Jude 5-16: Summary: A first part of contending for the faith is driving hard against a hellish drift. It's staying awake, so that our knowing is consistently full and lively, rather than drowsy and susceptible to compromise. To awaken the contending of this endangered church, Jude goes at length into his bag of Scripture. He draws out old things for new works. He reminds them of Israel and fallen angels and Sodom/Gomorrah and the devil and Cain and Balaam and Korah, linking the present perversions of God's grace in Christ to past incidents of like character. In each case, those who had some real but finally cosmetic communion with God turned heel and ventured in the direction of judgment by way of pride, unbelief, and enmity against the authoritative truth of the Word. The God of all grace makes His people godly, but where grace is used to promote ungodliness among the godly, all that remains is a fearful expectation of fiery justice. Let the church hear it. Sermon Outline: Let Jude’s charity awaken you to contention again. (5-7) Let Michael’s humility awaken you to contention again. (8-11) Let Enoch’s urgency awaken you to contention again. (12-16)