Jude 3 ” Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt I had to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.”

Jude was alarmed at all the false teachers that had infiltrated the Church…to the extent of actually being invited and accepted by the people. Thus, the purpose of his letter was to warn them about the true intent of these false teachers that were using Christian liberty and the free grace of God as a license to promote immorality, which Jude sternly denounced to impress upon his readers the seriousness of their threat within the walls of the Church. When Jude wrote that they needed to “contend for the faith”, he was beseeching them to go back to the basics of the Gospel Message and the revealed truth of just where their faith originally came from. The sad story is that even today false teachers continue to worm their way into unexpecting Churches…tickling their ears with half-truths and out and out lies…all the while claiming they have “new revelations”.