Session 4

Jude 12–19 CSB

These people are dangerous reefs at your love feasts as they eat with you without reverence. They are shepherds who only look after themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead and uprooted. They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever. It was about these that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied: “Look! The Lord comes with tens of thousands of his holy ones to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly concerning all the ungodly acts that they have done in an ungodly way, and concerning all the harsh things ungodly sinners have said against him.” These people are discontented grumblers, living according to their desires; their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering people for their own advantage. But you, dear friends, remember what was predicted by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. They told you, “In the end time there will be scoffers living according to their own ungodly desires.” These people create divisions and are worldly, not having the Spirit.

Jude 12 CSB

These people are dangerous reefs at your love feasts as they eat with you without reverence. They are shepherds who only look after themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn—fruitless, twice dead and uprooted.

These People - The Apostates

Dangerous Reefs - “Bommies” - cant see them but they can sink a ship. They are just below the surface, hard to spot.

Love Feasts - Eating without reverence - Lord’s Supper

1 Corinthians 11:17–22 CSB

Now in giving this instruction I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse. For to begin with, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it. Indeed, it is necessary that there be factions among you, so that those who are approved may be recognized among you. When you come together, then, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper. For at the meal, each one eats his own supper. So one person is hungry while another gets drunk! Don’t you have homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I do not praise you in this matter!

2 Peter 2:13 CSB

They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions while they feast with you.

Shepherds who only look after themselves

“waterless clouds” - what is a cloud supposed to do - rain - new life - God’s providence

Proverbs 25:14 CSB

The one who boasts about a gift that does not exist is like clouds and wind without rain.

fruitless, twice dead and uprooted -

Jude 13 CSB

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

wild waves at sea - white squall -

foaming up their shameful deeds

wandering stars for the blackness - shooting stars

Jude 14–15 CSB

It was about these that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied: “Look! The Lord comes with tens of thousands of his holy ones to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly concerning all the ungodly acts that they have done in an ungodly way, and concerning all the harsh things ungodly sinners have said against him.”

Jude 16 CSB

These people are discontented grumblers, living according to their desires; their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering people for their own advantage.

Jude 17 CSB

But you, dear friends, remember what was predicted by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jude 18 CSB

They told you, “In the end time there will be scoffers living according to their own ungodly desires.”

Jude 19 CSB

These people create divisions and are worldly, not having the Spirit.