LivingTruth.xyz Sermon Podcast of Kevin Pierpont

It’s troubling to think of false teachers slipping into the church attempting to lead people astray. But it’s a needful conversation Jude forces us to have. In Jude verses 8-13 we’re shown how to recognize false teaching today. People who propagate false teaching can often be recognized by their corrupt communication and corrupt character.

God’s people need constant reminders of His precious and very great promises. In 2 Peter 1:1-4 we find four such promises that will feed and grow your faith in Jesus.

Learning to guard against false teachers will be greatly helped by learning from the past. In verses 5-7 Jude points to the past as a reminder of the serious results of unbelief and false teaching.

You need to contend for the faith for the sake of your own daily walk with Christ. You need to be on your guard. Follow your Master and Lord, your Savior, Jesus Christ. We find out how in Jude 1:1-4.

Believers in Jesus need to contend for the faith for the sake of their own daily walk with Christ. The temptation to compromise the truth of God’s Word is ever-present. But if you will keep humbling yourself before the Word of God daily, following your Master and Savior, Jesus Christ, you will be strengthened with God’s help, to contend for the faith.

Believers in Jesus are not left to their own failing wisdom and failing strength to understand and obey God’s Word. The Helper, the Holy Spirit lives in the believer to help them understand, illuminating the truth of God’s Word in the heart and mind of the believer in Jesus.

There is joy and contentment for believers in Jesus who treasure God’s grace, who bask in and drink in and enjoy God’s unmerited favor because of the finished work of Jesus for sinners. Saints in Christ learn contentment when they remember whose they are and learn to treasure God’s grace.

The Bible calls believers in Jesus to be generous givers and those who learn to give from the heart find the contentment that only God can give. When it comes to your giving, what God desires of you above all is that you give with the right motives. And when you do, then you will know the blessing of contentment.

The filling of the Holy Spirit will change your life. When the Holy Spirit controls you because you aren’t quenching and resisting His control, He will not leave you unchanged. And that will be for your good and for His glory. 

You will only have contentment when you rely on the all-sufficient Christ to give you His strength as you obey Him in the face of difficulty, even when your strength is all gone.