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Jude chapter 1 verse 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.

This is such a significant phrase.

As we think about our lives, as we think about the church

as we think about the common salvation we have in Christ,

we have been called in God's word to contend for the faith.

To contend for the faith it was once for all delivered to the Saints.

So we have been given the gospel passed down to us through the Bible from generation to

generation. I think about my life here I am in the 21st century and for 20 centuries before me and

really going back before that even before Christ there has been faith that has been passed down from generation to generation

and by God's grace is it's passed down to me that I know the gospel of Jesus. I know about his life, his death, his

resurrection for my sins. This has been delivered to me and I have a

responsibility to deliver it to those who come after me.

All of us do.

We have a responsibility to pass this gospel on and in order to do that there is

contending for the faith that is necessary in that. What that means

is what Jude is addressing is false teachers in the first century who were

spreading false Gospels and 20 centuries later the same things

happening there's all kinds of false Gospels counterfeit Gospels false

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