STUDIES ON BOOK OF JUDE PART 4 – PRESENT CHARACTERISTICS OF FALSE TEACHERS Text: Ju.1: 8-13; 2Pe. 2:12 False teachers are described as filthy dreamers, brute beasts, clouds without water and foaming raging waves of the sea. All that false teachers do is to whip up emotions and sentiments; they go after the selfishness, greed, […]

STUDIES ON BOOK OF JUDE PART 3 – PAST JUDGEMENT OF FALSE TEACHERS Text: Ju.1: 5- 7; 1Cor. 10: 1-11; 1Cor. 6:9-11 False brethren graduate to become false teachers and false prophets. There are three examples of false teachers that were judged by God as revealed in the book of Jude: Those Israelites whom God […]

STUDIES ON BOOK OF JUDE PART 2 – FALSE TEACHERS Text: Ju. 1:2-4; Col.3:9; Rev 21:8; 2Cor. 11:1-4; 2 Pe 1, 2 A false teacher is a member of the Church who pretends to be a Christian but freely engages in lying, such a one often graduates to become a false prophet. False teachers introduce […]

STUDIES ON BOOK OF JUDE PART 1 Text: Ju. 1: 1-2; Acts 20:28- 30 In the introduction, this book written by Jude, the half brother of Jesus and the brother of James, admonishes all who are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Christ and called, to contend for their faith. Jude demonstrated that […]

DEVELOPING A HEAVENLY MINDSET PART 2 – SET YOUR MIND ON THINGS ABOVE Text: Phil. 3:17-19; Col. 3:1-4; Lk.12: 13- 21; 2 Cor. 4:16-18; Col. 2:20-23 Those who died with Christ and rose with him by faith are enjoined to set their affection on things above, where Christ is seated on the right hand of […]

DEVELOPING A HEAVENLY MINDSET PART 1 – SET NOT YOUR MIND ON EARTHLY THINGS Text: PHIL. 3:17-19; Ps. 10: 3-4,18; Col. 3:1-4 To set your mind on earthly things is to be an enemy of the cross of Jesus Christ. Whatever rules your mind controls your life. To have a heavenly minded is to is […]

WARNING TO CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS – PART 4 – DANGER OF DRAWING BACK Text: He. 10: 26-39; 2Pe. 2: 20-21; Ro. 13:11 A Christian believer that deliberately keeps sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth makes himself an enemy of God and faces the danger of drawing back to perdition.

WARNING TO CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS – PART 3C – PRECAUTIONS AGAINST FALLING AWAY Text: He. 6:9-12; Ro. 5:1-5; Ps. 42:5 The keeping alive of three important things that accompany salvation – faith, hope and charity is what safeguards a believer in Christ from falling away. Hope is the anchor of faith and charity because without hope, […]

WARNING TO CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS – PART 3B – DANGER OF FALLING AWAY Text: 2Thes. 2:3; He. 6:4-8; Ep.4: 14 A Christian believer who has enjoyed all the exclusive privileges of – illumination (imbued with saving knowledge); tasted of the heavenly gift; partaken of the Holy Ghost; tasted the good word of God and experienced the […]

WARNING TO CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS – PART 3A – DANGER OF IMMATURITY Text: He. 5:11- 6: 11; Jn. 16:12; 1Pe. 2: 2; 1Ti. 4: 15; 2Pe. 3:18; Mt. 5:48; Acts 20:32 Spiritual immaturity and dullness of hearing go hand – in – hand. Christian believers who do not grow into maturity are unskillful in the word […]