The It's not uncommon for us as Christians to view what is happening in our culture as

having a corrupting influence on the church.

Today on Truth for Life, we'll find out

that the greatest threat to faith

often comes from inside the church.

Alistair Begg is continuing our study in the book of Jude.

We're looking today at verses 3 and 4.

One of the privileges and challenges of pastoral ministry is the opportunity to spend time

in hospitals. I think probably pastors spend more time outside of those who are medical

practitioners than any other people in the world. And no matter how many times I

visit a hospital, I am always alarmed by hearing Code Blue. It usually just comes with some

kind of warning sound and then it identifies the location in the building requiring an urgent response.

Acknowledging that there has now been a medical emergency and every hospital it would seem

has its own mechanism, its own policy for making sure that a hasty response can be made, a hasty response to be made in hope that the patient will survive.

Someone has to be bold enough to sound the warning, breaking into the normal course of events, because of the

gravity of the situation, because of the prospect of death.

And the more I read Jude this week, the more I said to myself, you know this

transition here from two into three from three into four is in some ways a

spiritual code blue. And what he's actually doing here is sounding a

wake-up call to a church or if you like to churches we don't know the exact destination, to people who have half asleep,

allowed people to creep in unnoticed into their congregation. Not just certain people but

ungodly people whom Jude says have an evil agenda.

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