Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, June 5th.

God warns us to be aware of false teachers.

Strengthen your discernment as you continue the study of the New Testament Book of Jude

by learning the principles required for reinforcing our faith.

We've been in the book of Jude talking about false teachers, and what Jude

has said in this passage is in the third verse, and there are only 25 verses in the whole book,

the third verse is the whole theme when he says, contend earnestly for the faith, that is stand

for it, be ready to defend it, and get on the aggressive about defending our faith.

He describes the character and the conduct of these false teachers and how they deceive

and divide the church. And all of these things he's been discussing through verse 16. And then

beginning in verse 17, he says to the believers, here's what you to do. That is, how do you live

amidst these false teachers who are not going away? And he says in verse 17, remember what you've

heard. And we discussed that and we discussed the philosophy of these false teachers and how they were dividing the people because their whole concept of a person and the spirit and soul and the body.

And so then beginning in verse 19 or verse 20, he says, and this is where I want us to begin tonight, under the same idea,

this is how you'd live amidst these false teachers.

But here's what you'd do.

First of all, he says, you'd remember something, what you heard and what they're like.

And now he says you are to reinforce your spiritual life, reinforce your own spiritual life in the light of having to live among

people who are teaching false doctrine. So it begins in verse 20, but you, beloved, building yourselves

up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the

mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life, and have mercy on some who are doubting, save

others, snatching them out of the fire, and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the

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