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Whom are you sitting next to and where are you sitting in the church? It could be a deadly association. Jude is the book that tells us that we are to “contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.” Why are we to be careful and contend for the faith? Because “certain persons have crept in unnoticed,” right into the midst of the church and those certain persons are those who have “turned the grace of our God into licentiousness”, lasciviousness, moral anarchy. They are people sitting in the pews who “deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.” We want to take a careful look at them to notice what they’re like, where they’re headed and why.

Jude 1-4a Jude, a bond-servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are the called, beloved of God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you. Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain persons have crept in unnoticed,… They are sitting in the church. They are ungodly persons, who “turn the grace of God into licentiousness.”

In the last lesson, Kay gave a big overview of the different people mentioned in the book of Jude. The whole world lies under the power of the evil one but when the gospel is given forth, those who have ears to hear, eyes to see, and a heart to believe, heed that gospel and come to Jesus Christ. He’s the only way to eternal life, the only way to heaven. When these people respond, they show that they are the called of God (as described in Jude 1); that they are the beloved of God.

“Beloved” is a term people often ask Kay to write down or to tell them because it’s the first time anyone has ever called them “beloved”. Or they ask Kay to write “precious” because they have felt so worthless. If you are a child of God, you are so special because not only have you been called by God Himself, but you are beloved of God the Father.

You might have had a lousy father or mother. You may have been told that you were unwanted, or an accident, but you can say, “Oh no, I’m not any accident. God planned my birth. God brought the sperm and the egg together. God formed me in my mother’s womb. You may not like me; you may not want me, but ‘God ordained that I live, and God has numbered my days when as yet there was not one of them and His thoughts toward me are precious thoughts.’ (Psalm 139:16-17) I am beloved of God and even though my father or mother might reject me, God will never leave me nor forsake me. Not only am I called or beloved but I am kept for Jesus Christ. I am watched over, guarded, cared for, and God, who begins a good work in me, will complete it even until the day of Jesus Christ. I am going to end up in heaven.” These people love to hear this because many of them don’t know those truths. When they come to Jesus Christ, they are part of the church—part of the universal body of believers who have accepted Jesus Christ—and the head of that church is Jesus Christ. They join a local body of believers and you find them in church as the CBK: Called, Beloved, and Kept.

However, in that church there are also others who have come in a different way, walking down the broad path of destruction. For some reason they have walked into the church without going through Jesus Christ, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. We know who those people are from Jude when he talks about the ungodly who have crept in unnoticed and are sitting in the church—maybe sitting next to you. They are the UGs—the ungodly—and they are headed for destruction. Their condemnation and their judgment have been written out beforehand. Not that God has said, “To hell with you boy.” No. Those people decided that they would try to get to God their own way or come up with their own religion and bypass Jesus Christ. They sit in the church and are very dangerous, deadly, and destructive. This is why Jude writes that you need to earnestly contend (strive for, fight for—which is in the present tense meaning: keep on striving for, keep on fighting for) the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. “The faith” is the word of God—that body of truth that we hold in our hands. There are also other people sitting in the church and they are described at the end of Jude.

Jude 22 Jude tells the CBK that they are to have mercy on some, who are doubting; So there are doubters in this church who are questioning Christianity or following Jesus Christ. (We don’t know how they’re doubting.) Or they may be believers who hear the CBK—for instance, the pastor might be a CBK—but the ungodly are trying to influence them or seduce them, thus they are doubting for one reason or another. Then there are the “SO”s, the “save others”:

Jude 23 save others, snatching them out of the fire; They are sitting in church but have come off from the broad way to sneak into the church and are headed for eternal fire and judgment the same place the ungodly are going but he says to snatch them out of the fire. In other words, you get ahold of them and warn them of the wrath that is to come but if they don’t come via Jesus Christ they are going to perish.

Jude 23 There’s another group, the “DO”s, the “dirty O”s. and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh. They are others in the church who have garments that are polluted by the flesh—they have sunk deep into sin.

This is what makes up the visible church, not only in this nation, but around the world. Ungodly men are sitting there so how are we going to spot them?

How to Spot the Ungodly in Church

1. Jude 4 They have turned the grace of God into lasciviousness or licentiousness, which means “moral anarchy, a lack of restraint”; they operate in their flesh. They say, “I’m saved by grace therefore I can live any way I want and still go to heaven. I walk the aisle, I joined the church, I sit in a pew therefore I’m going to heaven—what more can I do?” But their life hasn’t changed so they’re living in licentiousness. They’re living in moral anarchy. This marks them immediately as unbelievers. [Jude’s description] is a present tense, active voice, participle: “Turn the grace of God into licentiousness” is a continuous thing they are doing.

Galatians 5:19-21 Paul contrasts walking in the Spirit versus walking in the flesh—how the flesh and the Spirit are in conflict with one another. Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you just as I have forewarned you that those who practice such things (as a habit of life.) “Practice” in the Greek is the present tense form of “to do”: πράσσο (prasso). …shall not inherit the kingdom of God. These people sitting in the church, walking by the flesh and practicing these things, are not going to inherit the kingdom of God. Take that list and go through Jude. You’ll see many of these things parallel the list of the ungodly.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, (like cross-dressers) nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God. That’s what God says. That’s what God means and you’d be best to believe it because if you don’t you’re going to suffer eternal punishment in the lake of fire where “the worm dies not and the fire is not quenched.”

1 Corinthians 6:11 And such were some of you. Some of the CBKs were homosexuals and adulterers. Kay is a CBK who was an adulterer. Some of them were effeminate, some were drunkards, some were covetous, but when they came to Jesus Christ: but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

Ephesians 5:5-7 For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. These are people who have chosen to walk contrary to what God says is right. They are ungodly persons. Therefore do not be partakers with them; So if they’re sitting in church and feasting with you (and these are people who say they are going to heaven), [know that] this is their habit, their lifestyle. But, because they are in church and, as 1 Cor 5 says, they are brothers, then you judge them. Don’t let them go unjudged for their sin just because they are so-called brothers.

1 John 3:7a Little children, let no one deceive you; Each time, the author is saying, “Don’t be deceived.” What’s happened in Jude? They’ve crept in unnoticed. Those guys are sitting at their love feasts feasting without fear. They are grumblers, causing divisions. Jude says, “You let them sit there and you think they’re believers? Don’t be deceived!”

1 John 3:7b-9a The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He (God, Jesus) is righteous; the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, that He might destroy the works of the devil. No one who is born of God practices sin, (as a habit of life.) Why? Because God’s seed is in him. The Holy Spirit is there inside you and He is your power—your enabler that enables you to conquer the flesh and walk according to the Spirit. Does it mean you won’t sin? No. It means you can sin but sin will not be the habit, or governing force, of your life.

These are the people who turn grace into licentiousness. They are antinomian. They are against or opposed to the law. When we come to Christ we come by grace but grace does not make us lawless because the law gives us, in essence, the mind and the heart of the righteousness of God. Jesus Christ came not to abolish the law but to fulfill the law so when Christ comes inside and the Holy Spirit lives inside, that person fulfills the law by the power of the Holy Spirit so don’t think the law is bad. To think you’re saved by keeping the law is a losing proposition.

2. Jude 4 They deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. The word for Master in the Greek is “despotes” and means Master: absolute, supreme, ultimate authority. You think of a despot—someone who says, “You will obey me! If you don’t, it’s off with your head.” A despot has total and absolute authority. He is called “Despotes” and “Kurios” which is the word for Lord or God. Jesus is “God with us.”

Matt. 1:23 “they shall call His name Immanuel,” which translated means, “God with us.”

Hebrews 1:8 tells us that God calls Jesus “God”. But of the Son He says, “Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom.”

To some, “Despotes” (Δεσπότης: Master) belongs to God the Father and “Kurios” (Κυριος: Lord) belongs to God the Son. This is the way the King James translates it but it really doesn’t matter. It’s not something to fall on your sword and die for. They took it from two different manuscripts but the essence is that God that calls Jesus “God” and says “Thy throne is forever.” These ungodly men look at Jesus and God and say, “You will not have authority over me.”

Luke 19:12-14 Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem, going to the final feast of the Passover, going to be crucified. He knows His hour has come. He’s told his disciples this, and on his way into Jerusalem He tells them a parable about a certain nobleman who went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself and then return. He’s telling them about Himself—how He leaves heaven, comes to this “distant country”—earth—to receive a kingdom, go back to heaven, and return to earth again. And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten minas, and said to them, “Do business with this until I come back.” But his citizens (who are different than his slaves) hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, “We do not want this man to reign over us.” What does he say is going to happen to the men who said that?

Luke 19:27 But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence.” That’s exactly what will happen to these who do not know Christ—to those ungodly who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Matthew 7:21 tells us that not everyone who says to Me (Jesus), “Lord, Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven, which is to bend the knee and say, “You are the Lord, You are the Master and I submit to You.” If you are not willing to do that then you do not know what salvation is about.

These are the men who have crept into the church unnoticed. Jude has stated the problem, told us what these men are like, and now he wants to remind us by saying, “Now I want to remind you of what you already know.” Why? Because we need to be reminded so we don’t forget. When we don’t sit under the teaching of the word of God or stay in the whole counsel of God, we have a tendency to forget. But when you get with people who are on fire, when you hear strong teaching on the word of God, it awakens your passions and, as you do it, it activates and solidifies our resolve. We hear calls like this and we are ready to go to war. We need to hear these calls; we need to be reminded. Hang around passionate people who are passionate for Jesus Christ. It’s necessary for our lives to be accountable—to be answerable—to what we profess.

Three Illustrations of Apostasizers

Jude gives three illustrations of a certain judgment of those who are going to apostasize. What does that term mean? “Apostasize” is to say, “I believe the word of God, I accept it, I adopt it, I confess this,” then eventually you just turn your back to it. Apostasy means that you held something to be true, you professed it, then you turned your back to it.

1. Jude 5 Now I desire to remind you, (present tense, middle voice, participle: “I’m going to keep on reminding you. This is my habitual desire.”) though you know all things once for all, (perfect tense: “You know it in the past, I’m going to remind you of something that you know. It’s in this body of truth. You have accepted it. This is the faith that ‘was once for all delivered to the saints,’ and I want to remind you of it.”) that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. You say, “How lousy of God to do that! He saves them out of Egypt then He destroys those who do not believe.”

2. Jude 6 Angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept (perfect tense) in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

3. Jude 7 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.

So Jude is using three different examples of three different kinds of people:

1. Those that came out of the land of Egypt,

2. The angels,

3. Those living in Sodom and Gomorrah.

All of them did something wrong and consequently all of them suffered the judgment of God, the same judgment that the ungodly are going to suffer.

Group 1: Those Who Supposedly Followed the Lord

1 Corinthians 10:1-5 For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and all ate the same spiritual food; and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them and the rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness. What provokes Paul to say this? You can’t take 1 Corinthians 10 and rip it out of its context—he hasn’t changed thoughts—so you need to go back to 1 Corinthians 9, where Paul talks about running a race.

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. And everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; Paul is using athletic terms because he’s speaking to Corinth where they have big isthmus events like the Olympics. He is saying, “I stay in my lane.”

I box in such a way, as not beating the air; Their gloves were heavy, made of ox hide and studded with bits of metal, so he wouldn’t put his hands up in front of his face like boxers do today with modern gloves. Ours are light but theirs were weighty. If you used those like we do today, you would quickly lose your strength. but I buffet my body and make it my slave, Paul gets his gloves up then does a technical knockout—a blow under the eye of the person—because the gloves were so destructive that a blow like that would win the fight. Thus you work to protect your face. Here Paul says he does this to himself. Now the UGs are probably sitting in church saying, “We all have our passions, our desires… Mine happens to be women,” or “mine happens to be kids,” or “mine happens to be my relatives” or “mine happens to be the same sex. I’m just born that way; it’s in my genes.” What is Paul saying? Not that we don’t have desires or that the flesh doesn’t sometimes want to walk the opposite way that the Spirit does, but rather, “I deliver a technical knockout to my body. I make my body my slave, because if I don’t then I’m going to be disqualified.”

…lest possibly, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified. The word for disqualified is “adokimos” (άδόκιμος). “Dokimos” means “approved”. Putting “a” before it means “without”, therefore “adokimos” means “without approval”.

The called, beloved and kept are going to sit in the church and be tempted. But the way you know that you are called, beloved and kept is because God has a hold of you and you have a hold of God. God keeps you from stumbling and presents you blameless so it doesn’t matter what your drive or your passion is. It doesn’t matter what your past is. If you are a child of God you have the Spirit of God living inside of you. He is the engine under the hood giving you the power to go God’s way. If there’s no engine under the hood supplying power then you’re just sitting there looking like a car but without the power to perform like one. You have all the externals but you don’t have the internal to lead you to righteousness.

The way you know that you are truly saved is that you will persevere. You will bring your body under subjection. You will walk by the Spirit. Yes, you will fail but it will not be the habit of your life because God’s seed is in you so that you cannot habitually practice sin. Does this make you doubt your salvation? Good, because Kay wants to snatch you out of the fire if necessary.

You may be the doubter, so let’s understand it. Paul doesn’t want you to be unaware. He doesn’t want to be disqualified. It will show that I’m really God’s if I buffet my body and bring it under subjection. There were a whole passel of Jews who came out of the land of Egypt, all under the cloud, all baptized or united with Moses and the cloud. They all walked through the sea with the walls of water on each side. They all ate the manna every morning; they all drank from the spiritual rock that was smitten which was a picture of Jesus Christ. They had all the benefits that you can get by sitting in church, experiencing the moving of the Holy Spirit, hearing the word of God, seeing God and hearing about God doing wonderful things in answer to prayer.

You can sit there and be just like the children of Israel who have all these wonderful experiences, you can get goose bumps, you can say “Hallelujah” like Rasputin did, you can even do miracles. But what proves that you are a child of God is not the miracles, not prophecy, not the casting out of demons as Matthew 7 says, but it is doing the will of God, which is that you believe and, consequently, you obey.

1 Corinthians 10:5-6 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness. Now these things happened as examples for us, that we should not crave evil things, as they also craved. The children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt under all this power and the display of the power of God yet most of them perished in the wilderness. Why? They had the experience and the opportunity, but who believed God? Moses, Aaron (and Aaron blew it but he didn’t stay that way), Joshua, Caleb (when they went in to spy out the land). But all the rest died in the wilderness just as Corinthians tells you. Why? See Hebrews 3, an awesome book! There is no other book like it. This is an interesting passage.

Hebrews 3:6 but Christ (in contrast to Moses) was faithful as a Son over His house whose house we are, (a genuine house, genuine church) if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end. What’s the boast of our hope? Heaven.

1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they were out, in order that it might be shown that they all are not of us.

Hebrews 3:6-11 …if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end. In other words, perseverance in the faith is the evidence of your salvation. It’s not the way that you’re saved, but it’s the manifestation that you’re really saved. Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me, as in the day of the trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tried Me by testing Me, and saw My works for forty years. Therefore I was angry with this generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; and they did not know My ways’; They followed, they experienced it, but their hearts were not His; their hearts had not been circumcised. They never learned His ways—they just wanted to follow their own ways. As I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter My rest.’”

Hebrews 3:12 Take care, brethren, lest there should be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart, (Who are you sitting next to in church? Watch that there is not an evil unbelieving heart among you) in falling away from the living God. I embrace Him, then I fall away. What is that? Apostasy.

Hebrews 3:13-14, 18-19 But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end; And to whom did He swear that they should not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient? And so we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief. The author considers “disobedience” and “unbelief” as synonymous terms. That’s what Jude is warning about.

Hebrews 4:11-16 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, (that rest of faith, that rest of the promise of eternal life) lest anyone fall through following the same example of disobedience. For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need. Grace to keep us from sin. They (the ungodly) turned the grace of God into licentiousness. They’re concept of grace led them into sin.

Group 2: Those Who Abandoned Their Proper Abode

Jude 6 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.

You don’t have to believe it [the explanation below]. Kay says people have written her irate letters over this but she is in good company with some theologians. Who are these angels that did not keep their proper abode? All we can do is search the Scriptures to find out what we can and not go any further. Jude talks about angels who did not keep their proper abode. He takes those angels and likens them to Sodom and Gomorrah where men went after strange flesh. Because Jude parallels these two, we have to pay attention. Peter, though, did not do this, but Jude does? Did Peter get his stuff from Jude, or did Jude get his stuff from Peter? Neither, they both got it from the Lord, if we understand where the Bible comes from. Jude gives us another insight. Who might these angels be?

Genesis 6:1-3 Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, (to men) that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. God is telling us this for a purpose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” Why does he tell us this? “Sons of God” in the Old Testament only refers to angels. The term is only used in Job.

Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. Where is God? He’s in heaven. So where is Satan and the sons of God? In heaven.

Job 2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord.

Job 38:4a, 5a, 7 God is questioning Job here. Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Well, Job wasn’t there. No one was there. Who set its measurements, since you know? God is talking about establishing the earth, creating the earth: When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Who are the “sons of God”? It’s only used of angels in the Old Testament. What about “sons of men” If he is saying that the “sons of men” cohabitated with the “daughters of men”, then it must be human flesh with human flesh [therefore “sons of men” are human]. Why does he say that the “sons of God” came down to the daughters of men? “Sons of men” is used again in Genesis.

Genesis 11:5 Moses is the author of Genesis and he uses a different term to describe the sons of men in this verse which refers to Babel and the tower. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

“Sons of men” is used in Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, and Joel. It all refers to men. So apparently if “sons of God” is only used in Genesis and Job, and you compare Scripture to Scripture, it must refer to angels coming down to the daughters of men. But angels are supposed to be sexless.

In the New Testament, “sons of God” is used only to describe children of God—the CBK. So we are the “sons of God”. In Romans 8:14, 19; 9:26, and Galatians 3:26, we are referred to as “sons of God”. It’s also in Luke.

Luke 20:34-36 In this passage, they are trying to trap Jesus by asking who is going to be the woman’s husband in the resurrection. And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage; for neither can they die anymore, Therefore, when you get to heaven, the wedding ring comes off. You may love each other or you may hate each other. Either way the wedding ring comes off because you have a new Bridegroom, Jesus. …for they are like angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

Here, the argument is that “sons of God” couldn’t be an angel because angels are sexless. However, every time angels are referred to, it’s always with a masculine pronoun. Quit being fascinated with angels anyway, saying, “I have my angel to take care of me.” Rather think, “I have my God to take care of me.” God sends angels. Angels aren’t sexless, they just don’t marry. Every time an angel appears, you see him appear as a man. The angels appear as men in Sodom and Gomorrah.

Group 3: Those Who Indulge in Gross Immorality

When we study about Sodom and Gomorrah we will see the issues troubling the church today like ordaining homosexuals priests, men and having homosexual churches. The whole issue of homosexuality needs to be addressed so that you clearly understand what the word of God says. Kay has many friends who have been homosexuals, both men and women. She has had some who have walked into the church, sat in her studies, prayed with her to receive Christ, and for a while they left their homosexuality—but then they went back to it. She knows others who received Christ and no longer practice homosexuality. What’s the true; what’s the false? Where are you sitting in church? Who are you sitting next to? Are you aware of the state of people? Are you aware of the fact that the unrighteous have no inheritance in the kingdom of God? Instead, what await them are eternal fire, condemnation, and judgment.

Some of those O’s sitting in the church may be D.O.s. Their clothes, their garments may be saturated with the sin of adultery, homosexuality, incest, bestiality—with any kind of sin. Kay is focusing on the sexual sins because of what Romans 1 tells us.

Romans 1:22-24 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him (glorified Him not) as God, or give thanks; but they became futile in their speculations, (became vain in their imagination) and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form (of their own devising) of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. So God gave them up to their unleashed passions. Then He gave them up to perverted passions. We’re deceived because ungodly men have slipped into that church unnoticed. They are feasting with you, sharing with you without fear, laughing and having a good time, praying and maybe saying “Hallelujah”. And they are going after your children and your mates. You’re in trouble because they are in the church. It’s all right when they’re outside the church but when they are in the church we are in trouble. That’s why we need to “earnestly contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.” How are you going to know those ungodly people? Their lifestyle: Licentiousness. Their doctrine is not right about Jesus Christ. They deny His deity; they deny His authority. Jude gives us three examples. We’ll get to that third one next week, which is critical and will mesh with what you’ve learned about the angels who did not keep their own domain.

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