Jude- Waves of the sea

Recap

Jude uses some examples of nature to describe those determined on destroying the church

Those that crept in unaware

Unregenerate, not born again believers posing and acting like believers

Trying to infiltrate the church to destroy it from within.

Jude warning not of things to come, but of things present and close to 2,000 years those same people still have not prevailed as His church still stands.

Likened unto clouds

They are without water carried about of winds

Disappointing and driven by the evils of this world

Our nugget of wisdom

Rooted in the Word of God

Resolved to the Word of God

Likened unto twice dead trees

Started to produce some fruit, but the fruit withered to nothing

Again, fell short, no fruit, did not meet expectations

Our nugget of wisdom

Be determined to be a fruitful Christian

Be determined to be a protective Christian

This Week

Next illustration from nature being raging waves of the sea.

Highly illustrative and relatable considering where we live

Waves all around

Know their power

Know their unpredictability

Fisherman all the time from the cliffs here in HPP

Don’t ever turn your back to the ocean

Picture of that wave crashing in creating all of that foamy water as it goes away.

Hurricane waves crash in and leave debris all over the place, total mess.

Everyone to see

Not want to be around that till it gets cleaned up

Jude was describing in the first two illustrations was a lack of good fruit

In the next two, an abundance of evil works or bad fruit left behind in their wake

Just like those waves come crashing in and leave that foamy mess behind, so did these apostates, false teachers, wolves in sheeps clothing

It is to their shame

Their reputation that takes the blow

The church reputation takes a blow

We think of that mire and dirt and the defiled life upon that false teacher however it does being defilement on the church as well

The world today loves to find new sticks to beat the church with and these false teachers leave a trail of them

See the hypocrisy, see they are all the same, see that’s exactly why I don’t go

That shame means confusion, disgrace and dishonor

Isaiah 57:20 KJV 1900

20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, When it cannot rest, Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

Nugget of Wisdom

Taken from our local community

Hilo specifically over the centuries has been hit hard by some pretty big waves, or tsunamis

Leveled the gulch towns

Leveled Hilo Bay

To respond to this and defend they built the breakwall

Narrow

Long

Rock, lots of huge rock

That is our response or nugget of wisdom from Jude to battle these waves of the sea

To have our church not be polluted with shame

To be

Narrow

Matthew 7:13-14 - 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

It is not a bad thing in this broad world to be narrow minded.

Bible, King James Bible

Marriage, 1 man and 1 woman

Home - Jesus, Father, Mother, Children

Salvation - Jesus only

These false teachers come in with alternative after alternative, I think and I thinks

God says narrow,

Long

1 Cor 4:2 - Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

In your place for a long time

Believe what you believe for a long time

Being resolved in the Word of God for a long time

Built on the rock

Psalms 18:2 - The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

Acts 4:11 - “This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.”

1 Cor 10:4 - 4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

How do we stand up to these raging seas and protect the church from the destruction and mess they leave behind

The long breakwall

A narrow minded church; thus saith the Lord

A church in it for the long haul

A church built on the rock

That is the formula for standing up to those waves