Welcome to a Year in the Bible with Daily Grace. My name is Kristen and my name is Katie and we want to spend a few minutes a day with you walking through the New Testament one chapter at a time.

This year we will fix our gaze upon Christ so that we may know Him not only with our minds but with our hearts.

Together we will learn that who Jesus is changes everything.

Hey, hey, welcome back to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. My name is Katie, and it's my joy to walk

with you through Jude in our year-long study of the New Testament. As always, you can follow along

with the Behold Studies in the Daily Gracecoe shop or with the reading plan linked

in the show notes.

How does it feel to know that you are called, loved by God the Father, and kept for Jesus

Christ?

Take a moment to rest in those truths.

When other identities roar louder than your identity in Christ, these truths ground us. Called, loved,

kept, that is you. This is the truth that Jude begins his letter with, as he writes to Jewish

Christians who are being infiltrated by false teachers. Jude warns of apostasy or the falling away from faith throughout his

letter. No wonder he wanted to remind his audience that they are called, loved, and kept.

Distortions of the faith were vying for their attention. And the same is true today. Every generation

of Christians will battle some sort of false teaching. Today, many deny

Christ and seek to please only themselves, sharing false gospels of how they found salvation in

health or wealth and beyond. Jude's letter is just as important for us today as it was for his original audience.

Welcome to Jude, the fourth shortest book in the New Testament behind 3rd John, 2nd John, and Philemon.

Jude identifies himself as a servant of Jesus and a brother of James.

Scholars agree that the James Jude refers to is Jesus' half-brother.

In humility, Jude does not identify himself as a brother of Jesus, but instead as a servant.

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