CREPT IN UNWARES ; JUDE 3 ,BEHOLD.....I... EXHORT YOU THAT YE SHOULD EARNESTLY CONTEND FOR THE FAITH WHICH WAS ONCE DELIVERED UNTO THE SAINTS. JUDE PAINTS A VIVID PICTURE OF A PEOPLE DOMINATED BY THEIR PASSIONS AND LUSTS, REVELING IN REBELLION (VERSE 8), BOASTING IN CONFUSIONS AND ERROR(VERSE 16) AND RUNNING GREEDILY AFTER REWARD (VERSE 11) AND UGLY PICTURE, WITH WHICH NO CHRISTIAN WANTS TO BE IDENTIFIED. VERSE FOUR SAYS THESE PEOPLE HAD CREPT IN UNWARES. THEY HAD ENTERED STEALTHILY AND SECRETLY BY A SIDE DOOR . JESUS SAID , HE THAT ENTERETH NOT BY THE DOOR INTO THE SHEEPFOLD,BUT CLIMBETH UP SOME OTHER WAY ,THE SAME IS A THIEF AND A ROBBER(JOHN 10:1) THEY HAD NOT ENTERED BY THE DOOR ,BUT NEITHER HAD THEY COME IN BOLDLY, INTRODUCING THEMSELVES AS FALSE TEACHERS, BLATANTLY PROMOTING THEIR ERRORS. RATHER, THEY IDENTIFIED THEMSELVES AS CHRISTIANS AND AS WOLVES IN SHEEPS CLOTHING ,THEY TOOK UP FELLOWSHIP WITH THE BODY OF BELIVERS SUCH FILTHY DREAMERS STILL EXIST. THEY STILL LOVE TO BE CALLED CHRISTIANS AND BROTHERS IN THE LORD WHILE DISREGARDING THE BIBLICAL CALL TO HOLINESS. THEY DENY CHRISTS POWER TO OVERCOME SIN,USING HIS GRACE AS A LICENSE FOR THE LUSTS OF THE FLESH. WE CANNOT ENDORSE A LARGE PART OF WHAT THE WORLD CALLSCHRISTIAN TODAY.LET US BEWARE ,LEST IT AFFECT US AND DIM OUR VISION OF GODS HIGH STANDARD OF PURITY AND HOLINESS FOR HIS PEOPLE. WHEREFORE BY THEIR FRIUTS YE SHALL KNOW THEM(MATTHEW 7:20)
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 04:53:07 +0000
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