Jude 1:8-25
Sunday School
8/16/2020
Outline:
I. \\#1-2\\ Introduction
A. \\#1\\ Author
B. The Recipients
C. \\#2\\ The Blessing
D. Thoughts
II. \\#3\\ The Purpose
A. First Purpose - It was to inform them.
B. Second Purpose - It has become to charge them.
III. \\#4\\ The Problem
IV. \\#5-23\\ Jude’s Objectives
A. \\#5,17 \\To REMIND us
B. \\#8-16\\ To WARN us
C. \\#17-19\\ To REMIND us more.
D. \\#20-23\\ To CHALLENGE us.
V. \\#24-25\\ Closing
IV. \\#5-23\\ Jude’s Objectives
A. \\#5,17 \\To REMIND us
B. \\#8-16\\ To WARN us - While Jude continued to remind his
readers of truths they needed to remember, he also wanted to
warn of the deceptive saboteurs.
1. \\#8\\ Jude warned the saved where the infiltrators got
their theology.
Jude 1:8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers
defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak
evil of dignities.
a. "these filthy dreamers" - They dreamed it up. Some
people’s theology has very little Bible basis and a
lot of conjecture.
b. All who handle the Bible (myself included) must be
watched carefully to be sure we do not "read" into
the Scripture what is not there.
c. What may be good preaching could also be fanciful
dreaming.
2. \\#8-9\\ Jude warned concerning what they had done.
a. \\#8\\ They had "defiled the flesh."
(1) Jude was not specific about what fleshly
defilement they had committed, but if the men
of that day are anything like the men of this
day, it was likely sexual sin.
(2) It is strange how fornication in one form or
another is usually the sin that humans gravitate
toward.
(3) Since Jude gave the illustration \\#7\\ of Sodom
and Gomorrha, it is possible that homosexuality
is being referenced.
b. \\#8\\ They "despised dominion", or authority,
probably the Biblical authority that had tried to
correct them in the church.
c. They "spoke evil of dignities."
(1) The word for "dignities" is doxa from which we
get the word doxology.
(2) It means glorious and is used to speak of praise
and worship being offered to God.
(3) The word is open-ended, meaning these might have
spoken evil of anything or everything that is
glorious.
(4) The Bible holds Christians to such high standards
that we are not to speak badly even of those
who would do us wrong.
(a) \\#9\\ An example is given of Michael, God’s
archangel, NOT speaking evil of the most
wicked power, Satan himself.
Jude 1:9 Yet Michael the archangel, when
contending with the devil he disputed about the
body of Moses, durst not bring against him a
railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke
thee.
(b) The point being that if we are not to speak
evil of the most wicked of powers, we
certainly should not speak evil of a godly
authority that rebukes us.
3. \\#10-11\\ Jude warned what they were doing.
Jude 1:10 But these speak evil of those things
which they know not: but what they know
naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they
corrupt themselves.
a. \\#10\\ They are speaking of "things which they know
not."
(1) They were speaking out of ignorance.
(2) Since these ungodly men were inside the church,
they were probably speaking ignorantly about
God, sin, salvation, and the Bible.
b. \\#10\\ "these speak EVIL of those things which they
know not" - Even though they were ignorant of their
topic, they felt confident enough to speak evil of
it.
c. \\#10\\ They were speaking about "what they could know
naturally," from the natural mind.
(1) They were using the only tools available to an
unregenerate man: intelligence, logic, and
philosophy.
(2) That is opposed to having spiritual discernment.
(3) The human mind with all of its reason and logic
cannot comprehend, appreciate, or understand
spiritual truth.
1Cor 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the
words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the
Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things
with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things
of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness
unto him: neither can he know [them], because
they are spiritually discerned.
d. \\#10\\ "in those things, they corrupt themselves"
(1) The sinful condition does not stand still.
(2) Those given to it, continuously go further into
it.
Jude 1:11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in
the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error
of Balaam for reward, and perished in the
gainsaying of Core.
e. \\#11\\ They are following the bad examples of:
(1) Again, Jude picked three Biblical characters
which at first may seem unrelated, but they are
all examples of men who were self-deceived.
(a) Cain (Gen 4) - Doing what was right in his
own eyes, he slew his own brother.
(b) Balaam (Num 22-24, 31:8,16) - Chose riches,
fame and position over spiritual power.
(c) Core (Korah, Num 16) - Thinking himself a
spiritual man while he was carnal and
standing against God.
(2) Notice the verbs which Jude used to describe
their journey into judgment.
(a) "gone"
(b) "ran greedily"
(c) "perished"
4. \\#12-13, 16\\ Jude warned what these people are like.
Jude 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of
charity, when they feast with you, feeding
themselves without fear: clouds they are without
water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit
withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up
by the roots;
a. \\#12\\ They are spots or blemishes in an otherwise
perfect landscape.
(1) The "feasts of charity" would be feasts of love.
(a) This church, which was an otherwise loving
church, was being marred by the presence of
these ungodly men.
(b) One reason the church is commanded to remove
those who do not walk in the truth is for
testimony’s sake.
1Cor 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to
keep company, if any man that is called a brother
be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or
a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with
such an one no not to eat.
12 For what have I to do to judge them also that
are without? do not ye judge them that are
within?
13 But them that are without God judgeth.
Therefore put away from among yourselves that
wicked person.
Matthew 18:17 And if he shall neglect to hear
them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect
to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an
heathen man and a publican.
Titus 3:10 - A man that is an heretick after the
first and second admonition reject;
(c) In a glorious church, these dark spots of
evil mar God’s glory.
(2) "…feeding themselves…"
(a) Like any parasite, when the ungodly come
into the church they strengthen themselves
while weakening the church.
(b) And why not? Unless God and His people
judge and dismiss the ungodly, they have
nothing to lose but may gain a following
and the respectability that accompanies the
godly.
(3) "…without fear…" - While they will face God
in the future, they have no fear now for His
people are often hesitant to expose and remove
them.
b. They are clouds that have no water. They promise to
give and to provide the essentials needed for life,
but do not deliver.
c. They are trees with no fruit.
(1) That illustration teaches much the same lesson as
clouds with no water, except Jude took it a bit
further.
(2) "twice dead" - Already being uproot from the
ground, the ungodly are themselves dead; but
then by providing no fruit to those who came for
nourishment, they kill those coming to it as
well.
Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out
their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is
reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
d. They are "raging waves… foaming out of their own
shame"
(1) They are self-advertising (foaming) waves of the
sea.
(2) Such waves can be deadly and destructive, but
offer little else.
e. They are "wandering stars" with no orbit, destined to
to "blackness… for ever."
Jude 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers,
walking after their own lusts; and their mouth
speaketh great swelling words, having men’s
persons in admiration because of advantage.
f. \\#16\\ "These are murmurers, complainers" - The
ungodly have both the power to gripe and complain,
but offer solutions or help.
g. "their mouth speaketh great swelling words" - They talk
big.
h. They walk "after their own lusts" - Seeking the things
that please them instead of the things that please
God or would help others.
i. "having men’s persons in admiration because of
advantage" - They are boot-lickers and bottom
kissers, selling themselves and others for whatever
gain they can get.
5. \\#14-15\\ Jude warned their judgment is coming.
a. As mentioned before, their coming and their judgment
have been prophesied.
Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam,
prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord
cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
(1) "Enoch, the seventh from God"
(a) Enoch is mentioned in \\#Ge 5:18\\.
(b) Counting both Adam and Enoch, Enoch was the
seventh descendent going through the line
of Seth.
(c) Jude mentioned Enoch’s seventh place in the
genealogy to show how far back these men,
their coming, and their wickedness are
prophesied.
(2) "prophesied"
(a) We have no record of Enoch’s prophecy as God
has not seen fit to preserve it, but that
does not mean Jude did not prophesy it.
(b) Jude may have had access to prophecies that
God has not preserved for us or, and I
think more likely, God spoke by revelation
to Jude to reveal this truth.
b. Enoch’s Prophecies:
(1) \\#14\\ "the Lord cometh with ten thousands of
his saints"
(a) This is the return of Jesus to establish His
earthly kingdom, a prophecy detailed in
\\#Rev 19:11-21\\.
(b) God has always known the end and made it
known as it has pleased Him.
Jude 1:15 To execute judgment upon all, and to
convince all that are ungodly among them of all
their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly
committed, and of all their hard speeches which
ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
(2) \\#15\\ "To execute judgment upon all"
(a) Jesus’ return will be to judge the wicked.
(b) Notice Jude’s emphasis on the word
"ungodly," mentioned four times in this
verse.
(c) It is the same Greek word Jude used to
describe those who had crept inside the
church in \\#Jude 1:4\\.
(d) Jude’s intent was to tell his readers that
while these wicked men may be allowed to
cause harm both within and without the
church, their judgment has been planned
since the beginning.
C. \\#17-19\\ To REMIND us more.
1. Jude had already begun to put the people in remembrance:
Jude 1:5 I will therefore put you in
remembrance, though ye once knew this….
2. Now he reminded them of the words of Jesus which they had
heard through the apostles.
Jude 1:17 But, beloved, remember ye the words
which were spoken before of the apostles of our
Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be
mockers in the last time, who should walk after
their own ungodly lusts.
a. From the beginning to the present, from Enoch through
to the apostles, the coming of this kind of saboteur
had been know.
b. \\#17\\ They would:
(1) …come in the last times.
(2) …be mockers.
(3) …walk after their lusts.
(4) …be ungodly.
c. Jude was announcing that they were here! This was
Jude’s urgent message!
d. By saying thus, he like John, was saying that we are in
the last days.
1John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time:
and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come,
even now are there many antichrists; whereby we
know that it is the last time.
3. \\#19\\ Jude added more description to these creepy men.
Jude 1:19 These be they who separate themselves,
sensual, having not the Spirit.
a. "they who separate themselves"
(1) Not from sin and evil, but from God, good, and the
true family of God.
(2) In doctrine and in practice, these remove
themselves everything and everyone that could
help them.
b. "…sensual, having no the Spirit"
(1) They can rely on nothing more than their carnal
sense and reasoning for they have nothing more
than their carnal sense and reasoning.
(2) Since they do not have the Holy Spirit, they are
lost.
Romans 8:9 …Now if any man have not the Spirit
of Christ, he is none of his.
D. \\#20-23\\ To CHALLENGE us. Jude charged his readers in \\#3\\
to earnestly content for the faith. In this closing section,
he further challenged the readers to prepare themselves for
the battle ahead.
1. \\#20\\ Build Yourself Up.
Jude 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up
yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in
the Holy Ghost,
a. "building up yourselves on your most holy faith"
(1) Jude had challenged them to "earnestly content for
the faith" \\#Jude 1:3\\.
(2) FAITH here means the core or the essentials of our
beliefs.
(3) How can we content for a faith if we do not know
what the essentials of our beliefs are?
(4) Christians must know what they believe and why!
b. "praying in the Holy Ghost"
(1) To build up Christians, we must gain spiritual
knowledge through the Word; but knowledge without
the Person of the Holy Ghost avails nothing.
(2) We must speak to God through the Holy Ghost.
2. \\#21\\ Remember to keep yourself in the love of God.
Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God,
looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ
unto eternal life.
a. Jude had no problem relating to God’s love and mercy
while still abiding in truth and living a pure
lifestyle.
b. It is a misunderstanding (sometimes ignorantly so and
sometimes deliberately so) to attempt to separate love
and mercy, truth, and holiness.
3. \\#22\\ Remember to have compassion.
Jude 1:22 And of some have compassion, making a
difference:
a. Jude is not advocating for compassion OR truth.
b. He is advocating for compassion and love as we tell
the ungodly the truth.
c. This is truth given in gentleness, desiring that this
touch of kindness will awaken their spirit.
4. \\#23\\ To help others.
Jude 1:23 And others save with fear, pulling
them out of the fire; hating even the garment
spotted by the flesh.
a. For others, the fear of God will be the only tool that
could possibly pull them from the fires of hell.
b. This is truth given in force, desiring that the
harshness of the truth will awaken their spirit.
V. \\#24-25\\ Closing
Jude 1:24 Now unto him that is able to keep you
from falling, and to present you faultless before
the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory
and majesty, dominion and power, both now and
ever. Amen.
A. \\#25\\ Jude’s closing is a glorification of God’s majesty,
His dominion, and His power.
1. Jude limits the praise for God to three areas in his
closing:
a. His Majesty - A royal presence, dignity. Although we
have yet to behold Him, we already sense His majesty.
b. His Dominion - Authority
c. His Power - Sheer ability and force
2. But he could have praised Him for much more!
B. \\#24\\ Jude acknowledged God as being the "only wise God"
\\#25\\ who can…
1. "keep you from falling."
a. Those who believe you can lose your salvation believe
this verse teaches that truth.
b. However…
(1) One does not have to be falling from salvation to
be falling.
a. Sadly Christians "fall into sin" on a regular
basis.
b. It could be that the fall Jude spoke of was
not the fatal fall of losing your salvation
but the fall hindering your walk with God.
(2) One does not have to be falling to be kept from
falling.
a. Safety rails and fences are installed to keep
one from falling BEFORE a fall ever starts.
n. The confidence of those who do not believe a
Christian can lose his salvation is that God
has kept us even the possibility of falling
from salvation from happening. (PTL!)
2. "present you faultless before the presence of his glory"
a. And God can do much more than keep His children
preserved and safe forever.
b. He can preserve us faultless.
(1) God is not only the Savior and Judge.
(2) He is also the Bookkeeper.
(3) The blood of Jesus is has power so great that
it not only washes the sins we have already
committed but all sins we will ever commit!
(4) In God’s eyes, the blood has been applied and
the bill is completely paid.
With that praise, Jude’s short letter of warning was complete.
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