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All right, amen. So we are in the book of Jude, the epistle of Jude. So what we're, well, let me start off with the title first. The title of the sermon this evening is This Will Defend. This Will Defend. That means there's something in this book, in this epistle, rather, that says we need to defend, right? There's a doctrine, there's a certain doctrine that we have to, or that we should have a zeal to fight for. Something that we should never take lightly. And the reason for that, you're going to see, is because of a certain group of people. And this certain group of people have a reservation in hell, and we're going to take a look at that. And plus it's June. I figured Jude, June, makes sense, right? Or it could be because of Pride Month being in June and Jude dealing with those certain groups of people. We'll see. We'll kind of see what happens this evening. But nonetheless, it'll be good to study the book of Jude tonight. Now this letter's obviously packed with a lot of stuff. I mean, you could preach, it's 25 verses, you could probably preach 50 sermons right off the bat, just based off of each verse. I mean, it's that deep. Obviously it's, you know, I'm not going to stand up here and do that, but you could do it if you had to, or if you wanted to. So I'm going to start off with this question here now, is who was Jude? Some people like to argue, well, I think the book of Jude is written by this person or this person. And you can see it's not really something worth fighting about, but I will give you my opinion and, you know, I've changed it over the time because, you know, we don't really know. Okay. Now, if you would look down at verse number one, it says, Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ. Now, some people think, and this is kind of the way that I lean towards that Jude could possibly be referring to Judas, the Lord's brother. In Matthew chapter 13, verse 55, it says this, is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary and his brethren, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas. And you say, well, Jude's not the same as Judas. I get it. But would you want to be called Judas after what happened to Judas Iscariot? There's a reason why people don't typically name their kids Judas today. Okay. And so Jude is just another name for Judas. Some people think that he is Judas mentioned in Luke chapter six, and I'll just have you turn there for a second time. Go ahead and turn to Luke chapter six and while you're turning there. So I'll just give you two reasons why I think that it could be the Lord's brother. And it's because in verse one, it says, Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ. Now it's not really a big right cross or anything, a big proof text, but it doesn't start off by saying Jude, the apostle. Okay. And I get it. You know, John said, you know, you know, I'm a servant and other apostles would often say, you know, the elder and refer to themselves as other than an apostle, but he doesn't come right off the bat and say for certainly, or for certainty that he is an apostle. And then in Jude chapter, Jude chapter in Jude 17, you don't have to turn there cause we just read it, but I'll just read this for you. It says, but beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. So if you listen to that, I'll read that again. It says, but beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time we should walk after their own godly less. And so he kind of writes about the apostles like they're a separate group from him. And again, I can be wrong and I'm bringing this up for a reason. I'm going somewhere with this. Okay. It could be Judas is listed here in Luke chapter six. I'm not gonna read all these verses, but basically this is where we learned the names of the 12 apostles. And obviously there's more apostles after you, you read past this, but look at verse 14, it says Simon whom he named Peter and Andrew, his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, James, the son of Alphaeus and Simon called Zelodes and Judas the brother of James and Judas Iscariot who, I'm sorry, which also was the traitor. So you can see in the Bible, there are a lot of the people with the same name. Okay. No surprise there. And so it could be that Judas that wrote the book of Jude, or it could just be somebody that was actually named Jude. The point is that's not worth fighting about. So when I titled the sermon, this will defend, this isn't what I'm talking about. Okay. The point is these things are obviously inspired. They're found throughout the rest of the Bible, the concepts that we're going to learn about today. And that's not worth squabbling over. And I've seen people get a little bit heated with stuff like this or on the same type level. Okay. That's not okay. That's not what our mission is. So let's go ahead and go through this here. Go back to Jude. Look again at verse number one, it says Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James to them that are sanctified by God, the father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. And so we see right off the bat who it's written to. Okay. What does that say there to them that are sanctified by who? By God and the father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called. So we are sanctified by God as in we're born again. If you're saved, you put your trust on Lord Jesus Christ. He's created a new person inside of you. The Holy spirit dwells inside of you. You've been sanctified by God. He's not saying to those of you who have chosen afterwards to sanctify yourselves and you're separate from the world. No it's to all believers. Okay. So this isn't a book that you're going to take somebody to necessarily to get them saved. Okay. And that doesn't mean you can't show somebody some concepts or some doctrine from Jude. I'm not saying that at all, but this message is to those that are saved and look, there's a lot of tough sayings in this book. There are a lot of hard truths to be understood in this book. And the reason why I say they're hard to be understood is because they go completely against the grain of our culture today. Okay. There are some things in there that will make people's heads spin. There are verses in this book that could cause a pastor to get on the news, uh, loses job, loses friends, loses family members, all sorts of stuff. We're going to see that. But I think it's interesting how this does prove the fact that we're sanctified by God, not by God and man, not by God and us turning from our sins. And it says that we're preserved by Jesus. So he does the preservation and thank God that we have a book that was preserved by Jesus because we serve a God who preserves us. He's in the business of preservation. If you didn't know that, you know, the same God that has preserved us can obviously preserve his word. And thank God we have a church that believes that. And so the first point for this evening is that this book was written to the saved, not to the lost, the lost look at this book and say, Oh, you know, God was a chauvinist or God was, you know, homophobic or this or that and the other thing, all because it goes against their God, the teachings and the doctrines from their God. That's why they hate this book. And look, everything that you read in Jude, you can find in second Peter by the way, and we will turn there here shortly. So look at verse number three, he says, 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 to the saints. Now what I want you to, to, to think about here is he says the common salvation. Now with a phrase like that, let's say somebody were to give you a DVD or you, you were to watch a video or somebody were to come up to you and say, Hey, did you know that people in the old Testament got saved by doing sacrifices and turning from sins and believing in God? And then, you know that there's a different gospel. For example, there's a gospel for the kingdom of God versus the gospel for the kingdom of heaven. Paul had a different gospel than Jesus and Peter, you know, and all these things, you know, that dispensational type language is what I'm talking about today that goes against the common salvation. Because if there's like seven different gospels, then there's no common salvation. Or why didn't he just say the, the salvation of this age? Okay. It doesn't make any sense. So obviously salvation has always been common. And the fact that has the common denominator that you believe on God, right? Obviously in the old Testament, they didn't call upon the name of the Lord Jesus because he hadn't been revealed yet. Everybody should know that this is simple stuff, but yet we have to bring this up because most people today in Christendom have some form or I'm sorry, are plagued by some form of dispensationalist doctrine. But right here, right off the bat, we're told there's a common salvation and we are to earnestly meaning eagerly, zealously contend for that salvation. So that's why I titled this sermon, this will defend. So when it comes to the subject of salvation, this is something that we need to defend, you know, and, and look, you know, I know people say, well, you know, you should just mind your own business and only worry about what's going on in your church. Well, you know, I don't see the apostles doing that in Acts chapter 15, right? I didn't see Paul and Barnabas when the Judaizers came down from Judea and started preaching that they had to follow the commandments of law. What did it say? It said, Hey, they had no small disputation and dissension with them. In fact, they said, you know what? This is such a big deal. We need to go up to Jerusalem and find out what's going on, make sure there's nobody up there endorsing this. And Paul and Barnabas, they weren't from the church in Jerusalem, they're from the church in Antioch. So you know what this is when it comes to salvation, that is our business. So somebody is teaching a jacked up doctrine on salvation and they're in another country or they're in another state. I don't really care if you're a person of influence and you're putting that out there, you have opened yourself up to a fight because it says we are to earnestly contend for the faith and that's what we will do. Don't tell me to mind my own business. Don't tell me not to worry about somebody who's muddying the waters of salvation. That's wrong. That's cowardice. And we will not tolerate that kind of behavior. We are to earnestly contend for the faith, which was once delivered unto the saints, not delivered over and over and over again. Right? That's what the new evangelical will tell you. Well, I got saved two times. Oh, are you a hundred percent sure you're on the way to heaven? Yeah. I got resaved, you know, a couple of weeks ago, I rededicated my life to Christ and went down to the altar. No, you get saved once. That salvation is one time. It's a done deal. You're preserved in Christ forever. Very easy to understand. So he says we are to earnestly contend for the faith, which was once delivered unto the saints. So we are, here's the second thing that I want to talk about. So the first thing was this book is written to the safe. These are concepts that we as God's people need to put into practice. We need to know these things and we're called to fight. A lot of people want to sit around and argue and speculate and talk about, well, I wonder what my calling is. I wonder what my calling, I wonder what gifts I have. I wonder what Jesus has for me. You know what? Here's one thing that's for sure. You are called to fight you and you are called to fight about the common salvation, not whether or not it's Judas, you know, the brother of James, the son of Alphaeus, or whether it's Judas, the Lord's brother. We're not to fight about those things, right? We can discuss that and we can put forth our opinions on why we think that. That's okay. That's fine. We can reason together, but we're not going to reason whether or not salvation's by works. We're not going to reason with that. Paul didn't reason with that. Peter didn't reason with that and neither will we. So let's move on here. Look at verse number four, he says, 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. So you say, why the push? Why the call to earnestly contend and remember, contend means to battle, to fight. Why the call for that? And here's why, because he says this, for there are certain men crept in unawares. May not realize, this church should realize this. There are people that creep in amongst churches and blend in and you can't tell right away that they're a wolf. They're very good at what they do. Very good. You know what drives them out, you know what exposes them, contending for the faith, harping on all the different things that we harp on, right? When a wolf's in here and you're preaching against the sodomites and you bring that up and you're preaching against these false prophets out in town and you start to see people jump and squirm just a little bit, you see that frown, you see that red face. You know what that is? That's the word of God getting them out of here, right? Because they're not just going to come up to you and say, hey, I'm a wolf, right? Hey, I'm here to destroy your church. Now we've had some low level devils come in here, some idiots, okay? We've had a few of them, you know, and that just is what it is. I think that's just like sense of humor stuff right there. It's just for sense, you know, but hey, you know, don't let your guard down with that. It's not always that easy. You know, it says for there are certain men crept in unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation. Now that doesn't mean that they were born with this agenda. Okay. We'll get into what that really means later on, but basically you know the story. There are people that just hear the gospel, decide to reject it and then speak evil of this way, right? We talked about that on Sunday and these people after a period of time get given over to a reprobate mind and what happens then they become like a a brute beast, become a dumb animal and they want to creep in and just dream filthy and cause havoc and ravage the Lord's work. That's what they want to do. I mean, think about it. Why do these, some of these just random people at these apartment complexes just decide to take it upon themselves to follow us around. It's not because they love God and I know they go to your local Presbyterian church. I know they go to the community church, right? But that doesn't mean that they're saved. Right. And you know what? Cause we're, we are called to contend for the faith. You know, it's just a thing. But he says, Hey, for there are certain men crept in unawares. This is why we need to fight. This is why we need to preach the whole council of God. This is why we consider this a hard preaching church because we speak the hard truths of the Bible. You know, there's a reason why there's not a thousand people in here today. It's because of this letter. It's because of the message in this book. It's because we're actually willing to fight and fight, you know, you know what it means when a church has to fight, it can't be filled with lazy people. It can't be filled with people that aren't willing to contend for the faith because you got to put in the work. You got to learn the doctrines. You got to learn how to fight. You got to learn how to basically die to yourself so you can produce fruit and all that other good stuff. Right? That's what he's talking about here. So he says, Hey, we need to fight because people have crept in unawares and you know what? It's going to be this preaching of the word of God. It's going to be that two edged sword that's going to drive them out. That's what's going to cut them out of the fold, you know, and weed them out because they're not going to do it themselves. Look at verse five. He says, I will therefore, so for that reason, he says, I will therefore put you in remembrance though you once knew this, how that the Lord having saved the people out of the land of Egypt afterward destroyed them that believed not. And so he's saying, Hey, look, there is nothing new under the sun here. Okay. He's saying, Hey, take your pick. Think about the Old Testament, right? Take your pick after the children of Israel crossed the red sea, right? How many times did God have to destroy them because of unbelief? Well, Numbers chapter 14 at Kadesh, Borneo, remember the children of Israel, what do they do? They brought back an evil report, right? What are they doing? They're basically saying, Hey, we're not trusting in God to save us. They looked at the physical and said, we can't overcome them. And most of those people never went on to see the promised land. Why? Because of unbelief. So God destroyed them. And he's saying, Hey, look, even though God's going to destroy these people, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't contend for the faith. We shouldn't just sit back and be like, Oh, don't worry. God's got it. He's going to, he's going to destroy it. No, we need to contend because there's a battle for people's minds going on out there. That's the big deal. It's all about control. It's all about influence. Why do you think the devil's referred to as the prince of the power of the air? Why does he have control by and large of the airwaves, the television, the media? It's because that's where the influence is. That's where you're going to get into the minds of the people, right? And this is why we have to contend for the faith. This is why we have to preach the word. This is why we have to say the hard things so that we can weed these people out and so that we can get as many people saved as possible. So look at verse number six. He says this in the angels, which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation. He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. So we're going to stop right there. Okay. I've heard, I'm sure some of you can, can relate to this, but I've heard tons of sermons about what this means. And the first one, the most popular one is they'll say this, okay, the angels, which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation. Then they'll stop right there and say, see the angels, they came down from heaven in Genesis chapter six and had relations with the daughters. And then they had the Nephilims, right? The big giants that were like half demon and half human, you know, the first most basic problem with that is that hopefully you've read Genesis one, two, three, four, five, and then six. You know? Cause by the time you get out of Genesis chapter one, you're going to learn that things breed forth after their own kind, right? You're not going to have a dog and a cat have a horse. You're not going to have a dog and a cat have anything. Okay. Dogs breed forth dogs, cats breed forth cats. An apple tree breeds forth apples. It does not breed forth watermelons. And I know open science has these things called grapples are like a combination between a grape and an apple. I've seen them at the commentary. Who cares? That's you know, okay. You can play with stuff in the lab. You can cross me things, whatever. You're still not going to show me an orange tree produce avocados. Okay. It's just not going to happen. So that doctor, if like, like if that's not enough, you just need to run. If somebody doesn't get that, it's like, I really don't think I can help you. Okay. But turn to second Peter chapter two, second Peter chapter two. So he says, and the angels, which kept not their first estate. So most people, and I think a lot, probably most commentaries are going to say something to that effect. And you know, the modern versions, they're always changing these verses to kind of align to that Nephilim doctrine. You know, the King James Bible doesn't even have the word Nephilim in it. You know, the, these half breed demon people, it makes for a good Hollywood flick, I guess you might make for a good episode of the Twilight zone, but it's not good doctrine. I mean just at the most basic level. It's terrible doctrine. So what does this mean in the angels, which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation? What does that mean? Well, let's take a look at the word estate. Now just stay there and second Peter, and just listen to me, I'm going to read for you three verses and I'm going to give you the definition of the word of steam. Okay. First Chronicles 17, 17 says this, I'm not going to develop the background story. I'm just going to read these verses and says this. And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God, for thou has also spoken of thy servants' house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O Lord God. Esther chapter one, verse 19 says this, if it please the King, let there go a Royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered that Vashti come no more before King Ahasuerus, and let the King give her royal estate unto another that is better than she. So I'm just going to review those two verses, add some more, but I think you're going to get the point here. What does estate mean? So a man of high degree, in the Psalms it talks about being thankful that God had mercy on them of low or men of low degree on the estate of men of low degree. It's really your condition or your position or your status, right? So a CEO who loses his job has lost his estate. Let's say he gets busted down to a mid-level manager. Well, he lost his estate and his habitation in that position. Look, it's not hard to understand what happened when the devil led his revolt. What does the Bible say? That a third of the angels fell with him? Okay, they left that estate. God created them to be in a certain position and people say, well, well that can't be because why did he give Adam and Eve a chance to get saved later on and blah, blah, blah, they'll say stuff like this. And it's like, look, angels were created on a level where they could actually see God and communicate with him and move around in heaven. They don't need to believe because they can see it. Look, I don't need to believe that this pulpit is here because I can see it. I don't need any faith to believe that. It's a totally different realm, a totally different situation. So in Jude verse one, Jude six, it says, and the angels, which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation. What that means is that he's saying, Hey, just like they lost their position, they lost their habitation. They're no longer in the position or the estate that God created, and they're now fallen beings. Okay. They're now fallen. Now you could read about this same thing here in second Peter chapter two verse four where it says this for of God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment and spared not the old world, but save Noah the eighth person and preacher of righteous is bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly verse six and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and ashes, condemning them with an overthrow, making them and in sample unto those that after she lived on golly. But go back to Jude real quick. Keep your place there because we're going to come back to it. So he says in the angels, which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation. Okay. I'm going somewhere with this. You'll see here in a second, but he's basically just referring to the fall of the angels. Now the right after the common there, it says he hath reserved in everlasting chains under a darkness unto the judgment of the great day. And this is another point of contention for people like to argue and fight about what this could mean. You know, cause it's kind of confusing because we know that, you know, the, the demons, what did they tell Jesus? They said, have Sal come or has that come to torment us before the appointed time? And then Jude saying, wait, they're reserved in hell and chains and we see the same thing in Peter. It's written like it's already been done, but there's a lot of prophetic statements in the Bible that are written as if they've already been fulfilled, but they haven't been fulfilled yet. Okay. So we don't look, this will defend. We don't have to take a hard stance on things that we don't know a lot about and defend them. Okay. I'll show you what, what, what this all boils down to here. And it's this statement right here. The point is that if God spared not the chosen nation of Israel after they crossed the red sea and he spared not the angels who he has reserved a position in hell, then he's not going to spare the false teachers and these certain men that are crept in unawares that have the goal to destroy churches. He's not going to spare them. So when you find them and they get called out, don't go get their phone number and say, Hey brother, I'm going to call you later. Right? And we can talk about why you got kicked out. Maybe you can be reformed. No, if they're preaching a false gospel willingly, let them be a curse. Paul told you that twice in Galatians chapter one, but yet today we have a bunch of bleeding heart people. I don't like it when you say bad stuff about other churches. It really bothers me. It hurts my feelings. Shut up. You're weak and you can't contend for the faith. You've got a problem, sir. You bleed all over the floors everywhere you go. That's your problem. You can't handle Jude. You can't handle 25 verses in the Bible. That's your problem. It's very clear here. The point is God's not going to spare them. They're not going to get a second chance. They can't be saved. I know that's hard, but that's reality. And that's what we're, that's exactly what we're learning here. Look at verse seven. He says this, even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh are set forth. For an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal hellfire. So where are the people who died and got blown out and put into hell? Well, the sodomites, where are they today? They're in hell, right? They're reserved there. So you know what this tells me? Sodomites homosexual lives don't matter, right? That's what it tells me. They have now that I'm not going to take it upon myself to go do anything. That's the government's job and they're sure not going to do it. So we just have to wait for, you know, when Jesus comes back. But it's very clear here. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, going after strange flesh. You see the Bible said it here that they're queers because the word queer means strange. Now they'll kind of get upset if we refer to them as queers, you go to your place of employment and you say, ah man, these queers, you're probably going to get in trouble even though they call themselves queers. What is the LGBTQ? The Q stands for queer and their little acronym. But if you say it in a negative way, then you know, they don't like that and they don't want to try to get you fired or worse, who knows? But what I want you to notice here in verse seven is that it says giving themselves over to fornication. So please keep this in mind. We're not saying that God created these people to be this way from the start. They gave themselves over to fornication. They gave themselves over to idleness. They gave themselves over to all of these ungodly things. They rejected God even back then and God said, hey, this is the result and you know what? Those nations are set forth present tense as an example. So people say, well, that was just in the Old Testament, you know, in the New Testament, Jesus wouldn't talk like you guys did. Look, if Jude here is the brother of Jesus Christ, then what does that say? Apparently he agrees. Whether it's Judas, you know, the brother of James, the son of Alphaeus, he's an apostle. Either way, this whoever wrote this, he knew Jesus and is writing this under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. And keep that in mind. Look at verse eight, likewise. So in the same way it says, likewise, also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion and speak evil of dignities. Now you can't, you can't relate anymore to that than what's going on right now. You know, it says, likewise, also these filthy dreamers, you know, every sodomite that I've ever met is a filthy dreamer. If you just sit down in a meeting with these people or you just talk to them because you have to work with them or whatever, they're just in your vicinity. It's nothing but filth. Almost all the time. It's just filth. They dream filth. Why do you, look, look, what these people like Wesley Allen Dodd or John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, you know, all these mass murderers, these, these sickos, how do you think they got that way? They were given up. The government decided not to do anything about it. And so they continued on through life with that mentality that they have, which, which is what filthy dreaming. That's what it is. They dream up nothing but filth and you know what, when they're left alive, guess what the result is. They execute that. They turn those dreams into reality and it's a sad day that we live in, but look, that's a home. That's what they do. They, they're filthy dreamers. They defile the flesh. We don't need to get into that because you just already know what that means. Now they, they despise dominion. They speak evil of dignities, you know? So of course they're going to speak against the president, going to speak against anybody that is against them. And to be honest, they'll even speak against people that are for them because they're really, These people are only for themselves, self-centered, you know, they despise dominion. So that means they're going to despise God's people because the Bible says that we're Kings and priests. We're a nation. We're, we're God's nation, right? We're going to have dominion in the millennium and they don't like that and they don't like to hear that preached and they don't like to hear that being taught and it really bothers them. Now look at verse nine, it says, yet Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses, does not bring against him a railing accusation, but said the Lord rebuke thee. Let's stop right here for a second. Some people just like to pick this verse out and just throw it around and say, well, see even Michael, you know, he didn't speak bad towards the devil. So you shouldn't speak bad about these false prophets and these people that you have disagreements on. He's so mean to the trendies and you know, and to the people that might be a little bit different on salary. Well, wait a second here. He said he didn't bring a railing accusation against the devil. So he's not like drop dead devil, shut your mouth, you know, or we're going to fight the devil. We're going to destroy the devil. He said, no, the Lord rebuked thee. Right? There's a whole slew of so-called Christians out there that like to pick fights with the devil. Right? I've been to these churches, Pentecostal Baptist. I mean, all sorts, you know, they'll have like, we're going to stomp the devil out. We're going to have a stomp the devil out Sunday service, you know, stuff like that. That's exactly what we're told not to do. Okay. If you're going to re what does the Bible say about the devil? How should we treat him? Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Okay. We're just to resist him. He'll go away. And obviously that's the formula, right? Not just going through life and like, you know, I'm going to knock the devil. I'm going to set my alarm clock for five o'clock in the morning, get up. And the first thing I'm going to say 50 times in the mirror is I'm going to today. Not today, devil. I'm going to stop you out. I'm going to make sure you know, that's not what our mission is. Okay. If you feel like you're under attack by the devil, you resist the devil and he will flee from you. It's a promise from the Bible. It's not something you have to, well, maybe he will, maybe he won't know. It's a guarantee. Right? So here's the point, the point of all this here, the reason why he brings up these things, the sodomites, these filthy dreamers, you know, he's saying these people that creep in unawares, right? They have the same attributes that the sodomites do. And he's saying, Hey, yet Michael, the Archangel, when contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses. There's not bringing a railing accusation, but said the Lord rebuked thee. Here's what this means. It means that we have to obey certain rules of engagement, meaning we need to dispute, not rail. Right? So let's take, for example, somebody, we hear they're preaching a false salvation in town. Okay. I'm not going to go up to that person and be like, you blankety blank. I'm going to stop you out. I'm knocking you out. No, I'm going to dispute like the apostles did, like Paul did in the book of acts and go to the scriptures. I'm going to open and allege these things to be true. That's how we fight. There are rules to rules of engagement, right? He's saying, Hey, disputing over railing, contending over railing. It's okay. We're called to fight. We need to contend. This is a fact. This is just, just the way it is, but don't let that pull you into some sort of a railing now. Okay. That's the whole point in bringing all of this stuff up is that we need to follow these rules of engagement. We need to use the right, the right weaponry in the right way. All right. Look at verse 10. He says, but these speak evil of those things, which they know not, but what they know naturally as brute beasts in those things, they corrupt themselves. So just about anything these people do learn, they twist it and corrupt themselves even further. Now notice what it says here. It says that it calls these people, brute beasts. What does the word brute mean? Means stupid. What is a beast? It's an animal. You're not going to find the word animal in the Bible. It uses the word beasts. So the Bible says that homosexuals, these types of people are stupid animals. They're done. They're dumb animals, but yet we're going to be looked at and people are going to say, well, you shouldn't speak like that. Jesus wouldn't say that. Well, why is it written down and preserved in the Bible? Right. And one thing you're going to notice as you read through the new Testament, like when you're in, you know, first second Peter, you know, first second John and you get to Jude. I mean, these epistles are really gearing your mind and your heart up to receive the revelation. It's getting you in that end times mind frame. Okay. And so it's the exact opposite of what, you know, a lot of people want you to think. They want you to think, well, you know, being a sodomite was bad back in the old Testament because God destroyed them in Genesis 19 and you know, judges 19. But today, you know, anybody could be saved up until the last minute. And that simply isn't true. They are stupid animals, dumb dogs, dummies, whatever you want to call them. That's what they are. And that's not a railing accusation. That's a fact. That is a truth in the Bible. I got that from God's word. So somebody says, you're pretty good. Why don't you say stuff like that? Because it's in the Bible. It's that that's Bible doctrine. And by the way, I can stand up here and say, you know what? The government should round up all the homosexuals, put them on an Island and nuke it. That is biblical doctrine because in second Peter, what did he, what did Peter say about that event? What did he say? He said that that was set forth as an in sample and in Judah says it was set forth as an example. So we are to look at the ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah today and apply that in our lives. Meaning we should never have anything to do with it. We don't bring them into church. We're not, I'm not going to preach them the gospel. I'm not going to have anything to do with them as much as humanly possible because that event is an example and that's throughout history. So a hundred years from now, it's still going to be an example, right? A thousand years. If the Lord Terry's that long, it's going to be for an example. Okay. It's just the way it is. I look, these are hard sayings. This is hard preaching. It's not just yelling and screaming. That's hard preaching. It's the hard sayings. There's no biblical doctrine. There's no disputing it. That's right. There's no way somebody can come to me, come to you and say, Hey, that's not right. Doctrine. No, I got that from the Bible. I got that from second Peter. I got that from Jude. They're dumb animals. And they, the events of Genesis 19, the Sodom, I'm sorry, the, the fire and the brimstone that was set forth for an example. They should not be allowed in our services. They shouldn't be alive period, but be, you know, the government says, you know, whatever they can come, they can do this now, they can have the advantage over men. We're going to see that here in a minute. You know what? We just need to realize that they have a reservation. They've got something coming to them. And that's just, you know, you're going to see it here. Look at verse 11. He says, woe unto them for they have gone in the way of Cain and ran greedily after the heir of Balaam for reward and perished in the game saying of Cori. And if you study obviously Cain, Balaam and Korah, Korah, Dathan, or Bairam, you're going to find basically the same to the sodomites. They have those same attributes. In second Peter, it says that it tells us that Balaam loved the wages of unrighteousness. And that's exactly what they do. They'll do anything for money. Look at verse 12. He says, these are spots in your feast of charity. When they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear, clouds they are without water carried about of winds, trees whose fruit withereth without fruit twice dead, plucked up by the roots. What does that mean? Twice dead? Yeah, that's it. They're they're going to physically be dead someday, but they're also going, they're currently spiritually dead. There's no hope for them. So he says twice dead, plucked up by the roots. So there's no watering that little seed in their heart because the devil snatched it out and they're okay with it. They're okay with that. So they're twice dead, plucked up by the roots. Verse 13, raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame, wandering stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. So what that means is these people have a non-refundable reservation in hell. It's non cancelable. That's what that means. There's no canceling that you, you're not going to go start a ministry in San Francisco to the queers and expect to get a bunch of them safe. You might get some of them pretend, right? Because they love to creep in unaware and destroy your church. I know there's all kinds of stories on the internet. Oh, but you know, there's this whole network of homosexuals that have, you know, dedicated their lives to Christ and they've gotten saved and they turned from that and now they're good people. You mark every one of those people and you'll see later on down the road, they crept into a church and they molested children, right? So you just find an article, read about these people, get their names and then keep track of them for a few years and you'll see them, you know, arrested later on. It almost always happens every single time. You know, it's disgusting. But you know what? The Bible's warning us. We are to contend for the faith and one of the ways we're going to contend is by preaching against these people because you know what? They don't like being in a room where somebody is saying these things about them. It makes them uncomfortable because they're guilty and they're, what is their attitude like? Look at verse 13 again. It says raging waves of the sea. This is why they rage across town with bricks and crowbars and all manner of evil just to break people's, you know, store windows and cause havoc and stuff like that. Oh, black lives matter. So let's just burn the whole city up. Let's just break every window of every business. You know, not taking into account that there's black people that work there, they have their livelihoods there, there are management positions there that may own these businesses. They don't care about that. You know why? Because black lives matter, like you guys have told me recently, isn't about black lives. It's ran by sodomites, right? So that's why they do what they do because they're as raging waves of the sea. They just toss to and from foaming out their own shame. They can't help it. That shame that's inside of them, it has to foam out because they're full of unrighteousness. That's what the Bible says in Romans. Go to Romans chapter one, actually Romans chapter one. So I'll just reread for you. Second Peter two 12, which says, but these as natural brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed speak evil of the things that they understand not and shall utterly perish in their own corruption. And so we need not to just look at these people and get super angry and have our stomach turned to knots all the time because nobody's doing anything about it. We just need to realize, you know what? They're going to utterly perish in their own corruption. They're going to get what's coming to them. Okay. Now, does that mean we don't preach against? No, we have to look, they've dedicated a whole month to these people, right? It needs to be brought up. It needs to be preached. It has to be preached because most people today would rather just go with the flow, take the easy, take the safe route, you know, and just, just not even talk about it. But the result of that is that we're no longer contending for the faith in these people multiply. Remember they don't reproduce, they recruit. That's a true proverb and a true saying. So real quickly, what did Peter say? He said, Hey, these people were made to be taken and destroyed. And there are some people out there that will say, you know what? The, you know, they were born that way and that's what they do. God chose some to be saved, you know, this whole Calvinist thing. And that's not what Peter means when he says made to be taken and destroyed. He's assuming you've already read and learned the doctrine in Romans chapter one that they've given up on God. You've rejected him and God has given them over to a reprobate mind. This is why I think that the popular story in Exodus regarding Pharaoh and how God hardened his heart after Pharaoh hardened his heart in Exodus five is so popular is because God wants us to understand that. I mean, it should be common knowledge to people today because people, you know, I hate these Disney cartoons, but there's, I mean that the story of Pharaoh and Joseph, I mean, it gets out. It does. Even as watered down as those are, you still learn that he hardened his heart towards God, right? But yet today you tell a Christian, even people that are saved, you preach them Jude, you preach them second Peter, you preach them Romans one and they're like, what are you talking about? You're not making any sense. This doesn't, this can't be, you know what that tells me? They're not contending for the faith. They've got their heads filled with the garbage of this world. So real quickly, I know you guys are familiar with this, but we got to, you know, we, we, we got to, we're going to preach it anyways. So Peter said, Hey, these people, these natural brute beasts, they were made to be taken and destroyed. Let's take a look at how that process happens. Romans one 21, he says, because that when they knew God, they glorified him, not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations. And their foolish heart was darkened. That's the same exact thing you're going to find with Pharaoh Exodus five. He says, I know not the Lord. Now his country is filled with Hebrew people, right? He knew who the God of Israel was. He knew that it's a, it's a fact. He had knowledge of that. But when he's saying, I knew, I know not the Lord, he's saying, I'm not saved. I'm not a follower of God, of your God. That's what he's saying. And then God said, Hey, I'm going to harden his heart now because it's clear he will not ever accept me. And so I'm going to push him over the edge here. And that's exactly what we read in Romans one 21, because that when they knew God, they glorified him, not as God. It's not saying when they were saved, they glorify him. No people know about God because your conscience reveals it. Nature reveals it. You can't get away from it. Nobody's without excuse. Everybody has seen the creation. Everybody's got a conscience. Look, every person alive that has, you know, can, can clearly think or even not so clearly think, knows there's a God. They may say, Oh, I don't believe that. I don't believe that. But they're conscious of saying something different. They've had that conversation within themselves and they've known, they've looked at a tree and they're like, there's no way that just appeared, uh, over millions of years, right? They've looked at buildings and said, yeah, there was an architect. Yes. There was a construction crew. Yes. There's a builder. Yes. There's all these things that went into that. A tree is more intricate than a building. They know. Okay. They just decide to darken their own hearts. And then God pushed them over the edge first one to professing themselves to be wise. They became fools and change the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man into birds and four footed beast and creeping things. Therefore God also gave them up to unclean this through the lust of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves. So the reason why they do this sick perverted things that they do is because they initially rejected God and God removed the restraint that is naturally put into people to not do those things. But look, some people will say, you know what? We were all reprobates. I've heard people, I've heard people that are saved even say that I've had pastors are saying, you know what? We're all reprobates. We're all reprobates at one time. Well, the problem with that is the word reprobate means rejected. Before I was saved, I wasn't rejected by God because I eventually got saved. Okay. I was just an unbeliever before you were saved. You weren't rejected by God. You just didn't know. You just weren't saved yet. When I reject something or we reject someone, it's done. It's a done deal. There's a cast out. They're tossed out. And that's what this means here. These people rejected God first. He rejected them. And then this is the fallout. This is what they go on to do. They go on to persuade and influence people into idolatry, into all sorts of unrighteous behavior. Now, verse 25, it says, who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and served the creature more than the creator who was blessed forever. Amen. Look, do you think it's a coincidence that on a lot of these modern version committees, there's always a sodomite. There's always some dyke on the, on the, I mean, look, that's, do you know why? Because of these verses here, they want to foam out their shame. They want to destroy God's people and his truth. And they're always trying to change the truth of God into a lie. That's I mean, that's just how they operate. And I know, I know this is the sounds unkind. I know it's harsh, but it's true. It's reality. And it's something that we need to know because it all fits into contending for the common salvation and we're called to contend for it. Go back to Jude, look at verse 14, we'll move on here, verse 14. So the important aspect of all of that is to just know these people have a reservation in hell and it's non-refundable. They're not getting out of it. Okay. Let's see Jude. We've got to move on here. Verse 14. It says in Enoch also the seventh form, Adam prophesied of these saying, behold, the Lord cometh with 10,000s of his saints. And again, this is another point of contention for people all about the book of Enoch. I was looking through different commentaries and one person was like, oh, the book of Enoch. It it sheds a lot more light on this subject here and you know, it's an apocryphal book, but you should read it because you can gain a deeper insight to the Bible. Well, here's the thing. Jude obviously knew the Lord Jesus Christ and look, Jesus had a lot of conversations with people and obviously told them certain things, probably a lot more stuff than, than what we're reading about here. And this is one that God felt necessary to preserve for us. It doesn't, you know, we don't need to go look at, oh, where, where did Enoch say this? It's not in our Old Testament books. We need to go find the book of Enoch. No, you're missing the whole point here. The point is what he said and that is, hey, behold, the Lord's coming with 10,000s of saints, meaning he's coming back to destroy the people that we're talking about here. Right? That's the point. Now look at verse 15. He says to execute judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches, which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. You think Jude has a problem with ungodly people? I would say so. I mean, you can't read this and not see, not feel that zeal that he had, right? Because this specific type of ungodly people, these are the ones we need to fight. We need to contend for the faith against these people. You know, your person who's on the fence is like, I'm not sure if that's really true. We don't need to contend with him in the same way we do with these people. We need to win him. We need to educate him. We need to preach the gospel to him over and over again. We need to pray for him and stuff like that, right? We don't need to necessarily, you know, just, just go crazy on them. But these people, there's a different story because these people have a reservation health and they won't shut their mouths. They're doing more harm than, than the people that are just like, well, I'm just not sure. I'm not sure what it is, right? These are like seriously ungodly people. Verse 16, he says, these are murmurers, complainers walking after their own lusts and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons and admiration because of advantage. And so one thing you'll notice is that a lot of false prophets can speak very clearly. They can speak very well. And I think that the devil knows what he's doing and he often will choose out of all the God haters. He's going to choose the ones who have the charisma, that natural charisma. And I believe he even gives them an advantage. He gives them more of that charisma. Why? Like I told you, because he's the prince of power of the air and that voice is going to do a good job at carrying, you know, throughout the country, throughout the world and basically influencing people away from the truth that is in Christ Jesus. Remember what are these people do? They change the truth of God into a lie, right? So the end of this verse here though is interesting. He says that these people having men's persons and admiration because of advantage. So in the last days in the, and this is true, obviously today, and it's not going to change until the Lord comes back. They have the advantage. Let's let's just face it. By and large, the sodomites have the advantage. They have the advantage in government. They have the advantage in law. They have the advantage in the economy. They have the advantage on TV. They have the advantage in the media. Why? Because we live in a fallen world, you know? So it says they're having men's person and admiration because of advantage. So basically saying, Hey, don't worry about that. Don't be envious of that. They have their season now, right? Yes. It's true. Men look to these people and they're like, man, you know, there's nothing wrong with that. To each his own. Right? Look at how much money is there. Look at how much they fed the poor. Look at all the good stuff they say, Oh, they were, they've been oppressed for so long. We needed to allow them to come out of the closet and just leave them alone and mind our own business. No, that's not the way we do business. Somebody's got to stand up and contend for the faith. Somebody's got to preach the truth. Somebody's got to say, Hey, no, this is wrong. This isn't the way the Bible speaks on dealing with these people. We are to contend. And I'm not saying again, one more disclaimer, I'm not saying we go out there and fight a bunch of sodomites. That's just going to land you in prison or jail or whatever, you know, especially because they have the advantage, right? They're going to say, Oh, guess what? That's a hate crime. That's a hate crime. And you're going to get double the punishment. So tell me they don't have the advantage. It's unfair, but you know what? This world's not fair because their God is a lowercase G God, the devil, right? So in the last days, these ungodly people are going to have the admiration of the world because they have the advantage, right? The devil is prepping the world for the antichrist. And it makes sense that these people would have the influence today. And I look at verse 17, he says, but beloved, remember you, the words which were spoken before the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time who should walk after their own godly lust. I'm not saying that every single person that mocks the faith is a sodomite, but you know what? Every sodomites going to mock the faith. You know, every sodomite that's like, Hey, you know, it's faith and works. They're mocking the faith. That is a mockery. And I'm not, you know, again, let me just one more disclaimer here. I'm not saying that if you knock on somebody's door and they're like, well, I think it's faith and works. Don't be like, you're mocking. That's not what I'm talking about here. It's obviously we're dealing with teachers. We're dealing with false teachers. People that have influence, people that are saying, Hey, no, you have to do this or you're not saved. Okay. That's what we're talking about here. But in verse 18, this is how they told you that there should be mockers in the last time who would walk after their own godly or own ungodly lust. You know what? That's why I don't like these trendy type preachers, you know, like Josh ties, what does he, what does he spend a lot of his time doing preaching against our type, but in a roundabout way? Oh, we shouldn't be, you know, arguing about doctrine and this and that, and you know, we need to be nice to the, uh, the LGBTQP community because you know how we're not going to win them. Otherwise. No, that's a false prophet because that guy's also going to tell you you have to work or repent of your sins. And he's also going to tell you that the King James Bible is not the inspired word of God that we need to glean from all the versions, right? It's only what's in the original manuscripts is true and the list goes on. That is an ungodly lust. You know why? Because it elevates man and his agenda and his authority and his teaching above God. That's an ungodly lust. These are, these are mockers. So look, even the false teacher, that's just like, you know, okay, I'm against homosexuals, but you still got to turn from your sin to be saved. And you know what? You have to learn the original languages to get the true meaning of God. That's a mocker. That's a mocker. He is a person that we need to contend with. We don't need to just worry about exactly what's going on here. We need to make sure and be on the hunt because you know what, the battles for souls, it extends beyond the walls of this building here. It extends beyond the confines of this church. And that's why we have to fight. That's why we have to contend for the faith. Verse 19, he says, these be they who separate themselves sensual, having not the spirit and it's capital S there. So to say these people aren't saved, they're not indwelled with the Holy Spirit. So if you're not indwelled with the Holy Spirit, guess what? You're not sealed by the Holy Spirit. You're not saved. Okay. It, I, again, I know it's harsh, but it's true. You know, and these false teachers, a lot of them, they love to, they're all about the senses, aren't they? They're all about the feeling, the sensual, you know, getting that right female singer up there to sing in that right way or the right male singer singing group to sing in that sensual voice. They like that stuff. Why? Because they're false prophets. Why? That's a red flag that is listed here that we need to pay attention to, you know, that's why we don't have that kind of stuff in this church because it's sensual. And what does it do? It doesn't do anything godly, right? It's something that we need to look out for. But it says that they separate themselves sensual, having not the spirit. What does that mean that they separate themselves? Well, one way they do that is in their mind. You know, if you talk to a lot of these people, you just observe them. They really do believe they're above and beyond all of us. They do. They separate themselves in that in that manner, you know, you know, you guys are just those dumb fundies. You guys are just a little too extreme. We'll just wash you up, you know, you have no concern of ours. You know, they separate themselves. They think they're better than the rest of us, but really, they're just false prophets and they have a reservation. And it's nonrefundable. Look at verse 20 says, But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. And here's another one that drives people wild. Let's see, you got to have that heavenly prayer language here, right? Where you speak in that special language only you and God understand. That's not what he's talking about here. That's not praying in the Holy Ghost. Right? It's like the verse that says, you know, walking in the spirit, you know, what are you gonna say? Oh, now I'm walking in tongues. You know, good luck. Good luck with that is praying in the new man as opposed to the old man is what he's talking about. You know, praying, you know, not just for all your wants and stuff like that, but for other people as well. You know, praying for them, praying for the souls, praying for a community, praying that we would have an impact as God's warriors, as God's people. He says, keeping yourselves in the love of God, right? Because remember, it takes work to be a disciple. It takes no work to be saved, but man, after that, if you want to be a soldier, you want to be good at contending for the faith, this will defend. It takes training, right? People who fight in the cage, people who box, guess what? They spend a lot of time in training and preparation for that mentally and physically, right? Well, why would it be any different for our battle? We have to do the same thing. We need to maintain a certain level of health so we can walk up the stairs in apartments, you know, endure the heat, endure the cold. But we also need to exercise ourselves spiritually, right? We need to keep ourselves in the love of God. We need to do the best that we can every day to die to self. Like Paul said, you know, and it's, the battle's never going to be over. You're always, that old man's right there when you wake up every single day and you've got to, you got to fight him. Some days are better than others, but the point is we need to keep going. That's why he says, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ until eternal life. So that's our goal, you know, is looking for that mercy, showing that unto other people. And you know what, one of the ways that we have to do that is by contending for the faith, for fighting for the faith, the common salvation. And so another, you know, another thing that I guess goes without saying is that our weapons are not carnal like they were in the Old Testament. I don't see if there's anything wrong with learning how to use a knife or, you know, a weapon, a gun or rifle or anything like that. See that that's, that's good to go, right? But it's not going to help you in the spiritual battles, what I'm saying. So we need to just remember that we need to use this sword here, this, this Bible, the King James Bible verse 22, he says, and some having compassion, making a difference and others saved with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. And that reminds me a lot of this church because you know, when we get people saved, what do we always talk about? I wish we could just get that person in the church, get them saved, you know, get them sanctified and get them trained up, right? Get them out of the world, right? Because we hate the garment spotted by the flesh. We don't like to see, you know, you know, our brothers and sisters that are saved being born again, just backsliding and going off into the world and you know, it hurts, right? Where do you get that fire from? You get that fire from all these other verses I've gone over by learning to contend for the faith. And to be a person who has that zeal, who has that, that, that desire to fight and into to be a person of contention when it comes to the common salvation is going to have that compassion, right? Making a difference in basically pulling people out of the fire, you know, putting that spiritual foot in the door, so to speak. Now I don't put your foot in the door when people don't want to listen, I've seen people do that and it's, it's not nice. It's not nice. But also what this is saying here, you know, there's two groups of people. There are some people that will be won by your compassion. You know, there, there's some people that are going to say some stuff and it's going to, Ooh, it's going to irk you bad. And when you can learn to have that compassion and be patient with them, you're going to win them. Others, some people, they just need to be told, Hey, you're wrong. You're on your way. You know, you, you, you need to stop doing what you're doing. It's destructive behavior. You know, some people just need to be snatched from the fire. Whereas others take more time and they need to have that compassion displayed to them, you know, for a certain period of time. So not you, for example, you know, there are some people that I will be able to save that maybe you couldn't and there's going to be some people that you could get saved that I could, right? I mean, think about this. The ladies get a lot of people saved on Wednesdays and I'll bet you anything that if it were us to knock on some of some of us guys to knock on those doors, they probably wouldn't get saved. Right? There's as many different people as possible out there preaching the gospel and contending for the faith because not all of us can win everybody, right? Some people, the brother David can get saved, you know, brother Jeff can get saved. Maybe Jessica wouldn't be able to get saved, you know, it just, it just depends. We need a mixture. A verse 24 he says, now to him that is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy to the only wise God, our savior be glory and majesty, dominion and power both now and ever. Amen. And so obviously that dominion there, you know that the sodomites and the false teachers are going to speak against that because that's what they do. That's in their nature. They're like, like Peter said, as natural brute beasts made to be destroyed. Right? And so we need to not forget, Hey, the whole point of the sermon is there is a battle worth fighting and that's for the common salvation. You know, somebody who's different on prophecy or they're different on, you know, the Jews or you know, stuff like that. It's like, look, okay, fine. For example, let's say, let's say another independent Baptist pastor came here and he said, Hey, you know something about you, I just like, I want to know if I can go soloing with you guys. I want to know if we could do a soloing event together. I would say, sure, let's do it. You know, for as long as we got the same gospel, right? We believe salvation is the same. Let's do it. Maybe no problem. Now that's probably not going to happen because most of them let our other doctrines get in the way, but you know, if they're like, okay, well I believe it's faith and works and no, we're not, we're not going to yoke up together, you know, because the common salvation, that's the doctrine. That's what we're going to defend, right? That's what we need to spend our time on fighting right now. Are we going to contend for these other doctors? Of course, that's part of church. You know, I'll reason with them. I'll say, Hey, this is why I believe this. I can show you why I believe this. And you know, those conversations always just go like that because they've got nothing. A pre-tripper's got nothing at the end of the day, you know, and you just, they're going to learn that truth no matter what someday, right? They're going to learn it. But the real battle is obviously the one that we do multiple times a week. You know, Hey, are you a hundred percent sure you're on your way to heaven someday? That's the battle. And that's the one worth contending for. You know, when people are confusing works and salvation, I say that's worth fighting about, at least calling it into question, you know, and there's some people that say, you know, okay, after, after a person's saved, if they're really saved, they're going to have the works. I'm not saying that those people aren't saved because there are people that are taught that, but it is worth calling that into con and into question. I mean, that's what Paul and Barnabas did. You know, that's part of the common salvation and I think it's worth fighting for. I think it's worth putting it out there. So with that being said, let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Thank you so much Lord for this church. Thank you for the book of Jude and all the lessons in here, Lord, though they'd be hard. I just pray you help us to all accept them Lord and to be great soldiers for you and to contend for the faith Lord, the common salvation in Jesus' name I pray, Amen.