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History’s Warnings
Jude 5-11

Our faith is always one generation away from extinction.
-Adrian Rogers

Apologetics is the biblical call to know what you believe, understand why you believe it, and be ready and able to defend your faith with truth, wisdom, and love.

Your depth of wisdom about the things of God will only go as far as the effort you put into it.

Memory Verse:
Romans 12:2 NIV
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

…certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago.

3 Examples:

Israel

The Angels

The Five "I Wills"

“Jude’s purpose in evoking the story of the angelic fall is to demonstrate that those who hold a privileged position are not exempt from divine judgment if they embrace sin.”
- Gene Green

Sodom and Gomorrah

3 Critical Errors

The Bible is the Word of God and the objective standard of truth.

Pollute their bodies

Reject authority

The battle for the future is the battle for identity.

Daniel = God is my judge.
Belteshazzar = Lady, protect the King.

When God guides our transformation He leads us into something new, beautiful, and true. Don’t change your body, let God change you!

Humanism is what we’re left with when humanity abandons God as the source and measure of what is true, moral, ethical, and beautiful, and we are left to define these things ourselves. If we don’t have our God and our Bible, we have no choice but to make ourselves god, and create our own morality.
-Nikki Dent

Heap abuse on celestial beings.

The the doors to the Kingdom of Heaven swing on the hinge of relationship, but that hinge is lubricated through honor.

3 Failures:

The way of Cain

The “way of Cain” is the religious person’s approach to salvation rather than God’s way. It is self-righteousness based on one’s own works.

Balaam’s Error

The teaching of Balaam is the view that Christians can—or even should—compromise their convictions for the sake of popularity, money, sexual gratification, the approval of our children, or personal gain.

Korah’s rebellion

Korah disregarded God’s plan and was insubordinate to God’s appointed authorities.

1 Align your heart with Christ.
- Forgiver
- Savior
- Lord

2. Serve God’s purposes on this earth.
- Commit to Growth in Godly Character
- Commit to God’s Work.
- Commit to God’s Church.

3. Live in the joy of being God’s beloved