What It Looks Like to Contend
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
When faced with false teaching, how should Christians take a stand for God's truth? Today, Jason Helopoulos draws three exhortations from the book of Jude to help us contend for the faith.
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Jason Helopoulos is senior pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, MI.
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| 0:00.0 | You've got to contend for the faith. |
| 0:01.9 | This is a faith we can't lose. |
| 0:04.0 | You can't allow false teachers to take you away from Christ. |
| 0:07.4 | Why? |
| 0:08.7 | Because the same Jesus who delivers also is coming to destroy. |
| 0:14.7 | There will be judgment. |
| 0:16.5 | And this is the faith, the faith that saves. |
| 0:28.7 | Hello and welcome to the Wednesday edition of Renewing Your Mind. |
| 0:36.0 | This week we have looked at warnings found in the book of Jude about what happens if we do not contend for the faith. |
| 0:42.5 | So what does it look like to contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints? Here's Reverend Jason Halopoulos. |
| 0:47.4 | So let's just do a little bit of review before we get where he's going to bring things to |
| 0:51.8 | them as to what they are to do and what he wants them |
| 0:55.7 | actually concerning themselves with. So remember that there are false teachers that have |
| 1:01.1 | infiltrated the church, and they are antonomians, that is, they are against the law. They're |
| 1:06.3 | teaching, look, you're saved by grace, it doesn't matter how you live. The other is that they were |
| 1:11.3 | independents, weren't recognizing that Christ is master and Lord as well as our Savior. And so he is |
| 1:18.8 | telling these recipients of letter, you've got to contend for the faith. This is a faith we can't lose. |
| 1:25.1 | You can't allow these false teachers to take you away from Christ. |
| 1:28.3 | We contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. Why? Because the same |
| 1:35.2 | Jesus, who delivers, also is coming to destroy. There will be judgment. And this is the faith, |
| 1:44.1 | the faith that saves. So let's contend for this cling |
| 1:48.3 | to this what we're going to see in our passage in this lesson and we're going to look at verses 17 |
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