Who Should Contend?

Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Jude 1:3

Who should ‘contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints?’  The answer to that is, ‘the saints.’  If we were breakers of the Law of God, by nature and by choice; if we were dead in trespasses and sins; if the Holy Spirit has regenerated us from spiritual death to spiritual life; if He has given us faith to believe, to embrace Christ as the Gospel freely offers Him; if He has called us saints, then we are those who should contend earnestly for the faith.  We are the beneficiaries of the largesse of the God, Who had redeemed us by the sacrifice of His Only Begotten Son.  Who are more appropriate witnesses of the grace of God than we who have benefitted the most thoroughly from it?  This is why we exist.  It is our chief end to glorify God;  therefore, Christ is our message.  Day after day, believers all over the world in generation after generation have ‘ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.’  We have the glorious privilege to contend earnestly for the faith by repeating the message of the prophets, the apostles, and all the saints, before us.  ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved.’ 

Our Great and Gracious God,
we rejoice that we have the privilege to preach Christ.
We praise You that the preaching of Christ is Your method
of drawing souls unto Him.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning