Jason Helopoulos

It's not for one that knows Christ in saving relationship.

It is the happiest place to be, is to be a slave of Christ, to know that you have been brought from darkness to light.

You have been clutched from the clenches of hell and sin and are adversary.

and you have been brought into the very family of God.

And it is a happy designation to call yourself a slave of Christ.

He sees himself as belonging to another, to Jesus, as he says, his master, his master.

Never be ashamed of belonging to Jesus.

I've often thought over the last number of years as Western civilization seems to be changing radically and you see all of the unrest that one of, it seems like to me, one of the greatest errors of our day and one of the underlying currents is that we don't want any kind of authority over us.

We don't want it.

No one's going to be the boss of me.

And that can be true of government.

That can be true of parents.

That can be true of ecclesiastical authorities.

That can be true of God.

And this goes back to the great error in the garden.

At Adam and Eve, Adam wants to be the decider of what is good and evil, wants to unseat God from his throne.

It's an act of cosmic rebellion when they eat from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

We are a people that are under authority.

And so Jude is happy to acknowledge that Jesus is his authority, a slave of Jesus Christ.

That's odd in this world.