"There is something unspeakably solemn in this severe indictment of those who, professedly followers of Christ and servants of God, really walk in a self-chosen path, and are elsewhere described as 'enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things' (Phil. 3:18, 19). Be it carefully remembered that, throughout Jude's warning letter, the evil-workers referred to are not those who, outside the circle of profession, are confessedly the opponents of the truth of God; but they are a self-seeking, worldly-minded, mammon-actuated class inside the nominal church, who make their profession of faith in the Lord Jesus a cover for their own selfish ends. They are often looked upon as leaders of Christian thought and champions of truth and righteousness. But underlying all they say and do, there is the open, or covert, denial of everything that really makes for godliness. To the heavenly calling they are strangers; hence their aim and object is to advance their own interests in this world. They dwell upon earth…Their place and portion are in this scene, not up there, where Christ as Man glorified sits…at the right hand of God." – Dr. Henry A. Ironside (A.D. 1876 – 1951)"There is something unspeakably solemn in this severe indictment of those who, professedly followers of Christ and servants of God, really walk in a self-chosen path, and are elsewhere described as 'enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things' (Phil. 3:18, 19). Be it carefully remembered that, throughout Jude's warning le |
