693 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 1 Book 58 - The Nation of Israel Must Be

Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 58 THE NATION OF ISRAEL MUST BE JUDE Alright, we’re in the little book of Jude, we’re winding up these Jewish epistles and this will wind up, hopefully, if the Lord tarries before the afternoon is over, Book 58. Okay, Jude, the last of the little Jewish epistles and of course Revelation is written in the same vein. So whatever you do as you read these little Jewish epistles, just realize that this is being written to Jews who as yet know nothing with Paul’s economy, they know nothing of the Gospel of the grace of God sent to the Gentile world. So as I’ve said in James and Peter and the three little epistles of John, I’ll say the same thing with Jude, you won’t find any church language in these little epistles. Never forget that. Jude 1:1 "Jude the servant (or again, the Greek term is a bondslave,) of Jesus Christ, the brother of James, (now he’s writing) to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ and called:" Well, that’s the same term here, that when believers come into a right relationship with God, God by His mercy and grace preserves us, He keeps us, and even Jude could write with that kind of language. And the true believer, now I have to emphasize the true believer, because you see, we’ve got a lot of professing believers, but they’ve never possessed. Alright verse 2. Jude 1:2 Now verse 3 is an interesting verse. I imagine very few people do, where Jude says: Jude 1:3a Jude 1:3a the faith…" Not A faith, but THE faith. What’s the difference between THE faith and A faith? Well if you’re basing it on A faith, you pick and choose. It’s THE faith. It’s an exclusive Gospel, absolutely it is. Now what’s the opposite of contending for the faith? Compromising it in my book. So we’re to contend for the faith. Galatians 2:5 Now Peter comes from Jerusalem to Antioch and he’s visiting Paul in the Gentile congregation there. Galatians 2:11a Peter, mind you, Peter, the chief spokesman for the Twelve, who had really had all the clout at the Jerusalem church, and now this little fellow, I think Paul was small in stature, confronts him. Galatians 2:11b Well, until others from the Jerusalem church came up and joined him visiting there at Antioch, he had been fellowshipping and eating with Paul’s Gentile converts, realizing that now under grace, we’re not under Law, including the kosher food. Galatians 2:12 Doesn’t sound like Peter does it? We have to stand uncompromisingly for that which we know is the truth of the Word of God. And remember, the vast majority of Christendom does not like the truth. You have to contend for the faith. Now back to Jude, and verse 4. False teachers. Paul’s got it throughout his epistles. Beware! James was warning his folks against false teachers. Peter was warning against the false teachers. And now here comes Jude and he just puts the frosting on the cake and he almost really drums it home, that the whole problem against the truth of the Word of God are the false teachers. Any of you remember that? Well, maybe God will let me in. Maybe He’ll compromise. I think God is too absolute for that. Jude 1:4a Jude 1:4b "…who were before of old ordained to this condemnation , ungodly men …" Well, that’s not the kind of ungodly people we’re talking about. Romans 4:5a the ungodly,…" The ungodly. UNGODLY. Why? They are without God in their life, see? God is not in their life. So they are UNGODLY. UNGODLY. He doesn’t have God in his life. He is a false teacher. And false teachers are not what you would call Godly people. Alright, so here’s the warning. These men are ungodly. Jude 1:4c "… turning the grace of our God into (what?) lasciviousness,…" Jude 1:4d "…they’re turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness (and at the same time) they deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ." Who is Jesus Christ? He’s God! There are some who just don’t feel that Jesus of Nazareth was God. The Apostle Paul makes it so plain that He was the Creator God. Titus chapter 2 verse 13. Titus 2:13 "Looking expectantly for that blessed hope, the glorious appearing of the great God our Saviour Jesus Christ." Our Savior Jesus Christ, out of Nazareth, born at Bethlehem, promised all the way back to the Old Testament – He’s God and He’s our Savior and He’s Lord. Contend for these things. Alright back to Jude once again and our time is almost gone. And so they refuse to believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Creator God, that He was Lord. Now verse 5. "I will therefore put you in remembrance, (to stop and think) though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, (God the Son, Jesus of Nazareth) having saved the people out of the land of Egypt,…" "…having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward (in other words, after they had escaped Egypt) destroyed them that believed not." Right here in Jude verse 5. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible