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Study of Jude
Message Two
Wednesday night at TBC
The study of Jude will not be a traditional “sermon study.” I will formulate notes, include an ETS and perhaps and ESS, but for the purpose of interaction in the audience and an informal atmosphere, I will not formerly teach.
To guide our study each week, we will answer three questions: what does this passage say? What does this passage mean? Why is this passage important to me?
The following is a study of Jude 5-11.
ETS: Jude issued warning to the wicked false teachers who arose in the church: they were not above judgement, and in fact they were in danger of judgement.
ESS: Believers should understand and warn others that no one is above the judgement of God.
What does this passage say?
Jude issued warning to the wicked false teachers who arose in the church: they were not above judgement, and in fact they were in danger of judgement.
What does this passage mean?
Believers should understand and warn others that no one is above the judgement of God.
Dissection begins:
Many examples are used in this passage to show the fate of the wicked people of Jude’s day.
Israelites: Numbers 13-14; God did not permit those who were above 20 to enter the promised land- once saved, always saved? Can you lose salvation? Does Israel here exactly correlate with the church of Jesus Christ? (Schreiner, 446-47)
Angels: pride and lust were their issue. (Enoch and Gen. 6:1-4)
Sodom and Gomorrah: sodomy or homosexuality
V. 8 begins detailing and comparing the works of the evil ones in Jude’s day to those formerly mentioned: they were dreamers who defiled their flesh, rejected authority, and slandered glorious ones. (Dt. 13:1-5 sets forth the consequences of false prophets or dreamers [Barclay 212-213]) They defiled the flesh in their belief of the evil of human body and in their perversion of God’s grace; they slandered glorious ones- angels, perhaps higher rankingangels.
V. 9 expounds of the last part of v. 8 largely relying upon the death of Moses detailed in Deut. 34:1-6 and even more in The Assumption of Moses(an extrabiblical work)
V. 10 then returns to the evil ones, false teachers. It calls the actions of the people out- they blaspheme anything they don’t understand and they are destroyed by these things (because they corrupt them).
V. 11 then closes with a comparison of these people to historical figures in Israel’s history:
Cain: murderer implying these people are murderers of the souls of men and women; defied God and His moral law
Balaam: (Numbers 25)The one who influenced Israel to sin and rebel; (Num. 22-24)the one who was greedy and envious willing even to sin to gain personal profit
Korah: Numbers 16:1-35- defied authority and sought after his own way
Why is this passage important to me?
I am not above the judgement of God, and I am in danger of His judgement when I rebel against Him or fall into the trap of pride, lust, and defying His authority. Also, as a believer, I bear the responsibility to warn others who are practicing false teachings and sin to repent of their sin and turn to God lest they face the judgement of God.