1. Jude 1:20–22 (ESV)
  2. Application

Knowing Your Own Weakness

Jude 1:20–22 (ESV)

20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

It is not condemning a person to tell that person: go, and sin no more. This is the model that Christ has given us, and exactly what our response ought to be. It is lamentable that often those who have decried the sin of homosexuality (and let us never escape the conspicuous reality of Scripture: it is a sin)...have elevated themselves to some level of spiritual superiority in their cry against sin. They seem to have forgotten the fact that everyone of us is capable of committing any sin that can be committed and, given the right provocation and temptation, would do so. And the only reason we have not, is because God has graciously restrained us from our potentials, and it is in this spirit that we must approach every sinner. Never as one who is superior to them, but as one who knows God's truth which, were it not for Christ, would condemn us all, and appeals to them as Christ did. It is not a matter of personal condemnation, but go, and sin no more.1

John McKnight