If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Jude, the little book right at the end of the New Testament, just before the book of Revelation. We’re in the third of five studies in this book, and we come now to the heart of the book's pastoral concern. From Jude 5 down to about Jude 23, Jude gives us both a negative and a positive pastoral assessment of the situation. Last week when we were looking at the introduction of his main thesis and concern in Jude 3 and 4, we saw Jude stress that truth matters, what a Christian believes matters greatly. And he showed great concern over the false teaching of some in the Christian church. It was leading some astray, and he wanted these Christians to hold fast to the truth of God's word. He wanted them to have a sound…