Exploring Jude: The Man, The Epistle, and Its Outline

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Jude: The Man Jude: The Man Brother of James Brother of Jesus Converted after Resurrection With Apostles on Pentecost

Jude: The Epistle Jude: The Epistle Similar to II Peter Intended to write on a general topic No doubt concerning authorship 67 AD Warning against false teachers & teachings. Established body of doctrine existed in the 1st Century.

Jude: Outline Jude: Outline I. II. The Danger at Hand vs. 3-4 III. The Dangerous Men vs. 5-16 IV. How to Avoid Danger vs. 17-23 V. Doxology vs. 24-25 Salutation vs. 1-2

Jude, a bond-servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you. - - Jude 1 Jude 1- -2 2

I. Salutation I. Salutation vs. 1 vs. 1- -2 2 Refers to church in 3 ways: 1. The called 2. Beloved in God the Father 3. Kept for Jesus

Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. - - Jude 3 Jude 3- -4 4

II. The Danger vs. 3 II. The Danger vs. 3- -4 4 Peter refers to the judgment of false teachers II Peter 2:1-ff They led others to immorality and disbelief.

Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. - - Jude 5 Jude 5

And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, - - Jude 6 Jude 6

just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire. - - Jude 7 Jude 7

III. The Dangerous Men III. The Dangerous Men Jude gives examples of other rebels: 1.Israelites 2.The Angels 3.The Pagans (Sodom and Gomorrah)

Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. - - Genesis 6:1 Genesis 6:1- -2 2

Then the Lord said, My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. - - Genesis 6:3 Genesis 6:3- -4 4

III. The Dangerous Men III. The Dangerous Men Jude gives examples of other rebels: 1.Israelites 2.The Angels 3.The Pagans (Sodom and Gomorrah)

Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties. - - Jude 8 Jude 8

But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke you! - - Jude 9 Jude 9

But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed. - - Jude 10 Jude 10

The Dangerous Men The Dangerous Men - -continued continued Results of their dreaming 1.Defiled flesh 2.Rejection of Christ 3.Insult angelic beings

Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. - - Jude 11 Jude 11

The Dangerous Men The Dangerous Men - -continued continued Refers to other infamous rebels: 1.Cain 2.Balaam 3.Sons of Korah

These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; - - Jude 12 Jude 12

wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever. - - Jude 13 Jude 13

Jude describes their worthlessness: Jude describes their worthlessness: A.Hidden reefs B.Waterless clouds C.Fruitless trees D.Angry waves E.Wandering stars Jude quotes an ancient source to describe their end. --Enoch--

It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, - - Jude 14 Jude 14

to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him. - - Jude 15 Jude 15

These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage. - - Jude 16 Jude 16