Today's encouragement comes from Jude 3b & 4a, where these words are found:
"I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain men have crept in unnoticed . . . "Earnest contention for the true religion of the Christian faith is necessary, be-cause, just as soon as the regenerate saints let up, the Pharisees and hypo-crites are right there to seek to replace God's gospel with their own perver-sions. The churched warrior never lets up; he or she keeps pressing on, pushing down the gates of hell, and putting the enemies of God to flight.
. . . The worst of these foes are those who "creep" into the church, and seek to take it captive to their own desires. Let us fight the good fight of faith today, and never lose heart. No devil or deceiver can overcome any of us who are truly in Christ Jesus and His church.
[Puritan quote of the day: "So it pleased the sovereign God that the angels should have the most glorious understanding of divine wisdom by His actions towards His church . . . “ —Jonathan Edwards, in his sermon entitled, "The Wisdom of God"]
