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Jude 1:1-7
Liberty Does Not Give License
Jude 1:8-13
How to Identify False Teachers
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Liberty Does Not Give License
Jude 1:1–7
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This letter was written by Jude, the brother of James to all who were chosen and loved by God and kept by Jesus Christ (v. 1). Jude longed for them to know God’s “mercy, peace, and love” (v.2). While wishing to write on a more pleasant theme of salvation he was compelled to write on a more urgent subject (v. 3). Godless men had secretly slipped in among them pretending to belong when actually they were enemies (v. 4). These apostates were not followers of Christ, but sought to wreck the believers’ faith. Claiming liberty in Christ, they interpreted His grace as license to do what their flesh desired with no restrictions. However, long before this the Scriptures had warned that these godless people were doomed.
Jude gave warning by citing three examples from the past of apostates who were destroyed (v.5-7):
- Egypt (v. 5) - an entire generation perished in the wilderness because of their unbelief.
- Angels (v. 6) - those who rebelled and left their first positions and are now in darkness.
- Sodom and Gomorrah (v. 7) - a dreadful example of what happens to those who turn from God to follow their own lustful natures.
Many people don’t want to believe that God sentences people to “eternal fire” for rejecting Him but Jude clearly teaches that sinners who don’t seek forgiveness will face eternal separation from God.Application
I must be on guard as to similar types of teaching as it pertains to liberty and license. It is true that I am set free in Christ but license does not give me liberty to sin.
Jude 1:1-7 (English Standard Version)
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day-- just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
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