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Jude 17-25 [+/-]Jude 1:17-25 [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 the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. [22]And have mercy on those who doubt; [23]save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh. [24]Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, [25]to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. (ESV)

We return today to these verses in Jude.  We drew near to them last week and danced around them but did not dig into them.  We will dig into them today.  Let’s remember why these verses are so important to what we are doing in these days:  We have begun a journey together to try to understand biblically and apply practically the teaching in the Bible about the Holy Spirit.  But we could easily go astray from the start if we did not begin our journey by locating the doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the context of the central doctrine of the Trinity.  So that is where we have begun our journey:  looking at the Holy Spirit in the context of the Trinity.  Our God is one God in three persons.  The three persons are equal in essence but distinct in expression.  And as Wayne Grudem writes and we shall see later today the distinctions in the Trinity are seen in how the members of the Trinity relate to each other and to the world.

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