God will save you from ungodliness: Believe. Jude 1:14-15

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Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
Jude wrote only 25 verses (26 sentences in New International Version), but he certainly knows how to nail sin to a tree. The Lord is coming, he warns -- coming to convict the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

That's one thunderous round of repetition that surely will wake you from your slumber during his sermon. Listen up, Christian: Beware of those who follow ungodly desires. Beware because they are selfish, greedy, unbelieving, immoral, prideful people who, for lack of a more powerful word, are ungodly.

Said another way: they don't believe that Jesus is the Savior. They don't believe that the Holy Spirit has a place in their lives. They don't believe that the Father will take care of them. They just don't believe!

Unlike most of the letters in the New Testament, Jude doesn't spend hardly any time buttering us up with feel-good passages of Scripture. He opened his letter by saying he wanted to give us the good news, to build us up, like Paul did in his letter to the Colossians, and John did in his first letter with a resounding message of love.

Here, Jude gets right to the point, reminding believers about what happens to those who don't believe (Jude 1:5), to those who rebel (Jude 1:6), to those who are immoral (Jude 1:7).

Believe and obey, Jude reminds us, by loving the Lord with all your heart, mind, strength (Jude 1:20). Believe and obey by loving your neighbor (Jude 1:22). Believe and obey, because thanks be to God, he alone has rescued us from our ungodliness (Jude 1:24-25)!

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