Week 4 DAY 3
Week 4 Jude 1:17-23
Today
- LOOK at the instructions Jude gives to the beloved in order to continue on in the midst of the ungodly false persons within the church.
- LISTEN to God speak as you focus on the LEARN/LIVE Questions.
What is the next thing the beloved are to do to protect themselves from false teaching?
What must I do to keep myself in the love of God?
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Let’s Pray
And Continue With an Attitude of Prayer
Perhaps. . .
Lord, we come today, asking that You quiet our hearts and help us to concentrate. Help us to hear Your voice and be able to think and reason. Please give us clarity of mind so we will walk away today with more understanding. Thank you!
If you get STUCK at any point in your discovery, stop, and pray!
Context
Our focus is on the beloved and how they protect themselves from false teachings and contend for the faith.
Do you remember the 1st thing the beloved are to do?
Take a LOOK 
Begin LOOKING By READING
Now READ These Verses With Purpose
Read Jud 1:17-23 – asking the who, what, where, when, why and how questions.
Focus on Jud 1:20-21 – asking the who, what, where, when, why and how questions.
What are the beloved to do next to protect themselves and the Truth?
Do you see the contrast between the ungodly who are void of the Spirit (v19) vs. the beloved who pray in the Holy Spirit (v20)?
LOOK Closer
Key Words
GODcha gives some suggestions.
What the beloved are instructed to do is Key.
Let’s LOOK at each instruction separately, and answer GODcha’s #16 LEARN Question:
16. What is the next thing the beloved are to do to protect themselves from false teaching?
Focus On
Building Yourselves Up In Your Holy Faith
Word Meanings
BUILDING, epoikodoméō; To build upon, to erect a foundation. In the NT, only figuratively: to build upon, spoken of the Christian faith and Christian life, both the whole church and its individual members as built upon the only foundation, Christ, and implying the constant internal development of the kingdom of God. By implication: to build up further in the faith and upon Christ (Ac 20:32; Jude 20).
Grammar: Is a present active participles (pap).
Present meaning this is continuous.
Remember: take the meaning back to the text.
TIP: Mark this in your hardbound Bibles.
Do Some Cross Referencing, (aka CR)
Remember as you read – ask the 5W and H questions.
GODcha will help you see what God says.
1. How do we build ourselves up in our holy faith?
What is the foundation we are building on?
1Co 3:10-14
Eph 2:20
2. What tool has God given us?
Act 20:32
Col 2:6-7
2Ti 3:16-17
3. What is the result?
1Pe 2:1-2
2Pe 3:17-18
4. What must we do?
1Ti 4:7-8
2Ti 2:15
What Did You LEARN
THINK and REASON
Sum It Up!
The Beloved Must:
Build themselves up in their holy faith.
Implying a constant internal development.
a. Build on:
Christ our foundation, the cornerstone.
The Apostles’s Teaching.
b. Build using the Word of God,
that is God breathed and profitable for:
teaching,
reproof,
correction,
training in righteousness,
that we may be perfect, equipped and lacking in nothing.
c. Building takes Discipline and Diligence
d. The Result:
We will be firmly rooted
We will GROW.
LOOK At
Praying in the Holy Spirit
Word Meanings
PRAYING, proseúchomai; to pray to God, supplicate, worship.
Grammar: Is a present active participle (pap).
Present meaning this is continuous.
Remember: take the meaning back to the text.
TIP: Mark this in your hardbound Bibles.
Do Some Cross Referencing, (aka CR)
Remember as you read – ask the 5W and H questions.
GODcha will help you see what God says.
1. Who controls the beloved and helps them pray?
Rom 8:9
Eph 5:18
2. How do we pray? According to what?
Rom 8:26-27
1Jo 5:14-15
1Co 14:15
3. When do the beloved pray? Who do the beloved pray for?
Eph 6:18
What Did You LEARN
THINK and REASON
Sum It Up!
Praying in the Spirit
Means dependence on the Spirit to pray according to God’s will, which is revealed in His Word.
a. We must have the Spirit of God.
The Spirit that dwells within us, fills us (controls us) and helps us to pray.
To be filled, we must confess our sins, for the prayers of a righteous man will accomplish much.
b. We don’t know how to pray –
So the Spirit intercedes for us to pray according to God’s Word.
c. We pray:
With understanding, with our minds.
Always in the Spirit with perseverance and supplication for all the saints.
LOOK At
Keep Yourselves in the Love of God
Word Meanings
KEEPING, tēréō; to guard (from loss or injury, properly by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from 5442, which is properly to prevent escaping; To keep an eye on, to watch, and hence to guard, keep, obey. Figuratively, to guard oneself in the sense of keeping oneself from defilement (Jude 21).
Grammar: Is an Aorist Imperative Active (aima).
This verb is not a participle like the others, it is an imperative, a command.
Aorist means the keeping happened at a point in time and continues.
So building and praying, and you will see waiting, are participles that surround keeping oneself in the love of God.
Remember: take the meaning back to the text.
TIP: Mark this in your hardbound Bibles.
Do Some Cross Referencing, (aka CR)
Remember as you read – ask the 5W and H questions.
1.What does it mean to keep ourselves in the love of God?
Act 13:43
Joh 15:9-11; Joh 14:15
1Jo 2:5; 4:18
2. Keeping ourselves in the love of God, means to obey.
What are we to obey?
Mat 22:36-40
Joh 13:34-35
1Jo 3:23-24
1Jo 4:11-13; 15-21
What Did You LEARN
THINK and REASON
Sum It Up!
Keep in the love of God.
Means we continue (remain, abide in the place we are at) in His grace (His divine influence and power).
We OBEY His commandments.
a. To obey His commands centers on loving:
God 1st and foremost, and
Others as ourselves.
b. The Result:
Because God is love, if we are abiding, remaining in Him – then we abide, remain in His love and love others.
When His love is perfected with us, then there is no fear, especially fear of the coming judgment.
LOOK At
Waiting Anxiously
What are we waiting anxiously for?
Word Meanings
WAITING ANXIOUSLY, prosdéchomai, to await, look, to receive or accept
Grammar: Is a present active participle (pap).
Present meaning this is continuous.
Remember: take the meaning back to the text.
TIP: Mark this in your hardbound Bibles.
Do Some Cross Referencing, (aka CR)
Remember as you read – ask the 5W and H questions.
GODcha will help you see what God says.
1. What do you learn about waiting anxiously for His mercy?
What does His mercy rescue us from?
1Th 1:10
2. What do we do while we wait?
Tit 2:12-13
1Jo 3:1-3
3. What will happen when He appears?
2Ti 4:8
What Did You LEARN
THINK and REASON
Sum It Up!
Wait anxiously for mercy
a. We are looking for the blessed hope in the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus.
b. We: Deny ungodliness, worldly desires; to live sensibly, righteously and godly in this present age.
Purify ourselves.
c. When He appears His future mercy is extended to the beloved:
Rescuing us from the wrath to come.
Giving us a crown of righteousness.
Bringing us to eternal life.
Let’s Bring It All Together!
UNDERSTAND:
The building process involves:
the Word of God,
the Spirit of God,
prayer,
remaining in God’s love, and
waiting anxiously for the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ to bring us to eternal life.
To build – We are filled with the Spirit who teaches us, filling us w/the Word.
To pray – We are filled with the Spirit who helps us pray according to God’s Word, which is where He reveals His will.
To keep – We are filled with the Spirit who empowers us to obey the Word, loving God and others.
To wait – We are filled with the Spirit who motivates us to look for the coming of the Lord.
LISTEN to God Speak
God Talks – We LISTEN!
We Talk – He LISTENS!
What might God be asking you?
Check out GODcha’s #16 LIVE Questions.
16. What must I do to keep myself in the love of God?
a. How do I build myself up in the faith?
b. How do I let the Spirit control me and help me pray?
c. Am I anxiously waiting for the mercy of the Lord?
Perhaps. . . the Spirit is nudging you to go deeper.
Am I doing everything I can to know and understand God’s Word of Truth?
How’s my prayer life?
Am I committed to daily, heartfelt prayer?
If I knew the Lord was returning tomorrow, how would I live today?
Are you satisfied with the life you have lived?
Do I live with eternity in view?
Respond to Him. . .LIVE it out!
Our Day Has Come to An End!
Mull over what God, through His Spirit, just taught us.
Oh, remember His Word, don’t forget it, (Psalm 119:15-16).
Chat with God!
Journal Your Discovery
Add these things the Beloved are to do to your LIST on the Beloved.
Jot these Cross References next to these verses in your hardbound Bible.
You can’t remember everything,
So highlight key points and details that might otherwise slip your mind.
Then you can go back and review any time.
Besides, you never know when God will have you share these vital Truths to others!
Get them under your belt!
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Let’s Bow Before the Father
GRACIOUS FATHER IN HEAVEN, we always want to thank you for Your Word, Your Word that is Truth. It is so magnificent, and ever so sharp and piercing, giving us so much insight for our lives, for our daily living. Oh, may we grasp hold of what our strategy must be to defend ourselves in the midst of this ungodly false pandemic that has swept the church. Oh, if we are going to remember Your Word which will help us cleanse ourselves and distance ourselves from the ungodly false, then please help each of us to determine in our hearts that we will be disciplined and diligent in the building process that You have just shown us. May we be controlled by You, Holy Spirit, making and taking the time to do everything we can to know and understand the Word, in order to remember it and live in the light of what You teach us. Oh, help us to keep ourselves in Your love, as You keep us for Jesus. May we have hearts that truly desire to please You through obedience, obeying Your every Word. May we make a conscience effort to daily pray as You have taught us in Mat 6:9-13, praying according to Your Word, thus according to Your will. And may our hearts be anxiously waiting for Your mercy Lord, for You, the Living Word, to appear and bring us into the eternal life You have promised to us. We ask this in Christ’s name. Amen!
You are doing great! Keep pressing on!
Next: We will come to the end of Jude’s exhortation to us.
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