Now I want to remind you, although you came to know all these things once and for all, that Jesus saved a people out of Egypt and later destroyed those who did not believe; and the angels who did not keep their own position but abandoned their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deep darkness for the judgment on the great day. Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns committed sexual immorality and perversions, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire. In the same way these people–relying on their dreams–defile their flesh, reject authority, and slander glorious ones. Yet when Michael the archangel was disputing with the devil in an argument about Moses’s body, he did not dare utter a slanderous condemnation against him but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct–like irrational animals–by these things they are destroyed. Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, have plunged into Balaam’s error for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion. (Jude 5-11)

Rely on your Savior, not on yourself.

God, help me rely more on you in __________.

The background passages:

• People saved out of Egypt (verse 5)
  • Numbers 14
• Angels who did not keep their position (verse 6)
  • Isaiah 14:12-21, Ezekiel 28:12-19, 2 Peter 2:4
• Sodom and Gomorrah (verse 7)
  • Genesis 18-19
• The way of Cain (verse 11)
  • Genesis 4
• Balaam’s error (verse 11)
  • Revelation 2:14, Numbers 22
• Korah’s rebellion (verse 11)
  • Numbers 16

Reflection Question: Where do you need to rely on God this week?