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Text - Nehemiah 13 Subject - Drift Theme - Spiritual Drift Thesis - Principle - As Christians today, we must be aware to guard ourselves from spiritual drift. As we turn to our text this morning, we see an all to familiar yet still sad pattern of events. The cyclical pattern of returning to faithfulness…

Author: Jude The brother of James. Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: Half brother of Jesus. Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon…

Jude 1:1-4 Introduction Good morning. Well, this is the final sermon in our Counter the Culture series. This has been a challenging series just in the preparation as well as in some of the topics that we have covered. I am looking forward to diving into I Timothy when I come back on the 17th after we…

Introduction: People come up with a lot of crazy ways to try to find out the will of God. Tonight we are going to take a survey of several of them listen in the Bible. I want to encourage you to follow along. We are going to mention some big words tonight, so I’ve given them to you on your handouts and…

Passage: I Timothy 6:11-21 Title: Fight the Good Fight Scripture Reader: Bethany Callison Introduction: We have come to the end of I Timothy. Paul finishes this letter to the young pastor Timothy with some final words of admonition and encouragement. ILLUSTRATION: Black Hawk Down from Ryken Phillip Ryken…

Introduction Contend for the Faith Spurgeon said, The great business of the saints is to defend, if necessary with their lives, the faith once delivered to them. We are put in trust with the gospel. We are trustees of a divine deposit of invaluable truth, and we must be true to our trust at all costs.…

Intro; It would be nice to stand up here in the pulpit every Sunday and preach like Joel Osteen, all prosperity and no persecution or problems. But that’s not the reality of life today nor back in the days of Jude. It should never be the nature of a christian to look for trouble and at all costs we need…

24 Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. What was heard from the beginning? 1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked…

GOOD NEWS IN 1517 At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Europe had been without a Bible that the people could read for something like a thousand years. Instead of the Word of God, they were left to the understanding that God is a God who enables people to earn their own salvation. As one of the…

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly…

20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 22 And on some have compassion, making a distinction; 23 but others save with fear, pulling them out…

Christians must strive to protect this faith from ungodly people who attempt to pervert its grace into sensuality and deny the Lordship of Christ.

Contend :To strive in opposition or against difficulties; struggle Earnestly : being very sincere; putting forth genuine effort Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which…

Summary This meeting focuses on Jude 4-5 . In Jude 4 , the false teachers who are Jude’s opponents are said to have long ago “been designated for condemnation.” What does this phrase mean? In Jude 5 , the author shocks his readers by informing them that it was Jesus who saved the Israelites from Egypt.…

Summary The letter of Jude is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Its content, however, is dense, offering a variety of fascinating topics for study. In this episode we embark on a series book study of the epistle of Jude. Introduction This is going to be our standard introductory episode. For those…

This is our 3rd week in the teaching portion of our EMPTY acronym, our flyover of the New Testament. It’s a 40,000 foot flyover, but its giving us a sense of the overarching message of redemption and seeing the connections of the New Testament back to the Old, and the flow of the story from Genesis on.…

Jude is one of the shortest books in the Bible, but packed with significant doctrine. The overall theme of the book is that believers should remain firm in their faith and resist the influence of false teachers. Jude identifies himself as the author, and though there is some debate on the identity of…

Jude 3–4 (ESV) — 3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation,…

I. THE BIBLE: We believe the Word of God, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, to be verbally inspired in all parts, and therefore wholly without error as originally given of God ( 2 Tim. 3:16 ; 2 Pet. 1:21 ). This record is final, authoritative, and unchanging! We believe the Bible to…

Necessary change Last week we started into this short letter of warning and the original intention of Jude changes in our passage. Author Jude, bond-servant of Jesus Christ (v.1) To the called, beloved, kept (v.1) Mercy, peace and love be multiplied (v.2) Let’s look at the passage together now ( Jude3-4…

There has been a shift in the thinking in our culture today, hasn’t there? It was Voltaire who once said: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” But, that’s not how people seem to think today is it? Where once we were told that people had the right to their…

Sometimes we need a reminder, amen?! Sometimes, we need God to reach down… shake us up a little bit… and remind us of what is important, amen?! That is what Jude does here… His desire was to write them an elegant letter about salvation… howe great it was… how awesome it is… how undeserving they are……

Good morning and welcome to Dishman Baptist Church - it is our pleasure to have you with us today as we seek to worship and glorify our Lord together. To that end, please take your Bibles and turn with me to the little epistle of Jude. Jude started off this short epistle telling us all about ourselves…

Good morning and welcome to Dishman Baptist Church. It is our joy and privilege to worship together this morning. Please take your Bibles and open them to the little epistle of Jude. We began our journey through this pivotal book last week, recognizing our status as believers being that we are chosen,…

Pastor James takes us through Jude 3-4.