JUD 1:22 And of some have compassion, making a
difference:
As Christians we are to have compassion. We
sometimes need to enter in (so to speak) into the suffering of others. We
need to genuinely care. Our compassion can make a big difference.
However, it needs to be a real working compassion. The right kind of
compassion can not only be a huge blessing to another brother in Christ, but it
can also help lead a lost soul to Christ. Real compassion shows the lost
that we are for real. Real compassion shows forth the love of Christ, and
that is what many of the lost need to see to get saved.
Others need a different approach.
JUD 1:23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of
the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Some need to hear more about hell. They need to
hear so that they will fear the judgment that is coming. They need to
understand how awful their sin is to a Holy God. They also need to hear
how Jesus has paid for their sin so that they do not have to go there. The
Love of Jesus offers them a way out. And all they have to do is turn to
Him with a repentant heart. We need to be concerned about and active in
pulling the lost out of the fire.
Some will ask, how do I always show compassion and how
do I keep a heart for the souls of men? Verse 21 is the answer.
JUD 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking
for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
If you keep yourself in the love of God, then His love
will manifest itself thru you. God loves souls. If you have the love
of God filling your heart, then you cannot help but show compassion and be
concerned and active in pulling people out of the fire. If you keep
looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life, then you will
want others to also receive His Great Mercy.
Thought On This Chapter
JUD 1:25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and
majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Here is a clear declaration of the deity of Jesus.
Our Saviour is here called the only wise God. Jesus was co-equal with the
God the Father all though out eternity past. He set aside His robes of
glory and took on our nature so He could be our substitute. After He
paid our debt He rose again and took up His robes of glory once more.
Joh 17:5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine
own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
To Jesus be the glory. To Him belongs majesty.
He has the dominion and the power. He has all this now and forever.
Have you praised Him lately? Have you given Him the time, the love, the
adoration that is due Him. Have you bowed you knee to Him lately?
JUD 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
JUD 1:2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
JUD 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
JUD 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
JUD 1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
JUD 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
JUD 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
JUD 1:8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
JUD 1:9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
JUD 1:10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
JUD 1:11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
JUD 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
JUD 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
JUD 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
JUD 1:15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
JUD 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
JUD 1:17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
JUD 1:18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
JUD 1:19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
JUD 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
JUD 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
JUD 1:22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
JUD 1:23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
JUD 1:24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
JUD 1:25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
General Information About the Book of Jude.
The book of Jude warns us against apostasy and false
doctrine.
The key word is ungodly
The key verse is Jud 1:3 Beloved, when I gave all
diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to
write unto you, and exhort [you] that ye should earnestly contend for the faith
which was once delivered unto the saints.
The theme of the book is contending for the faith.
This book teaches us to be alert for false teachers who
will creep in unawares and will divert believers from the truth.
This book was written by Jude who was the half-brother
of Jesus.
When reading Jude look for these D's:
Delivered from sin.
Devoted to God.
Defenders of faith.
Determined to obey.
Desiring to see Christ.
Thought on this Chapter
JUD 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother
of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus
Christ, and called:
"preserved in Jesus Christ". The Bible teaches
over and over again that you cannot loose your salvation. When we believe
in the Lord Jesus we are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus.
God does it all. We do not sanctify ourselves at salvation. God does
it. We do not preserve ourselves, God does it.
Our salvation does not rest in our power, it rests in
His power. We do not have to hold out, we are preserved. We did not
work to get saved and we do not work to stay saved. Salvation is a gift
that God gives us if we believe. It would not be a gift if it had
conditions attached to it. If we had to do things to keep it, then it
ceases to be a gift. If we could loose our salvation, then works would be
involved. But salvation IS NOT of works.
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and
that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Our works are not involved in our salvation. And
we have Jesus' promise that if we come to Him that we will not get kicked out.
Joh 6:37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to
me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
When you get saved; you are saved forever!
The gift of eternal life should make us grateful.
We should want to do more for our saviour in response to His great love.
Have you thanked God lately for preserving you?
What have you done lately to help more people come to
know this great salvation?
