Page 62 - Apostasy

31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the

space of three years I ceased not to warn every

one night and day with tears.” He said there

will be those who will try to come into the

church, and he said there will be those who will

rise up in the church. Judas was among the

disciples, and he was an apostate.

Turn with me, please, to Jude, the small

book of Jude. You see, what I'm trying to get at

is that there are those who may walk among us,

may have the right words, may even testify, and

yet they can be an apostate. Now, I believe the

book of Jude is the only book in the Bible where

the entire book is a warning against apostasy —

I mean, the entire book from beginning to end.

It shows apostasy from the beginning in the

Garden of Eden all the way to the end, the

second coming of Jesus Christ. Jude begins in

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