LETTER OF JUDE (Part 6)

[Leonardo Von]

LETTER OF JUDE (Part 6)

a)    They haven’t the Holy Spirit and, for this, doesn’t belong to Him (aren’t new creature):
I.    Rom 8:5-9 -> “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

•    Jud 1:19 -> “It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.”.

All of this reveals that the measure of the sins of the false teachers is full to the divine judgment.
2 - How jeopardous are their doctrines?
a)    The peril of losing Jesus’ promise (including the eternal life for not trusting that He watches over His word to perform it):

•    Jud 1:5 -> “I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not.”

Rejecting the authority and power of the word of the Creator, they decided to go back to Egypt, instead of going ahead to their inheritance:
    
b)    The hazard of being imprisioned in everlasting chains under full darkness for desiring more of Jesus or His boons than was designed for them:

•    Jud 1:6 -> “And the angels who kept not their principality but forsook their own habitation, he hath reserved under darkness in everlasting chains, unto the judgment of the great day.”.

Neglecting the authority given to them, these angels tried to approach of the Creator alone (without the angels who comprised their ministry). At first, as the sinned didn’t exist, these angels were well-intended. They desired to be closer to the Creator in order to feel inside themselves the greatness of His peace, love and joy (have more intimacy with Him).

At first, this can sound good. However, it is good to recall that, in the Old Testament there are two laws:

•    Mat 22:37-39 -> “And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”.
 
In the New Testament Jesus enjoined:

•    Joh 13:34 -> “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.”.

Have a good day. Tomorrow we will carry on.