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Apostates Predicted

16 These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they amouth great swelling words, bflattering people to gain advantage.  
17 aBut you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:  
18 how they told you that athere would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.  
19 These are1 sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.  

Maintain Your Life with God

20 But you, beloved, abuilding yourselves up on your most holy faith, bpraying in the Holy Spirit,  
21 keep yourselves in the love of God, alooking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.  
22 And on some have compassion,1 making a distinction;  
23 but aothers save with fear, bpulling them out of the fire, hating even cthe garment defiled by the flesh. 
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Jude 1:18

"Ungodly lusts" obviously do not come from God but from the world. They come from Satan.

John W. Ritenbaugh
The Wisdom of Men and Faith

Related Topics: Lust | Lust as a Trait of Satan | Lusts Come from Satan | Ungodly Lusts



Jude 1:15-19

Verse 15 emphasizes ungodliness. These false ministers are the total opposite of what God is, and if we know what God is—what godliness is—then we can identify and avoid them.

Jude then gives four more descriptors to help us identify false teachers: 1) They are discontented murmurers and complainers. They always have something to gripe about. Discontent with their lot in life, they find fault with everything. Nothing is ever right for them. 2) They live to satisfy their every desire, a trait Jude has already explained thoroughly. 3) They speak bombastic bragging words, and 4) they are respecters of persons, if it will benefit them. They will do anything to get ahead.

In verse 17, we were warned that such people will enter the church and try to ruin it, so we have no excuse. They are here already, and we need to make sure they do not stay here by keeping an eye out for them and giving no quarter to them when they begin their ungodly work.

Jude then gives three final descriptions of them in verse 19. He calls them 1) "sensual" or worldly. They are based totally in this world, in the realm of the five senses. They have no connection to the heavenly. 2) They "cause divisions," meaning when they appear, the congregation begins taking sides. 3) He ends his description with the opposite of his description of true church members in verse 1: False teachers do not have God's Spirit. They are not of us. They may be among us, but they are not God's spiritual children (Romans 8:9-17). We can see from their fruits that the spirit they have is not God's.

With these descriptions of false teachers, we can be more confident in testing the spirits (I John 3:24; 4:1-6).

Richard T. Ritenbaugh
Jude

Related Topics: Discontent | Division | Division, Causing | False Ministers/Prophets | False Religion | False Teachers | False Teachers, Characteristics of | False Teaching | Murmuring | Self Absorption | Self Centeredness | Self Concern | Self Gratification | Self Indulgence | Self Satisfaction | Self Seeking | Selfish Ambition | Selfishness | Test the Spirits | Testing the Spirits | Ungodliness


 
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