LETTER OF JUDE (Part 3)
But, after all:
1 - Who are they?
a) They are surreptitious;
b) They are ungodly;
c) They turn Jesus’ grace into licentiousness;
d) They deny Jesus Christ as:
I. Sovereign -> They don’t believe that Jesus has everything under control (see Ps 24:1; Heb 2:8; Eph 1:22,23) and that everything contributes for the good of those who love Jesus (Rom 8:28). For this, they try to sort out the things by themselves, denying the power of piety (2Tim 3:5).
II. Lord -> They reject the authority of Jesus Christ, trying to solve everything without obeying the principles of the Holy Scripture, instead of resting and biding in Christ (Ps 37:7).
• Jud 1:4 -> “For certain men are secretly entered in (who were written of long ago unto this judgment), ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness and denying the only sovereign Ruler and our Lord Jesus Christ.”.
It’s important to notice that these false teachers are instruments of the Creator for unmaking and judging the false believers, ousting them of the middle of the true believers:
• 2Th 2:9-12 -> “The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”.
• 1Jn 2:18,19 -> “Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.”.
e) They defile their flesh fornicating, to the point of going after strange flesh (Jude 4,8,16, 18), namely, making out with those who have anything to do with them;
f) They reject authorities and rail at them;
g) They blaspheme against the glorious dignities, that is to say, they replace them for false gods and idols.
• Jud 1:8,9 -> “Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.””.
Trusting in their filthy dreams (their selfish plans based on the false idea that they have about Jesus), these false teachers repeal all instruction (whether physical or spiritual) in order to reach what sounds good to their eyes. They get to the point of twisting the Holy Scripture so that Jesus and His commandments can match on their ambitions.
They turn down all authority. However, not even the archangel Michael, one of the chief angels (Dan 10:13), didn’t dare to pronounce judgment against Ha-Satan when he exceeded in his role of ratting out the Israelites.
Have a good day. Tomorrow we will carry on.
But, after all:
1 - Who are they?
a) They are surreptitious;
b) They are ungodly;
c) They turn Jesus’ grace into licentiousness;
d) They deny Jesus Christ as:
I. Sovereign -> They don’t believe that Jesus has everything under control (see Ps 24:1; Heb 2:8; Eph 1:22,23) and that everything contributes for the good of those who love Jesus (Rom 8:28). For this, they try to sort out the things by themselves, denying the power of piety (2Tim 3:5).
II. Lord -> They reject the authority of Jesus Christ, trying to solve everything without obeying the principles of the Holy Scripture, instead of resting and biding in Christ (Ps 37:7).
• Jud 1:4 -> “For certain men are secretly entered in (who were written of long ago unto this judgment), ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness and denying the only sovereign Ruler and our Lord Jesus Christ.”.
It’s important to notice that these false teachers are instruments of the Creator for unmaking and judging the false believers, ousting them of the middle of the true believers:
• 2Th 2:9-12 -> “The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”.
• 1Jn 2:18,19 -> “Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.”.
e) They defile their flesh fornicating, to the point of going after strange flesh (Jude 4,8,16, 18), namely, making out with those who have anything to do with them;
f) They reject authorities and rail at them;
g) They blaspheme against the glorious dignities, that is to say, they replace them for false gods and idols.
• Jud 1:8,9 -> “Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.””.
Trusting in their filthy dreams (their selfish plans based on the false idea that they have about Jesus), these false teachers repeal all instruction (whether physical or spiritual) in order to reach what sounds good to their eyes. They get to the point of twisting the Holy Scripture so that Jesus and His commandments can match on their ambitions.
They turn down all authority. However, not even the archangel Michael, one of the chief angels (Dan 10:13), didn’t dare to pronounce judgment against Ha-Satan when he exceeded in his role of ratting out the Israelites.
Have a good day. Tomorrow we will carry on.
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