Lesson 9
Jude
Maintaining
the Faith Entrusted to Us
Review:
5. What Jude is
telling us with this 3rd characteristic to be on guard for those who
fail to recognize authority established by God.
6. Its also a warning
to the apostate false teachers of his day or any day; they perished [aor.] its an historical fact
that they were judged and it is certain that you will not escape judgement even
though you have deluded yourselves into thinking that you will.
1:12-13 Danger
of these False Teachers
Jude draws analogies here from nature to
illustrate the pattern of operation of these false teachers.
These men are those who are hidden reefs in your love
feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves;
#1 who are hidden reefs in your love feasts
- hidden reefs spila,j a rock over which the sea washes, reef, hidden rock;
here its used metaph. of these ungodly F/T's who wreck the lives of others before danger is suspected, hidden danger. "unnoticed" lack discernment
- when they feast with you suneuwce,omai
refers to a sumptuous meal,
therefore social activity, fellowship together sun does not
refer to the Lord's table.
Point is that even
though they operate with deceit, hypocrisy, exploiting those they deal with,
they have no fear of accountability.
#2 Not only do they
operate without fear, when they come to the pot luck dinners, their modus
operendi is self centered, caring for themselves
2 possibilities here that must be noted related
to these F/T's.
First if they are P/T's then they are exploiting
the flock to feed their own sin nature lust pattern, greed, power, sexual,
approbation.
Or second, if they are Joe pew, their motivation
for assembly is not to gain dvpt, fellowship w/Christ or others but on self. (sin nature)
#3 clouds without water, carried
along by winds a;nudroj
#4 They are withered
trees; autumn trees without fruit, doubly
dead, uprooted
- without fruit
- doubly dead speaks to their
spiritual condition;
- uprooted;
evkrizo,w to be pulled up by the roots
Aor. tense
speaks to the historical reality that from God's viewpoint they have already
been judged, their future sealed.
The last 2 analogies in vs:13
illustrate the instability of the apostate false teachers.
#5 wild waves of the sea,
casting up their own shame like foam;
- casting up their own shame like foam; evpafri,zw lit. means to foam up, to cast up foam; waves washing up on the
beach always leave a foam at its crest as it recedes.
- Isa. 57:20
illustrates
#6 wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever. avsth,r planh,thj
- Jude says that their
future is set. for whom the black darkness has
been reserved forever.