Ministry Anointing Isaiah 50:1-9, Isaiah 61:1-4, Jeremiah 1:4-12
Saturday – May 25, 2024, Iyar 17, 5784
JUDE – PART THIRTY-SEVEN
Video link: https://youtu.be/xTVjwfdPdAE
Greetings dear ones and welcome back to this instructive study of the Bible Book of Jude. Although this Book is short it is full of instruction for the wise.
Proverbs 9:9 (KJV)
9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
The main purpose in the mind of Jude when he sat down to write this letter (Epistle) is found in the following verse.
Jude 1:3 (KJV)
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
It was vital that those to whom he was writing that they “should earnestly contend for the faith” but it is no less vital for us today. He is not talking about our or others “interpretation” of Scripture but what the Scripture actually says placed in the full context of the full counsel of Scripture. Jude then goes on to discuss the extreme danger of not clinging to the Truth, the faith as it was delivered. He, Jude, then cites examples of those who were once Gods’ people but let go of their faith (headed to Heaven) and were lost (headed to Hell).
Jude 1:5 (KJV)
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Now, let’s pick up with our primary Bible text for today. Please continue to read out loud.
Jude 1:12-14 (KJV)
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
In verse twelve Jude is talking about unholy people who are among us and may in some respects look like us, act like us, and profess a common faith, but they are not of the Kingdom of God. These are the tares, the weeds, the enemy has sown among us. Now, let’s look for a moment on the phrase “spots in your feasts of charity”. It turns out that the short phrase “feasts of charity” is actually the Greek word agapē which is the highest love reserved only for God and people. You will recall that this Godly love which all Christians are capable of expressing has its main foundation is doing the Word of God, living a selfless lifestyle, and abiding by Blood Covenant. Jude is telling us that these imposters are degrading the testimonies of those walking in true love (agapē), contending day in and day out for the faith as it was delivered. These people are to be identified, brought to a knowledge of the Truth, and separated from if they continue to reject the Truth.
Lord willing, I will pick up right here next week. The Lord is good and He cannot lie!
By: Dr. David R. Wood, Author, Bible Teacher, and Prophetic Voice
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