JUDE

1. JUDE

2. JUDE 1:12 & 13 1These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, 2feeding themselves without fear: 3clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; 4trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 5Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; 6wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

3. Spots in your feasts

4. G4694 • Σπιλάς – spilas • Thayer Definition: • a rock in the sea, ledge, reef • metaphorically of men who by their conduct damage others morally, wreck them as it were

5. Feeding themselves without fear

6. G4165 • Ποιμαίνω - poimainō • Thayer Definition: • to feed, to tend a flock, keep sheep

7. Clouds without water

8. Deu 32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

9. These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

10. Trees whose fruit withereth

11. Psa 1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

12. JUDE 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame…

13. Raging waves of the sea

14. G66 • ἄγριος – agrios • Thayer Definition: • of men and animals in a moral sense, wild savage, fierce • boorish, rude • of any violent passion, vehement, furious

15. JUDE 1:13 …wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

16. Wandering stars

17. G4107 Πλανήτης - planētēs From G4108; a rover (“planet”), that is, (figuratively) an erratic teacher: - wandering.

18. JUDE 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

19. JUDE 1:15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

20. Vine Judgement G2920,krisis primarily denotes "a separating," then, "a decision, judgment," most frequently in a forensic sense, and especially of Divine "judgment."

21. JUDE 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their ownlusts;…

22. G1113 Γογγυστής - goggustēs Thayer Definition: a murmurer, one who discontentedly complains (against God)

23. G3202 • Μεμψίμοιρος – mempsimoiros • Thayer Definition: • complaining of one’s lot, querulous, discontented

24. 1TIMOTHY 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.

25. G1939 • ἐπιθυμία – epithumia • Thayer Definition: • desire, craving, longing, desire for what is forbidden, lust

26. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

27. JUDE 1:16 … and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

28. G5246 • ὑπέρογκος – huperogkos • Thayer Definition: • overswollen • metaphorically immoderate, extravagant

29. For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

30. Lev 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

31. JAMES 2:1,9 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons… But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

32. DEUT. 10:17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

33. INTRODUCTION – Vv 1,2 THE NEED TO CONTEND - Vv 3-16 THE WAY TO CONTEND – Vv 17-25

34. JUDE 1:17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

35. G3415 • Μνάομαι – mnaomai • Thayer Definition: • to remind • to be recalled or to return to one’s mind, to remind one’s self of, to remember • be mindful of

36. 2PETER 2:1,2 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

37. 2 TIM 4:3,4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

38. JUDE 1:18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

39. G3004 • Λέγω - legō • Thayer Definition: • to say, to speak • affirm over, maintain • to teach • to exhort, advise, to command, direct • to point out with words, intend, mean, mean to say

40. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

41. G1703 ἐμπαίκτης - empaiktēs emp-aheek-tace‘ From G1702; a derider, that is, (by implication) a falseteacher: - mocker, scoffer.

42. JUDE 1:19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

43. Vines Verb,592,apodiorizo "to mark off" (apo, "from," dia, "asunder," horizo, "to limit"), hence denotes metaphorically to make "separations," Jud_1:19, RV (AV, "separate themselves"), of persons who make divisions (in contrast with Jud_1:20); there is no pronoun in the original representing "themselves."

44. Vines Verb,592,apodiorizo "to mark off" (apo, "from," dia, "asunder," horizo, "to limit"), hence denotes metaphorically to make "separations," Jud_1:19, RV (AV, "separate themselves"), of persons who make divisions (in contrast with Jud_1:20); there is no pronoun in the original representing "themselves."