The Devotional – Fight the good fight of Faith (Part 1)

The Devotional – Fight the good fight of Faith (Part 1)

Comment: Have you heard the news? Have you seen the pictures? Are you agreeing with the thoughts and direction of social media today? Why bother to help the local law enforcement keep our communities safe! We ought to be like all the rest, why not; when we see a problem develop… just take out our smart phone and film the whole event. If the filming is not enough, then let us put it on public display. Some will “oh” and some will “ah” but the victim will suffer a price, a price that will tear at the core of humanity in ways that destroy. For example: a child, misbehaving becomes victim of some misfortune, who is to be blamed for this? His parents of course, why correct the child? A police officer, over reacts to a hideous crime and the officer’s punishment is worse than the punishment of the perpetrator. Is there no JUSTICE? Justice these days is in the eye of the beholder and usually the beholder is everyone who fails to do justly. 

Devotional: I can find myself agreeing with a man of the past whose name is Jude. Frankly I do not like what he has to say in his epistle, and yet if I am going to agree with God at all I must be willing to understand that the days in which we live are EVIL. Just as evil as in the days of Jude’s writing, he identifies himself as the brother of James, writer of the epistle of James and both men are half-brothers of Jesus Christ.

This may take a few days to put together as I do feel that the epistle we are about to work with is PERTENANT for TODAY in Christendom. Where are the defender of FAITH today? Most certainly the pulpits of churches currently are filled with MEN who do not know how to contend for the FAITH. These men have become traitors, heady and high-minded. Sadly, they are familiar with the church since they came out of our fellowships, read what the apostle John has to say in 1 John 2:18-19 or the context from verse 18 through 23.

Jude is writing to you and me, that is if you a “CALLED and loved by God the Father and PRESERVED in Jesus Christ” In verse 1 the word “sanctified” (NKJV) is the same as “loved by God” and the words “preserved in Jesus Christ” are the same as “kept by Jesus Christ” does this not remind you of a passage in John 17, this is a must read John 17:1-26; note verse 12. A wonderful verse that reveals at least two truths. (1) Jesus keeps those who are His, He will lose NONE. (2) but there are some within the ranks who are sons of perdition, who Jude in his epistle is going to contend with.

There is a REAL need for the called and loved by God, those of us who are kept by the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ to fight the fight of FAITH. Someone recently said and I agree Christendom is ALWAYS one generation from extinction. This extinction does not come from the outside influences of humanism or the isms of the world’s religion. It comes from men and women who are sons and daughters of perdition (of the devil) and these folks live in the midst of the church grounds, teach Sunday School, sing in the choir and smile like the saint, but a closer look reveals the truth; Matthew 23:27.