The Limits of Tolerance
Scott Maze
Jude 1-4
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Find the book of Jude with me. There are books in your Bible and there are letters in your Bible, but you could probably think of Jude more like a postcard.
There's been a shift in American thought over the past several decades. America historically stood for the right to express any opinion. Voltaire famously said, ''I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'' Again, a shift has happened from this historic position in recent days. Where we used to believe that you should tolerate my views even when they were false but now, we believe it is wrong to call anybody's views' false.
Against this new view, the Bible speaks into our tolerant age by building fences, separating truth from lies. Embracing a lie as the truth can really hurt you. Tolerance has its limits. Tolerance has its limits especially inside God's church.
Today's Scripture
''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'' (Jude 1-4).
17 But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 18 They said to you, ''In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.'' 19 It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit. 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in th ...
Scott Maze
Jude 1-4
Happy Turkey Day in just a few days!
Find the book of Jude with me. There are books in your Bible and there are letters in your Bible, but you could probably think of Jude more like a postcard.
There's been a shift in American thought over the past several decades. America historically stood for the right to express any opinion. Voltaire famously said, ''I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'' Again, a shift has happened from this historic position in recent days. Where we used to believe that you should tolerate my views even when they were false but now, we believe it is wrong to call anybody's views' false.
Against this new view, the Bible speaks into our tolerant age by building fences, separating truth from lies. Embracing a lie as the truth can really hurt you. Tolerance has its limits. Tolerance has its limits especially inside God's church.
Today's Scripture
''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'' (Jude 1-4).
17 But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 18 They said to you, ''In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.'' 19 It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit. 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in th ...
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