Jason Helopoulos
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Jude is encouraging them.
He's writing to a church that is filled with trial.
It is filled with disruption by heretics.
And there is all kinds of division that is happening.
And so he reminds them of this.
At the very beginning, God called you.
Because, as Jude says, they are the beloved in God the Father.
The Christian is called and the Christian is beloved.
Beloved in God the Father.
Interestingly, these are two terms that are used of Israel in the Old Testament.
And now he is writing this to the church.
They are identified the same way.
Because Israel was the church in the Old Covenant age.
And the church is Israel in the New Covenant age.
We are the beloved of God.