Jason Helopoulos

but raise it up on the last day.

Called, beloved, kept.

He can no more abandon us than he can deny who he is.

Which leads Jude simply to end his greeting this way with a hopeful prayer.

May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

It's already theirs.

It's already theirs.

And now he just wants it multiplied.

So before he gets to the hard work, he's just set the stage for who they are in Christ.

It's not if you pray.

There's an expectation of his disciples as he's preaching the Sermon on the Mount.

He says, when you pray, go in to your closet and shut the door.

When?

It's the expectation that those who are his, those who are following after him, that have fallen in love with him, will want and will spend time in prayer and in the word.

As we're looking at worshiping with all of our life, our Lord and our God, we're going to come to that last sphere of worship as we talk about secret worship, or what has been called private worship.

or as evangelicalism in some ways has been very helpful in its kind of encouragement for you and I to have daily devotions or those quiet times as it is often called.

And that's what we want to look at and spend some time thinking about today.

As we do so, I want to encourage you that this is not something that's new with evangelicalism.

Quiet times, daily devotions is not something that just started in the last hundred years or even the last couple of hundred years.

Rather, it's something that we see in the Scriptures, if you want to think upon it that way.