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Jude and his brother James were half-brothers to Jesus. They did not believe Jesus was the Messiah nor follow His teaching when he was ministering on the earth. They grew up in the same house together. Can you imagine having Jesus as your big brother? How much pressure was that? Comedian Michael Jr. has a whole spiff on that. Very funny.

James and Jude had problems, they would get in trouble, and can’t you imagine their mother saying, “Why can’t you boys be more like Jesus, James and Jude?” Or they would go to their mother with their problems and their mother would say, “Well what would Jesus do?” So she got them a bracelet.

At one point in Jesus’ ministry, His mother and brothers came to speak to Him, thinking perhaps He was out of his senses, but Jesus responded, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?” And then He said, “Whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother.”

After witnessing the resurrection, James and Jude not only became believers and followers of Jesus, James became the leader of the church in Jerusalem. It was such a radical transformation for Jude that opens this letter by referring to himself as a bondservant of the Lord Jesus the Messiah.

He writes this short letter to warn the church not to stray into dangerous false doctrines, which could harm the church and draw it into worldliness.

He challenges the church to be distinct from the world. The false teachers were worldly minded and devoid of the Spirit of the living God. That is the key to what he is writing; those who pursue the world do so because they don’t have the life of the Spirit.

The life of the Spirit is the difference; that’s what changes lives. Simply going to church is not what changes us; we are changed by receiving and living by the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus -- in the same way that going to a gym and watching other people work out won’t help you at all.

The entire theme of this letter is found in verse 3; “I felt it necessary to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.”

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