How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

How do you know who to trust?

Well, as we mentioned earlier in the study, it's a great question in a day when so-called

Bible teachers are all over the map and their instruction.

It's also the premise of this study in Jude.

Welcome to Through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee.

Knowing who and what to trust was the same problem that people of the first century experienced with the conflicting doctrines of their day.

Jude wrote his letter to help the young church know whom to believe.

We're in our last study in this very practical series in the book of Jude.

And as always, if you want to listen to these messages again, they're available anytime in our app or at ttb.org. Now, in just a few minutes,

we'll travel through Jude verses 20 to 25, which tell us what we need to do if we want to stand

for God in difficult days. But before we dive into God's word, let's listen to another of Dr. McGee's

introductions explaining the judgments in the Bible. Now, I've been prefacing our studies here in Jude

with some teaching on certain great subjects that we attempt to bring together all the scripture on

certain subjects to understand exactly what God is doing and understand his program.

And we've been talking about the judgments of God.

We didn't get very far in the judgments.

We saw, first of all, divine judgment through the cross.

And that is one that is past.

Then there are two that are for the present hour, and that is one that is past. Then there are two that are for the present hour,

and one is, of course, the self-judgment of a believer. God permits us to deal with the sin

in our own life. If we confess it, if we make things right, we depart from it, and God does

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