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Introduction
We have all seen those stores in movies that have the false fronts on them.
Some may have seen them in real life.
These stores show that they are large and amazing on the front but once you get inside they are small and usually musty.
Some may even be nothing more than a false setup all around.
Much like in the movie Blazing Saddles when Sheriff Bart and the townspeople built a fake town so that when Hedley Lamar sent Taggart and his men in to destroy and wipe out, it was not the town but a phony.
Many in churches today are like these false fronts.
They look good and amazing on the outside but inside they are small and musty.
Many are like the false fronts in the false town; they have nothing inside because they are not authentic.
Some have tried to be religious and pious but when the push comes to shove, they weaken to the ways of the world.
Many will act like faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is what is important but then bring worldly worries as number one in life.
Many put on this false front and live life as one who is a believer only to fall prey to their instincts and crumble because they built their life on a faulty and crumbly foundation.
In the text this morning from Jude 5-13 we read
In this we see three important points among many sub points.
We see that no one escapes the truth.
Truth will find you out and when it does a judgment will fall on you.
The second point is that we cannot trust our instincts.
Our instincts will lead us wrong in many areas.
And finally we see that we will crumble and fall when we have weak foundations.
Weak foundations crumble.
They do not stand because they are not built on the truth but our instincts and the truth will find us out.
Let us look at the first point
No One Escapes the Truth (5-7)
In this text we see that the chosen nation of Israel received punishment when they had been saved out of Egypt rebelled when they were to enter the land.
They did not believe that God would deliver the land into their hands.
They did not trust the Lord would give them what He had promised.
They were afraid to continue on because they did not believe and were only seeing what they could not do.
The problem here is they had just had miracle after miracle happen to show them God was powerful enough and would deliver on His promises.
Fear gripped them and they did not believe and they were punished severely for this.
They wandered in the wilderness for 40 years until all of the age above 20 were dead.
The Angels who were with God and are supernatural beings who know God intimately and were with Him in the heavenly realm were misled and rebelled.
They rejected His authority and wanted their own.
They believed they were greater and more important than God.
Many of them have been locked away in eternal chains awaiting their judgment.
Then Sodom and Gomorrah.
We all know the story of this place.
They were in sexual deviancy and massively perverted.
They were allowing any and every sexual fantasy as legitimate.
They affirmed everything that the people did regardless of what it was.
They said it was okay and loving to affirm everything anything wanted.
They found out the truth when they had the chance to change but did not.
They were destroyed by fire and received their punishment for their wickedness.
These people and angels all had the truth before them but they decided they knew better.
They knew better than God they believed.
These kind are creeping into the church today.
They come in with a good front and act as if they are the bearer of the good news only to revel in their pride and inclusivity.
They are like the angels of old who rebelled.
They decide they know what is better than God did.
They say the words in our Bibles were written by people then who were writing what they understood about God then but it is not timeless truths.
They are like the character from the movie Catch Me if You Can.
In this movie Leonardo DiCaprio plays an extremely intelligent man who disguises himself as many different people.
A pilot, a doctor, and many others.
Tom Hanks is trying to catch him all throughout the movie.
He finally does get him.
See Leo was faking it in everything he did in that movie and he was good at it.
He fit in and looked the part only to later find out he was a fake.
This is what Jude is warning us about today.
There are many in the church like this.
They have a good front and look the part but are unbelievers who think they know best, pride-filled arrogant people who think they know better than God, and those who affirm everything saying this is the right way.
They have rebelled and followed their instincts as the truth and proper way.
As we see in verses 8-10...
Instincts Will Mislead Us (8-10)
Those who fell in the above mentioned verses did so because they relied on themselves.
They trusted what they felt rather than what was right and true.
As Jude says they relied on their dreams.
They think that they know what is right because it is what feels right.
They do not hold to the truth and allow it to run even if it hurts.
Remember from an earlier message, facts don’t care about your feelings.
These false front people are all about feelings and comfort.
They do not want the truth told and if it is they condemn it as hate.
Feelings have become the new religion and if you transgress feelings, you have gone against the god of these people.
They will rebuke and condemn what they do not even know and follow their instincts to be their guide in everything.
Jude tells us that Michael the Archangel did not pronounce a judgment against the devil but said the Lord rebuke you.
Michael the Archangel who is a high ranking chief angel did not even speak ill of the devil but said the Lord rebuke you.
These people are condemning and reviling the truth like they have the power to do so.
Like they know what is right and good.
Even if they did they have not the standing to pass this judgment on us who stand by the word of God.
They blaspheme and condemn.
Because they follow their instincts alone and not the truth.
They do not realize there is beauty in truth and love and good.
It is our guide.
We want truth when it comes to treatments for us when sick that will help us.
We want truth in a relationship.
We want truth in elections and politics.
We want truth everywhere but many do not want this when it comes to the Lord.
We learn two things from this.
We allow the Lord and His word to condemn others.
Even if we are angry and they are pushing false nonsense and teaching wrong we do not condemn.
We allow the word of God to bring that condemnation.
Like Paul wrote in 2 Tim.
3:16-17
Gods word will bring the judgment and condemnation.
We just do as Michael did and say the Lord rebuke you and allow His word to do so.
2. These people who are speaking this way and relying on their instincts do not even know what they are doing.
They are only doing their instinctive thing.
They are like a bear that attacks a person in the wild, or a shark that attacks, or a lion.
That is their instinct and they do not even know what they are doing wrong.
This is why we must know the word of God.
We must so we can know what it is that these people are doing wrong and so we can allow His word to rebuke them.
Not only this but knowing the word will allow us to have strong foundations.
Whereas these who have crept in and are creeping in have weak foundations.
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