A lot of people accuse Jude of just being heavy, of being absent of love, of being absent of grace.

Well, to say that is just faulty and wrong,

Jude is filled with the love and the grace of Christ and the hope of the gospel.

But he's going to speak a hard word because he's concerned.

We cannot pick and choose what parts of the Bible to believe and which parts we can reject.

As others have said, it takes a whole Bible to make a whole Christian.

And so today we continue our look into the Book of Jude, a book filled with love, grace, and the hope of the gospel, yet with an urgent call to contend for the faith.

Welcome to the Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind. It's good to have you with us. Well, today, our guest

teacher will consider perhaps the two most well-known verses in Jude. Here's Jason Holopoulos.

All right, we're going to look at verses three and four. I promise, we're not going to go through

every single verse like this, but those first two set the tone for the book and letting them know who they are in Christ.

And now three and four we're going to see the meat of what he's trying to get at.

So I want to read those together as we work our way through them.

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

I find 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. He begins, if you'll note there in verse 3, he begins with

confession. This isn't what he wanted to write to them about. He begins, if you'll note there in verse 3, he begins with confession. This isn't what he wanted to write to them about.

He says he wanted to write to them about our common salvation.

There were things that he wanted to write about, but this was the thing he felt like he needed to write to them about.

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