Jude 1-4
April 22, 2018
preached by Ryan Bouton
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”

~Man in Black/Dread Pirate Roberts/Westley, The Princess Bride

“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”

– C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“The Bible invites us at the very beginning to stop looking on the horizontal, as it were, to stop just looking at the world and at men.  It invites us at the very beginning to lift up our eyes and to look at God, in other words, the whole case of the Bible, from beginning to end is this – that life and man and the world simply cannot be understood until we see everything in the light of, and in the context of, God.”

~Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Sermon Passage

Jude 1-4 (ESV)

¹ Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James,
To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
² May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
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.