Jude does not actually use the word “apostate” to describe these ungodly false prophets. He often just says, “These…” (Jude 16; cf. vss. 19, 14, 12, 10, etc.). “These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts…” (Jude 16; cf. II Peter 3:3). APOSTATES MURMUR AND COMPLAIN; APOSTATES WALK AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS; APOSTATES ARE CARNAL AND SENSUAL. We must take our stand against all religious error – Romanism, liberalism, ecumenism, new-evangelicalism, the seeker-friendly movement, etc. This is the great theme of the little book of Jude – “that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 3). In Paul's epistles he warns of legalism and gnosticism. He says in I Timothy 6:20, 21, “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.”
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James J. Barker is a graduate of Tabernacle Baptist Bible College, Virginia Beach, Virginia. He started Bible Baptist Church, May 1990, in Queens, NY. The LORD commissioned him to minister in the new location of Elmont, NY in 1998. The church has moved from storefront to tent...
