For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and LORD. Jude 1:4
Jude, the younger brother of Jesus, became a believer after the resurrection. Late in his life he was going to pen a letter of testimony to salvation when he heard of some people causing confusion in the church. These disrupters had no desire for truth. They sought to argue, create division, question God’s authority and use grace as a free license and justification to chase the pleasures and lusts of this world.
Jude refers back to the history of the Jewish people to remind his readers of the consequences that await those who defy God’s Holiness. Judgement will not be a day of glory for those who allow sin to infiltrate and twist the Word, or Breath of God.
It is not the message that is hard to discern, it is the choice of the hearer to hear. God is peace, not confusion.
Happy Tuesday,
Gretchen