1 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,320 This is living. Waters of Grace, the teaching 2 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,920 ministry of Lewis Harold, assistant pastor of Calvary 3 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:14,600 Chapel of Westmoreland County in Greensburg, PA. 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,520 Now here's Pastor Lewis as he continues teaching through God's 5 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:39,440 Word. God gives grace to the humble, 6 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,560 not the proud, not someone that says I'm going to just do what I 7 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,280 want to do and live my life the way I want to live it. 8 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:49,840 No, the Bible says that God resists the proud. 9 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:56,360 He resists the proud, but he gives grace to the humble, to 10 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:00,240 that one who will say yes, Lord, I blew it, I was wrong, I 11 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:05,080 sinned, please forgive me. That grace is there for us. 12 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:07,920 That's grace. Imagine what it's like to be in 13 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:12,000 a relationship with someone who constantly betrays us, speaks 14 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,680 negatively about us, and does so much more. 15 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:19,480 Would we really choose to stay with someone who treats us that 16 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,600 way? That's the difference between US 17 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,760 and God. While we struggle to fully 18 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,960 understand the depth of God's love for his creation, we can 19 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:33,560 reflect on how he continues to love us unconditionally 20 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:39,760 yesterday, today, and forever. So today, Pastor Lewis invites 21 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,280 you to open your heart and let God into your life so you can 22 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,560 experience his love. Now. 23 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,880 Here's Pastor Lewis in the Book of Jude, chapter one with 24 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:52,040 today's edition of Living Waters of Grace. 25 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:58,080 So if we go back to the third verse of Jude, it just simply 26 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:02,120 says, Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you 27 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:08,000 concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to you 28 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:15,600 exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which 29 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,880 was once for all delivered to the Saints. 30 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:25,560 So as we said last week that Jews sat down with his pen and 31 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,640 paper and had the intention to write about our common 32 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,760 salvation. Maybe we want to write about 33 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:34,760 justification. Maybe he wanted to write about 34 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:38,680 just the gospel itself. Maybe he wanted to share some 35 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,960 truths about the gospel, about sanctification or some things of 36 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:47,760 that nature, or just to rejoice and encourage his readers in the 37 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:52,200 gospel, this common salvation that we have, which brings us 38 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:55,600 and binds us all together. But instead, the Holy Spirit 39 00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:03,240 directed him to write concerning or exhorting them to contend 40 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,840 earnestly for the faith. Now when we talk about 41 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:11,960 contending for the faith, we're talking about this, this word 42 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:17,880 that basically means to strive or to agonize for the faith. 43 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,000 And not only just to contend for the faith, but to do it 44 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:27,000 earnestly, to do it earnestly, to do it fervently, intensely, 45 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:32,360 sincerely, to contend for the faith, which is what you and I 46 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:34,800 should be doing every day. Every day we go into the Word of 47 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,400 God and we read the Word of God and we fill ourselves with its 48 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,040 truth. It gives us the strength, it 49 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:46,640 gives us the the confidence in Jesus to stand on his word and 50 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,560 to be able to contend for it. And we're not talking about 51 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:51,720 quarreling and fighting with people over it. 52 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:54,480 The Bible says that the man of God should not quarrel and 53 00:03:54,480 --> 00:04:00,240 should not strive, but we should stand for truth and not waver 54 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:05,240 from the truth and not allow ourselves to be deceived by 55 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:09,160 things that are not true concerning the Word of God. 56 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,640 That we would not be deceived to add on to it or not be deceived 57 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:16,680 to take away from it, but to take the Word of God the way 58 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:21,880 it's given to us as it was given to the apostles through Jesus 59 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:25,560 Christ. This is the truth, and we talked 60 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:27,080 about that last week, but we did. 61 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:32,840 We are to seriously and fervently strive, contend 62 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:38,000 earnestly for this truth. So you might ask the question, 63 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,600 well, why did he bring that up? Then why is God asking him to do 64 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,520 this? And he tells us in verse four, 65 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:51,240 he said because certain men have crept in unnoticed who long ago 66 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:53,560 were marked out for this condemnation. 67 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:59,560 Ungodly men who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and 68 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:05,640 deny the only Lord God, God and our Lord Jesus Christ. 69 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:10,720 I have it down here saying that creeps crept in, They crept in. 70 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:14,600 So this crep in means that they came in subtly. 71 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:18,960 They came in deceptively, came in through the side door to the 72 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:20,960 back door. You know then, and what that 73 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:23,320 means is that they didn't just come through the front door and 74 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:26,320 say, you know what? I'm a false teacher and I'm 75 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,120 about to destroy everything that God is trying to build in this 76 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,000 place. They don't come in with that. 77 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,440 They don't come in here saying that I have a doctrine that I'm 78 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:36,600 going to bring in that's going to be totally contrary to 79 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:38,480 everything you guys have been listening to. 80 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,760 They don't come in that way either, but they come in subtly 81 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,320 and deceptively. They actually come in looking 82 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:50,240 and sounding like us. And as I go through this, I 83 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:54,720 don't want this to be a, a, a, a word of condemnation against 84 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,920 anybody. It's not that God is giving us 85 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:02,320 these words so that we are warned, just like he gave it to 86 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:06,440 them to warn them. These are tricks of the devil. 87 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:11,640 These are deceptive ways of the evil 1 And unfortunately, he 88 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,960 uses people. He uses people that sound like 89 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:19,000 us, that look like us, that act like us, to try to deceive us, 90 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,880 to try to get us to step away or to turn away from the truth. 91 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,160 That's just the way the enemy is. 92 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:30,160 And Jude is saying here that I want you to be aware of it. 93 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:34,640 But Jude wasn't the only one who tried to warn us or who did warn 94 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,760 us about this. Jesus warned us about it. 95 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:41,360 He said back in, in, in, in Matthew 7 and 15. 96 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,880 He said they're going to come in like wolves coming in wearing 97 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,640 sheep's clothing. That sheep's clothing just 98 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:49,880 simply mean that they're going to all look like sheep. 99 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:52,720 We're all going to look like sheep together. 100 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:55,520 We're sitting beside another person that looks like a sheep, 101 00:06:55,520 --> 00:07:01,720 but inwardly, inwardly they're wolves that has an intention to 102 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:07,760 destroy what's being built here. Paul also talked to us and 103 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:11,320 warned us in the book of Acts. In chapter 20. 104 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,120 He said men were coming from among you. 105 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:20,120 They're going to rise up from among you, not sparing the flock 106 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:26,280 and speaking perverse things, perverse things, things that are 107 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:29,240 totally perverted from the gospel truth. 108 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:33,000 And then Peter in second Peter 2 and 1, he says false teachers 109 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:37,680 will come in secretly bringing in destructive heresies, 110 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:42,480 bringing in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord 111 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:47,520 who bought them, denying the Lord Jesus Christ who bought 112 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:53,720 them, bought them. Then it goes when he said that 113 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:58,840 these are ungodly men who turn the grace of our Lord Jesus 114 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:03,720 Christ into something lewdness, into something lewd, into 115 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:08,200 something indecent, ungodly men. That means that these men really 116 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:12,120 aren't even saved. Their ungodly, their thoughts 117 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,920 are ungodly and impure. Their ways are ungodly, but they 118 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:21,400 come in looking like us. Verse 19 says over in the later 119 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:23,760 part of Jude, it says that they don't even have the Spirit. 120 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:27,240 And of course, Paul himself said that if any man doesn't have the 121 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:28,720 Spirit of God, that he's none of his. 122 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:33,000 They turn the grace of our God into lewdness, into something 123 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:35,960 immoral and decent. You know, grace is something 124 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:40,120 that has been really misused and abused in the church, 125 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,320 unfortunately. You know, grace is a wonderful 126 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,000 thing. Jesus came full of grace and 127 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,040 truth. It's a wonderful thing, but when 128 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:52,560 you get someone who can pervert it or will pervert the enemy, 129 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:56,200 will try to pervert anything, even the grace of our Lord and 130 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:01,680 Savior Jesus Christ in this situation, because they are 131 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:05,880 Gnostics and they believe that the body is evil. 132 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,760 But the mind or the spirit, I'm sorry, is, is, is what's 133 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:12,240 righteous. And that's the only thing that's 134 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:14,720 important is the spirit. But your body, you can do 135 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:18,120 anything you want to do with that, anything you want to do 136 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,080 with the body, go and sin as much as you want. 137 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:21,640 This is what they were convincing people. 138 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:27,360 And of course, part of their worship was sexual immorality 139 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:30,040 was, you know, sex, full sex, sex acts. 140 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:32,800 That was part of the Pagan worship. 141 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,000 So they were convincing the people, these false teachers 142 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,560 will come in and convincing the people that it's OK not to use 143 00:09:39,560 --> 00:09:42,120 your body to do anything you want to do with it. 144 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,600 Well, you know what stood out to me a couple weeks ago when Clark 145 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,880 was teaching on on 1st Corinthians and he talked about 146 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:51,560 the fact that our bodies are not our own. 147 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:56,240 Our bodies are not our own and we're not to use the grace of 148 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:01,720 God to try to cover up our sin. I just want to go back to Romans 149 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:06,240 for a second. Romans chapter 5, Paul talks 150 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:09,400 about this grace. He, he, he, he corrects this 151 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:15,280 false thinking about this grace over in the book of Romans 152 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:18,840 chapter chapter 5 and verse 20. He says, moreover, the law 153 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:23,320 entered that the offense might abound, but where sin abound, 154 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:30,080 grace abound much more. So that is so that as sin 155 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:35,040 reigned in death, Even so grace might reign through 156 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:39,440 righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 157 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,080 So now we're asking the question, So that means I can 158 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:45,360 just sin then, because we got grace, that will abound anymore. 159 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:47,320 And Paul answered that question, didn't he? 160 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:53,440 Look at verse 1 of chapter 6. He says, what shall we say then? 161 00:10:53,560 --> 00:10:58,280 Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 162 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:05,600 No, he says, certainly not. How shall we who die to sin live 163 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:09,960 any longer in it? How should we who die to sin 164 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:14,360 live any longer in it? In First Corinthians 619 and 20. 165 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:18,120 Clark eloquently taught about this a couple weeks ago, where 166 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,880 he says we are bought with a price. 167 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:23,400 Our bodies are not ours to do anything we want to do with it. 168 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:26,880 And I still remember the example he gave of the of a parking lot, 169 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,520 you know, full of cars and they all got the keys in it. 170 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:34,360 And you take somebody who just want to take something that 171 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,840 doesn't belong to them and go out in the parking lot, choose 172 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:42,360 the car that they want, go in, take the car, which is called 173 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:46,200 stealing the car and drive it and do what they want to do with 174 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:47,360 it. Because it's because it looks 175 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,680 like a sports car. I'll drive it fast because it 176 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:51,480 looks like a luxury car. I'll just lean in it so 177 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:54,760 everybody can see me. Oh, come on, you guys remember 178 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:57,200 to lean. You guys remember the lien, All 179 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:04,120 right? But it's not my car. 180 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,400 But I'll still take it to do what I want to do with it. 181 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,560 And he talked about the fact that the police will come and 182 00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:11,600 they'll arrest them and ask the question, What made you think 183 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:15,040 that you could take someone else's property and do what you 184 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:20,200 want to do with it? What a good illustration of us 185 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,800 with the Lord Jesus Christ. This body now belongs to him. 186 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:28,840 He died on the cross for it. He purchased it with his own 187 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:33,600 blood first. Peter 118 and 19. 188 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:38,600 He says, you know, we weren't redeemed, you know, with, with 189 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:42,400 with things like gold and silver, but we were redeemed 190 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:46,120 with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. 191 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:52,080 You can't put a price on that. There's no price we can put on 192 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:56,200 that. But yet scripture says over here 193 00:12:56,200 --> 00:13:03,400 in Jude that they deny the only Lord God, they deny him and even 194 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,120 over in second Peter and I want to take a look at that one too 195 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:11,080 because it even talks about how they deny the Lord who bought 196 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:13,560 them in second Peter. He says this. 197 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:17,720 I got pages that are actually falling out of my Bible. 198 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:22,080 It's time to get a new one. Second Peter chapter 2 and verse 199 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:26,520 one, it says, but there we're also false prophets among the 200 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,080 people, even as there will be false teachers among you who 201 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:35,480 will secretly bring in destructive heresies and denying 202 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:41,000 the Lord who bought them and will bring upon themselves swift 203 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,200 destruction. You know, we have to really 204 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:49,800 understand what it means that we now belong to Lord Jesus Christ. 205 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,440 We now belong to Him. We are the slaves. 206 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,320 Jude himself said I'm a bond slave, which actually means that 207 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:59,520 I am a slave. I'm a bond servant. 208 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,520 I'm a slave of Jesus Christ, a willing slave. 209 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,480 We're not forced to be slaves to Jesus Christ. 210 00:14:06,680 --> 00:14:10,280 We are willing slaves. We give ourselves to Him, to be 211 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:14,160 slaves to him. Lord, remember when I got saved 212 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:18,680 and when I finally realized and looked back on my life and 213 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:20,760 looked at how much time I wasted? 214 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,800 I remember saying, Lord, I don't know how much time I got left. 215 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:31,600 I've wasted so much of my life doing what I wanted to do, so 216 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:37,960 much of my life looking for my own will, expressing my own will 217 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:40,760 and not surrendering to His will. 218 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:46,040 Lord, I don't know how much time I got left, but whatever I have, 219 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:50,960 Lord, I want to give it to you. Whatever I have left, I want to 220 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:52,520 commit it to you, submit it to you. 221 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:54,840 And we're not perfect in this walk. 222 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:58,240 We blow it. There's still times when I still 223 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:00,760 do what I want to do. I've shared those with you 224 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:03,280 before. But because of the Holy Spirit 225 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:11,120 who's in us, we can be convicted of those things, and we turn our 226 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:15,200 hearts and our minds back to Jesus Christ in repentance. 227 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,760 Lord, I'm sorry I sinned once again. 228 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:21,160 I blew it. Please forgive me. 229 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:26,320 That's the grace that we have in Jesus Christ when we humble 230 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:31,320 ourselves and admit our sin and confess our sin. 231 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:37,760 He is gracious and He's good and He is faithful to forgive us of 232 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:40,560 our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 233 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:43,920 That's the grace that we have in Jesus Christ. 234 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:50,480 God gives grace to the humble, not the proud, not someone that 235 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,320 says I'm going to just do what I want to do and live my life the 236 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:55,040 way I want to live it. No hit. 237 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:57,960 The Bible says that God resists the proud. 238 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:04,320 He resists the proud, but he gives grace to the humble, to 239 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:08,120 that one who will say, yes, Lord, I blew it, I was wrong, I 240 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:12,920 sinned, please forgive me. That grace is there for us. 241 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,280 That's grace. That's grace. 242 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:21,080 And then in verse 5, he goes on and he says, but I want to 243 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:24,880 remind you that once you that that you know, they want to 244 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:29,840 remind you though you once knew this and we talked before about 245 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:33,240 how Peter even talked about always reminding, you know, we 246 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:34,400 do. That's why we come here every 247 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:37,680 every Sunday because we want to be reminded of what the word of 248 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:40,360 God says, you know, and, and that's why I love coming to a 249 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:42,880 church like this, because you guys come every Sunday and you 250 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:46,920 bring your Bibles, which means that you intentionally come to 251 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,920 hear the word of God and to read the word of God and to study the 252 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:54,120 word of God, to understand the word of God intentionally. 253 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,120 You do. And that's why you bring your 254 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,560 Bibles. That's why you bring them. 255 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,920 But this is remind you when, when, when Pastor Clark stands 256 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:07,560 up here so many times and I hear him teaching the word of God, It 257 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,599 reminds me of things I may have read a while ago and haven't 258 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:13,680 read in a while. And I make a mental note to 259 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:16,680 myself and I go back and I look at those things again because he 260 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:20,240 reminded me. He reminded me. 261 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,079 Or when you're in a study, a men's study in the morning, or 262 00:17:23,079 --> 00:17:25,920 you women in your women's study on your Bible class, you know, 263 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:29,600 your Bible studies that you do the men's studies from time to 264 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:31,000 time. You'll hear a scripture that 265 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:35,960 maybe you haven't read in a long time and it reminds you and you 266 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:39,240 go back and you read that Scripture again. 267 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:41,120 But this is what Judah saying. Judah said. 268 00:17:41,120 --> 00:17:44,400 Look, I know that you know this. I'm not saying this to you 269 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,200 because I don't think that you know it, but I'm saying it to 270 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:48,840 you because I want to remind you. 271 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:52,720 And when he's reminding them of his, as he said, though you once 272 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:57,080 knew this, that the Lord having saved the people out of the land 273 00:17:57,120 --> 00:17:58,960 of Egypt. Now I want to go back here for a 274 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:03,760 second. He's going to give 3 examples of 275 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:10,600 those who through self will, pride, rejection of authority, 276 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:19,080 rejection of God, have sinned. Cosmopostates, they sin, and 277 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:21,480 because of their sin there was judgement. 278 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:25,600 Sometimes it's really good to go back and see the historical 279 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:30,640 record because the Old Testament does give us a good picture of 280 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:35,320 the righteousness of God, a righteousness that we can't live 281 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:38,080 up to ourselves, which is why Jesus came. 282 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:39,280 But I'll get to that in a minute. 283 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,960 But he says here, I'm going, he says my first example I'm going 284 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:48,360 to use is going to be the people who God delivered. 285 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:51,920 He saved them out of the land of Egypt. 286 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:56,920 You guys know the story because of Joseph being, you know, sold 287 00:18:56,920 --> 00:19:01,600 by his brothers and he end up going into Egypt, ending up in 288 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:05,160 Egypt and and when he ended up in Egypt because of God's favor, 289 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:07,720 he ended up being like second in command in Egypt. 290 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:09,560 I don't want to go through the go through the whole story. 291 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:11,840 You guys know the story. But he end up being second in 292 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:14,880 command because God's favor was upon him because he was a 293 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:19,000 righteous man. But while he was there, after he 294 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,400 died, the Bible says there arose a new Pharaoh who knew not 295 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,560 Joseph. You know, there was a new boss 296 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:27,960 in town and he didn't know anything about Joseph and didn't 297 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:31,200 know anything about these people When and all of a sudden the 298 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,480 people of Israel became a, a thorn in that guy on in on the 299 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,840 new Pharaoh's side. And he oppressed them and he put 300 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:41,280 them into slavery and he oppressed them for for many 301 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:47,240 years, many, many years. And then he sent a deliverer. 302 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:51,080 And it was Moses who he he sent, who delivered these people. 303 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:54,440 He used to deliver the people from Egypt and, and, and he, but 304 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,640 he delivered them all. This is the point of this 305 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,640 example. He delivered them all, all of 306 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,080 them. And they all went into the 307 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:06,680 wilderness on their way going to the promised land. 308 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,800 They all did. But while they were in the 309 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:14,760 wilderness, he destroyed those who did not believe because of 310 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,680 unbelief. They were judged and they were 311 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:21,600 destroyed and because of their, and it came in a lot of 312 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:23,440 different ways. It came in rejection, it came in 313 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:26,920 rebellion, it came in sexual immorality, all kind of ways of 314 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:30,480 just not trusting the those Caleb and and Joshua, when they 315 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,760 went in to spy out the land. And when they went to spy out 316 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:36,480 the land, they came back and gave a report and said, look, we 317 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:38,680 can go in and take it. The other people that was there 318 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,920 said no, we can't take it because they're too much for us. 319 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,360 And because of their unbelief, they didn't go in. 320 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:51,040 So the first generation of that group in Egypt, none of them 321 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,920 went in besides Joshua and Caleb. 322 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:58,360 It was their children who ended up going into the promised land. 323 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,560 Their children. None of them went in because 324 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,600 they were judged because of unbelief. 325 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:11,800 Let's not have unbelief in our hearts to miss what it is God 326 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:16,320 wants to do for us. Even as the the centurion said 327 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:19,960 one day, he said, look, I believe, but help my unbelief. 328 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:24,440 And we all have some areas of unbelief, if we're honest with 329 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:28,080 ourselves. And you find out those areas of 330 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:33,240 unbelief whenever adversity hits US and it hits US hard sometimes 331 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,960 and it's hard for us to believe that God will pull us out of 332 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,240 this or even can pull us out of this like, oh, I'm doomed. 333 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:44,760 This is not going to end right? And we take our eyes off of him 334 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,880 and we started looking at people who can help me with this. 335 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,680 What can I do for myself to pull myself out of this? 336 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:57,600 Let's not be caught in unbelief. And then the next example he 337 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:01,080 uses, he uses the example of the angels. 338 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,920 And he said then the angels who did not keep their proper domain 339 00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:09,880 but left their own abode. He has reserved an everlasting 340 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:14,600 chains under darkness. So you went from the children of 341 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:18,320 Israel to now he and, and how they were judged because of 342 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,680 their unbelief. And now he goes to the angels, 343 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,400 these angels and, and, and what we have to understand is that 344 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:29,880 angels have free will. Angels have free will and, and 345 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:35,680 Satan himself have free will and he chose to rebel against God, 346 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,520 to rebelled against God. And because of that, he and the 347 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:44,920 angels who rebelled with him, which was 1/3 the Bible tells us 348 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,600 we're cast out of heaven. We're cast out of heaven. 349 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:53,080 They decided that they wanted their will and not God's will. 350 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:56,720 They wanted to do what they wanted to do and not do what God 351 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,680 wanted them to do. Oh, they had a proper domain. 352 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:05,800 They had a place in heaven. They were there, but they turned 353 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:11,040 away from them, turned away from God to follow their own will, to 354 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:14,080 follow their own heart. And the Bible says as a result 355 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:18,880 of that, He now has done reserved in everlasting chains 356 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:22,440 under darkness for the judgment of the great day. 357 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:28,760 Just think about that. Because they were looking to 358 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:32,320 have a life of freedom to do what they wanted to do, to live 359 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,240 their own free will and not surrender to the will of God. 360 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,680 They still end up in bondage. They still don't have any 361 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:44,200 freedom. They're in the darkness chain 362 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:49,640 darkness because of their decisions to live their own life 363 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:51,240 the way they want to live it. But you know what? 364 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:55,120 That's no different than what we have and where we are. 365 00:23:57,120 --> 00:24:00,440 You've been listening to Living Waters of Grace with Pastor 366 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:05,440 Lewis Harrell at Calvary Chapel Westmoreland in Greensburg, PA. 367 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,760 As Pastor Lewis continues to preach through the book of Jude, 368 00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:13,560 he wants you to realize that you can't be a part time Christian. 369 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,640 If you're going to follow Jesus, he is going to ask for your 370 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:21,720 undivided loyalty. If you try to serve your own 371 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,480 interests while following Jesus, you find that you can't do 372 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:29,760 either one successfully. 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