Having urged his readers to contend for the religion and be taught from the previous, Jude used the closing part of his letter to name them to remembrance, perseverance, and mercy. As Alistair Begg reminds us within the sermon “Preserving and Remembering,” whereas our salvation is grounded within the work of Christ, the proof of our salvation is in our continuance. Seeking to the Puritan author William Jenkyn for steering, Alistair factors out three sensible methods we will comply with Jude’s instruction to “maintain yourselves within the love of God” (v. 21):
Primary: Hold your self “in a continuing hatred of all sin.” … For “as like to sin grows, like to God [diminishes].” So I can not maintain myself within the love of God if I’m enjoying quick and free with willful sin, if I’m permitting myself luxuries, privileges that aren’t these which might be to be loved by the kid of God. …
Secondly, preserving ourselves within the love of God means “preserving ourselves within the delight of [the friends of God].” “Within the delight of [the friends of God].” Now, we perceive that we don’t isolate ourselves from the world, ? The Bible makes that clear. The boat needs to be within the water, however the water hasn’t acquired to be within the boat. However, , there are just a few buddies you possibly can have on the earth in any case, and we wish to make buddies of the buddies of God to assist us. I want people who find themselves godly. …
And likewise, thirdly, he says that it’s good to maintain your self … “in [the] delight of the ordinances.” “In [the] delight of the ordinances”—baptism and the Lord’s Supper, the significance of those indicators and seals of our relationship with God. … You may’t maintain your self within the love of God whilst you keep away from the technique of grace, for the technique of grace are given to allow us to maintain ourselves within the love of God.
