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JudeThe End Cometh

contend, remember, persevere

week 5

JudeThe End Cometh

faithful to the end • week 5

• Reviewing 1-3 John: By This We Know• Jude in Composition: Putting it Together• Jude in Message: Theology• Jude in Detail: 20-25• Jude At Zion

• Reviewing 1-3 John: By This We Know

1-3 John in Review

1 John helps believers :

confirm faith in others (thus assessing false teachers)

and affirm faith in oneself (thus assuring others & ourselves) by “bringing James to bear”

1-3 John in Review

1 John 2.28-3.10

This passage is about manifesting.

This passage is about abiding.

This passage is about “spiritual genetics.”

This passage launches a discussion of love.

1-3 John in Review

1 John 2.28-3.10

We respond to God’s love that gives us hope by acting like the children He’s made us to be.

Those who don’t … aren’t.

JudeThe End Cometh

• Jude in Composition: Putting it Together

Jude in Composition

A “standard” epistle: Author & AddresseeTo you’s guysAbout this stuffTell everyone hi!

Jude in Composition

A “standard” epistle: Author & AddresseeTo you’s guysAbout this stuffTell everyone hi!

How does Jude match up?

Jude in Composition

The greeting: 1-2

Jude in Composition

The greeting: 1-2

The introduction/purpose: 3-4

Jude in Composition

The greeting: 1-2

The exposition: 5-23

Jude in Composition

The greeting: 1-2

The concluding doxology: 24-25

Jude in Composition

The greeting: 1-2

The concluding doxology: 24-25

Richard Bauckham, Jude, 2 Peter (WBC; Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1996), 3.“We might therefore regard the work as an ‘epistolary sermon,’ i.e. a work whose main content could have been delivered as homily … but which has been cast in letter form….”

Jude in Composition

Jude occupies an important spot in the GE: last.

Jude in Composition

How does it wrap things up?

Jude in Composition

How does it relate to the next book across the “seam”?

Jude in Composition

How does it relate to the next book across the “seam”?

What other book in the GE does it have a lot in common with?

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• Jude in Message: Theology

What does the introduction to Jude

(3-4) tell us the book is about?

perseverance through contending against false teachers to salvation

What does the introduction to Jude

(3-4) tell us the book is about?

Jude in Message

Wilder et al, Faithful to the End

“By means of unusual verbal economy, apocalyptic force, strategic use of catchwords and wordplay, the ungodly-faithful antithesis, and triadic illustration, the writer associates past paradigms of ungodliness with his opponents of the present. There exists throughout the short epistle a fundamental tension between the ungodly and the faithful. Both poles of this contrast are said to be 'reserved' for their appointed end -- the houtoi for divine retribution and the humeis for divine inheritance,” (245).

Jude in Message

Jude’s body is a series of texts and expositions discussing and illustrating the different paths of the ungodly and the faithful.

Jude in Message

Jude’s body is a series of texts and expositions discussing and illustrating the different paths of the ungodly and the faithful.

Bauckham argues that Jude cites a text and then offers an interpretation(see outline on page 3 of handout)

Jude in Message

James: persevere through sin

Jude in Message

Peter’s letters: persevere through suffering

Jude in Message

John’s letters: persevere through serpents

Jude in Message

John’s letters: persevere through serpents

Jude: CONTEND for the faith; the End is coming

Jude in Message

Bauckham, Jude, 2 Peter

Jude’s structure points to the message“The structure of the letter indicates that [vv 5-19], though important, [are] important only as necessary background to the appeal (vv 20-23), which is Jude’s main purpose in writing. The appeal occupies the position it does toward the end of the letter, not because it is a kind of postscript or ‘closing exhortation,’ but because it is the climax of the letter to which all the rest leads up. Recognizing this is a vital key to the understanding of the work as a whole,” (4).

JudeThe End Cometh

• Reviewing 1-3 John: By This We Know• Jude in Composition: Putting it Together• Jude in Message: Theology• Jude in Detail: 20-25• Jude At Zion• Jude in Detail: 20-25

Jude in Detail: 20-25

The introduction (3-4) gives the purpose for writing: to urge Christians to fight for the faith against false teachers inside the church who would pervert the Gospel

The body develops exposition on what happens to people like this (5-19)

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.” But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error and perished in Korah’s rebellion. These are hidden reefsat your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage. But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.” It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.

But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. And have mercy on those who doubt; save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.

Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.

Persevere: The Appeal, 20-23

There are two halves to the appeal.

The first half has four parts; these relate to the persevering community.

What’s the command here?

What are the other three parts?

keepbuilding yourselves up

keepbuilding yourselves up praying

waiting

(1) Building yourselves up

waiting

(2) Praying in the Holy Spirit

waiting

(3) Keep in the love of God

waiting

(3) Keep in the love of God

(4) Waiting for the return of Christ

waiting

The second half has three parts.

have mercy

have mercysave others

have mercysave others show

mercy with fear

These probably relate both to the false teachers and to those deceived by them.

have mercysave others show

mercy with fear

The appeal is to contend for the faith by persevering in the activity of God’s people; constructing God’s dwelling, continuing in obedience, hoping for God’s final deliverance, and helping the hopeless and helpless.

Doxology: God Will Do It!, 24-25

This text ends not just Jude but concludes the General Epistles.

Everything that we have been called to do in the General Epistles, all the work which saints MUST do to persevere unto salvation, WILL be done.

Because God is powerful to do it.

JudeThe End Cometh

• Reviewing 1-3 John: By This We Know• Jude in Composition: Putting it Together• Jude in Message: Theology• Jude in Detail: 20-25• Jude At Zion• Jude At Zion

Jude At Zion

Serpents are in the Church.Contend, remember, persevere.

To whom to I listen?Against what do I measure their counsel?

Do I try to persevere to salvation on my own?

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RevelationIt Is Done!

to the one who overcomes…

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