“Dear friends, although I was eager to write you about the salvation we share, I found it necessary to write, appealing to you to contend for the faith that was delivered to the saints once for all.” (v. 3)

There really is just one thing to do, in the face of the confusion and dilution and delusion of progressive religion:

Contend for the faith.

Thaddeus Judas writes into some bizarre controversies. People claiming Christian identities are beginning to brook all kinds of suspect notions. They’re wandering into self-actualizing and sensual religious expressions.

And they’re leaving behind the truth of Christ, His sovereignty, and His mercy.

So Jude writes to contend for the faith. He writes, to point his readers back to what was given by Christ through the apostles. He writes, to root us in the Word, before we are uprooted by the flesh.

This faith was delivered once for all. It has been promised, unfolded, and fulfilled. It is revealed to us in Scripture. And it is singularly focused on Jesus, for us, in our place—so that we will know life and not death.

Contend for that still! Proclaim it with clarity! Call sensual arguments what they are!

Then we will know, over against the proud waves of progressivism, the hope and the mercy of Jesus.

— Tyler