WEEK 1 Day 5 and 6
Week 1 Jude 1:1-4
Today
Now in contrast to the beloved Jude is going to unmask certain persons who are false and ungodly.- LISTEN to God speak as we focus on GODcha’s LEARN/LIVE Questions.
Why is there an urgency to fight for ‘the faith’?
Do I know any persons like this?
Or, am I one of these who is guilty of changing Truth?
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Let’s Pray
And Continue With an Attitude of Prayer
Perhaps. . .
Oh Lord, we come to You knowing Your Word is true, and You have so much to speak to us about! May You Holy Spirit lead us into Your Truth today. Help us to understand Your warning to us about those who are not the real deal! Give us eyes to see what is True and what is false. May Your Word strengthen us today! Thank you!
Take a LOOK 
Alway Begin LOOKING By READING
Read Jud 1:1-4 asking the who, what, where, when, why and how questions.
Focus on verse 4.
1. Why does Jude want the beloved to contend earnestly for the faith?
2. How are these ‘certain persons‘ described?
3. What do they do?
4. What does Jude say about their condemnation?
LOOK CLOSER
Key Words
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What will you want to concentrate on that is key to help you stay focused?
Let’s LOOK At
Certain Persons Crept in Unnoticed –>Key
Word Meanings
CREPT IN UNNOTICED, pareisdúōl; To settle in alongside. To enter in craftily, secretly, without notice, like a thief. Used of the action of false teachers entering into the church under false claims (Jude 1:4).
Crept is a verb, so don’t forget the Grammar.
Remember to take the meanings back to the text.
TIP: Record in your hardbound Bibles.
Do Some Cross Referencing (aka CR)
As you check out these Truths – ask the 5W and H questions.
1. What do you learn about these certain persons?
TIP: You might start a LIST about these ‘certain persons’.
Where are they?
What have they done?
What are they called?
What do they do?
How can we know them?
What will be their end?
Jud 1:4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14-16
2Pe 2:1-3
2. How did Jesus describe these persons who Jude and Peter say are ungodly?
How can you know them?
What will be their end?
Mat 7:14-21
Mat 13:25, 36-43
3. What had James and the elders of the church heard?
Act 15:24
4. What did Paul warn about these persons?
What churches had they infiltrated?
Act 20:29-30
Gal 2:4
2Co 11:13-15
Are you beginning to see why we must contend for the faith?
Read verse 4 again.
What does Jude say these certain persons were marked out for?
LOOK CLOSER
Key Words
So what is Key?
Now LOOK At
Their Condemnation Long Beforehand Marked Out –>KEY
Do you know what condemnation means?
Word Meanings
It’s all just a tap away!
LONG, pálai; In the past, long ago, of olden times, formerly, long before now.
BEFOREHAND MARKED OUT, prográphō; To write before.
(I) In reference to time past, to have written before or at a former time (Rom. 15:4; Eph. 3:3).
(II) In reference to future time, to affix beforehand in writing. In Jude 1:4 it means to proscribe, appoint, ordain, post up publicly in writing.
CONDEMNATION, kríma; a decision damnation, judgment.
Remember to take the meaning back to the text.
TIP: Record in your hardbound Bibles.
Do Some Cross Referencing, (aka CR)
Remember – ask the 5W and H questions.
1. When and where was it written beforehand about these persons and their judgment?
How far back does the prophecy about these and their judgment go?
Jud 1:14
Jer 5:13-14, 30-31
2. What do you learn about this judgment?
2Pe 2:1-6
3. Why was this judgment written?
Rom 15:4
We SEE: their judgment was predicted!
Now read verse 4 again.
How does Jude describe these certain persons?
What do they do?
Key Words
How these certain persons are described and what they do is Key.
First Let’s LOOK At
These Certain Persons Are
Ungodly –> Key
Do you know what it means to be ungodly?
Word Meanings
Open the Dictionary!
UNGODLY, asebeâs; Basically it means godless, without fear and reverence of God. Is one characterized by immoral and impious behavior.
Remember to take the meaning back to the text.
TIP: Record in your hardbound Bibles.
Do Some Cross Referencing, (aka CR)
As you check out these Truths – ask the 5W and H questions.
GODcha will help you see what else God says about these ungodly people?
How are ungodly identified?
What are their deeds?
What will happen to the ungodly?
Gal 5:19-21
1Co 6:9-10, 11
Eph 5:5-7
1Jo 3:7-9
Let’s LOOK CLOSER
These Certain Persons
Turn the Grace of God into Licentiousness –> Key
What does it mean to turn the grace of God into licentiousness?
Word Meanings
GRACE, cháris; graciousness (as gratifying), of manner or act (abstract or concrete; literal, figurative or spiritual; especially the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life.
Did you catch grace is the divine influence upon the heart, and is reflected in one’s life?
You might want to memorize this.
LICENTIOUSNESS, asélgeia;Lasciviousness, license, debauchery, sexual excess, absence of restraint, insatiable desire for pleasure. Debauchery, perversion in general; 1 Pet. 4:3; 2 Pet. 2:7; Jude 1:4.
I understand this as just simply meaning a license to sin!
DON’T STOP THERE!
What will you remember to do?
Check Out Some Other Truths (CR)
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Remember: as you read – ask the 5W and H questions.
1. What does God say about grace?
Tit 2:11-14
2Co 12:9
Rom 3:24; 5:20-21
2. What do you learn about turning His grace into licentiousness?
Gal 5:19
Mar 7:20-23
What Did You Discover?
What is God’s grace?
What does God’s grace do?
Does God’s grace give us a license to sin?
Take Another LOOK
These Certain Persons
Deny Our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ–> Key
Word Meanings
Tap on deny, Master, Lord, and Jesus Christ.
You can do this!
Examine Some Cross References (CR)
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We need to understand what God says about:
Our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ
1. Who is Jesus?
And why is He our only Master and Lord?
TIP: I would encourage you to add your discovery to your list on Jesus!
Mat 1:23
Joh 1:1-2, 14; 8:58
Heb 1:8
Act 2:36; 10:36
1Co 8:6
Phil 2:9-11
Rev 19:16
Rom 10:9
1Co 12:3
2. What does it mean to deny the Lord?
How do the false who are ungodly, deny the Lord?
What will be their end?
TIP: Add to your LIST on these persons, the ungodly!
2Pe 2:1-3
Mat 10:33
Luk 6:46
Tit 1:16
What Did You LEARN
THINK and REASON
(Act 17:11)
Check out GODcha’s #4 LEARN Question(s).
4. Why is there an urgency to fight for ‘the faith’?
In contrast to the beloved, who does Jude now identify?
Where are they?
What are they?
What do they do? (v4)
Let’s Bring It Home!
There is an urgency to fight for ‘the faith’ because there is an enemy within the church.
In contrast to the beloved, Jude now begins to identify the false within who are ungodly.
1. Certain persons have snuck into the Church.
They are deceptive and present within.
These are pastors, teachers in seminaries, Bible studies, Sunday School who represent Christ.
2. They are ungodly.
Their conduct is immoral.
They are controlled by and live by the lust of their flesh.
3. They cheapen God’s grace using it for a license to sin.
They deny our only Master and Lord Jesus.
Their belief is heretical.
They change Truth. Attack Truth.
Thus, they do great damage.
Understand: This began early on within the church.
4. These false persons and their judgment was written long ago, beginning with Enoch, then through the prophets, all the way to Peter.
Their judgment was predicted.
Their end is already determined.
It was written for our instruction, that through perseverance and encouragement we might have hope.
Understand: The attack on the faith comes from inside the church.
Most scholars refer to this as apostasy. Those who professed faith, have known it, and left it.
Apostasy comes in a subtle denial and disobedience to the Word.
Are you beginning to see what happens when we slow down to really LOOK at what God says? Do you see how the meaning just flows out of our time spent in His Word?
No guessing, no assumptions, no opinions.
He did not make it hard! We have answered the questions straight from God’s Word to us!
LISTEN to God Speak
God Talks – We LISTEN!
We Talk – He LISTENS!
What might God be saying, asking you personally?
Check Out GODcha’s #4 LIVE Questions
Perhaps the Spirit is asking. . .
4. Do I know any persons like this?
Or, am I one of these ungodly?
a. Am I guilty of changing God’s Truth?
Or, do I defend God’s Truth?
b. What am I doing with grace? Have I cheapened it, turning it into my license to sin?
Or, am I standing in God’s grace?
c. What am I doing with the Lord Jesus?
Is He calling the shots in my life?
Or, do I profess Jesus but deny Him by my lifestyle?
d. Have I brought eternal condemnation upon myself?
Respond to Him. . .LIVE it out!
One Last Thing To Do
Summarize This Paragraph
To Wrap Up this paragraph,
GODcha Directs Us To 
Summarize These Verses
I’ll help you this time.
Remember stick to the Words from the text.
In verses 1-2 – Intro
Jude:
Introduces himself
Addresses the beloved
Reminds them of God’s part – all God has and is doing for them.
In verses 3-4 – Purpose
Jude:
Tells the beloved what their part is. . .contend for the faith.
(HINT: I might want to save ‘contending’ for the Summary of the whole book!)
Tells them why.
Exposes the false who are ungodly w/in the church.
To Summarize in Few Words
Perhaps:
V1-4: Jude/Beloved/Ungodly Within
This Paragraph This Week
Is a Wrap!
Did you notice how many times you read this paragraph?
You didn’t have to memorize these verses, did you?
It’s just embedded in your head and heart now, isn’t it?
Meditate on everything God is teaching you.
“For the one who meditates on God’s Word is blessed,” (Psalm 1:1-2).
What have you learned about yourself?
Is there some action God is requiring of you?
Do you need to confess and repent?
Log Your Discovery 
Take a minute to put the Definitions and Cross References not only in your Notes, but also in your hardbound Bibles next to Jude 1:1-4.
Don’t forget to mark your Bibles with your Summary.
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Let’s Bow Before the Father
Perhaps. . .
FATHER GOD WHO ART IN HEAVEN, we continue to praise You and thank you for Your Word, Your Word that is a sure Word. Oh, help us to see Your heart about Your Truth, that is without error, and as so many say, “absolutely non-negotiable“! We are grateful for this wake up call about the wolves that have crept into the church and do great damage. May we realize there will always be tares, and we need to be able to recognize them. So I ask that You open our eyes to such ones who profess Jesus, but deny You Lord by their deeds. Give us the wisdom and the discernment we need to recognize these persons – their character of deception; their conduct of immorality; and their belief that is false and changes Truth. Help us to understand the battle and be faithful to fight against such ones who twist and turn Your Truth! May we earnestly contend for the faith! And may we be about Your business raising up another generation who will continue to defend Your Truth, no matter what. We ask these things in the blessed name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! Amen!
I am so proud of you, for you are doing the one thing that is necessary, learning to sit at the feet of Jesus, in His presence, listening to what He has to say to you personally through His Word and the power of the Holy Spirit! I thank God you have been willing!
Please know that God established a pattern for mankind, and that pattern is that we work six days, and then we have one day that we set aside to rest, and replenish our body, and focus on worshiping God.
Rest tomorrow and worship God!
See you in a couple of days.
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