Jude 1:3-4
3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
In this letter Jude warns against "ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality" (verse 4). This actually sounds remarkably like our present times. These days some only focus on how God is love, so we should love and accept everything. It is true that God is love and full of grace, but we must not let that grace become an excuse for sin, or for avoiding confrontation with sin. There is sexual immorality that displeases God. It is instructive to note how verse 4 connects the "sensuality" with the desire to "deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ". Ultimately it comes down to a question of who is in control, God or me? When we use the grace of God as a rationale for sex, we deny God's authority in our life.
God, forgive me for denying your authority and holiness.
3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
In this letter Jude warns against "ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality" (verse 4). This actually sounds remarkably like our present times. These days some only focus on how God is love, so we should love and accept everything. It is true that God is love and full of grace, but we must not let that grace become an excuse for sin, or for avoiding confrontation with sin. There is sexual immorality that displeases God. It is instructive to note how verse 4 connects the "sensuality" with the desire to "deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ". Ultimately it comes down to a question of who is in control, God or me? When we use the grace of God as a rationale for sex, we deny God's authority in our life.
God, forgive me for denying your authority and holiness.