Fighting for Faith

Jud 1:3-4 MSG

(3) Dear friends, I've dropped everything to write you about this life of salvation that we have in common. I have to write insisting--begging!--that you fight with everything you have in you for this faith entrusted to us as a gift to guard and cherish.
(4) What has happened is that some people have infiltrated our ranks (our Scriptures warned us this would happen), who beneath their pious skin are shameless scoundrels. Their design is to replace the sheer grace of our God with sheer license--which means doing away with Jesus Christ, our one and only Master.

To the church member. Do you really know and understand the orginal faith that was delivered to the saints during the first century after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ? I would venture to guess and say that most would say no to the question.
That faith looks nothing like the faith we are hearing about from the evangelical pulpits in the western hemisphere. Faith today is about what one can get materially from God.
Faith today does not mention that you may have to deny yourself and pick up your cross and carry it daily. Faith is not something that if you don't receive something that you prayed for, shows a lack of.
Faith in the Jude epistle was speaking about true doctrine.
I need to ask, how did we end up in the place that we are in. It is more than likely we are here because of selfish wants. Preached to us by shameless preachers that have entered the midst of the body of Christ. They have corrupted the true message with a message of greed. There is no longer a message of repentence, but one that extols that it is o.k. if you continue in the sins that you were to turn away from. Everyday we read and hear of ministers in the pulpit being involved in scandal after scandal and everyone says it's alright we forgive you. And the scandal keeps on going.
We need some fighters to stand up in the body of Christ and to start to say no to certain so called apostles, evangelists, bishops, etc., that we are tired of this and we are not going to take any more.
Begin to demand that Christ be the center of all messages and the community of Christ. Remember, Christ is the head of the church, not a human man or women on earth. We are his' body and the body cannot function without the head. So what we have is a body jerking around, moving, making noises, but the head is detached. It reminds me of the chicken after the head is chopped from the body. It continues to roll around on the ground making all kinds of cackling until it finally realizes its lost its head and lays down and dies.
I encourage to read the Epistle of Jude and other scripture about that faith Jude spoke of.