1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who have been called, who are loved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: 2 Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.

JUDE 1: 1-4

3 Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people.

JUDE 1: 1-4

4 For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.JUDE 1: 1-4

FAST FACTS ON JUDE

• Jude has 613 words and 25 verses.• It is a letter of exhortation and direct attack against those opponents of Christian faith.

FAST FACTS ON JUDE

• It is seldom being preach and it is one chapter book but you can find some of the most powerful words.

• This letter is written by Jude a call to be contend with the gospel. Sweetest introduction of all the books in the Bible.

FAST FACTS ON JUDE

• The original name was Judas and because of negative connotations they make it Judah which means praise, then makes it Jude so that there is no negative connotations.FAST FACTS ON JUDE

35 So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.”

MATTHEW 13:35

1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who have been called, who are loved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:

JUDE 1:1

SLAVE“DOULOS”

somebody who is willingly submitted to their masters

2 But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near, 3 Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do.

JOHN 7:2-5

4 No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” 5 For even his own brothers did not believe in him.

JOHN 7:2-5

13 When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. ACTS 1:13-14

14 They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

ACTS 1:13-14

16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

ROMANS 6:16 -23

17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance.

ROMANS 6:16 -23

18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. 19 I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. ROMANS 6:16 -23

20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!

ROMANS 6:16 -23

22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.ROMANS 6:16 -23

Formerly we were slaves of sin, but now

when you receive Jesus you must be slaves to

Him or slaves of

righteousness.

22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

ROMANS 6: 22

Jesus makes us servants of

Righteousness.We must be like Jesus

that is our goal.

1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who have been called, who are loved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:

JUDE 1:1

• He is writing to Christians.• Jude loves triad he

loves the 3 words connected to its other, 3 is a number of completion.

FAST FACTS ON JUDE

JUDE REMINDS US

THAT WE ARE:

CALLED

12 That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.

2 TIMOTHY 1:12

9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

1 PETER 2:9

The world is watching

and that we are called.

LOVED

You are loved by God the

Father.

8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

ROMANS 5:8

KEPT

To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy--

JUDE 1:24

If you struggle to believe God loves you, and God just keeps bringing trials into your life, don’t panic. They’re more related than you realize.

MY INJURY INTERRUPTED MY IDOLATRY

I hobbled on one crutch to grip my cell phone from my back pocket. I was a starter for the New York Knicks and then the Toronto Raptors. And then I got injured, and then injured again, and then injured again.

MY INJURY INTERRUPTED MY IDOLATRY

An elbow, a hand, a hip — an unholy trinity that slowly, progressively, and painfully dragged away my ability to play basketball for several seasons. My dream, my deepest desire, my identity were all suddenly in danger. It felt like life had been written in dry-erase marker, and God came and smudged what had been clear before. MY INJURY INTERRUPTED

MY IDOLATRY

Once a star basketball player in Madison Square Garden, and now through three years of unplanned, unwanted physical issues, in my house straining just to check my phone. John Piper’s tweet grabbed my attention: “NFL player Garrett Gilkey blew out his knee last night. He writes about God’s ‘grand and glorious sovereignty.’” Click. Like a rescue worker down in a sunken-in mine, God seized my soul from the death of sin and despair.

MY INJURY INTERRUPTED MY IDOLATRY

I’ve never struggled to believe in God. But I’ve lived a lot of my life as a person who believes in God, but lives as if he doesn’t exist. I already had a “gospel” of my own — the promise that love and wealth are the world’s to give to the popular and gifted. I didn’t need to trust God, because I already trusted another god: the NBA.

WHAT GOD IS DOING?

Three years ago, Christ slowly started to change all of that. God gave me a gift through multiple season-ending injuries. In the same way that God gifted Garrett joy through his suffering, God gifted me faith through my suffering. That’s how God works. He never wastes a drop of pain. If you’re in the midst of suffering — especially if it’s long-term, complex, or confusing — here are three gifts of faith that grow out of suffering in ways that will last (1 Corinthians 3:15).

WHAT GOD IS DOING?

Through suffering, God molds in us “godly sorrow that brings repentance” (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is the funeral that God puts on for our idols. God lets us feel the pain of loss so that we can experience the joy of him carrying our burdens (Matthew 11:30).A TRUE FAITH

Suffering is the hook that God uses to bring us back to himself, collapsed and tired from slaving for sin, which Jonathan Edwards calls our “cruel task-master, which oppresses and chastises.” It’s the earthquake that exposes idols and dethrones sin in our hearts. When I was playing for the Knicks, I knew God existed and disapproved of the life I was living (overindulging in alcohol and sexual promiscuity), but I preached a gospel of cheap grace to make myself feel better.

A TRUE FAITH

With the injuries, God exposed that I was relying on something other than grace painted to look like grace — a cheap grace that was as useful for my suffering as a cardboard cutout of Jesus.

A TRUE FAITH

When the injuries came, I started reading Scripture. I had the odd, unsettling thought, “I don’t think I’m really saved.” I read in James, “Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead” (James 2:17).

A TRUE FAITH

My casual Christianity needed to be told, “You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe — and shudder!” (James 2:19).

God dims the light of our life with suffering, so that our hearts embrace a grace that really sustains. Suffering is a time to mourn the loss of that which could never save.

A TRUE FAITH

Like a meticulous watchmaker, God folded true faith into me through the creases of suffering, through all of the injuries, the waiting, and the disappointment. Not all at once, but day after day, over the course of years, God brought new clarity. The joy that God gives in suffering is a game-changer. It changes pain. It drastically transforms the first sixty seconds of your day. It course-corrects the next sixty years of your life. A BETTER HOPE

My three years (and counting) of injuries have given me a chance to see just how much basketball was my gospel. By God’s grace, he’s transforming me into the image of Christ (2 Corinthians 3:18). My suffering made me ask, “Why would I put all my joy, hope, and future in something that won’t last?” The only thing that lasts in this life is Christ. I started putting all my joy, hope, and life in God’s hands.A BLESSED HOPE

I call my first season of injuries, “The Wilderness.” Three years ago, I was getting injured on the court. And off the court, my girlfriend became pregnant. By God’s grace, now she’s my wife, but we had only been dating for a few months at the time. At the time, I didn’t know what to do. God has made life harder for me than I ever would have chosen for myself. And he has made life happier for me than I ever could have chosen for myself as a selfish, short-minded sinner.

A HUMBLE HEART

Through suffering, God gives us humility. When I first started getting injured, I prayed, “God, leave it up to me, and leave me alone.” Now, I pray, “Thank you, Lord, for doing this and driving me back to you.” Suffering magnifies Christ to me, and in me, and through me. I’m thankful for my injured elbow, hand, and hip, because they make me depend on God in a way that I never would have without them.

A HUMBLE HEART

Suffering is beautiful because it sets us free. Now, my wife is a believer. We’re raising our son to love Jesus. God’s continuing his work on my heart through the latest hip surgery. My faith is in a God who is sovereign, who is sanctifying me, and who gives me the gift of himself through sufferings and joys in this life.BLESSING OF BROKENNESS

Suffering has made the gospel real to me. And God will use suffering to make the gospel real to you too. If you’re going through something painful or difficult, it doesn’t mean that God isn’t paying attention or doesn’t care. It means God wants to win you to true faith in him, a better hope in his salvation, and deep humility and joy in his grace.

BLESSING OF BROKENNESS

You are kept by God the Father.

He CALLED you because He LOVES you and

because He loves He KEEPS you.

28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. ROMANS 8:28-39

30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ROMANS 8:28-39

33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.ROMANS 8:28-39

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ROMANS 8:28-39

38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.ROMANS 8:28-39

Nothing could separate us from the love of God.

Jesus never leave us, it us who leave Jesus.

When things get rough always remember

you are CALLED, LOVED and KEPT by God.

2 Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.

JUDE 1:2

Another triad is MERCY, PEACE and LOVE. If you are called, loved and kept then you have mercy, love and peace in

abundance.

If you are called, loved and kept Jude is expecting you to

MULTIPLY mercy, love and peace.

3 Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people. 4 For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. JUDE 1: 3-4

They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.

JUDE 1: 3-4

Jude wants the people around him

TO CONTEND WITH THEIR FAITH.

Jude says things are doing contrary to what God wants that’s why we must speak. It is

our duty to speak the truth.

HOW CANWE DEFENDOUR FAITH?

(1) WE MUST

KNOW THE TRUTH.

We must study our bible.

We must meditate the Word of God.

(2) WE MUST

GROW PERSONALLY WITH CHRIST.

Jude reminded the people of God’s

judgment to those who left their faith.

(3) WE MUST

BE ROOTED IN

THE WORD OFGO.

We must know what God wants us to do.

True blessings are not about money, it is about living in the

presence and power of God.

WHAT DOES GOD EXPECTS

OF US?

(1) YOU MUST BE A SERVANT.

(2) YOU MUST BE

HUMBLE.

(3) WE NEED TO

BE REMINDED BY THE

GOSPEL.

(4) LOVE

SHOULD BE OUR

MOTIVATION.

(5) BE SPECIFIC WITH THE

PEOPLE WHO SIN.

Sin brings death, sin destroys people,

destroys relationships.

Sin brings death, sin destroys people, destroys

relationships.

Sin brings death, sin destroys people, destroys

relationships.

Sin brings death, sin destroys people, destroys

relationships.

Our job as a church is to be the light to those who are in

darkness, a light to the world. Speak the truth and live in the

truth.

17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

COLOSSIANS 3:17

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

MATTHEW 25:40