Today in my class, I taught my students about the deceptiveness of self-confidence. No, it wasn’t part of the curriculum. In fact, the opposite was in the curriculum. I just took the opportunity to tell the truth instead. Many lies are popular in our culture. We think that questioning the truth is so avant-garde, even thought it’s been done since the beginning (Genesis 3:1, John 18:38). So, why do so many people not care about the truth? Whatever reasons may be can be reduced down to rebellion (Romans 1:18-22, 2 Peter 3:3-5). Man wants to be his own god, until the reality that he has created falls down around him, that is.
Jude 3-4 reads: “Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.”
Understand from the Scripture that the faith has been handed down to us. The truth and integrity of the Word of God will be preserved with or without me, but He has chose to use us as His agents to accomplish that purpose. Those whose hearts are set on the Lord will live, preach, speak, and teach His Word, even if it appears to fall on deaf ears. They may deceive themselves and say that His Word does not matter to them, but we know that the Word of God will accomplish what He pleases, and will prosper in the thing for which He sends it (Isaiah 55:11). In other words, it will matter to them. So, we hold out the Word as long as God’s grace allows us to do so, until it does matter to them.