Jude 1:3-6 the Battle is the Lord's

Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the Great Day.

Jude is the brother of Jesus Christ who both have Mary as their mother. Just as John before him, he prepares the church to be watchful of all those who call themselves Christian. Just as John said there are frauds who claim to be with the church, yet deny Jesus is the eternal Son of God, these he says are Anti-Christ’s. Jude explains that these evil men have been marked out since the beginning of time as a weapon of the spiritual war they face. Jude calls on us to remember that God will deal harshly with these ones and to have nothing to do with them because their father is Satan.

Daily Prayer: Father, give me this day the spirit of discernment, but not to me alone, but also to my fellow Christians. The battle we face is not our’s, but yours, and you have already won it at Calvary, so let us be steadfast in our faith. In Jesus name I pray Amen.