Category: Jude
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Kept All the Way Home – Jude 24-25
Jude 24-25 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, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. What a way to end this little letter. Jude…
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Compassion and Urgency – Jude 22-23
Jude 22-23 And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. After all the warnings about false teachers and drifting souls, Jude now asks the question that naturally follows: What do we do with people who have…
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Stay Under the Spout – Jude 21
Jude 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. Here is the hinge of the whole letter. After all the warnings, all the examples, all the pictures of false teachers and drifting hearts, Jude brings us back to the simple call that holds…
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Built Up and Prayed Through – Jude 20
Jude 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, After all the warnings, Jude finally starts telling us what to do. That matters, because the Christian life is not just about spotting danger. It is about staying strong in the right places. Jude says if you…
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Nothing More, Nothing Less – Jude 17-19
Jude 17-19 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. After all of…
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Big Words, Small Souls – Jude 14-16
Jude 14-16 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, 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…
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Motion Without Life – Jude 13
Jude 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. Jude keeps piling image upon image, and each one cuts a little deeper. Now he says these false teachers are like raging waves of the sea. They have motion, noise, and…
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Hidden Rocks and Empty Clouds – Jude 12
Jude 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; Jude keeps turning the light brighter. He is still talking about those men who…
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The Three Quiet Thieves – Jude 11
Jude 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. After giving three examples, Jude now gives three explanations. He gets very practical here. He is not dealing in vague danger. He names three…
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Blessed, Yet Broken – Jude 7-10
Jude 7-10 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael the…
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When Worship Turns – Jude 6
Jude 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Jude now moves to his second example, and it is a staggering one. Not only can the delivered fail to keep themselves in the…
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Under the Spout – Jude 5
Jude 5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. Jude is beginning to press a truth he does not want us to miss. He says, in essence, “I know you…
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Grace Is Not Permission – Jude 4
Jude 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Jude wastes no time telling us what the danger was. Certain men had slipped in…
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A Holy Interruption – Jude 3
Jude 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. Jude sat down to write one kind of letter, but the Spirit…
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Kept Before the Battle – Jude 1:1-2
Jude 1:1-2 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. Right away, Jude says something worth noticing. He does not introduce himself as the brother of Jesus. He…
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Background to Jude
There are some letters you read slowly because they are hard to understand. Then there are other letters you read slowly because every line lands with unusual force. Jude is that kind of letter. It is brief, direct, and packed tight with meaning. He writes only a few verses, yet nearly every one of them…