KING JAMES VERSION (KJV) TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT. We tend to pray for vengeance. What is the animating principle of a life that is truly and effectively Christian? Pray in the holy spirit (Ephesians 6:18).

Unknown ingredients in the air seem to accelerate the blood and spur to strenuous exertion. Of the doctrine of faith, that on which their faith itself is founded; and then the meaning is, that they should not rest satisfied in what measure of faith they had already attained, but still be improving it, and making further progress in it, not only hold fast the truth of the gospel, the right foundation on which they had begun to be built, but get themselves, by the due study and meditation of the word, more and more confirmed in the belief of it. To have this close communion with the Most High is not a distinction of pre-eminent saintship, but the privilege of all who abide in His love.

His vehemence is to be traced to the depth and strength of His love. This means your personal or individual holy faith not God 's Faith has to be built consciously and deliberately by a self discipline effort in subjecting ones self in praying in the Holy Ghost praying in tongues of the Spirit . The Holy Spirit came to glorify Christ. That it is the duty, and ought to be the endeavour, of every Christian to build up himself, and others also, in the faith of the gospel; the best way for Christians not to be losers of what they have, is to be labourers for what they want; progress in Christianity is the best means to preserve us from apostasy.Fourthly, he directs them to look up to heaven, if they would be steady and steadfast in the faith here on earth, Here observe, That heaven, or eternal life, is the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ. They assume that a broad law of betterment is at work in human history, and if there is any exception to the law, every man is to blame for the drawbacks which stint and embitter his own life. The Spirit of God helps prayer long before this ideal of praying in the Holy Ghost is completely realised in the daily experience. Things frivolous and even hurtful are insatiably desired, and the prayers presented bear the stamp of unregeneracy.

Secondly, in regard of the effect and operation, which is to make the creature, but especially man holy ((a) Rugged and unpolished, till they are hewn, smoothed, and made fit for the building ((c) Though different in size, yet cemented and united one to another.Jude, a brother of our Lord, speaks of the prayer which transcends the normal religious capacity of human nature as one of the conditions through the observance of which the believer must keep himself in the love of God and in the steadfast expectancy of consummated redemption. one can destroy in just a few hours that which has taken years to construct. 3.

No being purified by trust in that sacrifice can pray out of proportion to the rights it has secured. "The best thing believers can do to withstand the malady is to develop their spiritual immunological resources."

But ye, beloved.He shews the manner in which they could overcome all the devices of Satan, that is, by having love connected with faith, and by standing on their guard as it were in their watch-tower, until the coming of Christ. The best prayer that was ever composed is a very short one, but we must not forget that He who composed it while on earth spent whole nights in prayer.III. Cf. Jude is concerned that his harsh treatment of apostates will affect his relationship to his readers. [Note: A. Duane Litfin, "A Biblical Strategy for Confronting the Cults," Bibliotheca Sacra135:539 (July-September1978):235. One has correctly said that “Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God.” It is only by praying according to the leading of the Holy Ghost that we can pray acceptable and effective prayers. Jude is the only New Testament book devoted exclusively to confronting “apostasy”, meaning defection from the true, biblical faith (verses 3, 17).