SPEAKER_00: Well, good morning.
SPEAKER_00: Uh my name is Keel Compton.
SPEAKER_00: I'm serving here at Redeemer as our student pastor.
SPEAKER_00: Um we have a fun one this morning, as we see, which Megan read.
SPEAKER_00: Um for the month of July, we're gonna move into a new series studying the book of Jude.
SPEAKER_00: And Jude, as you can tell, is a fairly obscure book.
SPEAKER_00: Um it's found in the New Testament, very end, right before Revelation, probably written 40 to 50 years after the life of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And it's short.
SPEAKER_00: It's only 25 verses, one chapter, one page.
SPEAKER_00: And so with the four weeks we have to study it over these next weeks and the rest of the summer, I'm excited to be able to take it a little bit slowly and see all the nuances and everything that Jude has for us.
SPEAKER_00: Um and you can see that this morning um we have a fun one which Megan just read.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, and this is just proof that I don't I didn't just think, you know, what should I preach on this morning?
SPEAKER_00: And I decided upon this passage, right?
SPEAKER_00: That's why we preach through the Bible book by book and all these things, so that we are confronted with some of these passages that we maybe, uh, I'll confess, wouldn't choose on my own if it were up to just me.
SPEAKER_00: Um, and as you've seen, Jude alludes to dozens of Old Testament passages all throughout his letter, to prophecies, to promises, and most notably in our passage, the Exodus from Egypt and the account of Sodom and Gomorrah from Genesis.
SPEAKER_00: And there are times where, like almost any parts of the Bible, anywhere you turn, if we were to take one verse or one passage or one little phrase out of its surrounding context, you could arrive at some conclusions that may be a little troubling, maybe a little unsettling, and probably would not be very helpful.
SPEAKER_00: It reminds me of the moment in the movie Jaws, I'm sure you've seen it, one of my all-time favorite movies, um, and and Fourth of July Spirit, right?
SPEAKER_00: There's a moment early on, after the first shark attack, spoiler, when Chief Birdie decides to close the beaches out of an abundance of caution.
SPEAKER_00: However, the mayor has some feelings about closing the beaches, right?
SPEAKER_00: There's some tourists who are going to come to the island, which are very valuable.
SPEAKER_00: Their money is very valuable to the island.
SPEAKER_00: So he doesn't want to close the beaches and understands that in doing so, this one time it will detract valuable tourists for the summer.
SPEAKER_00: So let's watch a short clip of their first conversation.
SPEAKER_01: A summer girl goes swimming.
SPEAKER_01: Swims out a little far.
SPEAKER_01: She tires, fishing boat comes along.
SPEAKER_01: It's happened before.
SPEAKER_01: I don't think you appreciate the gut reaction people have to these things.
SPEAKER_01: Harry, I appreciate them.
SPEAKER_01: I'm just reacting to what I was told.
SPEAKER_01: Martin.
SPEAKER_01: It's all psychological.
SPEAKER_01: You yell barracuda.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody says, huh?
SPEAKER_01: What?
SPEAKER_01: You yell shark?
SPEAKER_01: We've got a panic on our hands on the 4th of July.
SPEAKER_00: Such a good clip.
SPEAKER_00: Such a good line, right?
SPEAKER_00: If you yell barracuda, everybody says, huh?
SPEAKER_00: What?
SPEAKER_00: But if you yell shark, we have a panic on our hands on the 4th of July.
SPEAKER_00: And so when I sat down with this text in Jude and began to pray about it and chew on it, meditate on it, and began to write, I felt similar to Mayor Martin.
SPEAKER_00: If I say Jude, right, everyone says, huh?
SPEAKER_00: What?
SPEAKER_00: What's that letter?
SPEAKER_00: But if I say punishment of eternal fire, if I say the word hell, we have a panic on our hands on the 5th of July.
SPEAKER_00: It's scary, and we can be off-kiltered by some of the sharp language we see in the scriptures.
SPEAKER_00: And we, I say we because I'm included, would rather talk about maybe the grace and mercy and rest and forgiveness of the gospel and ignore the other equally and equally true part of the message of Jesus, which is the reality of God's judgment and his punishments and his wrath and his righteous judgment of evil and sin.
SPEAKER_00: So what I hope we see this morning is that these two ideas are not at odds with each other.
SPEAKER_00: We don't have to choose one side of God, but instead we can see in the counsel of the word that God has given us that they work together, and that God is good, and He's only good if both of these are true.
SPEAKER_00: His righteous grace and his holy justice.
SPEAKER_00: And so my sermon this morning is not primarily about reconciling these two ideas together, neither is Jude's message about that.
SPEAKER_00: But I think it's important to recognize because whenever we're confronted with the reality of sin and death and its necessary punishment that we see in the Bible, we ought to listen.
SPEAKER_00: And I know, because I'm the same way, that we tend to shy away from these.
SPEAKER_00: But in many ways, I find how Jude talks about God's judgment just as significant as what he has to say about it.
SPEAKER_00: From the very outset, from the very first words, Jude's heart and intention is clear.
SPEAKER_00: Let's read together in verses one and two.
SPEAKER_00: Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, a brother of James, to those who are called, beloved in God, the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ, may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
SPEAKER_00: The author, Jude, is writing to his original audience and to us today from a place of hope and peace and love, not of condemnation, not of threats.
SPEAKER_00: Jude's letter was not written as a fire and brimstone sermon on a street corner yelling, repent or perish, or turn or burn.
SPEAKER_00: It's a letter written to those who were called, beloved, and kept, to the body of Christ who already calls Christ Lord, and who needs to be reminded of the peace and security that we already have in him, that we're not threatened into, but we have because of what he's done for us.
SPEAKER_00: So if you're a believer in this gospel, if you trust the work that Jesus did on the cross, and trust his resurrection from the dead, and trust that it was necessary and sufficient for your life with God, and there is nothing in this letter or nothing anywhere else in the scriptures that intends to challenge your standing as beloved before God.
SPEAKER_00: This is not to make you question whether God loves you or not.
SPEAKER_00: To those who are called beloved and kept.
SPEAKER_00: Because we know, the words of Paul in Romans 8, that there is therefore now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: The entirety of the wrath and judgment of God that our sin does rightfully deserve was already paid once and for all on that cross on Calvary.
SPEAKER_00: Therefore, the condemnation and holy wrath of God is reserved for evil, for sin, for death, for the enemies of the gospel, the things working against God's glory and working against our good.
SPEAKER_00: So we can view the judgment of God that He has on evil as a good thing.
SPEAKER_00: Something to be celebrated and hoped for, something to be anticipated even.
SPEAKER_00: And Jude knows this as well as anyone.
SPEAKER_00: Jude knows that there are powers working in opposition to the glory of God and the good of his people.
SPEAKER_00: He's seen it firsthand.
SPEAKER_00: Because, see, Jude was an eyewitness to the life and ministry of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: That's the account we're given.
SPEAKER_00: We don't know much about him as a man.
SPEAKER_00: He's one of the more obscure figures in the New Testament.
SPEAKER_00: He doesn't share much about himself.
SPEAKER_00: He doesn't have an overwhelming presence in the Gospels.
SPEAKER_00: But we do learn one thing about him that's quite significant.
SPEAKER_00: His first words.
SPEAKER_00: I promise we're going to get out of verse one eventually.
SPEAKER_00: Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James.
SPEAKER_00: Servant of Jesus, brother of James.
SPEAKER_00: And if you know your family tree, then you know that James is one of Jesus' brothers brothers.
SPEAKER_00: So some quick math, we put it together, shows us that Jude and Jesus were brothers.
SPEAKER_00: So Jude, like James, would have seen Jesus grow up, would have seen him be raised by Mary and Joseph, live a life, be lost in the temple, start his ministry, grow in popularity, see the Pharisees and the Romans move against him, watched as his brother lay dead on a cross.
SPEAKER_00: And Jude was as confused as anyone, I'm sure, when that tomb was empty.
SPEAKER_00: Because he was not one of the twelve disciples.
SPEAKER_00: In fact, John writes in his gospel, not even his, Jesus' brothers believed in him.
SPEAKER_00: In the life of Jesus, before his resurrection, James and Jude and his brothers didn't believe him as Lord, knew him as a brother, but not as a savior.
SPEAKER_00: It was not until after the resurrection of Jesus, after his earthly ministry, that Jude placed his faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior for life.
SPEAKER_00: And this change so radically changed Jude's world and identity that Jude now sees himself more accurately described as a servant of Jesus than a brother.
SPEAKER_00: Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James.
SPEAKER_00: And I think this shows us two quick important things.
SPEAKER_00: One is that genuine faith does not come solely from proximity to Jesus, that being around him is not the same as trusting in him.
SPEAKER_00: But secondly, that Jude's faith in Jesus and care for his church is deeply genuine.
SPEAKER_00: We see that bubbling out of these pages.
SPEAKER_00: He cares for Jesus and cares for his church.
SPEAKER_00: And if there's a thesis for the whole message of this letter that we'll be studying this month, it can be found in verse 3.
SPEAKER_00: Jude says, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
SPEAKER_00: Contend for the faith.
SPEAKER_00: This passage presents, I think, two main questions that we'll go through for the rest of our time together.
SPEAKER_00: First is, what is this faith that we're contending for?
SPEAKER_00: And secondly, how do we contend for it?
SPEAKER_00: How do we live out this command, this thesis that Jude has?
SPEAKER_00: So, first, what is the faith that we are contending for?
SPEAKER_00: Well, most plainly, he says it's the faith of the gospel, the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
SPEAKER_00: See, at this point in history, probably around 70 AD, there was a collective assumption in the early church that an established faith exists.
SPEAKER_00: Sure, they didn't have the Bible the same way we do now.
SPEAKER_00: They had the Old Testament, and some of these letters were moving around, but Jude was not in the Bible yet because he was writing it.
SPEAKER_00: So the collection of the 66 books of the Bible may have not existed, but we do can tell that there are certainly letters and books and an understanding of faith that was accepted as authoritative in the early church.
SPEAKER_00: And we know this, and it's primarily because there was a fixed and established faith that there was something to fight for and defend against.
SPEAKER_00: When he said contend for the faith, these people knew what he was talking about.
SPEAKER_00: They knew what it meant to believe in Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And so Jude is charging the early church and the contemporary church to hold fast to the confession of faith that the work of God for salvation in Jesus is sufficient.
SPEAKER_00: That Jesus is enough.
SPEAKER_00: To not add anything.
SPEAKER_00: There's nothing more to do, nothing more to change.
SPEAKER_00: The faith that the early church confessed is the same faith we confess today.
SPEAKER_00: And so what faith do we contend for?
SPEAKER_00: We contend for a faith that confesses Jesus is enough.
SPEAKER_00: Simply put.
SPEAKER_00: Or in other words, as we say often here at Redeemer and especially in the Student Ministry, Jesus plus nothing equals everything.
SPEAKER_00: Which pretty much means Jesus equals everything.
SPEAKER_00: So how do we contend for this faith?
SPEAKER_00: If this is what we're holding on to, what does it mean to contend for it?
SPEAKER_00: See, there's this movement kind of happening in the world of movies.
SPEAKER_00: I mean a lot of movies today, I'm showing you who I am.
SPEAKER_00: Um it's this thing happening where artists and even fans are petitioning for the directors to have full control over their movie.
SPEAKER_00: Final cut is what it's called.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe the most recent and mainstream example, I kind of can't believe I'm gonna talk about this in a sermon, but was a 2021 when DC fans were able to leverage their voice and release the Snyder Cut, right?
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you've heard of this Justice League movie directed by Zack Snyder, but they got him, the studio, to release his intended design for the movie.
SPEAKER_00: See, in many cases, for large budget, important movies, the studio may come in and executives come in and limit the director's creative decisions.
SPEAKER_00: They may control aspects of the movie before it gets released because they're fearful this movie won't make them money.
SPEAKER_00: So they do what they can to control it.
SPEAKER_00: But in this case, in 2017, the outrage from the public and the DC fans was so overwhelming that four years later the studio released the director's final cut version, the Snyder Cut.
SPEAKER_00: Had a different color grading and some different character design, but most importantly, the runtime extended from two hours to four hours long.
SPEAKER_00: Snyder cut, four hours long.
SPEAKER_00: The hashtag release the Snyder Cut movement was a success.
SPEAKER_00: And in my professional opinion, the movie went from being a two-hour mess to a four-hour mess.
SPEAKER_00: Both bad.
SPEAKER_00: That's not my point necessarily.
SPEAKER_00: My point is that for as long as movies have existed, or really even art and studios and whatever case have existed, there's been a push for more control by the creatives.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm for this.
SPEAKER_00: I don't think it's good or bad, but in the streaming age, when movies don't have to go to theaters, it's become possible for directors to kind of re-release their movies as they go along.
SPEAKER_00: New versions of movies after it released in theaters.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe you know the movie Blade Runner from uh 1982.
SPEAKER_00: Ridley Scott has now released three versions after the original uh theatrical cut.
SPEAKER_00: In this case, the 2007 Final Cut is the second of the third released versions.
SPEAKER_00: There's a possibility for movie creators to tinker with their projects, to change this, to edit that, to go cut this thing out, to update the way this looks.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm not necessarily saying I'm for or against it.
SPEAKER_00: Many of you probably couldn't care less or don't know what I'm talking about.
SPEAKER_00: But I think it helps illustrate the kinds of dangers that Jude is talking and warning us about here at the beginning of his letter.
SPEAKER_00: This tinkering with something that has already been released, already been given.
SPEAKER_00: Jude verse 4.
SPEAKER_00: For certain people have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were designated for this condemnation.
SPEAKER_00: Ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God and his sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: See, the call is to defend our confession of faith by rejecting anything that is being added or taking away from the gospel of Jesus that says, Jesus is enough and sufficient for me.
SPEAKER_00: Any of the tinkering, any of the adding, the taking away, the supplementing.
SPEAKER_00: Jude's saying, No, don't listen to these teachers.
SPEAKER_00: What we have been given and the faith we have is enough.
SPEAKER_00: From the beginning of the church, the church has faced threats of leaders and teachers coming into the church walls and taking advantage of people and listeners who are hurting, who are vulnerable, and or who are susceptible to be led astray by a false teaching.
SPEAKER_00: And you can find this all throughout the New Testament, everywhere you look, in all the accounts of the early church, many of Paul's letters to his churches, Galatians, Colossians, Ephesians, even his letter to Timothy, they're full of warnings and judgments on these kinds of teachers and teachings.
SPEAKER_00: Here's how he describes it to Timothy, 2 Timothy 4, verses 1 through 4.
SPEAKER_00: I, Paul, charge you, Timothy, in the presence of God in Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing in his kingdom, preach the word.
SPEAKER_00: Be ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with complete patience and teaching.
SPEAKER_00: For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but have itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
SPEAKER_00: The call to preach the word and the call to contend for the faith, they have the same heart, the same urgency.
SPEAKER_00: Paul and Jude have a deep urgency and care to keep the purity of the church in our confession pure and real and strong.
SPEAKER_00: To not listen to these the other teachers or these messages that come and subvert the sufficiency of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Because look at the way these people are described by Jude.
SPEAKER_00: Certain people have crept in unnoticed, he says.
SPEAKER_00: These people did not arrive loud or obvious.
SPEAKER_00: They probably didn't demand attention.
SPEAKER_00: They probably weren't in a formal leadership position, but rather through their own deceitful strategy, they began teaching things that they knew people wanted to hear in order to serve their self-interest, to serve their agendas for whatever reasons.
SPEAKER_00: Author and teacher Jackie Hill Perry makes this point.
SPEAKER_00: False teachers have come and will stay as long as they can.
SPEAKER_00: It is their going unnoticed that allows them to continue leading and wooing Christians away from the faith that was delivered to them.
SPEAKER_00: That resonates.
SPEAKER_00: Right?
SPEAKER_00: Jude 4.
SPEAKER_00: These people who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality, right?
SPEAKER_00: Deny our Master, our only Master.
SPEAKER_00: Meaning God's free gift of grace, found only in Jesus, has been perverted into something that appeals more to your senses than what God has revealed about Himself.
SPEAKER_00: Namely, that the teachings of Jesus and His grace, they can now be used as a free pass to indulge in anything you'd want to, to indulge in any sin or desire that your body may crave.
SPEAKER_00: And the teaching that what you feel in any given moment is the most true thing about you.
SPEAKER_00: These are what these teachers were teaching.
SPEAKER_00: And in some ways, I think they're what we want to hear.
SPEAKER_00: And that's what makes it so deceitful.
SPEAKER_00: The examples that Jude gives make this clear.
SPEAKER_00: Let's read verses 5 through 7.
SPEAKER_00: Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
SPEAKER_00: And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority but left their proper dwelling, he is kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgments of the great day.
SPEAKER_00: Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, served as an as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
SPEAKER_00: Harsh words to these teachers and these examples, the Exodus from Egypt, the rebellion of angels, an account of Sodom and Gomorrah, all familiar narratives to us today, if you've been around church for a while, but even more visceral to the original audience of whom this was a much nearer history.
SPEAKER_00: Jude recalls that after the Israelites were freed from Egyptian slavery by the hand of God, by the hand of Jesus, he says, I find that interesting.
SPEAKER_00: He uses the example of angels who history past had rebelled against the lordship of Jesus and sought out a power and authority of their own.
SPEAKER_00: And finally, he cites Genesis 19 in the account of Sodom and Gomorrah, where God brings judgments on a people who had fully given themselves and rebelled against their God and given themselves over to their own sin, to their own desires, rebelled against the lordship of their creator.
SPEAKER_00: All of these examples.
SPEAKER_00: No different from the Egyptians, no different from the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, no different from the rebellious angels, and their judgment will be the same.
SPEAKER_00: See, since the beginning of creation, across time, across history, God has been moving toward his people in love.
SPEAKER_00: He's been orchestrating history, his redemptive history, in order to live and dwell among his people.
SPEAKER_00: What the Bible shows us is that you, his people, are what God cares about most.
SPEAKER_00: And the key to understanding most of the Bible is that God is always working for his glory and for our good, and that these two things go hand in hand.
SPEAKER_00: That's what's happening throughout all of redemptive history and our history now.
SPEAKER_00: But, Church, as you know, it is remarkably easy for us to be led astray.
SPEAKER_00: See, two thousand years ago, the Son of God took on flesh in human form in Jesus, lived a perfect life of obedience, and died a perfect death reserved only for the disobedient, died in our place, really died, and on the third day resurrected in power and glory and victory over sin and death.
SPEAKER_00: That is a closed case.
SPEAKER_00: There's nothing to be added or subtracted from that, nothing to be added or subtracted for what Jesus has done for you and for me and his people and his church.
SPEAKER_00: But as you know, many of you with painstaking truth, the final and ultimate defeat of sin has yet to come.
SPEAKER_00: We live in what many people call the already but not yet at our point in history.
SPEAKER_00: Christ has died and raised, but not yet has he returned.
SPEAKER_00: Sin already defeated on the cross in a way that has secured us life in Jesus, but is not yet.
SPEAKER_00: It is not yet the day of the Lord where He will return in judgment and destroy finally and ultimately any remnant of evil and suffering.
SPEAKER_00: As we live in the middle, I think the message that Jude has for us is that we ought to not underestimate our ability to drift, to be led astray.
SPEAKER_00: See, I played in a golf tournament a few weeks back and I shot the highest score, bad thing in golf, since I played in high school.
SPEAKER_00: Highest score since high school.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm not going to share what that score was, but some quick math taught me that it is 4.5 standard deviations away from my average, if you care, which equates to a 0.0003% chance that I am capable of playing that badly again.
SPEAKER_00: And I would have thought on the first T, on my drive there, on my drive home, if you told me that score, I would have been like, no what?
SPEAKER_00: I can't, I'm not capable of that anymore.
SPEAKER_00: I've grown past it, I've graduated from it.
SPEAKER_00: But I I shot it.
SPEAKER_00: I did.
SPEAKER_00: And it happened fast, as you know, if you play golf.
SPEAKER_00: In church, it is natural for us to think that we don't have the capability or the capacity to drift or to fall for false teaching.
SPEAKER_00: We can think there's no way I would fall for that.
SPEAKER_00: I would never fail in that way.
SPEAKER_00: I would never fall into that sin again.
SPEAKER_00: That kind of evil is beyond me.
SPEAKER_00: But the data would say otherwise.
SPEAKER_00: Thousands of teens leaving the faith after high school, church attendance dwindling across the country, deconstruction and drifting everywhere you look, pastors and leaders falling into moral failures around every corner.
SPEAKER_00: We are capable of much more drifting and much more sin than we think.
SPEAKER_00: And Jude is urging us as a church, not just individually, but together as a church, to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
SPEAKER_00: That same faith then is the same faith we contend for now.
SPEAKER_00: And that faith we fight for, it's not a confession of strong willpower or be stronger, do better, but to confess the sufficiency, the enoughness of Jesus and his grace.
SPEAKER_00: See, the world around you and false teachers are going to whisper in your ear.
SPEAKER_00: They're going to make nice sounding, but ultimately hollow arguments that you should abandon this old religion of Christianity.
SPEAKER_00: These messages have crept into our devotionals, our churches, our social media timelines with messages of live your truth, evolve past these old ways of the Bible.
SPEAKER_00: But the commands and the call and encouragement from Judas to contend for this faith.
SPEAKER_00: It's the only faith that has lasted the scrutiny and suffering of Christianity.
SPEAKER_00: Thousands and thousands of years.
SPEAKER_00: Contend for the faith.
SPEAKER_00: I want to close with three quick points for us to walk away with.
SPEAKER_00: The first being, hold fast to the faith that everything we could ever need or desire is found in Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: It's simple but remarkably hard to believe.
SPEAKER_00: Hold fast to that faith.
SPEAKER_00: Secondly, there are evil forces working restlessly to convince you otherwise.
SPEAKER_00: It's out there, Jude knows it, we know it.
SPEAKER_00: And third, and finally, contending for the faith does not mean adopting an us versus them mentality.
SPEAKER_00: God is the rightful judge.
SPEAKER_00: We are called to love our neighbor and long for the day he makes all things new.
SPEAKER_00: In the face of doubt, suffering, temptation, appealing, and shiny new teachings, cling to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: That's the command.
SPEAKER_00: Collapse in his loving arms.
SPEAKER_00: Let him hold you fast.
SPEAKER_00: The gospel is worth fighting for.
SPEAKER_00: And praise God that our hope is in him and not ourselves.
SPEAKER_00: That is the good news of Jude and the good news of the gospel of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: If you have any questions about the sermon or need prayer, I'll be down front afterward.
SPEAKER_00: Let's pray together.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus, we thank you for your word.
SPEAKER_00: You are the word, became flesh, and you have lived a magnificent example of what it means to contend for the faith.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus, we need you.
SPEAKER_00: Your church needs you.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, we are imperfect.
SPEAKER_00: We fulfill our roles as sons and daughters of God very imperfectly.
SPEAKER_00: But the good news is that you do not love us based on that.
SPEAKER_00: You don't love us based on our resume, how much we have succeeded or failed, but you love us because you love us.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, I pray that you would give us a zeal for your house, a zeal for your word.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, that we would contend for the faith, not in a way of stirring up arguments for arguments' sake, not to tear other people down, but Lord, to hold fast to your gospel.
SPEAKER_00: Hold fast to the truth that you are enough.
SPEAKER_00: I pray that that message would permeate every corner of our heart.
SPEAKER_00: We pray this all in the name and blood of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.