Jason Helopoulos

Thank you.

God has revealed Himself in creation.

Everyone has the knowledge of God, but we need more than what is revealed to us in creation, and that's called special revelation.

R.C.

Sproul will be back tomorrow as we consider the need for special revelation.

That'll be Thursday, here on Renewing Your Mind.

A lot of people accuse Jude of just being heavy, of being absent of love, of being absent of grace.

Well, to say that is just faulty and wrong.

Jude is filled with the love and the grace of Christ and the hope of the gospel.

But he's going to speak a hard word because he's concerned.

All right, we're going to look at verses 3 and 4.

I promise we're not going to go through every single verse like this, but those first two set the tone for the book and letting them know who they are in Christ.

And now 3 and 4, we're going to see the meat of what he's trying to get at.

So I want to read those together as we work our way through them.

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I find it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

He begins, if you'll note there in verse 3, he begins with a confession.

This isn't what he wanted to write to them about.

He says he wanted to write to them about our common salvation.

There were things that he wanted to write about, but this was the thing he felt like he needed to write to them about.