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Jude 1-7, 20-25
Stephen Caswell © 2005
Church Security
New York’s Riverside Church spent $100,000 a year for its security program — more than the entire budget of most smaller churches — because of the growing crime problem.
Introduction
We are standing at the beginning of 2005.
The Tsunami disaster shocked the world at the close of 2004.
/What lies ahead of us?
Is this world falling apart?
Will terrorists strike in our land?
Can we have eternal security?
Is God able to keep us from harm?
Or are we vulnerable to Satan and wicked men?/
This was an issue when Jude wrote his epistle to the early Church.
Jude reminded the Church of God's past judgement and His sovereign ability */to Keep/*.
/In Jude's day wickedness abounded and threatened to corrupt the Church, from within.
The Roman Empire persecuted the Church from without./
Today I would like to look at God's ability to keep.
God keeps the wicked for the Day of Judgement and the righteous for Heaven with Himself.
Three points Jude makes about God's power; */Kept for Judgment, Kept in God’s Love, Kept by Christ.
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1.
Kept For Judgment
*Jude 6: */And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;/
Story Of Al Kapoen
During the prohibition in America in the nineteen-twenties and nineteen-thirties there was a gangster named Al Kapoen.
He evaded the law for quite some time.
His crimes included murder, moonlighting, illegal gambling, protection rackets, and tax evasion.
It was this final breach on which he was convicted and sentenced to Alkatraz.
Alkatraz was escape proof.
Situated on an island off New York City, strong currents swept down the river and made it impossible to swim to safety.
To make it even more difficult sharks infested the river as well.
History records that no one ever escaped alive.
This prison had excellent security and the backing of the U.S. government.
If one was sentenced to Alkatraz to serve time you served it, to the last minute.
Alkatraz was a man made and man secured prison.
However the prison spoken of in Jude was made and is guarded by God Himself.
Jude 6 states that God has kept the Angels that sinned in everlasting chains under darkness for the Judgement Day.
/If men can securely hold criminals in prison, then how much more is God able to keep the wicked?/
If there was no escape from the judgement of men, and the term is enforced, surely God is much more able to punish the wicked that disobey Him.
God has power to confine the wicked in prison to punish them with eternal fire.
They are currently being held in prison awaiting their final judgement.
*/These people:/* */are reserved for judgement, will stand before God's judgement, will be condemned to hell./*
The Bible lists their disobedience.
Their works are described throughout Jude as a warning to all who would live that way.
*Jude 4: */For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ./
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*Licentiousness,* immoral people.
v 4,7,8,10,12.
Such people abound today.
TV reflects this./
/b.
*Unbelief,* people who choose not to believe.
v 4-5,10.
The majority today reject Christ./
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*Rebellious, *people that speak evil of authorities, law-breakers.
8,11.
People hate authority.
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*Blasphemous,* people who speak evil of God.
v 15,16.
Take His name in vain, curse Him.
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*/All those who practise such things have been reserved by God for Judgement.
Jude 14-15/* The day has been set and God has shown us the Man who will judge the world by raising Him from the dead.
*Acts 17:31:*
Application
*/Will you be among those condemned at that time?
/*God is keeping the wicked for the day of judgement.
Unless you receive a pardon from Jesus Christ you will be condemned.
If you don't know Christ this evening you should seriously consider giving your life to Him.
God has judged in the past and will do so again in the future.
/Are you being kept for judgment?
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Kept In God’s Love * *
*Jude 21: */keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life./
Love story of Jim and Mary
The story is told of a young couple who were engaged to be married when the war broke out in 1939.
Mary was a school teacher and Jim was in the Air Force.
He was posted to England early in 1940.
They had promised each other to write and remain faithful till Jim came home.
Time rolled on and they wrote to each other at least three times a month.
When Mary had the opportunity she would ring on the phone.
They carried each others picture with them where ever they went.
They longed for the day that the war would finish and they could be reunited.
They spoke to their friends and workmates all the time about their loved one.
By doing these things they found that their love grew more each day even though they were apart.
They kept their love alive and fresh by thinking about each other often.
Mary longed for Jim's return and their future lives together as man and wife.
This love story has a parallel for believers.
In *Jude 20-23* we are given some guidelines on how to keep our relationship with God fresh and alive.
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Prayer/
*Jude 20b:*/ praying in the Holy Spirit,/
The first parallel I would like to draw is that of communication.
To keep our love for God fresh we need to keep in contact on the phone.
We don't have the problem Mary did, because we can ring at any time.
The prayer line is always open and Christ longs to hear from us.
Jesus is never to busy for us to talk to Him.
In verse 20 we are commanded to /pray in the Holy Spirit.
/We should pray regularly and keep in touch with Christ our Heavenly Bridegroom.
If we don't keep in touch our love for Him will grow cold and die.
When we need help with decisions we should take it to the Lord in prayer.
A good relationship is built on regular communication.
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