Jude

Brother Of James
Half Brother Of Jesus
A.D. 65-80 (1-2 Peter)
Warning To False Teachers And Believers
For even His brothers did not believe in Him.
John 7:5

Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ: Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
Jude 1-2

Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting
you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
Jude 3

For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 4

But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
Jude 5

And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;
Jude 6

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Jude 7

Three Well Known Examples Of Apostasy In The Old Testament

Israel – Numbers 14
Saved People
The Angels – Genesis 6
Angels
Sodom and Gomorrah – Genesis 19 Unsaved People

“The word “strange” is the translation of the Greek word Heteras which means ‘another of a different kind.’ In committing this sin of fornication, the angels transgressed the limits of their own kind, and invaded the realm of another order of being. The sin of Sodom was the transgression of the male beyond the limitations imposed by God.”

Love Has Boundaries
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
Jude 8-9

But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
Jude 10-11

Examples

Cain – Genesis 4:1-7
Withheld First And Best From God

Balaam – Numbers 22-25
Prophet For Hire

Korah – Numbers 16
Rebelled Against Moses

These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
Jude 12-13

Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
Jude 14-15

Apostates Predicted
These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words,
flattering people to gain advantage. But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Jude 16-17

how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.  These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.
Jude 18-19

Maintain Your Life With God
But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. (RAPTURE?)
Jude 20-21

And on some have compassion,
making a distinction; but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.
Jude 22-23

Go easy on those who hesitate in the faith. Go after those who take the wrong way. Be tender with sinners, but not soft on sin. The sin itself stinks to high heaven.
Jude 22-23 MSG

The Soul Winner For Christ

Win Some With Compassion
Drugs, Alcohol, And Addictions

Win Some With Boldness
False Religions And Cultic Beliefs

Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you
faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever. Amen.
Jude 24-25