The In the little epistle of Jude we are warned that no one escapes God's judgment, not even the angels.

Today on Truth for Life will hear an important warning and a word of

encouragement as Alistairbegg teaches from Jude v 5 through 7.

Being part of the visible people of God is no guarantee of eternal security unless it is combined with a living personal faith in the Lord Jesus. Now that's nothing other than Calvin says in

his institutes. He says all that Christ has done for us is of no value to us so long as we remain outside of Christ, so long as we remain

in our unbelief. We look back to the great deliverance of the cross, we look forward to the day when we stand before him.

It is the very continuance that bears testimony to the reality of the work of Christ a saving reality in our

lives. That's why Jude is about to go on and say keep yourself in the love of God. These people were in the crowd. They had

come out, but they were not actually they were circumcised people, Jews, but they weren't

circumcised in their hearts. Their hearts were full of unbelief. They were rebels.

They rebelled against God's rule. They doubted

God's promises. They were reluctant to believe his promises. And so God determines that that should be their end.

The way in which we continue and keep ourselves in the love of God in short order is that we heed the warnings and we trust the promises.

And you must allow the warnings to be warnings.

Every time you come across a warning,

it does say, well, that couldn't possibly be me.

Of course it could. The warnings are there

and the promises are there and when we neglect them, then we neglect the means that

God is appointed in order to keep us all the way to the end of the

journey. So we are not like those who perished in the wilderness. People want to comment on whether they were lost eternally

or whether they only died physically, whichever way it doesn't really matter in one sense

because Jude is applying it to the reality that is confronting them

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