The Importance Of Being Earnest

Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt I had to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints. For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.  (Jude 3–4, NIV 1984). 

But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” These are the men who divide you.  (Jude 17–19). 

My Musings –  “Slipped in“(infiltrate), “scoffer” (bitter ridicule) and “divide” (separate).  Connotations of espionage, propaganda and dissension.  Often as…