Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, June 3rd.

The Book of Jude urged the early church to stay vigilant against false teachers.

Let's discover how these warnings remain just as relevant today.

One false teacher can destroy a vibrant living church.

And Jude wrote this epistle for the very simple reason of warning those who were his readers

of those ungodly men who were turning the grace of God into licentiousness, loose, immoral living,

and denying their only master, the Lord Jesus Christ.

So I want you to turn to Jude, if you will, and this is our second message in a very brief

series because the book only has one chapter and 25 verses. And this is our

second message, the judgment upon false teachers. And the whole book really deals with false teachers.

That's what he's discussing primarily. And if you'll notice in verse three, he says, beloved,

while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation,

which was his primary motivation for writing the book, he said, I felt the necessity to write to

you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith, which is the theme of this book,

contending for the faith, that is standing up for it, standing

strong against error, and being willing to defend that which is right.

And so we discussed these first four verses and the first message of contending for the faith.

And now we come to verse five, but verse five through seven primarily, but we're going to take in verse

eight, deal with the principle. And what he's doing in these verses is simply saying,

if God did this to these folks, here's what false teachers can expect. And his whole theme here

is the judgment upon these false teachers. Now, he's just said in verse four giving a brief

description of them, which he enlarges on throughout the book. He says, there are people who turn the

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