Study on the book of Jude - Bible

1. The Gospels
Acts of the Apostles
Paul’s Letters
Other Letters
Revelation
A New Testament Journey
Lesson 27: Jude – Keep your Position

2.  Hebrews – The Real Deal
 James – All or nothing
 1 Peter – Dimensions of Suffering
 2 Peter – Darkness before Dawning
 1 John – Enjoy Fellowship
 2 John – Love in Truth
 3 John – Model the Gospel
 Jude – Keep your Position

3. EVENT TIMELINE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

4.  Introduction
 Characteristics of losing
position
◦ Usurp
◦ Unreasoning
◦ Unstable
◦ Under eternal bondage
 Characteristics of keeping
position
◦ Let God
◦ Let go
◦ Look to eternity
◦ Love mercy
 Outcome
 Discussion

5.  The author is Jude the
brother of James,
 Half-brother of Jesus
Christ.
 Addresses the
dangerous penetration
of false teachers in
Christian leadership and
 Encourages true
believers to keep our
position in Christ
 Assures that Christ has
kept us

6. The word “keep” is
repeated many times
in both positive and
negative context.
“Mercy” is also
another key word.

7. 21 keep
yourselves in
the love of God,
waiting anxiously
for the mercy of
our Lord Jesus
Christ to eternal
life.

8. Various levels:
 Fallen Archangel (Satan)
 Fallen Angels
 False teachers throughout
the ages
 People of Sodom,
Gomorrah, etc.

9.  Usurp
 Unreasoning
 Unstable
 Under eternal bondage

10. 4 For certain persons
have crept in
unnoticed, those who
were long beforehand
marked out for this
condemnation, ungodly
persons who turn the
grace of our God into
licentiousness and
deny our only Master and
Lord, Jesus Christ.

11. 8 Yet in the same way
these men, also by
dreaming, defile the
flesh, and reject
authority, and revile
angelic majesties.
(Cross ref. 2 peter 2:10 )

12. Challenging
the devil is
not our job,
it’s God’s

13. ..things which they know by
instinct, like
unreasoning animals, by
these things they are
destroyed. 11 Woe to them!
For they have gone the way
of Cain, and for pay they
have rushed headlong
into the error of Balaam,
and perished in the
rebellion of Korah.

14. clouds without water,
carried along by winds;
autumn trees without fruit,
doubly dead, uprooted;
13 wild waves of the sea,
casting up their own
shame like foam;
wandering stars, for
whom the black darkness
has been reserved
forever.

15. 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,

16.  Let God
 Let Go
 Look to Eternity
 Love Mercy

17. 9 But Michael the
archangel, when he
disputed with the devil
and argued about the
body of Moses, did not
dare pronounce
against him a railing
judgment, but said,
“The Lord rebuke you!”

18. 20 But you, beloved, building
yourselves up on your most
holy faith, praying in the
Holy Spirit, 21 keep
yourselves in the love of
God..,v 20,21
To hold on to something,
we need to let go of other
things!!

19. waiting anxiously for
the mercy of our Lord
Jesus Christ to eternal
life.
Only one thing to be
anxious about!!

20. 22 And have mercy on
some, who are doubting; 23
save others, snatching
them out of the fire; and on
some have mercy with
fear, hating even the
garment polluted by the
flesh.
Hate the sin and love the
sinner!!

21. 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

22. To those who are the
called, beloved in
God the Father, and
kept for Jesus
Christ:1

23. 24 Now to Him who is
able to keep you
from stumbling, and to
make you stand in
the presence of His
glory blameless with
great joy,

24. 25 to the only God
our Savior, through
Jesus Christ our Lord,
be glory, majesty,
dominion and
authority, before all
time and now and
forever. Amen.

25.  Characteristics of losing
position
◦ Usurp
◦ Unreasoning
◦ Unstable
◦ Under eternal bondage
 Characteristics of keeping
position
◦ Let God
◦ Let go
◦ Look to eternity
◦ Love mercy
 Outcome: Jesus keeps (from
falling/ in eternal darkness)

26. The Wheel of Life
Turns round and round
Few reach the top
But all come down
The smartest keep
The Eternal Crown

27.  If Christ has “kept us” why do we need to
“keep our position”?
 What steps to we need to take to keep our
position?
 While ungodly leaders pollute the ranks of
godly leaders, what response does Jude
indicate to this?
 What warnings and assurances do we find in
this book?