Daily Devotional

September 11th 2025

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THURSDAY

These are the ones who split Churches, thinking only of themselves. There’s nothing to them, no sign of the Spirit! But you, dear friends, carefully build yourselves up in this most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit, staying right at the center of God’s love, keeping your arms open and outstretched, ready for the mercy of our Master, Jesus Christ. This is the unending life, the real life! —Jude 19-21 (MSG)

In Jude’s time, false teachers and false teaching had crept into the Church, coming from people who professed to be Christians. Jude writes that they were teaching that it made no difference what we do with our bodies if our spirit was right; they taught that, because God’s grace will forgive anything, we can do anything. This was an abuse of the Christian theme of agapé.
Of the false teachers, Jude says…
• They are divisive—they cause splits (actual and figurative) within the body of Christ.
• They follow natural instincts—they have abilities that they employ to accomplish their own end, and these abilities (eloquence, articulation, charisma, etc.) are persuasive.
• They do not have the Holy Spirit—they are missing the one thing that we most need, that which can only come from a genuine relationship with Jesus Christ, the in-dwelling presence of the Holy Spirit.
In contrast, Jude tells his readers to build themselves up in the faith. That means study scripture and learn what the Truth is. Jude says that the best opposition to these false teachers is to learn the truth.
Jude says we are to pray in the Holy Spirit; pray according to Christ’s teaching and in His power. We are to obey the Holy Spirit in our prayer life.
Jude says we must keep walking in the agapé of God. God’s love is constantly able to warm our hearts and fill our lives. God loves us under all circumstances. If we walk close to God, we will experience that love.
Spiritual wisdom is knowing when, when not, and how to respond to false teaching. Our goal is not to win, but to win people over. Our ego can’t be at stake in these encounters. Christ must always be first.

Prayer: And now to [the One] who can keep you on your feet, standing tall in [God’s] bright presence, fresh and celebrating—to our one God, our only Savior, through Jesus Christ, our Master, be glory, majesty, strength, and rule before all time, and now, and to the end of all time. Yes. (Jude 24, 25)! Amen.

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