Jude 1:12-16 “What Jude Really Thinks about False Teachers!”

¹² “These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; ¹³ wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.”

¹⁴ It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, ¹⁵ to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

Every part of the country has its own unique way of saying things. These are called, “idioms” – that is not the same thing as “idiots” although every part of the country has those also!

One of the East Kentucky “idioms” I remember is when someone says something very clearly and firmly someone would say, “Why don’t you tell us what you really think?” That was neither a question nor a rebuke; it is an idiom that means, “Now we surely know what you think about that!”

That is exactly what Jude does in these five verses…

He tells us “What He Really Thinks” about the false teachers he has been describing all the way back to verse Four. The harshness of his words – words that are inspired by God, Himself – ought to again make us fully aware of how very much God hates false teaching and the false teachers who teach it. Lots of people don’t care much about Bible Doctrine; but, as we can see in this Epistle, God cares very much about it.

When God tells us to “Study to show yourself approved of God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed” (2^nd Timothy 2:15) God really means it!

BTW – (and do not miss this) by “False Teaching” I am not referring to simple error. Every human being is fallen and fallible and ALL OF US make mistakes in our understanding – and even our teaching – of the Holy Scriptures.

That is not what and who God is condemning in these verses. These people are called “ungodly” over and over again; and, Jude describes them in very graphic and unflattering terms!

As you read over these five God-breathed verses, think about these questions as you prepare your mind and spirit to hear the sermon on Sunday:

How does God, speaking through the words of Jude, describe these false teachers?

How will God respond to these false teachers and their false teachings?

How could Jude know what Enoch said 3,500 years before Jude was born, since it was not written in the Old Testament?

Are there any other biblical examples of this?

What is the “four-fold ungodly?”

After all of this discussion over the past few weeks about false teaching; let’s not forget what is the True Biblical Teaching about the gospel!

I hope to see you Sunday with a smile on your face; your Bible in your hand; and your family and friends by your side!