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[252.14 --> 257.48] False teaching has consequences, especially for leaders.
[259.38 --> 261.96] One scholar on this book of Jude summarizes it this way.
[262.02 --> 263.40] His name is Dr. Nijay Gupta.
[264.44 --> 265.90] And this is what he writes very simply.
[266.04 --> 271.42] Jude wrote this letter to help the church to authenticate true Christianity.
[272.14 --> 277.02] Over and against, of course, false teaching and corrupt leadership, as you're going to see in just a minute.
[277.02 --> 282.68] So today what we're going to do, I'm going to do my very best to make sense of this book with us as we enter into it.
[282.90 --> 285.48] Give some overview and important background on it.
[285.56 --> 288.38] And next week we're going to go deeper into the issue of false teaching.
[288.72 --> 294.08] And the week after that we're going to go deeper into the issue of contending for and persevering in the faith
[294.08 --> 296.00] in a world where there's many religious options
[296.00 --> 299.20] and a culture where there's many different ways of understanding Christian faith.
[299.82 --> 300.30] Sound good?
[300.30 --> 302.60] All right, first things first.
[303.24 --> 305.30] Who wrote the book of Jude?
[306.00 --> 308.42] And you see in the very first verse that he names himself.
[308.56 --> 312.88] He says, Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James.
[314.02 --> 320.06] Now you should know that Jude is as common in the first century as the name Michael and James or Patricia.
[320.32 --> 321.08] I wrote these down.
[321.32 --> 325.62] I did not know that Mary, Mary and Patricia are the two most common names.
[325.72 --> 326.26] Did you know that?
[326.90 --> 328.36] I don't even know any Patricias.
[328.36 --> 329.58] How is that even possible?
[330.30 --> 333.80] But because it's very common, there's different takes on who could have wrote this book.
[333.98 --> 338.58] Most people agree that the Jude who wrote this book is the brother of Jesus.
[340.20 --> 341.26] I don't know if you know this.
[341.32 --> 344.22] If you're new to Christian faith, Jesus has four younger brothers.
[344.76 --> 348.52] James, who's named here, Joseph, Simon, and Jude.
[348.88 --> 351.66] And if you want to talk about birth order, imagine being the brother of Jesus.
[352.28 --> 352.56] Right?
[352.62 --> 354.80] The shadow you live under being the brother of Jesus.
[354.86 --> 355.68] That's a big shadow.
[355.68 --> 363.74] And another fascinating detail is from what we know, these brothers aren't really part of Jesus' discipleship journey until after his resurrection.
[364.36 --> 365.82] And we don't know all the details.
[365.88 --> 366.70] They're not given to us.
[366.86 --> 371.94] But there's a very good chance that they did not come to faith in Jesus until after his resurrection.
[371.94 --> 374.58] And in some sense, that might be weird.
[374.72 --> 376.52] But in other sense, it's like that kind of checks out.
[376.62 --> 376.78] Right?
[377.20 --> 382.88] Your brother is going to be the last one to believe you about the giant claims you make about yourself until there's some proof.
[383.06 --> 387.60] And once they saw that proof, once they saw Jesus resurrected, these guys were leaders in the church.
[387.60 --> 395.22] They're writing letters to the churches because they are passionately following Jesus Christ, who's not just their brother, but he's their Lord and their Savior.
[396.84 --> 399.14] So this book is organized fairly simply.
[399.30 --> 401.24] A lot of the letters in the New Testament are written this way.
[401.32 --> 404.72] But here's the structure if you're one of those people who likes to know what you're getting into.
[404.82 --> 406.06] There's a greeting which we read.
[406.44 --> 407.26] He gives the purpose.
[407.52 --> 408.56] Here's why I'm writing it.
[408.92 --> 414.40] For most of the book, he gives his accusations against these false teachers and corrupt leaders.
[414.40 --> 418.38] And then there's this invitation for the church to be faithful and persevere.
[418.72 --> 421.62] And then he gives a closing prayer, which I'm going to read later in the service.
[422.80 --> 424.12] But now we get to the heart of it.
[424.52 --> 427.98] Why did Jude write this tiny little letter?
[428.60 --> 429.44] Why is it here?
[430.08 --> 436.12] And I'll read again some words starting in verse 3 where I want you to listen to this and see if you can detect what's the purpose of this letter.
[436.56 --> 437.90] And I'm going to start in verse 3 here.
[438.42 --> 439.10] He writes,
[439.10 --> 469.08] Now the first thing I want to point out is this is not the letter that Jude wants.
[469.08 --> 470.14] He wanted to write about.
[470.58 --> 473.34] He wanted to encourage them about the faith they shared.
[473.44 --> 475.72] But he saw some serious stuff going on in the church.
[475.88 --> 479.08] And he's like, this is what I have to write about.
[479.70 --> 481.40] He saw that the church was under attack.
[481.50 --> 483.46] And the church is under attack in only two ways.
[483.54 --> 486.06] One is persecution and pressure from the outside world.
[486.24 --> 488.32] And there were churches in the New Testament that faced that.
[488.58 --> 494.86] But the other one throughout church history is false teachers and corrupt leaders within the church.
[494.86 --> 497.90] And that is what Jude is dealing with.
[498.32 --> 503.30] So fired up as he is about this that he writes this whole letter to address it.
[504.14 --> 510.72] He says there are certain people who slipped into the church that have sort of ingratiated themselves into the community.
[510.96 --> 513.08] They clearly had a lot of influence.
[513.22 --> 514.66] Otherwise, Jude wouldn't be that concerned.
[515.22 --> 516.96] Likely holding positions of leadership.
[516.96 --> 519.70] And Jude is like, we need to deal with this.
[519.86 --> 521.58] And the church needs to face this.
[521.70 --> 523.58] Otherwise, it will lead the whole church astray.
[524.14 --> 525.58] And here's his accusation.
[525.74 --> 528.88] Two key accusations against these false leaders.
[529.44 --> 531.84] Number one, they are ungodly.
[532.36 --> 535.80] They pervert the grace of our God into a license to do whatever they want.
[536.12 --> 536.56] Immorality.
[537.30 --> 541.44] Number two, they are reducing the significance of Jesus.
[542.24 --> 544.42] So I'm just going to take a look at both of these in turn.
[544.52 --> 546.24] Number one, immoral living.
[547.72 --> 550.34] This is really interesting about the whole book of Jude in general.
[550.80 --> 556.00] He talks about these false teachers, but he barely talks about the content of their teaching.
[556.46 --> 559.02] What he goes after is their conduct.
[559.62 --> 561.08] And for Jude, those things are tied together.
[561.08 --> 564.28] Like you can see what someone believes by how they live.
[564.74 --> 568.90] And he says these people are not living in the way of Jesus.
[569.76 --> 570.84] There is immorality.
[570.96 --> 573.48] And you'll see next week we're going to look at the greed of the leaders in the church,
[573.62 --> 575.74] the sexual immorality of the leaders in the church.
[575.88 --> 578.06] And it's not that they've got issues that they're dealing with.
[578.24 --> 579.40] Everyone in the church does.
[579.74 --> 584.54] But these guys are like flagrantly flaunting a certain lifestyle.
[585.04 --> 588.32] They are flagrantly showing off this sense of freedom they have.
[588.64 --> 592.72] And if you're here two weeks ago, this is very similar to the Corinthian church.
[593.24 --> 595.66] They believe the sense of like, hey, Jesus set us free.
[596.38 --> 597.56] We have new freedom.