The Welcome. Welcome to Truth for Life where today we begin a brand new study in the book of Jude.

Alistair Beg will be taking us through this brief letter that warns about the chaos that false teachers

cause, but before that we are reminded why genuine believers can be

encouraged and remain confident in their faith even in the midst of confusing times.

I invite you to turn with me to the letter of Jude, which is the second last book of our

New Testament, and to follow along as I read from here. The letter of Jude, there is only one chapter.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, beloved in God,

the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ. May mercy, peace and love be multiplied to you.

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary

to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the Saints. For certain people have crept in

unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our

only master and Lord Jesus Christ. Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus

who saved a people out of the land of Egypt afterward destroyed those who did not

believe, and the angels who did not stay within their own positions of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has

kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day. Just a Sodom and Gomorro and the

surrounding cities which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire,

serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

Yet, in like manner manner these people also relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject

authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. But when the archangel Michael,

contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to

pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, the Lord rebuke you. But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they like unreasoning animals understand instinctively.

Woe to them, for they walked in the way of cane and abandoned themselves for the sake of Cain and abandon themselves for the sake of Gain to Bailham's error

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