Title: God Is Able (4 of 4)
Series: Jude
Author: Tim Badal
Text: Jude 1:24-25
I've got to be honest, there may be no better passage for us in Jude to start our Christmas season with than the passage we have in front of us today, the doxology that is the ending of the book. We've been looking at Jude under the heading "Clear Faith in a Blurry World." We've asked God to remind us through this book that our world is blurry. The boundaries and other things God has so lovingly established for us regarding our own life on earth have been blurred by the world. Voices and influences from the world have told us not to follow God, not His prescriptions and patterns for our lives, but to follow those of our own making. We're told to pursue our own desires, our own pleasures, and to rebel against God.
As Jude has walked us through this letter, he's reminded us of what goes on in the lives of those who rebel against God. He's given us two groups of people. First is a group he calls "those" or "these people." These are people who have crept unnoticed into the arena of Christians. We don't know what they looked like or sounded like, but we know what they were saying in order to influence the first-century Christians. Ten times, Jude refers to them as "ungodly" people or voices. He tells us they're already condemned. He says "woe" to them. He calls them "hidden reefs," "waterless clouds," "fruitless trees twice dead." In other words, their preaching and their pattern of living is pointless and worthless in the sight of God.
He also writes that Jesus will come and bring judgment against them at His second coming. He will convict them for all the ungodly things they've done. He says we will be able to identify them because they are grumblers, malcontents, loud-mouth boasters. They only have one pursuit which is to follow their sinful desires. We don't know exactly what this looked like in the first century, nor how these people crept in. Was it in the marketplace? Was i ...
Series: Jude
Author: Tim Badal
Text: Jude 1:24-25
I've got to be honest, there may be no better passage for us in Jude to start our Christmas season with than the passage we have in front of us today, the doxology that is the ending of the book. We've been looking at Jude under the heading "Clear Faith in a Blurry World." We've asked God to remind us through this book that our world is blurry. The boundaries and other things God has so lovingly established for us regarding our own life on earth have been blurred by the world. Voices and influences from the world have told us not to follow God, not His prescriptions and patterns for our lives, but to follow those of our own making. We're told to pursue our own desires, our own pleasures, and to rebel against God.
As Jude has walked us through this letter, he's reminded us of what goes on in the lives of those who rebel against God. He's given us two groups of people. First is a group he calls "those" or "these people." These are people who have crept unnoticed into the arena of Christians. We don't know what they looked like or sounded like, but we know what they were saying in order to influence the first-century Christians. Ten times, Jude refers to them as "ungodly" people or voices. He tells us they're already condemned. He says "woe" to them. He calls them "hidden reefs," "waterless clouds," "fruitless trees twice dead." In other words, their preaching and their pattern of living is pointless and worthless in the sight of God.
He also writes that Jesus will come and bring judgment against them at His second coming. He will convict them for all the ungodly things they've done. He says we will be able to identify them because they are grumblers, malcontents, loud-mouth boasters. They only have one pursuit which is to follow their sinful desires. We don't know exactly what this looked like in the first century, nor how these people crept in. Was it in the marketplace? Was i ...
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