“I Found It Necessary…” (CRU Conference)
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July 15, 2013

“I Found It Necessary…” (CRU Conference)

by Alistair Begg

Jude 1:1–7  (ID: 2977)

What are the greatest threats the church faces today? Atheism? Postmodernity? No, argues Alistair Begg—the greatest threat facing the church is the weakening of its own will. The church which stands on the truth of the Gospel can withstand any challenge. If, however, Christians bend the Gospel to satisfy our desires or the desires of a secular culture, we will inevitably crumble and fall. The church’s resolve to live and proclaim the Gospel makes all the difference.

Topics:
Jude 1:1–7

Greeting

1Jude, a servant1 of Jesus Christ and brother of James,

To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for2 Jesus Christ:

2May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

Judgment on False Teachers

3Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. 4For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

5Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved3 a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— 7just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire,4 serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

Copyright © 2024, Alistair Begg. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service.

Alistair Begg
Alistair Begg is Senior Pastor at Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Bible teacher on Truth For Life, which is heard on the radio and online around the world.