1. Jude 1:23 (ESV)
  2. Application

Hating Worldliness

Jude 1:23 (ESV)

23 save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.

One of the great blights of the church in this [world] today is that it does not hate the garment that is spotted by the flesh. The corruptions of this world's system have come into even some of the most evangelical circles. [It has enter] under the misguided notion, that if you relax and become a little bit more like the world on the outside, the world out there will be attracted to come in and hear what is on the inside. Under such misguided thinking, worldliness has been brought into the church so that the garments spotted by the flesh are not even discerned to be soiled, and evil has come among the church.1

John McKnight