Every Sunday, professing Christians gather to worship, hear God’s Word and enjoy fellowship. Yet many of these same people lead sin-filled lives. Jude warns, “Certain men have crept in unnoticed … ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ” (verse 4). In other words, people will attempt to distort and pervert all reverence for the things of God.
Jude gives three defenses against Satan’s seductions in Jude 20-21:
- Build up your faith by diligently studying God’s Word.
- Pray in the Holy Spirit.
- Don’t be anxious but, instead, look for our Lord’s coming.
Each of us has within us the ability to pray, to read God’s Word, and to look for Jesus’ soon return. If we do these things, Jude declares, we’ll reap the benefits of this prayer: “Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy” (Jude 24).
– David Wilkerson
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