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Beloved Jude continues to show us the apostates’ doom, and we must contend for the faith. Listen Enoch the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, beloved Jude is saying that in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life. In other words, contend for the faith.
Enoch walked with God in the midst of moral decay in the days of Noah and spoke of the coming judgment (Gen. 5:21-24 ) Here Jude quoted from Enoch, who is pronounced in Genesis 5 and mentioned in Hebrews 11. Corruption is around us beloved, Jude said that in the middle of a corrupted world, Enoch walked with God, Hebrews says that Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. What a great testimony. Here’s a man that declares he pleased God. That is the very purpose of our existence, to bring pleasure to God. That’s why Jude is telling us to contend for the faith.
Listen, beloved, The first coming of Christ was revealed to Adam, his second and glorious coming to Enoch, who foretold the things which will conclude the last age of the world.
Jude applies the entire prophecy of Enoch to the false prophets, again Jude shows us what these false prophets look like: These are discontented murmurers, walking according to their desires, and their mouth speaks conceited things, flatterer to men’s faces for the sake of advantage. These characteristics are found in many false teachers even today. They are always grumbling and murmuring and complaining, discontented with God and the world, always complaining about their destiny. And yet they desire to walk only after their own lusts and desires. The false teachers also were noted for their boastfulness, for their conceited praise of themselves, of their own abilities and accomplishments. But when it suited their purpose, they hoped to have some advantage for themselves, because they will always tell man what he what to hear. "
Beloved notices how many times Jude uses the word “ungodly”. Look at vs 15, to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” Listen a sinner is bad, but the ungodly who sin without fear is worse.
They will be judged for their ungodly acts and ungodly way because they are ungodly sinners. (vs15). They use their positions and their mouths to deceive others, flattering people for their own advantage and to satisfy their own lusts. Thus, believers have to be on guard. Scripture warns us to “test the Spirits” (1 John 4:1) Listen to me beloved I don’t care who it is, you better run what they say through the Word of God,
Beloved, we must be on their guard lest we be robbed of the grace of the Christian faith by crafty ungodly men and women who pose as teachers and lie in wait to deceive. Our duty in this present state of apostasy is to earnestly contend for the faith, trusting to be kept from stumbling by walking in the everlasting consciousness of God’s love through Christ, looking to the day when we shall be presented before Him with exceeding joy.
Beloved, I want us to look at a couple of words in verse 16.
grumblers,
A “grumbler” is a chronic complainer. False teachers come into a local co
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