Jude 1:25
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.
Subject: Worship of Christ
The book of Jude is a warning to the false teachers about their failure to honor Christ in their teaching. Jude warns us that in the last days there will be those who teach another doctrine for their own personal gain (prosperity gospel churches would fit this description). These are teachers who are more concerned with their market share and gain market share under the guise of the Gospel of Christ. The accumulation of their wealth is more important to them than their honor of Christ, albeit the former is done under the banner of the latter. Christ is to be honored about all things. Paul did not accumulate wealth via the Gospel. These false teachers did not put the above doxology in their lives, although it may have been posted on their walls. Jesus Christ our Lord is to have glory, majesty, dominion and authority. That is the focus of our teaching and living. God will grant wealth, but it ought not be in the perversion of the Gospel message, to water it down to gain converts to stuff coffers.
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