Jude 1:1 - 2 Celebrating Salvation Series

Title: Jude – Celebrating Salvation

Theme: To show that we must focus more on our salvation that what the enemy is doing.

Text: Jude 1:1 - 3

Jude 1:1-3 Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, To those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ: (2) Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. 3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Introduction

Series in Jude

Jude

A. Half-brother of Jesus

B. Not a believer until after the resurrection John 7:5 and Acts 1:14. It is the resurrection that made the difference.

C. “bondservant of Jesus Christ (designated as Lord and Savior) in spite of being close to Him, yet they believed and followed Him.

D. His salvation was not based on being a brother or kin folk, his salvation was based on who Christ is.

“Without a doubt, Jude valued the fact that Jesus was his half-brother and that he grew up in the same household as Jesus. But even more valuable to him was his new relationship with Jesus. To Jude, the blood of the cross that saved him was more important than the family blood in his veins that related him to Jesus. Jude could say with Paul, "Even though we have known Christ according” - Guzik

Pont: Too many today are familiar with Jesus by the family. You need to know Jesus for yourself. Being in church or having family in church is not what is going to take you to heaven.

Purpose of the book: vs. 3 “contend for the faith.”

(3) Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Wanted to write about the “glorious truth of salvation” but was compelled to write to encourage his readers to “contend for the faith.”

Celebrate the Common Salvation

Who we are?

“bondservant” purchased, bought with a price

I Cor. 6:20 tells us we were bought at a price. I Peter 1:19 informs us it was “with the precious blood of Christ.” We are not our own, we belong to Him.

Slave – we are either a slave to Christ or a slave to sin.

“to those who are” – to the believers. This is about the church. The church should be more focused on what God has done in us that what is happening around us.

“called” Could mean many things.

1. Called into ministry (called to serve)

2. Called to preach the gospel (great commission)

3. Called in Jude the urgent call both to salvation and to live godly lives in faith, hope, and purity.

Rom 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Point: God called you before you knew Him. He called you while you were in sin. He knew you while you were in the womb of your mother.

Here the word means the effectual calling of God that opens the heart to freely respond to the gospel. • There is a general call (Matt 11:28-30) • There is an effectual call (Rom 8:30)

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“sanctified” set apart, beloved, loved

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

“by God the Father”

The protector.

“preserved” – kept, guarded (appears 4 times, vs. 1, 6, 13, 21)

John 17:11 Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, [93] that they may be one as We are.

1 Peter 1:4-5 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

“in Christ Jesus”

Only by His blood have we been saved. “Nothing but the blood of Jesus”

Why we are? Or Why we can be

(2) Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

A common greeting. Paul often times includes the word “grace” in his greeting. Jude uses the word love. Probably a reminder to the Jewish audience that they were not only called to a purpose but they are loved by God. God loves them, wants a relationship with them.