Good Morning Friends,
“Dear friends, although I was very eager to
write to you about the salvation we share, I felt I had to write and urge you
to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.” (Jude 1:3)
The message is complete! You don’t need to
worry that God is going to send some new message that will be different from
the one He has already sent through Jesus Christ. The faith has been “once for
all” given to us and it will never be changed.
That’s an important principle because it
gives us solid ground to reject new messages that have come since Jesus. Mormonism
claims that a new message was given to Joseph Smith by an angel. But that message
cannot have come from God. God has already said that He will not deliver a new
message and He cannot lie.
There are dozens of others who claim to have
received some new message from God and all of them can be rejected because the
faith has been given to us “once for all” through Jesus Christ.
You need not worry that when you stand before
God at judgment time that He will change the rules then. The message is
complete. The Gospel that Jesus preached has stood true for 2000 years. It will
stand true for the remainder of man’s life on earth. And it will stand true at
the judgment and throughout eternity.
Jude is declaring that you can absolutely
trust the message of Jesus Christ.
Everything else around you may be shaky ---
your health, your career, your finances, your family, your country --- but the
Gospel of Jesus is firm! Trust it. Cling to it. Never let go of it. It’s the
one thing that will last forever. It’s the one message that will never be
overruled.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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