I. BUILD YOURSELF UP.
A. Don't remain a baby.
B. Your development depends on you.
C. God has given to every man a measure of faith.
1. Build on it.
2. Use it as a talent.
Holy Ghost
II. PRAYING IN THE HOLY GHOST.
A. We do not know how to pray always.
B. Pray in tongues.
God
III. KEEP YOURSELVES.
A. In the Love of God.
1. Those who claim we have nothing to do with it.
"KEEPING OURSELVES IN GOD'S LOVE."
I. TO WHOM WAS JUDE WRITING?
A. "Them that are sanctified by God."
B. Kept or "preserved in Jesus Christ."
C. "Called."
D. To those who were called, sanctified and kept he said, "Keep yourselves in the..."
II. WHY THIS INJUNCTION?
A. It is possible to experience a great blessing of God in our life yet still fail to receive the full benefits ...
"KEEP YOURSELF IN THE LOVE OF GOD."
I. WHAT IS MEANT BY THIS INJUNCTION?
A. Neg. It does not mean to keep yourself in a state to make God love you.
1. God's love was unsought, undeserved, and unconditional.
a. You cannot, in this life, put yourself outside His love.
b. "God so loved the world..."
2. "Does God love bad boys?"
3. You may have rejected Him, hurt Him, and forgott...
"KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD."
Intro: Jude is writing to those who have been "Sanctified by God, preserved in Jesus" and called the heart of His message, "Keep yourselves in the love of God."
I. WHAT DOES HE MEAN?
A. Does he mean to keep yourself so sweet and good and kind that God can't help but love you?
1. I hope not.
2. Does God love bad little boys?
B. God's love f...
"THE LOVE OF GOD"
I. WHAT IS MEANT BY "KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD?"
A. Keep yourself so loving and kind, sweet and generous that God cannot help but love you?
1. If that were so, most of us would be left out in the cold.
B. God's love for you is unconditional.
1. When did God start loving you?
2. The minute that you responded to the altar call and went forward?
"THE KEEPING POWER OF GOD."
I. "NOW UNTO HIM THAT IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM FALLING."
A. Many are worried about steadfastness.
1. Can I maintain the Christian life?
2. I don't want to start something I can't finish.
3. Better to start and fail, than to never start at all.
B. The forces seeking to pull as down are powerful.
1. The world, the flesh, the devil.
2. The force hold...