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Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "A Still Small Voice" 1Kings 19:9-12

Jud 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Jud 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

It is common as to the same for all men everywhere. Not common as if not valuable.

Prod you to earnestly contend for the faith in its undefiled form.

Earnestly = passionately

Contend = wrestle or fight

Faith = system of belief

The attack of the enemy includes infiltration of the camp of the Lord.

Of Old Ordained to this Condemnation = like special forces, stealthy and highly trained to blend in for the purpose of deception and delusion.

Ungodly men are the great enemies of the faith of Christ and the peace of the church. Those who deny or corrupt the one, and disturb the other, are here expressly identified as ungodly men.

They don’t actually change God’s Grace but the perception of His Grace turning it into sinful abuse of His Grace. They use God for their own gain. This abandonment of the purity of God’s Grace is out right denial of the church and our Savior.

How do we contend?

We preserve the Truth at all costs.

No man, group or teacher’s opinion can ever take precedence over the truth.

Rom 3:3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

Rom 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.