I’d like to share the following- fwiw…

In an article in FrontLine magazine, Dr. Arno Q. Weniger, Sr., commented on Jude 3 as follows:

Those verses contain the mandate! Those are the orders of the Captain of our salvation, and to my knowledge, they have never been withdrawn, rescinded, or countermanded. The job is not yet finished. Jude says it was “needful” in his day to “earnestly contend for the faith,” but the apostasy has greatly deepened since then. Our days are more treacherous and deceitful than were Jude’s.

Take a second look at that phrase, “It was needful for me to write.” Jude was not only prompted by a great need to write, but the phrase carried with it “an overpowering constraint.” Kenneth Wuest translates it, “I had constraint laid upon me.” By whom? The answer is the Holy Spirit. This business of contending is of the Spirit. It is His will that it be done! Don’t think as some do, that this sort of a thrust is of the flesh. . . . So don’t downgrade this business of “contending.” Don’t think there is a higher road for one to take! Steep yourself in the Word, and after much prayer, as verse 20 indicates, go do it. (“The History and Future of the FBF,” FrontLine: May-June 1998, pp. 11-12.)

Dr. Weniger continued with an excellent example from the book of Nehemiah of how Christians are to be builders, but also ready for battle at a moments notice.

LM