Good Morning. I’d like to share with you
my meditations from Jude 11-21. My emphasis are in brackets. I hope it blesses
you with true meaning as you read. Regards.
Woe to them! They have taken the way of
Cain (Envied another man’s grace to the point of sinning); they have rushed for
profit into Balaam's error(carried on the works of ministry solely for gain);
they have been destroyed in Korah's rebellion (destroy by the feelings and philosophies
of me too).
12 These men are blemishes at your love
feasts , eating with you without the
slightest qualm — shepherds who feed only themselves (Names on the Popular Scandals
that embarrass us all yet we can’t do anything about them). They are clouds
without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted
— twice dead. 13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame;
wandering stars, (These men have the clouts, the pomp and pageantry but never
really touch or impact us with any tangible positive difference. They act like
they can help us but we never really get helped) for whom blackest darkness has
been reserved forever.
14 Enoch, the seventh from Adam,
prophesied about these men: "See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon
thousands of his holy ones 15 to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly
of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way (wrong things cannot
be done in a right way), and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken
against him." 16 These men are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow
their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for
their own advantage (speak of what they have done and how we can help them do
more for themselves, not how they can help us do something for ourselves).
17 But, dear friends, remember what the
apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. 18 They said to you, "In the
last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly
desires." 19 These are the men who divide you (who bring you into different
denominations), who follow mere natural instincts (who follow psychological and
philosophical motivations) and do not have the Spirit.
20 But you, dear friends, build
yourselves up in your most holy faith (read your bibles more than anything else)
and pray in the Holy Spirit (Speak in tongues). 21 Keep yourselves in God's
love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal
life.
NIV