Steadfast, Day 10 Final prayer. Read Jude chapter 1 and focus on verses 24 and 25. It’s a final prayer. Jude has spent much time giving advice and trying to help the fellow believers that he’s writing to. He ends with a prayer for them. These two verses are such a beautiful prayer that can be prayed for anyone that we know and love. We are to seek to be steadfast in everything that we do and live out the principles and the truths that James has given us in this book. This is the prayer that we can pray for ourselves as we conclude our study of this incredible…

Steadfast, Day 9 Be merciful. Read Jude chapter 1, focusing on verses 22-23. Every single day we are surrounded by people who do not believe in Jesus Christ. Everywhere we go, we see people going about life without the hope that Jesus provides. Sometimes those people don’t act very nice. Why should we expect any different? People who are lost and without Christ will act like people who are lost and without Christ. We are to have mercy on them, recognizing that they don’t know any better. Until they have Christ, they have no reason to be any better or do any better. They have no understanding of how to…

Steadfast, Day 8 Be steadfast. Read Jude chapter 1, focusing on verses 20-21. The theme for this entire series through the book of Jude has been to be steadfast. Here we see exactly what Jude is talking about. We are to continually build ourselves up in faith. We do that by praying and by keeping ourselves in the love of God. We realize we’re going to have to wait. Christ’s return is coming, but it’s not here yet. As we wait for the Lord to return and to demonstrate his mercy on those who have accepted Jesus Christ, we have to continue to be steadfast. We are not to be…

Steadfast, Day 7 Beware of Scoffers and Dividers. Read Jude chapter 1, focusing on verses 17-19. As followers of Jesus Christ, we are to be united through him. Unfortunately, those who don’t follow Christ often find themselves seeking to divide those people who do follow Christ. Jude points out that in the last days, there will be people whose goal and ambition is to create as much division and disharmony as possible. The verse also says that these people will be following their own natural desires because they don’t have the Spirit in them. Well, obviously, if they’re not believers in Christ, they don’t have the spirit in them. Outside…

Steadfast, Day 6 The constant complainer. Read Jude chapter 1, focusing on verses 14-16. Jude has been denouncing the evil people in it. Jude is still calling them out. In these verses, he talks about Enoch, a man that we meet only briefly in chapter 5 of Genesis. What’s notable about him is that he does not die, but that he is one of two people that God just takes up to heaven at the end of their lives. Obviously Enoch walked with God, but here we see that he even received messages and words and prophesied. Enoch lived in a perverse generation. Even though it was only the seventh…