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The Epistle
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Jude

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Introduction to Jude:
Author: Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and a flesh brother of James (the author of the Epistle of James) and of the Lord (v. 1 and note 1).Time of Writing: Approximately A.D. 69, before the destruction of Jerusalem and around the same time as the writing of 2 Peter, as indicated by allusions to the decline of the church similar to those found in 2 Pet. 2.Place of Writing: Jerusalem or Judea, though this is difficult to establish with certainty.Recipients: The Jewish believers, as indicated by the book's Jewish tone.

Subject of Jude:
Contending for the Faith

Jude

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I. |Introduction—to those called, beloved, and kept — vv.|1-2

Jude|1|-||1|Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and a brother of |1|James, to those who are |a|called, |b|beloved in God the Father, and |c|kept |2|by Jesus Christ:
Jude|2|-||1a|Mercy to you and |b|peace and |c|love be multiplied.

II. |Contending for the faith — v.|3

Jude|3|-|Beloved, while using all diligence to write to you concerning our |1|common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you and exhort you to earnestly |2a|contend for the |3|faith once for all delivered to the |b|saints.

III. |Heresies of the apostates — v.|4

Jude|4|-||1|For certain men have |2a|crept in unnoticed, who of old have been |3|written of beforehand for |4|this judgment, |b|ungodly men, |5|perverting the |c|grace of our God into |6d|licentiousness and |5e|denying |7|our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

IV. |Historical examples of the Lord's judgment upon apostasy — vv.|5-7

Jude|5|-|But I intend to |a|remind you, though you know all things once for all, that |1|the Lord, having saved a people |b|out of the land of Egypt, |2|afterward |3c|destroyed those who did not believe;
Jude|6|-|And |a|angels who did not keep their own |1|principality but abandoned their |2|own dwelling place, He has kept in eternal |b|bonds under |3|gloom for the |4c|judgment of the great day;
Jude|7|-|How |a|Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who |1|in like manner with these gave themselves over to fornication and went after |b|different flesh, are set forth as an |c|example, undergoing the |d|penalty of eternal fire.

V. |The evils of the apostates and their punishment under the Lord's judgment — vv.|8-19

Jude|8|-|Nevertheless in like manner |1|these dreamers also |a|defile the flesh and despise |2|lordship and revile |3|dignities.
Jude|9|-|But |1a|Michael the |b|archangel, when he contended with the |c|devil and disputed concerning the |2|body of Moses, |3|did not dare to bring a |d|reviling judgment against him but said, The Lord |e|rebuke you.
Jude|10|-|But |1|these revile the things that they do not |2|know; and the things that they |2|understand |3|naturally, like |4a|animals |5|without reason, |6|in these they are being |7|corrupted.
Jude|11|-||a|Woe to them! For they have gone in the |1|way of |b|Cain and have |2|rushed out in the |3|error of |c|Balaam for reward and have |4d|perished in the |5|rebellion of Korah.
Jude|12|-|These are the |1|hidden reefs in your |2|love feasts, |a|feasting together with you without fear, |3b|shepherding themselves; |4c|waterless clouds being carried off by |d|winds; |5|autumn trees |e|without fruit, having died twice, |f|rooted up;
Jude|13|-||1|Wild |a|waves of the sea, foaming out their own |b|shames; |2|wandering stars, for whom the |c|gloom of darkness is kept for eternity.
Jude|14|-|And |a|Enoch, the seventh from Adam, |b|prophesied also of these, saying, Behold, the Lord |1c|came |2|with |3|myriads of His saints
Jude|15|-|To execute |1|judgment against all and to convict all the |a|ungodly concerning all their ungodly works which they have done in ungodliness, and concerning all the hard things which ungodly sinners have |b|spoken against Him.
Jude|16|-|These are |a|murmurers, complainers, going on according to their own |b|lusts; and their mouth speaks |c|great swelling things, |d|flattering |1|persons for the sake of |e|advantage.
Jude|17|-|But you, beloved, |a|remember the words spoken before by the |b|apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Jude|18|-|That they said to you, In the |1a|last time there will be |b|mockers, going on according to their own |c|lusts for |d|ungodliness.
Jude|19|-|These are those who make |a|divisions, |1b|soulish, having no |2|spirit.

VI. |Charges to the believers — vv.|20-23

A. |To build up themselves upon the most holy faith and to live in the Triune God — vv.|20-21
Jude|20|-|But you, beloved, |a|building up yourselves |1|upon your most holy |2|faith, praying in the Holy |b|Spirit,
Jude|21|-||1|Keep yourselves in the |a|love of God, |b|awaiting the |2|mercy of our |3|Lord Jesus Christ |4|unto |c|eternal life.
B. |To care for others with mercy in fear — vv.|22-23
Jude|22|-|And |1|on some have mercy, on those who are |2|wavering;
Jude|23|-||a|Save them by |1b|snatching them out of the |2|fire. On others have mercy |3|in |c|fear, hating even the inner garment |d|spotted from the |e|flesh.

VII. |Conclusion—praise to Him who is able to guard and set the believers before His glory — vv.|24-25

Jude|24|-||1a|But to Him who is |b|able to |c|guard you from |d|stumbling and to set you before His |2|glory |e|without blemish |3|in |4f|exultation,
Jude|25|-|To the |a|only |1|God our |b|Savior through |1|Jesus Christ our Lord be |2c|glory, majesty, might, and authority |3|before all time and now and unto all eternity. Amen.
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