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• That Jude Dude – But You – Part 5

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  (Click here to search for all the posts in this series…) Jude 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, (NKJV) Jude spends the bulk of the letter describing and warning about false teachers. Rather than ending with comments on what to do with them, or how to do it, Jude instead gives us a rapid fire list of things WE should do, and be, that will equip and prepare us to deal with false teachers when they come into our midst: Jude 20-25 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ [...]

   

• That Jude Dude – Bombs Away – Part 4

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  (Click here to search for all the posts in this series…) Jude 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, (NKJV) In verses 3-11, Jude warns about the presence and behavior of false teachers in the early church. He continues with a good old-fashioned, carpet-bombing of them: Jude 12-19 (emphasis mine) These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. Now Enoch, the seventh from [...]

   

• That Jude Dude – War Time – Part 3

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  (Click here to search for all the posts in this series…) Jude 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, (NKJV) Today we are going to look at verses 3-11. Keep in mind the overall point of Jude’s letter: false teachers in the Church.Jude 3-4 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord [...]

   

• That Jude Dude – Security – Part 2

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  (Click here to search for all the posts in this series…) Jude 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, (NKJV) I’m always amazed at how much truth there is in even the Bible verses we quickly skip past. The “welcome” verses of Jude are a goldmine of theology:Jude 1-2 Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, To those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ: Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. (NKJV)First, we can be sure that Jude is writing to Christians – not unbelievers, not the world, not pagans – but Believers. “To those who a called…”John 6:44 No one can come to [...]

   

• That Jude Dude – Part 1

  In Faithful, SeriousFaith, Teaching / 26 August 2009 / 0 comments

  (Click here to search for all the posts in this series…) Jude 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, (NKJV) In stark contrast to the final book of the Bible – The Revelation of Jesus Christ, a lengthy book full of apocalyptic imagery and explosive drama – the next to last book of the Bible is brief, matter-of-fact and easily overlooked.Just twenty five verses long – not chapters, verses – it nevertheless contains a wealth of instruction, insight and history. Written by Jude, the half brother of our Savior, this letter was written specifically to Believers and addresses something that is quite astounding when you stop and think about it: Before the New Testament had [...]