The Devotional – Fight the good fight of Faith (Part 3)

The Devotional – Fight the good fight of Faith (Part 3)

Comment: Isaiah 64:4 – For since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You. Who acts for the one who waits for Him. 1 Corinthians 2:9 – But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. If I were to pick out a key word from both of these verses it would be the word in the in Isaiah “WAIT” and in Corinthians “LOVE”. Most people, even those who believe in Jesus Christ struggle with loving God. The Hebrew word “CHAKAH” in Isaiah means to “ADHERE” or stick to. The Greek word for love in the Corinthian passage is “AGAPE” as in being “DEVOTED”; we ought to be stuck on or devoted JESUS the SON of GOD I like the thought and I hope you do too.

Devotional: Jude 1:5-11 – If we are unfamiliar with apostasy, Jude gives us a few examples of what it is and how it begins in those who were once delivered by the LORD. Jude reminds us of Old Testament events; How the LORD saved Israel out of the land of Egypt, but later destroyed those who failed to believe. He continues with the angels of God who did not keep their “own domain” but left, or stepped away from their abiding place. Those angels whom God has placed in another domain, reserved in chains and darkness for the JUDGMENT on the Great Day of the LORD.

Jude recalls another historical event “Sodom and Gomorrah” something included by Jude that is not commonly known is that the immoral activity of these two cities contaminated the cities around the hub of the two known cities. These events are a part of the history of fallen mankind, what was back then is just as real today in the world around us. DREAMERS who defile the flesh of the innocent, who while in places of authority, reject the responsibility of authority by leading people astray.

The battle is STRONG the real enemy is SATAN whom we call the devil. Jude brings to light another event in history that would be unknown. The contention between Michael the archangel and Satan over the body of Moses. This clears of the myth of “did or did not Moses die” Yes, Moses died, it says so here in the epistle of Jude and in Deuteronomy 34:5. Yet in men’s heart, the argument of corrupting Truth that Michael and Satan had was very real and very strong, so strong that Michael said to Satan… “The LORD rebuke you” so we too must be willing to say “The LORD rebuke you to those who corrupt the Truth”.

These examples are real today, the battle for TRUTH still rages. Religions, cults and men of depraved minds speak EVIL, men love the darkness, they adhere themselves to doing what they know naturally. Therefore, God identifies these people as ‘brute beast’ they are in our churches, teaching the way of Cain (works of the flesh), teaching a prosperity gospel (the greed of Balaam) and (the liberal application of Truth) which is rebellion or the way of Korah.