Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

Scripture

Outline

Jude 1-4 - Greetings

Jude 1-2 - Introduction

Jude 3-4 - Purpose

Jude 5-7 - Past Rebellions

Jude 5 - Jesus as the Israelites in the Exodus

Jude 6 - Disobedient Angels

Jude 7 - The Example of Sodom & Gomorrah

Jude 8-13 - Condemning the Rebels

Jude 8 - Ungodly Dreamers

Jude 9 - Example of Michael

Jude 10-11 - Ungodly Blasphemers

Jude 12-13 - Descriptions of the Rebels

Purpose of Jude

Encourage the body to contend for the faith and to address ungodly people who were perverting the Gospel/doctrine

Main Point

Jude now turns his attention to present day rebels.

These individuals face a grim eternal destination as a result of their ungodly gain.

Jude 8 - Ungodly Dreamers

Yet in a like manner these people also, relying on their dreams,

In a like manner

These people

Relying on their dreams

Defile the flesh,

Defile

② to cause the purity of someth.

to be violated by immoral behavior, defile

Reject authority,

Reject

② to reject by not recognizing someth.

or someone

Authority

② esp. the majestic power that the κύριος wields, ruling power, lordship, dominion

And blaspheme the glorious ones.

Blaspheme

• to speak in a disrespectful way that demeans, denigrates, maligns

ⓑ in relation to transcendent or associated entities slander, revile, defame, speak irreverently/impiously/disrespectfully of or about

Glorious Ones

④ a transcendent being deserving of honor, majestic being,

Jude 9 - Example of Michael

But when the archangel Michael,

Archangel Michael

a member of the higher ranks in the celestial hierarchy, chief angel, archangel

The Names of the Archangels

20 These are the angels of powers: 2 Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the world and the Tartarus; 3 Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of humans; 4 Raguel, one of the holy angels, who avenges the world of luminaries; 5 Michael, one of the holy angels, who was appointed over the good ones of the people and over the chaos; 6 Sariel, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits who sin in the spirit; 7 Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over orchard and the dragons and cherubim.

These are the seven names of the archangels.

Contending with the devil,

The Devil

the adversary/devil

Was disputing about the body of Moses,

William Barkley

The story in The Assumption of Moses runs as follows.

The strange story of the death of Moses is told in Deuteronomy 34:1–6.

The Assumption of Moses goes on to add the further story that the task of burying the body of Moses was given to the archangel Michael.

The devil argued with Michael about possession of the body.

He based his claim on two grounds.

Moses’ body was matter; matter was evil; and, therefore, the body belonged to him, for matter was his domain.

Second, Moses was a murderer, for had he not slain the Egyptian whom he saw beating the Israelite (Exodus 2:11–12)?

And, if he was a murderer, the devil had a claim on his body.

The point Jude is making is this.

Michael was engaged on a task given to him by God; the devil was seeking to stop him and was making claims he had no right to make.

But, even in a chain of circumstances like that, Michael spoke no evil of the devil but simply said: ‘The Lord rebuke you!’

If the greatest of the good angels refused to speak evil of the greatest of the evil angels, even in circumstances like that, then surely no human being may speak evil of any angel.

Did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment,

Presume

Dare to say

Pronounce

⑤ to bring charges or make accusations

Blasphemous judgment

speech that denigrates or defames, reviling, denigration, disrespect, slander

ⓑ of the judgment of one person upon or against another, in the nature of an evaluation

But said, “The Lord rebuke you.”

Rebuke

① to express strong disapproval of someone, rebuke, reprove, censure also speak seriously, warn in order to prevent an action or bring one to an end.

Jude 10-11 - Ungodly Blasphemers

But these people

These people

Blaspheme all that they do not understand,

And they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.

Destroyed

③ to inflict punishment, destroy in the sense ‘punish w. eternal destruction’

Unreasoning animals

① pert.

to lack of reasoning capacity, without reason of animals

Woe to them!

Them

For they walked in the way of Cain

They

Walked

② to conduct oneself, live, walk

Way

ⓑ way of life, way of acting, conduct

Cain

And abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error

Abandoned

③ to give oneself totally in commitment, give oneself up to, dedicate oneself

Sake of gain

① remuneration for work done, pay, wages