These false teachers have challenged the faith and affected the ethical and practical life of believers. My mother worked at a bank for many years as a bank teller.
Now I must write to you and tell you to fight hard for the faith which was once and for all given to the holy people of God.Dear friends, I had been eagerly planning to write to you about the salvation we all share. If the Lord takes the time to reveal in His word that something is necessary then do you suppose it is? These verses present two sides of the same coin: doctrine and practice.An appeal to “the faith” as being the essential sound apostolic doctrine raises the question, did Jesus have any creeds or confessions? ”What follows is what many think is hymnic in structure, or a confession or creed.If I were to suggest a list of ten doctrinal non-negotiables, I would include the following:I consider these ten to be foundational first-order doctrines that constitute, at least in part, “the faith” about which Jude speaks.The second consideration in preaching Jude 3-4 is the question, Beyond Jude’s simple answer is a second reason we must contend earnestly for the faith: Satan’s strategy to counterfeit the true faith. But I felt the need to write you about something else: I want to encourage you to fight hard for the faith that was given the holy people of God once and for all time.Dear friends, although I have been eager to write to you about our common salvation, I now feel compelled instead to write to encourage you to contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.Dear friends, I really wanted to write to you about the salvation we share. Jude 1:3.
In doing so, however, we must be sure to distinguish between that which is false teaching-heresy-from that which is disagreement on secondary doctrinal issues. We must have an eye toward reclaiming false teachers, if possible, or gaining them for the faith if they have never truly been converted.The message of Jude is vital for the twenty-first century. This text is a message to a young minister about the “mystery of godliness. Jude 1:3 Context. |
Of course it is! Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you The apostle calls the persons he writes unto "beloved"; as they were of God, and by him and other saints; and he signifies his diligence in writing to them: and the subject of his writing was, of the common salvation; Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.Jude who was the half-brother of the Lord Jesus Christ, and who despised his older brother during His earthly ministry, is here seen to be a bond-slave of Christ Jesus his Savior - what a transformation. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins ac cording to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.” Paul is commenting on what has been delivered, “the faith” considered and described as the basic content of the gospel. Jude 1:3-4.
But now I find that I must write about something else, urging you to defend the faith that God has entrusted once for all time to his holy people.Beloveds, when I gave all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write to you, to exhort you to labour continually in the faith that was once and for all delivered to the saints.Beloved, while eagerly preparing to write to you about the salvation we share, I find it necessary to write and appeal to you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.Beloved, while eagerly preparing to write to you about the salvation we share, I find it necessary to write and appeal to you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.Beloved, while eagerly preparing to write to you about the salvation we share, I find it necessary to write and appeal to you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.Beloved, while eagerly preparing to write to you about the salvation we share, I find it necessary to write and appeal to you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.Beloved, I was doing my best to write to you about the rescue in which we share, but I found it necessary to write to you to urge you to struggle hard for the faith which was once and for all given to God’s people.Chaverim, although I was very eager to write to you an iggeret hakodesh concerning the Geulah (Redemption) we share, it suddenly became necessary to write you an urgent appeal to fight for the [correct Orthodox Jewish] Emunah (Faith, the Emunah of the true Dat HaYehudit), which was once for all time handed over and transmitted to the Kadoshim.Dearly loved friend, I was fully intending to write to you about our Beloved, while I diligently wrote to you of the common salvation, it became necessary for me to write to you in exhortation, so that you would earnestly contend for the faith which was once and for all given to the saints.Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.Loved ones, though very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I felt it necessary to write to you urging you to continue to contend for the faith that was once for all handed down to the Friends, I have been trying to write you about our common salvation.