Today’s passage: Jude 17-23
Helpful thoughts:
- It shouldn’t surprise us when false teachers and false Christians stir up division in the church. The Apostles told us this would happen.
- This warning gives us reason to be diligent, alert and active in our faith (Verses 20-22).
- When Jude uses the phrase, “The last time” he is referring to the time of the Church. We often think of the last time as the Tribulation and Millennial Kingdom (From our vantage point). But Jude is simply referring to the time after the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ…the Church Age.
- The exhortations in this passage help clarify something for us…being part of a church is not merely a recreational activity. There is a war being waged (Ephesians 6:10-12).
Questions to consider:
- What source of division in the church is mentioned in this passage? How might division be caused by those mentioned in the book of Jude? What are some general solutions to church division?
- What are the actions given which characterize a person who is being “built up in the most holy faith?” What kinds of things do Christians do in the midst of the spiritual warfare we are in (Verses 20-23)?
- Why is it right (And so very poignant) to call evangelism, “Snatching them out of the fire?” Though we can not force anyone or argue anyone into repentance, what reality should embolden us to share the Gospel with the lost?