Jude & The Warning

 

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Jude &

The Warning

   In this small book, we are shown the pitfalls of being of the World. You may well be saved, but how well do you know & closely are you walking with our living God?  V4 “They are people to whom God means nothing” Yes .. Yes.. “we are to go out into ‘ALL’ the World preach the gospel” [Mark 16:15] That’s all well and good I hear you say, what if they refuse? You dust off your feet and hands, and tell them you have tried and they have rejected God. Then you can leave with a clear conscience, as you know you have tried, It’s NOT your fault they rejected God.

   Here the Bible reminds us that .. what these people don’t understand is that by rejecting Him they insult Him. Remember now that we are saved we have become transformed, now no longer of World thinking ~ attitudes & behaviour.

   Now set apart from the World, we must be careful that we don’t slip back into our old ways. We now no longer have the hunger or desire to be once again, as V16 puts it .. “These people complain; find fault; follow their own desires; say arrogant things; and flatter people in order to take advantage of them” .. V18 “In the last times people who ridicule God will appear”

   My prayer to God was, ‘this new lot politicians – are they any better than those they replaced? As they only lasted 2yrs out of 5yrs! I think I did truly got an answer, not the one I had maybe prayed hoped for.

   With you already on this, God, so in all things I will give thanks unto our Lord Christ Jesus, the author and finisher of our Faith. In finishing God wants to say this, V22/25 “22 Show mercy to those who have doubts. 23 Save others by snatching them from the fire of hell. Show mercy to others, even though you are afraid that you might be stained by their sinful lives. 24 God can guard you so that you don’t fall and so that you can be full of joy as you stand in his glorious presence without fault. 25 Before time began, now, and for eternity glory, majesty, power, and authority belong to the only God, our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

The Bible translations used in this message was from ‘Gods Word (GW)