Jude 1:4-5, 7-25 For certain men have crept in stealthily gaining entrance secretly by a side door. Their doom was predicted long ago, ungodly impious, profane persons who pervert the grace the spiritual blessing and favor of our God into lawlessness and wantonness and immorality, and disown and deny our sole Master and Lord, Jesus Christ the Messiah, the Anointed One. Now I want to remind you, though you were fully informed once for all, that though the Lord at one time delivered a people out of the land of Egypt, He subsequently destroyed those of them who did not believe who refused to adhere to, trust in, and rely upon Him. The wicked are sentenced to suffer just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the adjacent towns—which likewise gave themselves over to impurity and indulged in unnatural vice and sensual perversity—are laid out in plain sight as an exhibit of perpetual punishment to warn of everlasting fire. Nevertheless in like manner, these dreamers also corrupt the body, scorn and reject authority and government, and revile and libel and scoff at heavenly glories the glorious ones. But when even the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, judicially argued disputed about the body of Moses, he dared not presume to bring an abusive condemnation against him, but simply said, The Lord rebuke you! But these men revile scoff and sneer at anything they do not happen to be acquainted with and do not understand; and whatever they do understand physically that which they know by mere instinct, like irrational beasts—by these they corrupt themselves and are destroyed perish. Woe to them! For they have run riotously in the way of Cain, and have abandoned themselves for the sake of gain it offers them, following the error of Balaam, and have perished in rebellion like that of Korah! These are hidden reefs elements of danger in your love feasts, where they boldly feast sumptuously carousing together in your midst, without scruples providing for themselves alone. They are clouds without water, swept along by the winds; trees, without fruit at the late autumn gathering time—twice doubly dead, lifeless and plucked up by the roots; Wild waves of the sea, flinging up the foam of their own shame and disgrace; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of eternal darkness has been reserved forever. It was of these people, moreover, that Enoch in the seventh generation from Adam prophesied when he said, Behold, the Lord comes with His myriads of holy ones ten thousands of His saints To execute judgment upon all and to convict all the impious unholy ones of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the severe abusive, jarring things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him. These are inveterate murmurers grumblers who complain of their lot in life, going after their own desires controlled by their passions; their talk is boastful and arrogant, and they claim to admire men’s persons and pay people flattering compliments to gain advantage. But you must remember, beloved, the predictions which were made by the apostles the special messengers of our Lord Jesus Christ the Messiah, the Anointed One. They told you beforehand, In the last days in the end time there will be scoffers who seek to gratify their own unholy desires, following after their own ungodly passions. It is these who are agitators setting up distinctions and causing divisions—merely sensual creatures, carnal, worldly-minded people, devoid of the Holy Spirit and destitute of any higher spiritual life. But you, beloved, build yourselves up founded on your most holy faith make progress, rise like an edifice higher and higher, praying in the Holy Spirit; Guard and keep yourselves in the love of God; expect and patiently wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ the Messiah—which will bring you unto life eternal. And refute so as to convict some who dispute with you, and on some have mercy who waver and doubt. Strive to save others, snatching them out of the fire; on others take pity but with fear, loathing even the garment spotted by the flesh and polluted by their sensuality. Now to Him Who is able to keep you without stumbling or slipping or falling, and to present you unblemished blameless and faultless before the presence of His glory in triumphant joy and exultation with unspeakable, ecstatic delight— To the one only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory splendor, majesty, might and dominion, and power and authority, before all time and now and forever unto all the ages of eternity. Amen so be it.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:25:30 +0000
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015