The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Jude 1:1-4, “Jude, a bond-servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
2 May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.
3 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.
4 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.”

If the old adage be true that “great things come in small packages,” then this Letter from Jude is one of the greatest books we have in the New Testament!

The Apostle Paul wrote the Colossians that the two basic facets of all relevant preaching are admonition and instruction. Admonition is a warning, related to conduct. It calls for repentance from sin and is addressed to the heart. Instruction is teaching, related to doctrine. It calls for faith, and is addressed to the mind.

The Internet has now successfully squeezed itself into our lives, coming between radio and television medias of communication, and increasing as skeptical a great deal of what we are currently receiving as “news.”

As entertaining as media sometimes is, we need to take care concerning what we see and hear. Writers and producers have the habit of interjecting unnecessary and ungodly segments into scripts that would otherwise be acceptable. We are living in ungodly days, and we must never allow media to supplant the rich and pure Holy Scriptures the LORD has given to us.

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

P. S. Pray for Israel and for our beloved United States!

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom