Amen. Amen. We serve a God who loves us. Amen, church. Amen. A God who saves, a God who is near. I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving. If you have a Bible, grab it, open it up. We're going to be in the New Testament book of Jude. We're going to be finishing up a two-week study through Jude.

We went verses 1 to 19 last week.

We're going to pick up in verse 20 this week.

Just as a reminder, or if you missed it, Jude is Jesus' brother.

He was in the family of Jesus, brother of James,

and he wrote the New Testament letter of Jude to the church that he was,

I belong to, that he was a part of. He was the church of Jesus followers in Jerusalem in the

first century. And while Jude's away starting the church and helping the Jesus movement of

the local church take root all over the world, he writes a letter back to

his church because some false teachers had snuck into this local congregation, and they had

begun to distort and twist the truth in the teachings of Jesus because they wanted the scriptures

to line up with their behaviors and verses being obedient and trusting what God said as first, they started to change

things and to manipulate things. And Jude was like, this is no good. You can't listen to these

people. Don't give your ear. Don't settle for the cheap wine or lower God standard, but give yourself

holy and totally to the teachings of Jesus. And in that, that is where life is found. And so that was verses 1 through 19.

We pick up in verse 20 today where Jude makes a shift.

He goes from warning about false teachers and warning about going astray from the faith.

And he talks about how do we build our faith?

How does our faith grow in the life of the believer? And so we're

going to pick up in verse 20 and it says this, but you, beloved, building yourselves up in

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

the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life,

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