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Introduction
We have been studying spiritual warfare for several months now.
And over the last couple weeks we have been examining Jude’s letter.
He thought it essential to warn believers of false teachers in their midst.
I think it important as well.
if it was important in the first century it is even more so now as we move closer to the return of Christ.
This is especially important because we have such a plethora of media from Christian TV channels and radio/satellite channels that perpetuate this false doctrine.
We have books that populate bookstore shelves that teach this stuff.
This false teaching permeates almost all the Christian teaching that is available.
The fastest growing religion in the world is Charismatic word of faith churches.
This teaching has been exported from america all over the world.
Even in the first century Jude realized the danger this poses to the health of the church, to the believer who may find himself or herself caught up in this.
So how will you avoid getting caught up in this yourself?
When you walk into the hospital to see a friend or family member you see all these bottles on the wall or on a stand that are filled with hand sanitizer.
There is a big sign commanding you to wash your hands with this stuff before you go any further.
And if you forget, don’t worry someone will remind you to wash your hands.
Sometimes you will be required to wear a mask, or even put on one of those funny gowns that leave you open in the back.
We willingly do those things because we know they are trying to prevent the spread of germs and hence disease, among the patients who already have a compromised immune system.
They realize a seemingly insignificant germ to you, that will do you know harm, might just kill the person you are there to see.
That is exactly what Jude is doing.
He is asking you - did you see the sign to wash your hands?
Did you?
Have you been washed in the blood of Jesus to be cleansed.
Oh, here is a gown to put on.
Have you put on Jesus yet?
Are you clothed in His righteousness?
And rightly so, because there might be someone here with a compromised or weak spiritual heart.
You must make sure you have the truth, the real thing.
And so here we are trying to help you see that It is in Jesus that your hope lies, not in some experience or that you said a prayer or had a revelation.
But do you know Jesus and more importantly, does He know you?
Jude intended to encourage the believers with words that probably would have been meant to strengthen their faith.
Instead, he realized there is an issue that is far more important than that.
They were in danger of being led astray, down a path that would have shipwrecked their faith.
He challenged them to contend for the faith.
I. Fight/contend for the faith
He is writing to encourage the believer to stand fast in the faith, to contend for it.
Contend-agonize, the stadium conflicts whereby you compete all out to win.
In the Christian life there is conflict.
There is one particular conflict Jude is talking about though.
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Making sure we have the right understanding of the doctrine of Christ, which is what is at stake here.
What you believe about Christ is crucial to your eternal salvation/security.
If you are worshipping the wrong Jesus you are just as lost as one who doesn't worship Jesus at all.
So first of all, what is the faith once delivered to the Saints?
Well that is clearly the gospel - ,
Paul defined it as the Death Burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ , Then we have Paul's statement in about his preaching of the gospel, the cross,
We could look to Paul's warning about preaching another gospel than that of the grace of Christ.
So we can safely say the faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, His death, burial and resurrection to pay the penalty of our sins and deliver us from the wrath of Almighty God is the faith once delivered to the saints.
Anything more or less than that is false.
Anything that demands a higher knowledge than that is false or demands another experience is false.
Then we need to look at what it means to contend for this faith.
We already looked at the word.
It is a stadium/athletic term or a military term for combat.
It is fighting to the death, contending to the point of exhaustion to the point of not being able to contend any further.
But what does that look like is the question.
First, of all you must know what you believe and why?
We won't go into all that entails, but I want you to know that for you know what and why of your belief is something that can only come to you as you read, study, meditate on the word of God.
That would come through obvious personal reading and study, but also through listening to preaching, reading extra-biblical sources like commentaries and such.
There is no replacement for this.
As you are reading you might come across a verse that stumps you by what it says because of something else you know the bible says.
Like how do you reconcile with or .
Those are like speed bumps to get you to think about this
In other words, you have to become more than just a casual reader of the Bible if you are going to contend for the faith.
Second, study your opponent.
Boxers do, football teams study the films of the next team.
Players study the moves of the player they will oppose.
Bull riders study their bull.
Generals study the tactics of the generals against them.
We often say study the truth and falsehoods will be clear.
But we need to know our enemy.
To see his tactics so we can be ready to defend or even go on the offensive.
I heard Ravi Zachariah say that when he gets ready to debate someone he reads everything that person has written and watched any videos he has done.
He wants to know their argument so he can understand how they think about the subject.
In that way he knows how to best use the Scripture to rebut their arguments.
So contending for the faith might look like reading, listening to or watching the teaching of these other teachers to see the chinks in their arguments.
You might do the same for those in our camp who are contending for the faith.
I decided to listen to what some of these teachers on the WOF/NAR side say about Peters, MacArthur and others engaged in this battle.
I am certain I need to do this more rather than just take Peters, or MacARthurs word for it.
Third, it might look like actually engaging in conversation with someone when you are faced with false teaching.
Fourth it will look like teaching the truth to those in your circle of influence.
It is what we find Jude doing the writing of this letter.
It is what Paul or the other writers of the Scripture are doing.
Peter and John did it before the Sanhedrin.
In short, it is simply sticking up for the truth of Scripture before anyone who would oppose it.
Or with anyone who has questions about the faith.
It is both warning to those who oppose it and a defense for those who believe.
It is both offense and defense.
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The Reason to contend
This is the clear main issue or point of trouble that has gotten Jude's attention.
He thought this important enough that he shelved the other things he wanted to talk about
Here is a question:
How does a false teacher creep in unnoticed?.
Now how is it that a false teacher can enter unnoticed by the congregation with that kind of thinking?
The word is pareisduo- from teh word para meaning untoor at the side of , and eisduo meaning to enter in,.
To enter at the side door, that is secretly, without notice.
They slip in.
Paul warned the believers at Ephesus of these false teachers, ;
Peter warned the believers as well , , ,
So we have been warned.
How does this still happen?
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