January 27, 2019

Sunday School
Jude 1-11 - Part 1

• Now Jude, a bondservant (slave) of Jesus "Christ" (The Anointed One) and brother to James. This is Jude's greetings to whom he is writing to: Jews, Gentiles and Christians.
• To those who are called sanctified (set apart) by God the Father and preserved (kept) in Jesus Christ: Mercy (compassion), peace ( inner assurance), and love (affection or benevolence) be multiplied to you (Jews, Gentiles and Christians).
• Beloved, you must contend earnestly (wage war, fight for the truth) for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
• Certain men have crept in unnoticed, ungodly men who turn the grace of God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Jude wants to remind you that the Lord saved the people out of the land of Egypt (today's world) and destroyed those who did not believe.
• Those angels who didn't keep to their own domain, God has reserved in "everlasting chains" (controlled in darkness) under darkness for the judgment of the great day (everlasting separation from God).
• As Sodom and Gomorrah and other cities around them having given over to sexual immoralities and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire (everlasting separation from God).
• They speak evil and reject authority.
• Michael the archangel, when confronted with the devil over the body of Moses, did not rail against the devil but said, "The Lord rebuke you!"
• The ungodly speak evil of whatever they don't know, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.
• Woe (great sorrow or distress) to them.

Sermon
John 3:1-3 - Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God.  For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.
Jesus answered, "Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born again."
Subject: You Must Be Born Again

• Do you have compassion
• Salvation is a gift from God
• We must be born again
• Pharisees were very strong in the "law"
• Nicodemus questioned Jesus in verse 4-9
• Some in authority have little to do with God, no relationship with God

Pharisee of today:

1. Believe that just showing up at church will make them right with God
2. They think that God needs them
3. See things only in black and white
4. They read the bible to substantiate they own convictions
5. Want everyone to like them and interested in the Word