Loving God, Loving Others, Making Disciples

But You…

But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. Jude 17

But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life… Jude 20-21

Almost anything we purchase today carries with it two things: an owner’s manual and a warning label. They join together to tell us how to and, perhaps more important, how not to use that particular product.

Jude did something similar. He had warned his readers about the dangers of false teachers, apostasy, deception, falling away from the faith, rejecting the truth, and even God’s final judgment. But now at the close of his short letter he gets into the “how to’s.”