; Romans ten nine ten That's what we do that's why

669
00:46:39,295 --> 00:46:44,758
our services in the church of Christ aren't extended we're not going to here til eleven
o'clock tonight trying to figure out what to do to be saved.

670
00:46:44,758 --> 00:46:46,829
We know there steps in the plan of salvation.

671
00:46:46,829 --> 00:46:51,970
Hear the Gospel, believe it, repent of sins, confess Christ, and be baptized into Christ.

672
00:46:52,170 --> 00:46:57,479
In baptism, this is where we call on the name of the Lord, and I can prove it to you.

673
00:46:57,479 --> 00:47:00,032
Saul of Tarsus sees Ananias.

674
00:47:00,032 --> 00:47:09,914
Ananias tells him, and now whitarious thou, arise and be baptized, calling on the name of
the Lord.

675
00:47:09,934 --> 00:47:11,434
That's Acts 22, 16.

676
00:47:11,434 --> 00:47:14,354
That is how we call on the name of the Lord.

677
00:47:14,674 --> 00:47:16,614
Baptism saves us, Mark 16, 16.

678
00:47:16,614 --> 00:47:18,654
He that believeth and is should be saved.

679
00:47:18,654 --> 00:47:24,594
Peter said in 1 Peter 3, 21, the like figure who are unto even baptism doth also now save
us.

680
00:47:24,594 --> 00:47:27,334
Somebody want to say you don't have to be baptized to be saved?

681
00:47:27,334 --> 00:47:28,534
Read your Bible.

682
00:47:28,554 --> 00:47:29,994
Follow what the Bible says.

683
00:47:29,994 --> 00:47:32,294
We're contending for the faith here tonight.

684
00:47:32,474 --> 00:47:34,774
We're preaching the truth in love.

685
00:47:34,774 --> 00:47:37,254
Ephesians 6, or 4 in verse 15.

686
00:47:37,254 --> 00:47:40,014
We're urging you tonight, if you've not obeyed the gospel,

687
00:47:40,064 --> 00:47:41,366
Answer the Gospel Call.

688
00:47:41,366 --> 00:47:43,209
You can read about it in your own Bible.

689
00:47:43,209 --> 00:47:45,252
You can know you did what pleases heaven.

690
00:47:45,252 --> 00:47:46,624
And you can walk in heaven's way.

691
00:47:46,624 --> 00:47:48,677
If you're faithful, heaven will be your home.

692
00:47:48,677 --> 00:47:49,779
You can read these verses.

693
00:47:49,779 --> 00:47:54,365
He'll keep you from falling when you follow Him fully and holy.

694
00:47:54,894 --> 00:48:02,354
Tonight if you are a Christian and you've wanted to stray, you require the prayer of the
faithful on your behalf, that'd be a good thing to do.

695
00:48:02,694 --> 00:48:06,054
Maybe I've said something tonight that touched the nerve, I don't know.

696
00:48:06,054 --> 00:48:08,314
Maybe it's something you need to repent of in your life.

697
00:48:08,314 --> 00:48:12,394
We can walk out of this building tonight knowing I'm right in the sight of God.

698
00:48:12,634 --> 00:48:17,934
I'm not worried about 10,000 angels coming and me being on the wrong side of this study.

699
00:48:17,934 --> 00:48:20,590
I'm gonna be right in the sight of God.

700
00:48:20,590 --> 00:48:26,450
when he returns he'll be coming to be glorified in all his saints and I'll be right there
with him.

701
00:48:26,450 --> 00:48:28,390
2 Thessalonians 1 and verse 10.

702
00:48:28,390 --> 00:48:31,050
That can be true of every soul in here tonight.

703
00:48:31,150 --> 00:48:37,410
So if your need of heaven's invitation is being extended to you tonight, we would
encourage you now to let us know.

704
00:48:37,410 --> 00:48:43,730
We'll help you right now to be baptized into Christ or pray for whatever concern you have
in your life that God may forgive you.

705
00:48:43,730 --> 00:48:48,021
While the angels are watching and heaven is waiting, won't you come while we stand and
sing God's praise.