Me, Too (Sermon)
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Schooner Valley Revival, Fall 2022
Houlka, MS
Jude
Text: Jude 1-4.
ETS: Jude encouraged believers to contend for the faith amidst the presence of false teachers.
ESS: Believers should protect and defend the Gospel.
OSS: [MO: Consecrative] {SO: I want the hearers to commit to contending for the Gospel.} Cognitive: I want the hearers to know what their responsibility is regarding the Gospel and false teaching. Affective: I want the hearers to feel the responsibility and urgency of contending for the Gospel. Psycho-motor: I want the hearers to commit to defending, protecting, and contending for the Gospel.
PQ: What observations can be made in this text?
UW: Observations
Intro.:
TS: Let us together make a few observations in the text.
The text defines what it means to be a believer. (v. 1)
Believers are called by God. (Kalein)
Believers are beloved in God. (agapemenois)
Believers are kept by Christ. (teteremenois)
The text clarifies the path of the Gospel. (v. 3)
The tradition of faith was handed down through generations, likely through oral tradition. (The faith was delivered once and for all to the saints)
The faith originates in the constant truth of Jesus: He came, He lived, He died, He rose, and He is coming again.
The text establishes the responsibility of the believer. (vv. 3b-4)
Every believer has the responsibility to contend for the faith and to ensure it is passed along to the next generation.
The text communicates the urgency for believers to act. (v. 4)
The urgency is in understanding that false teachers have crept their way in stealthily and perverted the grace of God.
For them (and us), a lot of the false teachers were not necessarily outsiders who were obviously against the Gospel. Often, it was leaders within the church who had been led astray and begun teaching false teachings within the church. Sound familiar?
William Barclay commented on the word translated as “stealthily” writing, “It is used of the plausible and seductive words of someone who pleads their case cleverly, seeping gradually into the minds of the judge and jury; it is used of an outlaw slipping secretly back into the country from which he has been expelled; it is used of the slow and subtle entry of innovations into the life of society; which in the end undermine and break down the ancestral laws. It always indicates a stealthy insinuation of something evil into a society or situation.” (Barclay, Jude, 204-205)
CONCLUSION:
[1] Each of us, who are believers, have responsibility to contend for the faith.
[2] What is hindering you?