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“ Summary, Part 4 (final) ” Then he schemed to get God to curse Israel by sending in women to seduce their men. And so must we beware teachers with a love for gain. 3. THEIR COMPANY WITH KORAH ILLUSTRATES THEIR REBELLION AND BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE LORD [44:47]. Korah rebelled against Moses and Aaron by challenging their authority before God, who consumed them alive for their rebellion. There are three lessons in this: i. It represents the pride of false teachers who disregard their need for a mediator between themselves and God. ii. It represents those who arrogate themselves authority and intrude into the ministry without being called by God. iii. It represents overbearing false teachers who lead churches with proud, insolent, and even foul tongues. THREE CONCLUDING EXHORTATIONS [49:22]: 1. Make sure that you place yourself under and intelligent and godly ministry. 2. Beware of the influence of teachers who exhibit the traits of Cain, Balaam, and Korah. 3. If you follow false teachers in their teaching, you will follow them in their destruction.
Ian Migala (6/15/2015)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 3 ” ii. They destroy themselves with what they do know (v. 10b). The unregenerate have only their fleshly understanding and will follow it to destruction because they do not have the light of the gospel. II. THEIR COMPANY (v. 11) [32:20]. “Birds of a feather flock together”, put biblically, means “bad company corrupts good morals”. You can tell a lot about a person by the company he keeps. These apostates tend to demonstrate the wicked spirit of their predecessors. A. A DREADFUL CURSE RESTS UPON THEM FOR THE COMPANY THEY KEEP [33:23]. Verse 11: to follow Cain is to turn from the right way; to follow Balaam is to reject truth; and to follow Korah is to reject life. B. HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THIS COMPANY [37:40]. 1. THEIR COMPANY WITH CAIN ILLUSTRATES THEIR ATTACHMENT TO FALSE RELIGION. Cain refused to bring the sacrifice that God commanded. He then further rebelled instead of repented. And so modern apostates reject Christ’s substitutionary atonement and God’s requirements for acceptable worship. 2. THEIR COMPANY WITH BALAAM ILLUSTRATES THEIR CHARACTERISTIC GREED AND SEDUCTIVENESS [39:54]. Balaam’s god was money and he was available to the highest bidder. He disobeyed God by accompanying the emissaries but then blessed the Israelites when they instructed him to curse them.
Ian Migala (6/15/2015)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 2 ” He reveals more in verse 8: 1. THEY DEFILE PURITY [13:41]. They live carnal lives, either openly or secretly. Both their minds and consciences are defiled, and it will usually show in their teachings. But not always. We have seen big-name evangelists with sound doctrine fall into scandal. That is a warning to us that orthodoxy does not make us sin-proof. But the men in Jude are not orthodox. Fleshly living will accommodate false teaching. Cf. Titus 1:16, 2 Pet 2:10, 18. 2. THEY REJECT AUTHORITY [19:35]. They are a law unto themselves, having rejected what has already been established. Ultimately, they deny Jesus Christ as their Lord and master. 3. THEY SPEAK BLASPHEMY [22:09]. Jude cites Michael arguing with Satan over Moses’ body. The point is that all authority ultimately resides to God. Arrogant false teachers care nothing for the good name and authority of those they rely upon. They expose their ignorance in two ways: i. They blaspheme what they do not know (v. 10a). The unregenerate will often do things like call holy living “Puritanism” or “outdated”, or call biblical obedience “legalism”. They will even stand against Christians who stand with God in matters of controversy such as abortion, gay marriage, or biblical authority.
Ian Migala (6/15/2015)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 1 ” We return to the epistle of Jude, a warning about false teachers who had crept into the congregation, and examine two of their traits as given in verses 8-11. I. THEIR CONDUCT (vv. 8-10) [starting at 5:18 of the audio]. A. THEY ARE FORGETFUL (v. 8) [6:45]. They have forgotten their fallen state as stated in the Bible, and may dismiss its teachings as ancient stories obsolete today. B. THEY ARE PRIDEFUL (v. 8) [7:41]. Pride and forgetfulness tend to go hand-in-hand. They consider themselves to be above God’s law and able to bring people to Christ by their own devices and not God’s. C. THEY ARE DELUSIONAL (v. 8) [8:26]. They are dreamers. They may accept their own illusions as biblical, or they may do the same with their depraved doctrines. Deut 13:1-5 is not to be taken as capital punishment in the new covenant, but such a prophet’s influence is to be put to death. Though they may appear as pleasant, convincing people, the Bible compares them to wolves and beasts. Jude reveals some of their wicked characteristics in verses 5-7.
