Week 3 DAY 3 and 4
Week 3 Jude 1:8-16
Today
We will look at the 5 Comparisons to Nature that Jude uses to describe the Ungodly, False Persons in the Church.
What do you learn from the 5 illustrations Jude gives from nature to describe the ungodly?
Am I on the path to destruction
because I am either following people like this, or
because I am a false teacher who is like these 5 illustrations?
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Let’s Pray
And Continue With an Attitude of Prayer
Perhaps. . .
Oh, Lord, as we come to Your Word to be discerning and able to contend for the faith, help us to see what You are saying! Grant us eyes to see. Keep our eyes fixed on this sketch that You are giving us of those who are false. Please open our understanding, and keep us sharp and wise! Thank you!
If you get STUCK at any point in your discovery, stop and pray!
Take a LOOK 
Begin LOOKING By READING
Now READ Those Verses With Purpose
Read verses 8-16 – asking the who, what, where, when, why and how questions.
Zoom in on verses 12-13 – asking the who, what, where, when, why and how questions.
What are the 5 Comparisons to nature?
LOOK Closer
Key Words
GODcha gives some suggestions
What these certain persons are LIKE is Key.
Let’s LOOK at each comparison separately.
Let’s Focus On
The 1st Comparison
Hidden Reefs
1. Why are these men like hidden reefs?
THINK: What is a reef? Hidden would mean what?
What does a hidden reef do to a ship?
2. Where are these hidden reefs?
What would a love feast be?
What would these hidden reefs do at a love feast?
3. Who do they care for?
Word Meanings
HIDDEN REEFS, spilás, spiládos. A rock by or in the sea, a cliff or sandbank on which vessels are shipwrecked. Figuratively of false teachers who, as hidden reefs, cause others to make shipwreck of their faith (Jude 1:12 [cf. 1 Tim. 1:19]).
LOVE FEASTS, agápē; (IV) In the plural, agápai, love feasts, public banquets of a frugal kind instituted by the early Christian church and connected with the celebration of the Lord’s Supper.
“And typically this was a potluck dinner on the Lord’s Day. They would have the Lord’s Table; they would hear the teaching of the Word of God; they would worship together. Then they would have this potluck dinner, and this is where these embedded apostates began to speak their lies and to cultivate their iniquity, their immorality, and their insubordination, and their irreverence. They undermine the truth; they undermine the faith.” John MacArthur
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Do Some Cross Referencing, (aka CR)
What can we learn to help us understand these hidden reefs?
Check GODcha’s Suggestions.
Remember as you read – ask the 5W and H questions.
1. What does this comparison suggest?
Mat 7:15
2. What does Peter say they do?
2Pe 2:13
3. What was happening when the church came together for the Lord’s Supper?
What should have been happening?
1Co 11:15-22
4. Why is their no fear?
1Ti 4:2
What Did You LEARN
THINK and REASON
Sum It Up!
Hidden Reefs are concealed, wolves in sheep’s clothing, who are dangerous, causing others to make shipwreck of their faith.
They are at the love feasts – dinners where congregations, who love one another, would gather for fellowship and encouragement,
BUT
These people cared only for themselves.
Evidently without fear – no conscience; reveling in their deceptions (lies); causing divisions and factions.
Next LOOK At
The 2nd Comparison
Clouds Without Water
Carried Along By Winds
What should clouds bring?
Why is water so important?
Why then are these men like clouds without water?
Do Some Cross Referencing, (aka CR)
What else can you learn about the clouds without water?
GODcha gives us some help.
Remember as you read – ask the 5W and H questions.
1. What does Peter say about being without water?
What are such ones reserved for?
What do they promise?
2Pe 2:17, 19
2. Who is like a cloud without rain? Why?
Pro 25:14
3. What are they influenced by?
Mat 12:43
What Did You LEARN
THINK and REASON
Sum It Up!
Clouds without rain are empty, offering you nothing.
Influenced by unclean spirits with black darkness being reserved for them.
They boast of their gifts falsely, but they can’t give spiritual rain, true life.
They promise freedom, blessings and life apart from Jesus which is all worthless and in vain.
Whatever these people promise and/or offer, it is false, cheap and useless.
In Contrast: Jesus is the Life! (Joh 14:6)
LOOK At
The 3rd Comparison
Autumn Trees Without Fruit
Doubly Dead, Uprooted
Remember as you read – ask the 5W and H questions.
This gives us a picture of an orchard, in the fall, when the farmer would go out expecting fruit.
What does it mean to be an autumn tree without fruit?
If a tree bears no fruit, and is dry and lifeless, what is wrong with it?
Do Some Cross Referencing, (aka CR)
Find GODcha’s picks.
What kind of fruit is to be produced?
What happens to trees without fruit?
Mat 3:8-10
Act 26:20
Mat 7:17-20
Mat 15:13
What Did You LEARN
THINK and REASON
Sum It Up!
An Autumn Tree without fruit is doubly dead.
These ungodly false people have no life, meaning they are void of the Spirit, spiritually dead.
There is no fruit in keeping with repentance.
They were not planted by the Father, and will be uprooted and thrown into the fire.
LOOK At
The 4th Comparison
Wild Waves of the Sea
Casting up their own shame like foam
Why are these people like wild waves of the sea?
What does a storm do to the sea?
What usually comes up on shore as a result?
Word Meanings
WILD, ágrios; turbulent, which means disorder, confusion, unstable.
CAST, epaphrízō; pour out like foam. To exhibit.
Do Some Cross Referencing, (aka CR)
Let GODcha point the way.
Remember as you read – ask the 5W and H questions.
1. What does Isaiah tell us?
What do the ungodly toss up?
Isa 57:20
2. What is their end?
Why? What is their god and glory? What do they set their mind on?
Phil 3:19
What Did You LEARN
THINK and REASON
Sum It Up!
Wild waves of the sea are disorderly, confused, unstable.
The ungodly are wicked and can’t keep quiet.
Their god is their appetite and their glory is in their shame, setting their mind on earthly things.
They clutter the shores with filthy debris.
And their end will be destruction.
LOOK At
The 5th Comparison
Wandering Stars
for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever
Why are these people like wandering stars?
Do you perhaps see a contrast regarding a star which is bright, but ends up in the blackness of darkness?
Word Meanings
WANDERING, planeâtes; lead astray. One who wanders about, a wanderer, a false teacher (Jude 1:13 as an explanation of 1:4).
Do Some Cross Referencing, (aka CR)
Find GODcha’s picks.
Remember as you read – ask the 5W and H questions.
Where will these people end up?
Where do they go? For how long?
2Pe 2:17
Joh 8:12
Mat 8:5-12
What Did You LEARN
THINK and REASON
Sum It Up!
Wandering Stars
Wandering stars are perhaps like shooting stars, comets, that we see for awhile, but disappear into the blackness of the darkness.
These people stray, leading others astray, and then disappear.
They will be cast into the outer darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, which is hell.
Let’s Bring It Home
Get these Truths Down Deep in our Hearts
THINK and REASON
Check out GODcha’s #12 LEARN Question.
12. What do you learn from the 5 illustrations Jude gives from nature to describe the ungodly?
We LEARN the ungodly false inside the church are:
- Hidden reefs – Wolves in sheep’s clothing whose lies cause others to make shipwreck of their faith.
- Clouds without water – Empty, offering what is false, worthless and without life.
- Trees without fruit – Dead, void of the Spirit.
- Wild Waves – Unsteady, causing confusion, casting the shores with their filthy ungodly deeds.
- Wandering Stars – Stray and lead others astray.
SEE: Their End
They will be uprooted and thrown into the black darkness of hell, the fire, forever!
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Check out GODcha’s #13 LIVE Question.
13. Am I on the path to destruction because I am either following people like this?
Or, because I am a false teacher who is:
a. Dangerous, causing others to shipwreck their faith;
b. Offering empty promises;
c. Spiritually dead;
d. Cluttering the shores w/debris;
e. Leading many astray?
What will I do?
Respond to Him. . .LIVE it out!
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Let’s Bow Before the Father
OH FATHER GOD, BLESSED SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT, what graphic, detailed illustrations You have given us to unmask the ungodly within our congregations! Thank you for Your Word! Thank You for Jude, whose heart You burdened to warn the early church and us of certain persons. Oh, may what we learned today prepare us and train us to be discerning of such ones. Help us to recognize the false ones, who are ever so dangerous and spiritually dead. May we be bold and courageous, standing on and speaking Truth, contending for the faith, in order to rescue those who are being deceived.
Again I would ask, if anyone is on this journey who is trapped in dangerous false teaching, set them free with these Truths. Allow their eyes to be opened, may they turn from the darkness they are walking into Your marvelous kingdom of Light, receiving forgiveness of sin and an inheritance among the saints, (Act 26:18). Thank you Lord. We ask these things in the precious name of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen!
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Next: We will look at what Enoch said so long ago about these persons who are ungodly.
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