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We all have heard the song “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.”
In this song we hear lyrics like “In every life we have some trouble, But when you worry you make it double”
And lyrics like, “Now listen to what I said, in your life expect some trouble, When you worry you make it double, But don’t worry, be happy, be happy now.”
There is a lot of truth to this song.
When we worry we make ourselves miserable and those around us too.
It is also true in the case of a believer over these false teachers and those who creep in.
Worrying will do us no good.
It will only cause us to frustrate ourselves and others.
It will make us not be able to reach those who are deceived or being deceived.
Worry will make us frantic and become reactionaries instead of methodical and decisive in what we say.
We will allow the worries of the world overshadow what we are here to do.
We must not worry but remain faithful.
We must stay strong in our faith in the Lord and trust Him in every situation regardless what is happening.
This is what we see in this part of this short book of Jude.
In the text we read...
We see that we should not be surprised about those who have came in and are deceiving people.
We see that the judgment of the ungodly is sure.
Those people are wicked and cause grief but knowing their judgment is certain frees us up to not condemn them but allow God to do so.
It allows us to share the truth with them and causes us to desire to share the truth with them because we know what awaits them.
When we remember the Lord’s word we know that these people were predicted to be here.
This gives us comfort knowing that the word is true and correct.
Because of this we can build up our faith in the Lord because He is true and certain when everything else seems to be falling apart.
Judgment is Sure (14-16)
You may find this comment about Enoch strange.
Who was Enoch you may be asking?
Well, Enoch was just who Jude says he was and Jude is quoting a section of a writing attributed to Enoch.
He did the same when speaking about Michael and the devil disputing over the body of Moses.
These statements are taking literature that is not biblical to show that the same judgment they speak of is the same one the prophets and apostles speak of.
Simply, everyone who knows God knows that what these people are doing will face judgment.
So this leads to God Judges the Ungodly Because It Is Their Destiny (vs.
14-15).
First we see that these judgments will befall all who are ungodly.
No one who is ungodly will escape judgment.
Those who think they are living right will one day be judged by the Lord.
All of them will be convicted of their ungodliness.
This means not one will go without charge.
We see the courts failing regularly in America because of loopholes, in this judgment there will be no such thing.
Every ungodly work will be convicted.
Every hard and ungodly thing spoken against God will be judged.
This means that all their words and actions will be charged against them.
This is like in courts now.
When one is arrested they are told they have the right to remain silent because anything they say can and will be used against them in the court of law.
This is what is happening here.
Everything they have done and said will be charged against them by the perfect Judge who has perfect records and who cannot be bribed.
So who are those who are ungodly?
We see who the ungodly are in verse 16.
They are
Those that complain without shame.
They grumble and complain about everything because nothing is right.
These are those who cause strife and bitterness to grow in the church or any group of people.
Malcontents are nothing more than those who complain.
They are not content with anything.
They must change everything in the world to what they see as the right and good.
They will delete history and anything else that proves what they believe is wrong.
They move in and through fits about everything.
Nothing is right to them except to cause division.
They cater to the sensual.
This one is of the utmost important because everything in the world these days seems to be pointed at sexuality.
You make up who you are, you decide whether you are a boy, girl, or something else.
You decide to kill the baby in the womb because it is your right.
This is the lust of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and the pride of life again.
These people will attack all that is sacred and right because they want convenience and what they want.
They charm the simple.
(Arrogant and boasting)
These same people make false promises and guarantees that cannot be fulfilled.
They take advantage of all who allow them to do so.
They move in and swoop in to those who may be struggling.
They do not care who the people are as long as they can get their agenda across.
They will do whatever it takes and nothing is below them to make it happen.
On December 22, 2008, Bernie Madoff was arrested for operating the biggest Ponzi scheme in history.
The former NASDAQ chairman had spent nearly fifty years building his business and his brand, but for much of that time, Madoff had been providing a fake product and promising investors amazing returns.
What they didn’t realize was that Madoff only delivered these “returns” by getting new clients to invest with him and using their investment dollars to provide the illusion of amazing returns for his longer-term clients.
Prosecutors estimated that Madoff defrauded his 4,800 clients of $64.8 billion dollars.
The ripple effects of his arrest and freezing of his assets spread throughout the financial world and forced some businesses and philanthropic organizations to shut their doors.
In the same way, the ungodly offer amazing promises—freedom, purpose, meaning, and pleasure.
In the end, however, all they deliver is spiritual bankruptcy.
We see these people in the world everyday doing things to deceive people.
We also see them in the church and they are causing much division.
This is why we must...
Remember God’s Word (17-19)
In doing this we expect these divisive people.
We expect to find them in situations.
This helps us to be better prepared to defend the faith.
To be better at standing up for the truth.
Jude affirms by saying that the Lord and apostles have told us that we have many warnings in the Word of these people coming.
The fact that we have them should not surprise us.
We should know and we should be able to spot them.
Just like the Secret Service in their training on currency, they spend so much time studying the real thing that when a fake appears they know it instinctively.
There is no guess but they know.
We should be able to spot the fakes just like that too.
We had ample warning from other Scripture.
Paul spoke of those who would deceive in the latter times in 1 Tim.
4:1-5 and 2 Tim.
3:1-5 and in 2 Tim.
4:3-4.
These are just some of the warnings.
We see more in Peter’s writings and John’s.
So Jude is just reiterating what has already been said.
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The presence of false teachers is certain (17-18).
They will be here and they will have influence.
They will creep in and cause massive problems.
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