Jude lays it out simply, "certain people have crept in unnoticed." I call these certain people the "creeps." 3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. (Jude 1:3-4 ESV) What a better time to creep in, while the church slept (my words, not Jude's). This brings to mind the Tet Offensive of '68 when communist forces who had stealthily moved into towns and villages in South Vietnam over a period of months, waited patiently for the signal from Hanoi to begin their attack. And around midnight on February 1, 1968, the signal was given. Just after midnight the attacks began,...
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