Thank you so much for accompanying us at this special time, where we read
the word of God and on this occasion we will do so in the epistle
of Judas, the epistle of Judas at the end of the Bible, almost
at the end, because then follows the last book, which is the Book
of Revelation or Revelations, you will find the epistle of Judas and thus says
the word of God. Judas the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James,
to those called sanctified in God, father and kept in Jesus Christ,
Mercy and peace and love be multiplied unto you. Beloved by the great solicitude
that I had to write to you about our common salvation. It has been
necessary for me to write to you in the lots that you contend ardently for
the faith that has been once given to the saints, for some men have
secretly entered into those who had been destined for this condemnation from before, ungodly
men who make the grace of our God debauchery and deny God the only ruler
and our Lord Jesus Christ but I want to remind you, for once you
have known, that the Lord, having saved the people by taking them out
of Egypt, then destroyed those who did not believe and the angels, who
did not keep their dignity, but left their own dwelling place. He has
kept them under darkness in eternal prisons for the judgment of the great day,
as is sodoma and Gomorrah and neighboring cities, which in the same way as
those, having committed fornication and gone after vices against nature, were put,
for example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. In the same way,
however, these dreamers also defile the flesh, reject authority and blaspheme higher powers.
But when the Archangel Michael contended with the devil, disputing with him for
the body of Moses, he dared not pronounce judgment of curse against him,
but, said the lord rebuke Thee. But they blaspheme how many things they
do not know and in which they naturally know, they are corrupted as irrational
animals. There is Helios because they have followed Cain' s path and launched
themselves for profit in Balaam' s error and perished in the contradiction of Korah.
These are stains on your agapes, which eat impudently with you feed themselves,
clouds without water, carried from here to there by the winds, trees,
autumnals, without fruit, twice dead and uprooted wild waves of the sea
that foam their own shame, wandering stars, for which the darkness of darkness
is reserved eternally. From this he also prophesied enoch the seventh from Adam.
Saying, behold, the lord came with his holy tens of thousands to do
judgment against all, and to convict all the wicked of all their works,
ungodly, which they have done wickedly, and of all the hard things which
ungodly sinners have spoken against him. These are loving murmurers who walk according to
their own desires, whose mouth speaks puffy things by flattering people to profit.
But you beloved remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our
Lord Jesus Christ, those who told you in the last time will be mockers
who will walk according to their evil desires. These are the ones that cause
divisions, the sensual ones that do not have the spirit. But you loved
ones building on your most holy, praying faith in the Holy Spirit keep yourselves
in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ
for eternal life. To some who doubt convince others to save them from the
fire and to others have mercy with fear, yet hating the garment polluted by
his blood and to him who is able to keep you from falling and present
you without blemish before his glory, with great joy to the only and wise
God, our Savior be glory and majesty, empire and power now and for
ever and ever Amen