Jude John Stevenson 2017 Jude The Danger of

Jude © John Stevenson, 2017

Jude The Danger of Deception 1: 1 -4 1: 5 -19 Occasion for Writing Judgment of the Ungodly To you who are kept in Christ • Past • Present • Future 1: 20 -23 1: 24 -25 Exhortation to Closing the Godly Doxology To Him who is able to keep you

2 Peter 2 Jude But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves (2: 1) For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ (1: 4)

2 Peter 2 Jude For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment (2: 4) And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day (1: 6)

2 Peter 2 Jude …and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter (2: 6) …just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire (1: 7)

2 Peter 2 Jude …and especially those Yet in the same way who indulge the flesh in these men, also by its corrupt desires and dreaming, defile the despise authority. flesh, and reject Daring, self-willed, they authority, and revile do not tremble when angelic majesties (1: 8) they revile angelic majesties (2: 10)

2 Peter 2 Jude …whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord (2: 11) But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” (1: 9)

2 Peter 2 Jude But these, like But these men revile unreasoning animals, the things which they born as creatures of do not understand; and instinct to be captured the things which they and killed, reviling know by instinct, like where they have no unreasoning animals, knowledge, will in the by these things they are destruction of those destroyed (1: 10) creatures also be destroyed (2: 12)

2 Peter 2 Jude …forsaking the right Woe to them! For they way, they have gone the way of astray, having followed Cain, and for pay the way of Balaam, the have rushed headlong son of Beor, who loved into the error of the wages of Balaam, and perished unrighteousness (2: 15) in the rebellion of Korah (1: 11)

2 Peter 2 Jude These are springs These are the men without water and who are hidden reefs in mists driven by a storm, your love feasts when for whom the black they feast with you darkness has been without fear, caring for reserved (2: 17) themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted (1: 12)

2 Peter 2 Jude These are springs …wild waves of the without water and mists sea, casting up their driven by a storm, for own shame like foam; whom the black wandering stars, for darkness has been whom the black reserved (2: 17) darkness has been reserved forever (1: 13)

2 Peter 2 Jude For speaking out These are grumblers, arrogant words of finding fault, following vanity they entice by after their own lusts; fleshly desires, by they speak arrogantly, sensuality, those who flattering people for the barely escape from the sake of gaining an ones who live in error advantage (1: 16) (2: 18)

2 Peter 3 Jude …you should remember But you, beloved, the words spoken ought to remember the beforehand by the holy words that were spoken prophets and the beforehand by the commandment of the apostles of our Lord and Savior spoken Jesus Christ (1: 17) by your apostles (3: 2)

2 Peter 3 Jude Know this first of all, …that they were saying that in the last days to you, “In the last time mockers will come with there will be mockers, their mocking, following after their own lusts ungodly lusts” (3: 3) (1: 18)

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1 Peter 4: 1 -2 Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

Hebrews 9: 24 -26 For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; nor was it that he should offer himself up often, as the high priest enters the holy place year after year with blood not his own. Otherwise, he would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation he has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

1 John 4: 1 -4 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; and this is that which is of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.