Jason Helopoulos

I belong body and soul to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ, as the Catechism says.

I have a sign that my wife made for me that when I walk into my study at home, it's right there on the wall.

When I walk into my study, it just says, I am not my own.

Just a reminder, I'm not my own.

I belong to someone.

I've been purchased by someone.

Slave of Christ Jesus.

You have to lose your life to gain it, Jesus said.

Thomas Brooks said,

wonderful old divine said this.

He said, here is a wonder.

God is on high, and yet the higher a man lifts up himself, the farther he is from God.

And the lower a man humbles himself, the nearer he is to God.

Slave of Christ Jesus.

It's a happy place, and he's happy there.

The recipients that he is writing to, that he is addressing, these Christians, they are in a mess.

And they're in a mess because there are false teachers in their context.

In fact, as Jude identifies himself as a slave of Christ, his favorite designation for these false teachers is that they are godless.

He calls them that in verse 4, he calls them that in verse 15, and he calls them that in verse 18.

His life is centered upon God.