CONTEND FOR THE FAITH

 Jude 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

(Exhort: strongly encourage or urge,)

(Contend: assert, maintain, hold, claim, argue, profess, affirm, aver, avow, insist, state, declare, pronounce, allege, plead).

Jude 1:4-7 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into Lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. 

( Ordained: to destine or predestined, to select for or appoint to an position).

(Condemnation: the action of condemning someone to a punishment; sentencing).

(Lasciviousness: inclined to lustfulness, wanton; lewd. arousing sexual desire, indicating sexual interest or expressive of lust or lewdness).

(Fornication: sexual intercourse between people not married to each other)

[5] I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. [6] And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 

[7]Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

(Strange flesh: refers to homosexual desire).

Jude 1:8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

(Filthy: disgustingly dirty).

(Dreamers: a state of being completely occupied by one's own thoughts, a person who dreams habitually, a person who lives in or escapes to a world of fantasy or illusion,   A person inclined to be imaginative or idealistic but impractical).

(Dignities: the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect).

Jude 1:9-10 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. 

(Durst: dare)

(Railing: to protest, criticize, or complain angrily about someone or something).

(Accusation: a charge or claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong).

[10] But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

(Brute: a savagely violent person)

(Beasts: behaving in a crude, savage, or horrible way, So is a rude person. Anyone acting in an uncivilized or cruel way is being a beast).

Jude 1:14-16 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, [15] To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. [16] These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

Jude 1:17-25 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; [18] How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. [19] These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. [20] But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, [21] Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. [22] And of some have compassion, making a difference: [23] And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. [24] 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, [25] To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

Donna K Purifoy

10/13/2021