“Live In Truth”

 Jude 3-4

Dearly loved friends, I had been eagerly planning to write to you about 

the salvation we all share.  But now I find that I must write about some-

thing else, urging you to defend the truth of the Good News.  I say this 

because some godless people have wormed their way in among you, say-

ing that God’s forgiveness allows us to live immoral lives.  The fate of such 

people was determined long ago, for they have turned against our only 

Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.  (NLT)

     Although Jude wrote this letter to warn the first century Church of the apostasy that was taking place, it is also meant for the Church today, because the Good News is still being compromised.  This only message of Hope we have is being mixed with many different world views and false religions to be carefully twisted out of context in order to accommodate the carefree life-styles of the modern age that justify man’s love of sin.  We are being bombarded with many false prophets who are successfully drawing crowds of new Christians into a false church under false pretense while drawing many other Christians away from the unchanging, inerrant Truth of God’s Word.  These clever lies are taking many churches into some gray areas that are very dangerous, for they cause division and strife that sometimes lead to the church's demise.  The Truth of God cannot be changed for any reason nor can it be compromised to fit our agenda.  Since the beginning of the Church there have been false teachers spreading their deadly lies, but they are now better equipped and more refined than ever before. 

     It is not wise to twist the message of salvation from our Lord God and Savior to justify your sinful passions, because God will not be mocked.  As this fallen world changes, so too, do human lifestyles, but do not allow the clever lies of this ever-changing world draw you away from the Absolute Truth, because if you do, you will be led into a grayness that leads to utter darkness.  The world wants you to believe in many gods and many ways to Heaven, and that God is too loving to allow people to go to Hell.  We must always be careful and remain steadfast in our Christian faith as found in God's Word.  The amazing grace of God is running quite thin, my friend, and when our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ comes again, it will be to judge not to save.

                                                             

                                          A Whisper of Hope

My dear child…walk carefully and live in Truth and Spirit as your Guide.  The evil forces in this world are so powerful and so deceitfully convincing that you must stay focused on the Truth of My Word if you want to survive the Day of the Lord. 

2 Peter 2:2

Many will follow their evil teaching and shameful immorality.

And because of them, Christ and His True Way will be slandered.   (NLT)

  

           If you wander from the teaching of Christ, 

              you will not have fellowship with God.

                                      (2 John 9)