<TITLE>04. Par 3-5</TITLE>L-3 Now, Book is Jude. And I want to read a few verses of it.
Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the father, and preserved in... Christ, and called:
Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
Beloved... I give all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and to exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints.
For there are certain men crept in unaware, who was before of old ordained to this condemnation,... (Let that soak just a minute; I'm going back to read it again.)... who was before of old ordained to this condemnation,... (You believe it? That's what He said.)... ungodly men, turning the grace of... God into lasciviousness... denying the only Lord God, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though you once knew this, how that the Lord, after saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterwards destroyed them that believed not.
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but were left in their... habitation... reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around about them in like manner, give themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for... examples, of suffering and vengeance of eternal fire.
Now, if I'd call it a text, it would be this, found in the 3rd verse and the last phrase: "Earnestly Contending For The Faith That Was Once Delivered To The Saints."
Now, I want you to notice in Jude's address to this letter, who he's addressing. He's addressing Christians. He's not speaking now to--to unbelievers; he's talking directly to Christians. Now notice, "Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified (not to the world), to them that are sanctified in God the Father, preserved in Jesus Christ and called." See?

L-4 Now, he's--he's addressing to the Church, telling them, just to those that are sanctified in God, preserved in Christ and called. Now, he said, "Now, you're the people that I'm talking to, that you will earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints." Now, not the... not 'a' faith that was delivered but 'the' faith that was delivered... Did you notice there?
"The--the faith that was once delivered to the saints," not just a faith... Some people says, "Well, that's against my faith." I... There's only one faith: one faith, one Lord, one God, one baptism, one faith, one doctrine.
And now, people say, "Well, I have 'a' faith and I go to my own church." Well, that's not what Jude's speaking to here. He's talking to the people that's to contend for 'the' faith that was once delivered to the saints.

L-5 Now, the only way that we're going to ever know what's... If we can only find out what 'the' faith is, then we can earnestly contend for that faith. Is that right? What 'the' faith... Now, that... the faith that was once delivered to the saints...
Now, if we'll go back to where they were first called saints and find out what kind of a faith they had, then we'll know more or less what they contend--what to contend for.
Now, when the Church be called--was called saints, was after they were sanctified. The word "sanctify" or "saint" come "sanctify," meaning "clean, pure, holy, unadulterated" and so forth. Now, if... That was the beginning of the Church when it was inaugurated at the day of Pentecost.


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