This 3-message series from Pastor Jim consists of the following titles:Jude's Big Burden
How God Responds To Rebels
Pictures Of The Apostate
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"All hat; no cattle." If Jude had been a Texan he might have used that colorful phrase to describe the religious posers that had crept into the church. Listening to one of them was like opening an email from a Nigerian prince - sooner or later you'd be sorry you clicked. Well, these hollow men (and women) haven't gone away, so let's listen carefully to the conclusion of Jim's sermon. Jude gave us 7 Pictures of the Apostate. Yesterday we examined the metaphors of "hidden reefs" and "hungry shepherds." ...
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Jude wants to outfit us with spiritual sonar. Even in the church, where we feel we have a safe harbor, there may be dangers below the surface. In his letter Jude calls them "hidden reefs." They're people who may smile and talk like Christians, but who have their own agenda underneath. If we don't steer clear, these reefs will split the ship of Fellowship apart. Jude has some other metaphors for them, as well - or, as Jim calls them, Pictures of the Apostate. He opens the lesson with prayer.
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We used to see the bumper sticker, "Question Authority." I always wondered: "Who says?" Scripture doesn't teach us to blindly obey those in power; Peter said, "We must obey God rather than men." But he also said to "fear God, [and] honor the king." There are some who don't even bother to question authority; they just defy it. Jude showed us How God Responds to Rebels. Here's part 2 of that message from Pastor Jim.
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Traditions change! When we come up against a tradition, it seems unshakable - like a giant stone wall. But there was a time when those stones weren't there, and they've shifted out of alignment over time. Traditions change. But God's revelation does not. We continue our series in Jude with a look at those who don't like the fact that the Christian faith was "once for all delivered to the saints." Jim calls this message, How God Responds to Rebels. Here's part 1.
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God hates sin. But there's something He hates even more! There is garden-variety wickedness; and then there's the kind of evil that masquerades as righteousness, and even recruits others to sin in the name of God. Already in the first century there were teachers like this, those who contort the grand gift of grace into permission to please ourselves. Jesus is not their Lord, Jude says. In fact, rejection of authority is one way we can recognize them. We'll review a bit from Friday's message to begin part 3 of Jim's sermon called Jude's Big Burden.
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There may be a reason we call a lustful man a "wolf." Jude was alarmed. He smelled some canines under their sheep's clothing, and he wanted to uncover their true nature. So he picked out some powerful examples from the Old Testament to reveal two common traits of false teachers: they reject authority, and they promote fleshly indulgence. But first, Jim wants us to notice the positive way Jude ends his letter.
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Do you have faith? Do you have the faith? Today we begin a short series in the short letter that comes next-to- last in our Bible. Brother Jude appealed to believers to "contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints." This faith is life-giving truth. It's a gift that comes with a responsibility: to keep it in its original, pure form. The enemy's children are in church every Sunday, sometimes even in the pulpit, trying to rewrite the doctrine of the Apostles. Jude will put them in their place. Here's Jim with part 1 of, Jude's Big Burden.
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Listen to Right Start Radio every Monday through Friday on WCVX 1160AM (Cincinnati, OH) at 9:30am, WHKC 91.5FM (Columbus, OH) at 5:00pm, WRFD 880AM (Columbus, OH) at 9:00am. Right Start can also be heard on One Christian Radio 107.7FM & 87.6FM in New Plymouth, New Zealand.
Listen to Right Start Radio every Monday through Friday on WCVX 1160AM (Cincinnati, OH) at 9:30am, WHKC 91.5FM (Columbus, OH) at 5:00pm, WRFD 880AM (Columbus, OH) at 9:00am. Right Start can also be heard on One Christian Radio 107.7FM & 87.6FM in New Plymouth, New Zealand.