Jude is concerned for his spiritual children, that they're forgetting.

And spiritual amnesia is one of the great dangers of the people of God.

We had this refrain over and over throughout the scriptures that we're to set up Ebenezer stones

to remember who God is, what God has done, what He has promised.

Music to remember who God is, what God has done, what He has promised. We are forgetful people, and just as we can forget the gospel and the promises of God,

we can also forget the warnings of Scripture as well.

This is the Monday edition of renewing your mind,

and for the next few days, we'll be in the letter from Jude. It's a brief letter, but it

is packed with warnings and encouragement for the church then and now. Our guest teacher

this week is Jason Halopoulos.

Just as a reminder, remember that Jude is writing to these churches, these Christian churches,

and he wants them to contend for the faith.

There is concern.

There have been false teachers that have come into the church.

They are teaching an Antinomianism, against the the law kind of version of Christianity that is no Christianity at all. And they're also teaching an independency, that we can

be independent from the Lord Jesus Christ and not have him as master and Lord. And so he's warning

then that they need to be contenders for the faith.

Now what he's going to do in verses 5 through 7, we're going to see he's going to walk through

three, he's got four stories, but we're going to walk through three of them here in verses 5

through 7. So let me read that for us. Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, in Jesus who saved people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the

great day. Justice Sodom and Gomorrah in the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in

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