47 | The Sound Mind Series: Jude - AUDIO ONLY

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All right, you guys.

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Welcome back to another

episode of I Can't, He Can.

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I'm Sarai, your host, as you already

know, and we are going to be doing

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another episode in the Sound Mind series.

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Today is the Book of Jude.

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Now, it's not so much of a series,

'cause again, it's just one episode.

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A very, very short book

with just 25 verses.

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But again, a lot of great reminders, a

lot of great, bits of information, and

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Even a bunch of scriptures that we may

not have ever looked into, like myself.

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So I actually learned a few things,

and I can't wait to share it with you.

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But for today, I'm not gonna do

the usual read the whole thing and

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then go back and give my notes.

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I'm just going to read and as I'm reading,

I'm going to explain what I am gathering.

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I feel like as I was reading, I was

learning so much, and I don't want

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to, um, put you guys to sleep in an

episode that is very important because

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this book, to me, is a call to action.

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this was Jude who was the

half brother of Jesus.

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and he is actually speaking

to the Jews at this time.

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and Jude, if you do not know, is the

last book before the Book of Revelation.

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it's very, very important.

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It's like the last hurrah, like I said,

of the call to action to the Jews.

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So while it was written directly to

them, not the Gentiles, which if you

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remember from the last episode, we are

Gentiles because we are not Jewish.

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there are some things that may not make

sense, but for the most part, everything

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that Jude says, for people to continue

believing and working on are things

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that we can use in our daily lives and

of course, in our walks with Christ.

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So brief reminder, I want you guys

to always have your Bibles, okay?

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Don't rely on the apps.

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If you don't have your Bible with you

and you wanna go through the YouVersion

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app, go ahead, obviously just fine.

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I'm reading from my New King James

version, but it's always good and

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important to keep your own Bible.

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And like I said a few episodes

ago, I have, brand new New King

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James version Bibles that I have.

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I haven't had anyone reach out to

me about getting their own copy.

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But if you know someone that needs one,

that wants one, that isn't sure what

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version to get, I know I struggled with

that a lot in the beginning of my walk.

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I was seeking help and had questions,

in my old church, and I feel like no

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one gave me a right answer as to what

version to get Not saying that any version

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is better than the other, but for me

personally, this version has been amazing.

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the New King James Version, while

it's, I feel, a little bit more

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difficult than, for example, what I

was reading before, the WEB version,

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which is the World English Bible, I

just, I got so bored of that version.

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But anyway, to not harp too much

on that, again, if anyone needs

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a Bible, please let me know.

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I have so many brand-new Bibles here

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These are the ones that my girls

have used in the Bible study.

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But as you can see, I have literally

brand new, and I have, like, five

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more that are there unwrapped.

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So if anyone needs one, please, by all

means, reach out to me on social media,

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reach out to me on YouTube, reach out to

me via email, icanthecanpodcast@gmail.com.

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And again, you guys have the handles

from before the videos and after

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the videos on YouTube and Instagram.

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You can reach me on there.

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Now, without further ado, again, as

we're reading from our New King James

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Version for the Sound Mind series,

we are reading the Book of Jude.

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25 verses, and this is, again,

Jesus's half brother, Jude, who is

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speaking to the Jews at this time.

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It's a final warning.

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Here in my little summary I wrote down,

you know I always have my little notes.

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I put that this is a final call to action.

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and then this is Jude using this kind

of as like a s- well, the summary

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says that Jude uses this letter as,

like, a strategy for the Jews And

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it's, it's really meant to, like,

jolt you, to keep you sitting straight

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up and be more upright in the faith.

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like he says, to contend for the faith.

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And if you don't know what contend

means, contend means to, be firm.

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It means, to compete for.

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So when you contend for the

faith, not that we want to be

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aggressive, because of our faith.

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Obviously, Jesus does everything in

love, even when he is teaching people.

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But we do need to contend for our faith.

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So that is definitely something that

Jude talks about in the verses, and

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you'll see it right in the beginning.

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but just be firm, be bold, be courageous.

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don't be shy to speak about your love

for Christ and what he did because at

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the end of the day, the person you are

speaking to, the person that you are shy

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to speak to about your love for Christ,

that is also a person that Jesus died for.

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And a lot of people don't

realize that, didn't even know.

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I didn't know Jesus until two years

ago, before I started going to church.

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I knew the name Jesus Christ, but I

didn't know what he did for us, and

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I certainly didn't know his heart,

and I didn't have a relationship.

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So With firmness, with loving kindness,

don't be shy to speak about your love

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and your relationship with Jesus Christ.

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And that is essentially what Jude is

saying in this book, and he's using very

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firm examples for the Jews in this time.

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And it's just amazing because it's

a warning of, all the people that

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are going to come close to us and

say, "Hey, I know that you're going

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to church, and this is the word, but

have you listened to this word, or

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have you listened to this pastor?"

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speaking in our day and age, obviously.

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And we need to be careful.

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It's a warning that there's going

to be lots of people trying to deter

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you away from the proper word of God.

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So again, like I said a few minutes

ago, always have your Bibles, always

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be in your word so that you can stay

awake and be vigilant because these are

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prophecies that are really coming true.

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And there are a lot of wolves in sheep's

clothing, and sometimes even I'm a

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bit mindful, if people would look at

me like a wolf in sheep's clothing.

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Like, a lot of people don't know me.

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Like, if you, if you really

think about it, no one knows

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anyone fully except the Lord.

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And that's not to say

that I'm bad in any way.

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I mean, obviously, I'm a sinner, but

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I'm not here to steer anyone away, and

we need to be cognizant of the people

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that are speaking to us, that are

teaching us, quote, unquote teaching

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us, that are trying to guide us, because

if it's not a path that is in here,

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if it's not a path that God, Jesus

Christ, and the Holy Spirit is nudging

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you on and you feel it, you feel that

conviction, you feel, your discernment

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kicking in, you need to be careful.

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Okay?

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So I pray, and I hope that I am

certainly not one of those people, and

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I will never be one of those people.

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I always want you guys

to read for yourselves.

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but just be awake.

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Be awake, be aware, keep the oil

in your lamps, and this is the

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final call to action from Jude, so.

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I digress.

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Let's start.

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The Book of Jude.

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Verse one: Jude, a bondservant of Jesus

Christ, and brother of James, to those

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who are called, sanctified by God the

Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ.

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That was verse one.

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Remember, Jude is the half brother

of Jesus, and here in verse one,

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he calls himself a bondservant.

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So this is like he's willfully being

a servant for this person, AKA Jesus.

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So he himself is calling him,

not just your brother, your half

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brother, I'm a bondservant of Christ.

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So he was open and honest, and he is

professing that Jesus is the Christ,

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Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ,

and brother of James, to those who

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are called, sanctified by God the

Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ.

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Here he is saying who the letter

is for, to those who are called,

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sanctified by God and the Father,

and preserved in Jesus Christ.

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Verse two: Mercy, peace, and

love be multiplied to you.

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Verse three "Beloved, while I was very

diligent to write to you concerning our

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common salvation, I found it necessary

to write to you exhorting you to contend

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earnestly for the faith which was

once for all delivered to the saints."

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Okay.

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Like I said, contend, and I have here,

"To assert a point or to compete for."

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Now, he is writing to his

beloved people, the Jews, that

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concerning their common salvation.

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So he's pointing out that this is

something that they all have in common.

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And he says that it's necessary in this

moment to write and to express that they

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have to contend earnestly, honestly assert

that point, honestly compete, honestly

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be courageous about their faith, which

was once for all delivered to the saints.

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Verse four: "For certain men have

crept in unnoticed, who long ago were

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marked out for this condemnation,

ungodly men who turn the grace of our

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God into lewdness and deny the only

Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ."

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So verse four is very heavy, okay?

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First of all, I underlined certain.

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It says, "For certain men."

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I underlined certain and I put a fact.

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So he's saying here, for a fact, there are

certain men that have crept in unnoticed.

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So even though in, in this time, like,

they still weren't aware of the mystery

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that Paul was going to reveal to them

about the Holy Spirit, they are still

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seeing and they're acknowledging that

there are people who crept in, into

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their little community, into their group

of people that are contending for the

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faith and the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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so he's pointing that out for

certain, like 100%, there are

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men that have crept in unnoticed.

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And then I highlighted, or circled

this part that says, "Who long ago

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were marked out for this condemnation."

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So I believe that this says that he's

saying that it was already, like,

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preplanned or it was, like, destined

for this to happen, that there were

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people who, from the very beginning,

already knew that they were going to

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do this and they've kind of, like,

been working their way up to that.

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So starting again, verse four: "For

certain men have crept in unnoticed,

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who long ago were marked out for

this condemnation, ungodly men

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who turn the grace of our God into

lewdness and deny the only Lord

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God, and our Lord Jesus Christ."

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So not only did these people creep into

their community of people that believe in

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Jesus as the Christ, but they are people

who are on purpose Turning the gospel into

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lewdness, into things that are disgusting,

things that are definitely not of God,

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They are godless.

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They don't carry God, and obviously

they don't carry Jesus in their heart.

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So verse five, "But I want to remind

you, though, you once knew this, that

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the Lord, having saved the people

out of the land of Egypt, afterward

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destroyed those who did not believe."

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Now, this is where, um, Jude

starts giving some examples, and

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he says, "I wanna remind you."

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That's how he starts verse five.

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I wanna remind you,

though you once knew this.

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Even though you already have this

knowledge, the Lord, meaning God, having

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saved the people out of the land of Egypt.

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So you already knew that this happened.

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Our people were saved by

God from the land of Egypt.

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They were freed.

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You already knew this.

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… This isn't news.

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And he's saying, "Afterward

destroyed those who did not believe."

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So you saw what happened.

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The Israelites were freed from Egypt, and

after, the people who defied God and still

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didn't believe were destroyed by God And

you still, you still don't wanna believe?

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That's kinda like what he's saying here.

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If I'm understanding it

correctly, I feel like that's

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how he is trying to speak to me.

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So that was the first

example that he gave.

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Now, the second example is in verse six.

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"And the angels who did not keep

their proper domain, but left

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their own abode, He has reserved in

everlasting chains under darkness

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for the judgment of the great day."

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This one was a little difficult

for me to decipher for some reason,

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but when it finally clicked, I

understood that it says the following

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in verse six: "And the angels who

did not keep their proper domain."

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So, hmm, what angel did not

keep their proper domain?

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Domain meaning, like, their home,

where they're supposed to be.

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Who was that?

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The fallen angels, like Satan

for example, and however other

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many fell along with him.

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So he's saying, "And the angels who did

not keep their proper domain, but left

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their own abode," they left their, their

home, "He," capital H, meaning God, "He

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has reserved," He kept something for them.

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"He has reserved in everlasting

chains under darkness for the

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judgment of the great day."

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He's reserving an everlasting

place of darkness in chains.

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Like, that…

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doesn't that sound just crazy to you?

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Well, it exists, and it's going to

happen, because what God says, God does.

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And He let, He let these angels

who wanted to, to go, to go.

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God gave everyone free will, and that's

what a lot of people seem to forget.

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Even the angels that lived amongst

Him in glory left their home.

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And because they continue to do what

they do here on Earth, He has, in

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the judgment of the great day, He

has prepared an everlasting darkness.

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That is just wild to me.

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And I don't wanna be part of that.

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Anyway, moving on.

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Verse seven.

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this is the third example.

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"As Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities

around them in similar manner to these,

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having given themselves over to sexual

immorality and gone after strange

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flesh, are set forth as an example,

suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."

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What happened in Sodom and Gomorrah?

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That city was demolished, was under

fire, was sieged completely by God.

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Why?

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Because none of them wanted

to follow his commandments.

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They all gave up, here like it says

in verse seven, to sexual immorality

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and gone after strange flesh.

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Obviously, things that are not,

that are not godly, things that

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just, that no one should do.

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so he gave those three examples.

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He said the Israelites that were freed

from Egypt, He talks about the angels

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who chose to leave heaven or wherever

they lived with God, that they fell.

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And then he gave the third example,

which, mind you, these are all

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things that the, that the Jews in

this time are very familiar with.

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So this is not news to them That's why

Jude is like, "Guys, you know the deal.

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You know what's happened in the past.

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It's true.

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It's real.

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This is your last call.

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This is your last chance

to do things right."

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And he used Sodom and Gomorrah,

which is a very well-known city,

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obviously, to us who are reading

the word, and to them at the time.

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So if those warnings are not

enough to get them to do the

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right thing, I don't know what is.

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But let's keep reading and

see what else Jude has to say.

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Verse eight, "Likewise also…"

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And I put here an also knowingly, so

likewise, knowingly, these dreamers,

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"Likewise also these dreamers

defile the flesh, reject authority,

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and speak evil of dignitaries."

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I'm sorry that I'm stopping so much.

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It's just that I feel like it's such,

such a strong letter that if you just

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read through it, how I read through it the

first time with my old church, I honestly,

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I don't remember reading it at all.

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I read it, but I didn't read it.

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it went in through one ear, out the other.

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But now that I'm actually studying

it and breaking down and understand

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context, which I have told you guys, and

I sound like a broken record, context

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is so important, now I am actually

able to ingest this information and

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really take it to heart and apply.

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That's the only way we can

apply something, when we

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actually know and understand it.

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So in verse eight, it's saying that

knowingly, these dreamers, or the

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people that he's talking about that

are, um, slowly creeping in to, like,

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try and get them to, walk away from

Christ, these dreamers defile the flesh.

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They reject authority, and

they speak evil of dignitaries.

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So people that are, high up there,

people that are preaching the gospel,

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they speak bad of these people.

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He means defile the flesh as

not like how we say, like, "Oh,

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I'm fighting against the flesh."

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No, actually physically they're doing

things that they shouldn't be doing.

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and then also they reject authority,

which as we also heard in the Book of

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Philemon, authority is very important.

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we just have to follow the laws,

God's laws, God's commandments.

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We have to follow authority here on

Earth, officers and all that stuff.

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so these people are people that do

the opposite of all these things.

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They defile flesh, reject authority,

speak evil of dignitaries.

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Moving on

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Before I read verse nine, I

had a little revelation when

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I was looking into verse nine.

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So I'm just gonna preface with that.

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Verse nine says, "Yet Michael,

the archangel, in contending with

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the devil, when he disputed about

the body of Moses, dared not-

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He dared not, okay?

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Dared not bring against him

a reviling accusation, but

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said, "The Lord rebuke you."

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Even Michael, the archangel, an

angel, a person who lives amongst

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God, even this person chose to

not waste their time on the devil.

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Instead of saying whatever he could

say that could hurt the devil,

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that could hurt the enemy, that

could bring him down, he didn't.

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He didn't.

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He literally just said four words,

"The Lord rebuke you," and that's it.

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Now, I was very curious as to see

that dialogue between Michael and the

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devil about Moses' body, and when I

was looking into it, I couldn't find

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anything in the Bible other than this,

Jude chapter 1, which is the only

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chapter 'cause it's just 25 verses,

Jude 1:9, "Yet Michael the archangel,

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in contending with the devil, when he

disputed the body of Moses, dared not

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bring against him a reviling accusation,

but said, 'The Lord rebuke you!'"

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And that's the only thing I

found, and I'm like, "Why is there

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nothing else on Moses' body?"

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So to my understanding, that dialogue

is in, like, some other ancient

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document that talks about the dialogue

that Michael had with the devil at

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the time, but it's not in the Bible.

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Why?

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I have no idea.

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I didn't go that far.

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I would like to d- look into that a

little more one day, but for purposes

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of just reading the Book of Jude,

I didn't wanna veer off too much.

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However, I did go back into, Deuteronomy,

and I looked into the moment that

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Moses died, and what I found was

actually something that I skipped over.

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And in talking to David and sharing

with David what I found to be the most

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amazing revelation, he already knew.

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But again, David has many years

of reading the Word over me.

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but nonetheless, like, I just felt in

that moment when I read Deuteronomy,

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specifically chapter 34, verse five

through six, I felt so overwhelmed,

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so overwhelmed by finding something

that I feel God pointed out to me.

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And again, many people know this fact.

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I did not.

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and it felt great to go back and,

and realize this, but I also felt

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silly that when I was reading, I

skipped over something so important.

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And I'm going to read that for

you guys, Deuteronomy chapter

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34, verse five through six.

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And again, I'm sorry that we're going

back and forth so much, but I really

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find it important to share this with you.

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Because it actually has to

do with Jude, verse nine.

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So remember, Michael the archangel

was disputing over the body of Moses.

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And if you remember, Moses is God's

prophet who led the Israelites out of

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Egypt, and they were through the desert

for th- those 40 years, but Moses did

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not get to go into the promised land.

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Okay?

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So in reading Jude 1:9, I went looking

for more information on Moses, and

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I go into Deuteronomy 34:5-6, which

talks about Moses's death and his body.

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This is what I found.

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Deuteronomy 34, verse five.

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"So Moses, the servant of the Lord,

died there in the land of Moab,

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according to the word of the Lord."

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Verse six, "And He," capital H, meaning

God, "And He buried him in a valley in

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the land of Moab, opposite Beth Peor,

but no one knows his grave to this day."

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Now, I obviously pointed

it out, who buried Moses?

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God buried Moses.

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And I went back even further,

and then I checked into, Abraham.

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Abraham is the father of the Israelites.

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And Abraham, according to Genesis

25:9, was buried by his sons.

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And again, after conversing with

David about this, what I learned,

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we did a little bit more research.

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We asked our pastor, and our pastor

agreed that God most likely buried

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Moses because he didn't want the

Israelites, excuse me, the Jews, the

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Israelites, at the time to, idolize Moses.

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They, they were struggling with, idolizing

things like the golden calf, for example.

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I didn't, I didn't even think of that.

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I came to understand that and realize that

when we spoke to our pastor, and David

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and I were, like, googling, different

information and, looking for stuff.

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But when I first read this, when I was

studying Jude and I was looking at the

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dialogue for Michael the archangel and

the devil about Moses's body, and I

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realized that God himself buried Moses,

I was like, "God does not owe anyone

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anything, and God went out of his way

to bury a man, to bury Moses, a man

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who stuttered, who was not perfect, who

defied God, who did the opposite sometimes

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of what he wanted, and he still had

it in his heart-" However God's heart

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is, I don't know if it's physical or

we'll, we'll one day know, not never.

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We will one day know.

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But it moved me so much because

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I mean, to me, again, the purpose

apparently, seemingly is that God

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did it because He doesn't want

people to idolize Moses once he died.

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But I don't know.

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Part of me, says that God is just such

a loving father that He was moved to

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bury Moses himself because he wasn't

gonna make it to the Promised Land

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And I don't know why that's

like making me emotional.

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God, so silly, right?

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But God is so good.

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Like

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Lately I've been getting chills

on my right arm whenever I pray.

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just a little side note here.

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and I truly feel like I'm filled

with the Spirit a lot lately,

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so thank you, Lord, for that.

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Never did I imagine I was gonna get

emotional with this talking about

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God and Moses and burying the body.

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Lord.

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But what it made me feel when I found

that little tidbit that God buried

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Moses is, to wrap all this up and

move on, is that God is so good.

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God doesn't owe us anything.

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And in that moment, He showed

me that it doesn't matter what

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you do, it really doesn't matter

what you do, how you defy God.

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If you're still obedient and you still

love God and you still do your best to

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listen, He will go the extra mile for you.

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He will still love you and get you

to the place where you have to be.

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Now, in this case, God

wanted Moses to be with Him.

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He was not going to allow him

to go to the Promised Land

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because, there were consequences.

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But at the end of the day,

God always has the best heart

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and the best interest for us.

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So it doesn't matter how we feel about a

situation, there's always a silver lining.

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And in this case, yeah, Moses didn't

make it to the Promised Land, right?

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But he was buried by the one

and only God that we serve.

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Like, what more could you ask for?

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Um, anyway, so that's

what I got from that.

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now, yes, it's true, the Israelites

were struggling with idolizing

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people and most likely, if there is

a surface level reason, I believe

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that's, that's proper that God didn't

want the Israelites to idolize Moses,

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just to avoid any further problems.

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so then, again, the devil here in Jude 1:9

was arguing with Michael because he wants

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to know, like, what did God do with Moses?

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What a mystery.

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Like, everyone is boggled by that.

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Like me, I'm still like, "Mm, I don't

know if that's really the reason."

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But even the devil is,

like, perplexed by it.

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So just imagine the magnitude of

that action, and I, I feel like

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that's why I question it so much.

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Even the devil is confused by God

burying a man, a man like you and me.

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So anyway, I just, I really

wanted to harp on that because it

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just moved me so much, clearly.

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and I found that it was so significant,

and I can't believe I skipped over it.

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: 00:29:12

Like, shame on me for not even noticing

that when I was reading Deuteronomy

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: 00:29:16

But again, we're all learning.

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: 00:29:18

We are all deciphering and pulling

apart the Bible in different

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: 00:29:23

ways, and I guess this was my

time to come to that realization.

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: 00:29:28

But even the devil was perplexed by

it But Michael was even more wise

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and contended even more for the

faith in this moment, and he just

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said, "Brother, the Lord rebuke you."

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Like, "I don't care what you have to say.

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: 00:29:44

I don't care what questions you have.

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: 00:29:47

The Lord rebuke you."

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: 00:29:49

And we all could learn from that.

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We could all do a little more of that

when we are faced with people who

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are just going against the grain and

questioning us and all these things.

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: 00:30:00

But anyway, to finally

move on from verse nine.

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Verse 10, "But these speak evil

of whatever they do not know.

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And whatever they know naturally,

like brute beasts, in these

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: 00:30:15

things they corrupt themselves."

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Verse 11, "Woe to them, for they have gone

in the way of Cain, and have run greedily

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: 00:30:22

in the error of Balaam for profit, and

perished in the rebellion of Korah."

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So if you guys remember, Cain killed

his brother Abel, at, in Genesis, very,

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very in the beginning of the Bible.

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I'm not gonna go into those details.

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: 00:30:36

I've already rambled enough, but

please go read that for yourselves.

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Jude also references Balaam, who

again, was just another person who

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just defied God, just defying God and

just going, like, total wrong ways.

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: 00:30:51

Okay?

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: 00:30:51

So he's giving so many examples here.

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: 00:30:54

He's talking about the Israelites

being saved from Egypt, from

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: 00:30:58

those chains, from the Egyptians.

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: 00:31:00

He's talking about the angels that

fell, that have hell assured for them.

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: 00:31:05

He's talking about Sodom and Gomorrah,

who were disgusting human beings, and

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: 00:31:09

their entire city was burned down.

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: 00:31:11

Then he was talking about the devil and

Michael the Archangel, and their dispute.

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: 00:31:16

finally he's talking about

Cain, how he killed his brother,

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and he's talking about Balaam.

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And he's saying these people are

ungodly, and these people are

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going to try and steer you away.

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: 00:31:29

So in verse 10 he says, "But these speak

evil of whatever they do not know."

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So they s- they talk bad about

things they don't know, okay?

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: 00:31:40

"And whatever they know naturally,

like brute beasts," so not only do

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they talk about things that they

don't know, they also talk bad about

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: 00:31:48

things that they do know, things

that are just common knowledge.

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: 00:31:51

So they talk bad about everything.

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: 00:31:54

That is what verse 10 is telling me there.

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That's that.

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I'm gonna move on And then

he says, "Woe to them."

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: 00:32:00

Woe is, like, the worst thing that

you can say to a person in this time.

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: 00:32:06

Like, rebuke you, it's kind

of like saying, keep them far.

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: 00:32:10

For they have gone in the way

of Cain and have run greedily in

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: 00:32:14

the error of Balaam the prophet.

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: 00:32:16

So again, woe to those people that do all

of these things, that speak negatively,

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that talk bad about things that they

know and things that they do not know.

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: 00:32:26

They are corrupt and they have

gone in the way of Cain and Balaam.

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: 00:32:30

So do not associate yourself with people

that have these kinds of attributes,

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: 00:32:36

You can sniff those people out.

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: 00:32:38

Like, you know who those people are.

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: 00:32:40

Stay away from them.

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: 00:32:41

Steer clear.

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Verse 12: These are spots in your

love feasts, while they feast with you

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without fear, serving only themselves.

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: 00:32:52

So I underlined, "They feast

with you," and I put, "Beware,

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they sit at your table."

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: 00:32:58

Yeah, they're spots.

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: 00:33:00

They're little spots, little specks.

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: 00:33:02

They're making themselves very

small, but they're still among

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: 00:33:05

you and they still sit with you.

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: 00:33:07

So be careful, beware, be vigilant.

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: 00:33:10

I love this next few verses because

these are such good analogies, good,

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metaphors, whatever you wanna call them.

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: 00:33:18

It's…

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: 00:33:18

I'm gonna start again.

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: 00:33:19

It says, verse 12: These are spots in your

love feasts, while they feast with you

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: 00:33:23

without fear, serving only themselves.

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: 00:33:25

They are clouds without water,

carried about by the winds,

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: 00:33:30

late autumn trees without fruit.

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: 00:33:33

So late autumn trees without

fruit, like, they're, they're dry.

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: 00:33:37

They, they have nothing good to offer.

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: 00:33:39

It says, twice dead,

pulled up by the roots.

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: 00:33:44

Twice dead.

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: 00:33:45

Okay, so if you also just to pause here

for a second, if you think of people

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: 00:33:50

who are not saved, who don't believe

in God, don't believe in Jesus, those

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: 00:33:54

people are gonna have two deaths.

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: 00:33:57

this may not be common knowledge

to a person that doesn't know the

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: 00:34:00

Lord, but not only are we going to

physically die one day, we are also

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: 00:34:05

going to have a spiritual death.

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: 00:34:07

So if you are walking with the

Lord, you are saved truly in your

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: 00:34:10

heart, and you, try your hardest

to follow Him, you're saved.

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: 00:34:14

Like, you're good.

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: 00:34:15

You're not gonna have that spiritual

twe- s- excuse me, spiritual death.

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: 00:34:19

We are all going to have to die physically

because we're flesh, but we're not gonna

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: 00:34:25

have that twice dead scenario, per se.

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: 00:34:28

Why?

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: 00:34:29

Because we're gonna be glorified.

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: 00:34:30

We're gonna be sent and,

reconciled with the Father.

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: 00:34:33

Anyway, I digress.

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: 00:34:35

so it says here, "Carried about by the

winds, late autumn trees without fruit,

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twice dead, pulled up by the roots."

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Verse 13, "Raging waves of the sea."

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: 00:34:45

So Jude is continuing to give us those

analogies of what these, people that are,

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: 00:34:50

like, coming in, creeping in quietly to,

like, deter you away from the gospel.

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: 00:34:56

He's comparing these

people to these things.

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: 00:34:58

Verse 13, "Raging waves of the

sea, foaming up their own shame."

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: 00:35:06

It's very poetic and I love it, but

it's also like, dang, like that's harsh.

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: 00:35:13

Foaming up their own shame, wandering

stars for whom is reserved the

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: 00:35:18

blackness and darkness forever.

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: 00:35:22

Excuse me, the blackness

of darkness forever.

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: 00:35:25

So not only are you gonna be

in the lake of fire, like it's

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: 00:35:29

agonizing, I could only imagine.

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: 00:35:31

It's gonna be blackness, it's gonna

be dark, and it's gonna be forever

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: 00:35:38

Seems very grim.

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: 00:35:39

I don't want that.

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: 00:35:40

I don't know who does, but anyway.

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: 00:35:43

Verse 14, "Now Enoch, the seventh from

Adam, prophesied about these men also,

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: 00:35:50

saying, quote, 'Behold, the Lord comes

with 10,000 of his saints,'" verse 15,

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: 00:35:56

"'to execute judgment on all, to convict

all who are ungodly among them of all

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: 00:36:03

their ungodly deeds which they have

committed in an ungodly way, and of all

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: 00:36:08

the harsh things which ungodly sinners

have spoken against him,'" end quote.

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: 00:36:14

This is Enoch, again, as Jude

is saying here, he's the seventh

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: 00:36:18

from Adam, so this is, like,

way, way, way back in the book…

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: 00:36:22

The book, oh my gosh.

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: 00:36:23

Can't even speak right now.

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: 00:36:25

In the Book of Genesis.

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: 00:36:27

Enoch, you guys have all

heard of the Book of Enoch.

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: 00:36:31

I haven't read it yet.

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: 00:36:32

One day I want to.

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: 00:36:33

As you know, it's not in the Bible.

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: 00:36:35

There's a lot of controversy, per

se, quote, unquote, "controversy,"

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: 00:36:40

regarding the Book of Enoch.

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: 00:36:42

I am interested in it.

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: 00:36:44

the little conspiracy theorist flesh

side of me always says that there's

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: 00:36:51

a reason why it was taken out.

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: 00:36:54

Now, if it's not in the Bible,

out of sight, out of mind.

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: 00:36:58

I don't focus on it, so

I still have not read it.

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: 00:37:00

However, it is mentioned in the

Bible, so at some point, at some

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: 00:37:06

point, I do want to give it that time.

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: 00:37:09

but right now it's not the time for me.

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: 00:37:13

but here in verse 14, specifically,

this is what, was being read by

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: 00:37:20

Jude from the Book of Enoch, which

is specifically in Enoch 1:9.

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: 00:37:27

And Enoch is a ancient

Jewish apocalyptic text.

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: 00:37:32

So that's, like, what the

internet and the media…

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: 00:37:36

not the media, but the internet

considers it, and it's not a part of

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: 00:37:39

the Bible, obviously, like I said.

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: 00:37:42

So even Jude is talking about what Enoch

was prophesying about these people.

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: 00:37:50

And, it's just…

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: 00:37:53

It's a lot of things that you have to

consider, because again, We don't know.

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: 00:37:58

We don't know when the time is coming

that we are going to pass away.

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: 00:38:01

We don't know when the

Lord is going to come back.

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: 00:38:04

But what we do know is that there are

people who are constantly, constantly

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: 00:38:11

trying to keep us away from God.

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: 00:38:15

And, again, me saying that, my

little, conspiracy theorist side,

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: 00:38:21

does believe that there's an evil.

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: 00:38:23

Obviously, we know the world is

evil, but there is an active evil,

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: 00:38:27

for example, in government, for

example, in our schools even,

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: 00:38:31

unfortunately, people around us always.

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: 00:38:35

Like, pe- I, I do believe that there

are people that are jealous of one

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: 00:38:38

another, and they stay close to you

just to know, like what you're doing.

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: 00:38:42

I don't wanna, like veer off too much,

but I feel it is important to say,

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: 00:38:48

because, again, our last call to action

is to stand firm, to be aware, to

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: 00:38:53

not be caught without the oil in our

lamps, and the only way that we are

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: 00:38:57

going to stay with that fresh oil in

our lamps is to stay ready and know.

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: 00:39:04

Doesn't mean that we have to give

it our full undivided attention all

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: 00:39:08

the time and constantly be on guard

looking for these situations, to be

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: 00:39:14

digging and, bringing ourselves down.

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: 00:39:17

We don't have to live like in a

doomsday every day per se, but we do

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: 00:39:23

have to be aware, and we do have to

know, and we have to know the Word.

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: 00:39:29

If we know the Word, then it doesn't

matter who is in front of us speaking

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: 00:39:34

to us about the Lord and about the

Bible and about God, because we know

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: 00:39:37

the Word, and we can just be like, "Yes,

you're so right," and turn around and

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: 00:39:43

internally be like, "Wow, I'm gonna

pray for them, because they are not

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: 00:39:48

going to God the Father, unfortunately."

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: 00:39:52

and that's not to say that

I'm better than anyone.

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It's not to say that you that

are listening or you that are

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watching are better than anyone.

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But there are people who unfortunately

are being led the wrong way.

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So with me reading this book of Jude

to you and every episode and anything

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that I say, I pray that you take the

time to read the Bible for yourself and

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know what it is that God wants for you.

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That's it.

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All right, let's close up shop.

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Oh, man, 25 verses, and there's

just so much, so much, you guys.

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Anyway, verse 16: "These are

grumblers, complainers, walking

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according to their own lusts, and

they mouth great swelling words,

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flattering people to gain advantage."

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You see?

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: 00:40:41

What did I just say?

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These are people that try and stay

with you, that try and stay in your

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life, people that are constantly

complimenting you and saying good things.

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But they're also people that you

have to beware of because they're

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grumblers, they're complainers, and

they walk according to their own

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lust, according to the things that

they want that they shouldn't have or

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: 00:41:05

shouldn't be doing, per se And they fill

their mouths up with swelling words.

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Again, so poetic, I love how Jude writes.

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But beware of these people, my friends.

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Beware.

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Verse 17, "But," here's the contrast.

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So keeping in mind these people that

we need to beware of, the grumblers

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and complainers, here's a contrast.

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Verse 17, "But you, beloved, remember

the words which were spoken before the

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apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ."

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So he's saying, "But you guys,

my beloved, remember the words

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of the Lord Jesus Christ."

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Verse 18, "How they told you that

there would be mockers in the

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last time who would walk according

to their own ungodly lust."

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Mockers.

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: 00:41:56

Sometimes the people closest to you, the

people who keep them- keep themselves

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in your lives, are the people that mock

you the most, and hardly support you.

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: 00:42:04

It's sad.

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But even here, in these times,

it was written, so of course

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that's what's happening.

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Verse 19, "These are sensual persons who

cause division, not having the Spirit."

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And I put in my little side note, empty.

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They are empty people.

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Empty.

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: 00:42:23

Their own lusts.

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: 00:42:24

People who are constantly

sinning, and of…

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Remember, I was, like, the biggest sinner.

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Still sin, obviously, I'm not

perfect, just not in the same

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: 00:42:35

ways, like, the old ways.

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: 00:42:36

But these people who cause division and

they don't have the Spirit are empty.

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: 00:42:43

People that live according to the

world and not the Lord, not the

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: 00:42:46

Spirit, not the Word, are empty.

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: 00:42:50

Empty vessels.

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They believe in nothing.

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: 00:42:53

Verse 20, again, another,

comparison, another contrast.

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Verse 20, "But you, beloved," again,

but you, "building yourselves up on your

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most holy faith, praying in the Holy

Spirit," verse 21, "keep yourselves in

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the love of God, looking for mercy of

our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life."

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Okay, if you're watching the video, you

can see that I'm doing one, two, and three

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with my hands, and I put here, these are

Jude's instructions, one, two, and three.

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Building, praying, looking and seeking.

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: 00:43:29

I'm gonna read it again

so you can catch it.

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: 00:43:30

Verse 20, "But you, beloved, building

yourselves up on your most holy

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faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

keeping yourselves in the love of

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God, looking for the mercy of our

Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life."

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: 00:43:45

So how can we maintain our life

with God despite all of these

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people and all of these attacks,

and all of these things going on?

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Well, Jude gave his conclusion

here for you guys in three steps.

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Now, this is me, what I'm taking

from this is he, he's not literally

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: 00:44:03

saying one, two, and three.

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: 00:44:05

Again, read for yourselves.

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: 00:44:07

But when I read it, I was like, "Wow,

we have to continue building yourselves,

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building ourselves in our faith."

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He says that.

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"But you, beloved, building yourselves

up on your most holy faith."

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: 00:44:19

So we need to continue

building ourselves up.

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How are we gonna build ourselves up?

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By knowing this, knowing the Bible.

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What is number two?

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Praying in the Holy Spirit.

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Guys, we say so many empty

prayers just to, like, do the

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right thing when we wake up.

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: 00:44:37

Thank you, God, for

waking me up another day.

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: 00:44:39

Thank you, Lord.

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: 00:44:40

Thank you, thank you.

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: 00:44:41

Okay Amazing that you're praying.

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: 00:44:44

However, praying doesn't

have to be a routine.

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: 00:44:47

Praying should not be a routine, rather.

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Praying should be from the heart.

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: 00:44:55

God already knows what you're gonna say.

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God already knows how you feel.

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: 00:44:59

But prayer is a relationship.

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: 00:45:01

Prayer should be you just

giving it all to Christ.

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: 00:45:06

If you're mad about something, if

you're mad that something is not going

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: 00:45:09

your way, man, lay it at His feet.

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: 00:45:11

Talk to Him.

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: 00:45:13

That is the second way that you can

actually pray and talk to God and be in

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: 00:45:18

the Spirit, not just, "Thank you, Lord.

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Thank you for waking me up another day."

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: 00:45:23

I'm so guilty of that.

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: 00:45:24

I'm so guilty of that.

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: 00:45:25

However, when I, when I pray, when

I'm showering, when I'm in the car by

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: 00:45:30

myself, I am always brought to tears.

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: 00:45:33

Why?

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: 00:45:33

Because I'm just talking.

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: 00:45:36

I'm just talking, and it makes

you emotional, and you actually

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: 00:45:39

connect with the Spirit.

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: 00:45:42

It's inevitable.

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: 00:45:43

If you do it from the heart, and

you're praying in the Spirit, you're

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: 00:45:46

literally going to connect with God,

and that's such a beautiful thing.

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: 00:45:50

So according to Jude, and what I am

understanding, remember, my humble

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opinion, One, building yourselves

up on your most holy faith.

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Two, praying in the Holy Spirit.

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: 00:46:01

And the last thing that I

understood is th- three.

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: 00:46:07

I can't even, I can't

even keep my numbers.

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: 00:46:09

Three, looking for mercy of our

Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

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: 00:46:15

Looking for His mercy, identifying how it

is that God is being good in your life.

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: 00:46:22

Guys, you can't just ask.

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: 00:46:24

You can't just ask and pray

and ask and ask and ask.

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No.

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: 00:46:27

You also have to see what is around you.

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: 00:46:30

Like, look at my room.

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: 00:46:31

I'm so grateful that I have a room.

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: 00:46:33

I'm so grateful that I

have all of these things.

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: 00:46:37

You have to continue to seek Him,

identify how He has been good to you.

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: 00:46:44

It can't just be, "Lord, please.

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: 00:46:46

Lord, please give me that provision.

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: 00:46:48

Lord, please, I just want this.

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: 00:46:49

I just want that."

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No.

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: 00:46:50

Seek.

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Look for the Lord.

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: 00:46:52

Identify what you have in your

life and what He's done for you.

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Anyway, let's wrap up.

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Verse 22 through verse 25.

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: 00:47:02

22, "And on some have compassion,

making a distinction," verse 23,

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: 00:47:08

"but others save with fear, pulling

them out of the fire, hating even

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: 00:47:13

the garment defiled by the flesh."

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: 00:47:17

These two, I was like, "Oh my God."

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: 00:47:20

Verse 23, "And some have compassion."

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: 00:47:23

So even though you wanna keep these

people far, you still need to have some

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sort of compassion, 'cause remember,

God says, "Love your neighbor."

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: 00:47:31

That's the hardest thing to do.

733

: 00:47:33

Even when people are, like, bringing

you down, when people are literally

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: 00:47:36

trying to steer you away from God,

you need to have compassion with them.

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: 00:47:39

Maybe they're going through something.

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: 00:47:41

Maybe that's why you're in, in

their life, because they need you.

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: 00:47:45

They need you to steer them, kind

of how Paul steered Onesimus back

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: 00:47:51

to Philemon to do the right thing.

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: 00:47:53

Maybe that's this kind of scenario.

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: 00:47:55

You need to have compassion, but

making a distinction by actually

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: 00:48:00

separating, okay, did they go too far?

742

: 00:48:02

Maybe I really am gonna, go ahead

and, like, stay away from this person.

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: 00:48:06

And then verse 23 says, "But

others save with fear, pulling

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: 00:48:11

them out of the fire, hating even

the garment defiled by the flesh."

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: 00:48:17

So when I read this, I

thought of my own family.

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I thought of the people that I love the

most, and these are the people that I

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: 00:48:26

personally want to save with fear They're

the people that have mocked me the most,

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: 00:48:32

they're the people that have given me

the hardest time, but they're the people

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: 00:48:36

that I have been honest with the most,

and I wanna pull them out of the fire.

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: 00:48:43

And while I don't say anything about

God to them anymore, unless they ask,

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: 00:48:48

unless it comes up in a conversation,

I pray for them in the harshest way.

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: 00:48:54

Because at the end of the day, all we

can do for someone is pray that God

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: 00:48:58

has their hands in their life right?

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: 00:49:00

But I pray for them.

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: 00:49:01

I say, "Lord, break them.

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: 00:49:03

They don't wanna listen to me.

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: 00:49:04

They don't wanna listen to me and my

warnings and how I have changed how

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: 00:49:09

I was sinning and was literally going

down a really dark and shady path.

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: 00:49:15

Well, then Lord, then you gotta do it.

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: 00:49:17

They don't wanna listen to me,

they're laughing at me, you do it.

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: 00:49:21

Show them the hard way.

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: 00:49:22

They don't wanna listen the good

way, show them the hard way."

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: 00:49:25

And I really do think that

this is what 23 is explaining.

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"But others save with fear, pull

them out of the fire, hating even

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: 00:49:36

the garment defiled by the flesh."

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And I hate the way that my

sisters live their life sometimes.

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: 00:49:43

Not that they're doing,

like, anything horrible.

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: 00:49:46

I think I'm much worse than them

or was much worse than them.

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but just the things that they

listen to, the way that they spend

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: 00:49:55

their time, sometimes I just…

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: 00:49:58

I wish that they had real peace.

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: 00:50:01

I wish that they had real peace and not

looked for peace in people and in things.

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: 00:50:08

so that was me trying to save them

with fear, and with the word of

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: 00:50:13

God, and with going to church.

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: 00:50:16

And me, I'm honestly, if I can't

pull them out of the fire that way,

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: 00:50:21

I'm gonna pray them into the fire so

that they have no other choice but

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: 00:50:25

to ask God to pull them out himself.

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: 00:50:28

So

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verse 24.

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: 00:50:32

Now to him who is able to keep you

from stumbling, him as in Jesus, Jesus

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: 00:50:37

is able to keep you from stumbling.

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: 00:50:40

If we seek him, he is able to.

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: 00:50:43

If you call on him, he will

start working on your heart.

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: 00:50:47

And to present you faultless before the

presence of his glory with exceeding joy.

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: 00:50:54

So only Jesus, remember, no one comes

through the Father but through me.

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: 00:50:59

And if I mess that up, I'm so sorry, Lord,

but it just came to my mind right now.

787

: 00:51:04

But no one goes to the Father

but through me, through Jesus.

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: 00:51:09

And here it says, "And to

present you faultless."

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: 00:51:14

Who is the person who's going

to present you faultless?

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: 00:51:17

Jesus.

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: 00:51:18

Why are we faultless?

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: 00:51:19

Because of Jesus.

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: 00:51:21

Who is going to judge us?

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: 00:51:25

Jesus and God.

795

: 00:51:27

And the only way that we get

to the Father is through Jesus.

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: 00:51:31

So

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: 00:51:34

just keep that in mind.

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: 00:51:35

Verse 25, let's wrap it up.

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: 00:51:38

To God our Savior, who alone is

wise, be glory and majesty, dominion

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: 00:51:43

and power, both now and forever.

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: 00:51:46

Amen.

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: 00:51:48

And amen to that for real.

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: 00:51:50

Man, I know that we went way over

time, but there's just a lot.

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: 00:51:55

There's a lot in this book.

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: 00:51:57

It's all important.

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: 00:51:58

It's all relevant.

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: 00:51:59

It's all very real, and I really hope

that you guys read this for yourself.

808

: 00:52:04

I pray that this in some

way resonated with you.

809

: 00:52:08

I pray that you can share it

with whoever you feel needs it.

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: 00:52:12

even if it's 10 seconds of what made the

most sense to you, it's, it's important.

811

: 00:52:17

It's our last call to action,

and we just don't know.

812

: 00:52:21

We don't know when it is that we're

going to be before God, before Jesus.

813

: 00:52:25

And if we have the Holy Spirit here

on Earth, and we can use it to discern

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: 00:52:31

what is good, what is wrong, where

we have to go, where we should steer

815

: 00:52:36

clear from, then we need to, we need

to listen and we need to use it.

816

: 00:52:40

And what more important than starting

with the Bible to access that

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: 00:52:45

spirit, So anyway, I love you guys.

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: 00:52:48

Thank you so much for listening

to this episode of This On

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: 00:52:51

Mind series, The Book of Jude.

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: 00:52:53

Until next week, take care.