Overview

• First centrury early chruch life
• Warnings of Apostates within the Church
• Continue to build youselves up and seek the faith and love of God

People

• Bondservant of Christ
• Brother of James

Study Questions

• Can you loose the Love of God?
• Do we need to keep increasing our faith?
• What does it mean to pray in the Holy Spirit?
• How do we make a distingusion on how we hand Apostates or those who are acting opposite of what God has commanded?

Content

• First thing Jude does is give a blessing to the Church. (Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you)
  • Calls the Church Beloved
• Diligent to write to you concerning common salvation? - Did he already write a letter? Or inteneded to write, but changed his mind?
• Instead he writes to the church to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
  • Content for the faith? Don't have it yet?
  • Was delivered only one time to the saints?
    
    
• Men crept in the Church who turn the Grace of God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
• People who claim to be christian and sit in with believers have taught false doctrine
• 1. Turn the grace of our God is lewdness
• 2. Deny the only Lord god and our Lord Jesus Christ
  • Deny God and Jesus how?
  • Long ago were marked out for this conedmenation?

• Warnings for Apostates
  • 1. God destoryed those who did not believe after he saved the Irealites from Egypt
  • 2. Angels whow did not keep proper domain will be placed in a place of eternal darkness
  • 3. Sodom and Gomorrah suffering the vengeance of eternal fire
    
    
• Likewise these "Dreamers" (Apostates)
  • Defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries.
  • Speak evil of what they do no know. Corrupt themselves in the things they know naturally.
  • Become greedy
  • Feast witout fear, serving only themselves
  • Clouds without water, trees without fruit
  • Raging waves of sea, foaming up their own shame.
  • Wandering stars whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
  • Grumblers, complainers, walking after own lusts.
  • Flatter people with their words to gain advantage.
  • Sensual People, who cause divisions, not having the spirit.
    
    
• (v 14) Enoch, prophesied about these men saying
  • The Lord comes with His saints to execute jugement and conviction to all who are ungodly among them.
  • On their ungodly deeds which they have commited in an ungodly way,
  • and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.
    
    
• Can you commit ungodly deeds in a godly way?
• Enoch seventh from Adam? See1 Chr 1:1-2
  
  
• Angels to be judged. (v 6)
  
  
• Michael archange, when fighting over the body of moses with the devil, didn't dare the bring acussations against Him, but rather said "The Lord Rubuke you!" (v10)
  • Maybe in the same way we should not try and face the devil, because we have no power over Him, but God does.
    
    
• To the Church (v17)
  • Remember words spoken before by apostles of Jesus Christ. They told you there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.
  • The last times?

• To Church
• Build yourselves up on most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit
  • Pray in the Holy Spirit? How else would you pray?
• Keep youselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of Jesus
  • Keep yourselves? Can you loose the love of God? or the mercy of Jesus?
    
    
• Make a distinction on how to deal with people.
  • On some have compassion
  • Others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment dfiled by the flesh.

• To Him? (Reference to God or Jesus)?
• He keeps us from stumbling
• He presents us as faultess before His glory
  
  
• To God
• our Savior
• alone is wise
  
  
• (to God)
• Be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever, Amen
  • Ends with Amen (what is Amen?)