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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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Jude 1:1-7
Liberty Does Not Give License
Jude 1:8-13
How to Identify False Teachers
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How to Identify False Teachers
Jude 1:8–13
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One could spend a lifetime in the study of false teachers and cults and never come to the end of it. Rather let him come to know his Bible and his Lord so well, that no false teaching can lead him astray. (The Vance Havner Quote Book, Compiled by Dennis Hester, p. 60). … More
From the preceding examples Jude uses 3 points to prove the identity of these false teachers: (v. 8):
Even Michael, the chief angel, didn’t dare to insult the devil (v. 9). But these people insult powers they don’t know anything about (v. 10).
Again Jude shows by way of three comparisons how these apostates erred (v.11):
- They are compared with Cain who murdered Abel and these men murder the souls of others (devoid of love) (Gen. 4:5). (Humanistic philosophy)
- They are compared to Balaam and like Balaam they were greedy for money, led others into immorality, boasted of prophetic dreams and visions and encouraged apostasy. (Said sin did not matter) (Num 22). (Materialistic philosophy)
- They are compared to Korah who was notorious for his rebellion against Moses and Aaron the divinely appointed leader of Israel (Num. 16: 11). (Secularistic philosophy) These false teachers are further denounced as being worthless as spots in your feasts (v. 12), rainless clouds (v. 12), fruitless trees(v. 12), raging waves (v. 13), and wandering stars (v. 13).
Examples of false teachers today would be the Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, Christian Scientist and even those who preach and teach a prosperity Gospel.Application
How can I detect a false teacher? They usually sound very convincing and have a lot of truth mixed in with their error. No matter how good they sound I must check what they say with God’s Word.
Jude 1:8-13 (English Standard Version)
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." But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error and perished in Korah's rebellion. These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
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