“Life in Truth”

Jude 3-4
Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. (NASB)

Just as it was then, when the apostle Jude wrote this letter of warning to the Church, so it is today as well. For there are multitude of churches who claim to be Christian churches, that do not teach the Gospel of our Living God, Jesus Christ. The evil domination of this world that is headed up by Satan is touching everything and everyone, including God’s Holy Church (Jude 17-19). The New Age Church is successfully being pulled away from the unchanging Truth of God (2 Timothy 3:1-5). The Truth we find in God’s Holy Word cannot be compromised in order to fit in with this changing world that is, indeed, changing for the worse. It is not healthy for the soul when we choose and pick and interpret passages from the Bible to justify your sinful behavior. As the world around us changes, so too, will our live styles, but we cannot allow the world to dictate how we live out our faith. The world’s new age church wants us to believe that God’s grace allows us to satisfy our sinful natures, because we are, after all, saved by grace. And what the world’s Church does not want us to believe is that along with God's grace there must also be sacrifice and sanctification. Just as God rescued Israel out of Egypt but destroyed those who were unfaithful; just as God cast out of heaven all the disobedient angels, and just as God destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah for their immorality, so too, will God judge the false churches. Be careful, dear ones, and remain steadfast in your faith in God and the Truth, just as Noah did before God destroyed all living things in the Flood. Just as God warned Noah, so to has Christ Jesus warned us about the End of Times. Believe the God's unchanging Truth, for it will protect you from the final wrath that is yet to come.

A Whisper of Hope
I say to you, My child…walk your life-journey with the Truth as your Guide. The evil forces of this world are so powerful and convincing that you must stay focused on the only Truth that never changes, for your very life depends upon it. God’s mercies for this evil and violent world will indeed come to an end, and so I call on you to warn others that My final judgment of the world is near!

Jude 17-19
But you, my dear friends, must remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ told you, that in the last times there would be scoffers whose purpose in life is to enjoy themselves in every evil way imaginable. Now they are here, and they are the ones who are creating divisions among you. They live by natural instinct because they do not have God’s Spirit living in them. (NLT)

2 Timothy 3:1-5
You should also know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times. For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control; they will be cruel and have no interest in what is good. They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God. They will act as if they are religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. You must stay away from people like that. (NLT)