Jude Intro to Jude

okay welcome again I'm Robert breaker and today we're going to be starting a new book the book of Jude and most of you know that we've been doing a verse by verse Bible study and I usually try to put it out on Tuesday as our midweek service if you will and it's a verse by verse Bible study and we started by going through the epistles of Paul all 14 and yes I do believe that that Paul wrote the book of Hebrews and I did my best to explain as we taught verse by verse how Paul could have written Hebrews had he written it first and then he tacked on the last chapter at the end so we went verse by verse through the epistles of Paul and I really thought well the rapture will come and I'll be done I don't have to do any more well where we were still here so I said okay well let's start the book of Acts and we went verse by verse through the book of Acts and I honestly didn't think we'd get finished with that I thought the Lord would come back and we're still here the Lord hasn't come back yet the Raps travel to taking place so I said okay well I finished Acts and I finished all the epistles of Paul verse by verse now if you haven't seen them please go to my website the cloud Church to work on that website there's a little place you can click that says click here for verse by verse Bible study or something like that and you can go through each one of the fourteen books of Paul and you can also go through the book of Acts Bible study verse by verse and we must remember that Acts is a transitional book but as you read the book of Acts and as you rightly divide and you understand the book of Acts you clearly see why Paul is in the Bible and that's why I wanted to do the epistles of Paul first so then we finished that and it's like well now what a lot of people wanted to go to revelation a lot of people want me to do this or that and I'd like to eventually get there but I'm thinking well we might as well if we have time until the Lord comes do our best to work our way through the entire New Testament verse by verse so what we're gonna do today we're going to start on the book of Jude then after Jude I think we'll do the book of James and I want to do those two kind of side by side because you'll see why James is so different from any of the other books in the Bible but we're going to look at the book of Jude so we're gonna start today verse by verse in our study of the book of Jude June is also Judas that was his name and Jude is just shortening his name like my name is Robert would we shorten it Rob or Bobby or something like that Bob so Judas was the real name of the author of the book of Jude but we just shortened it in the King James Bible it's shortened to Jude his name could be bar sabes as well if this is the Judas that it's speaking of now I don't I don't know if I'll have time to get too much into that and we'll look at that if you remember in our verse-by-verse Bible study through Acts there weren't that many people that lived in the time of Jesus on the earth and oftentimes when a kid came into this world they often named him after his father or his grandfather as great-grandfather so you have this recycling of names and so oftentimes you have the same name used several times for different people for example there's this Jude Judas but then there's Judas Iscariot so that's two different Judas's there's some different James there's two different James in the Bible there's different Peter is it's called Simon well there's other people named Simon in the Bible so we see it can be confusing at times unless you know who you're talking about so I want to get that out of the way and explain that and I'll try to explain to you who I believe that Jude is there's a little bit of a controversy of who Jude is is he is he the brother of this James or is he the brother of this James and we'll get to that in a minute but the book of Jude is a short book there's only one chapter and it's 25 verses all total and there are 608 words total in the book of Jude and I love reading the book of Jude the book of Jude is a great book there's a lot of good doctrine in it for us today but then there's some things in it that are a little confusing that's why God tells us to rightly divide and we're supposed to do that now go to chapter 1 and verse 1 in the book of Jude and it says Jude the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James to them that are and then I'll continue with that a little bit later but I want you to see that the man who writes this book introduces himself as the brother of James again Judas short for Judas and Judas was one of the twelve disciples there was actually two of the twelve disciples of Jesus named Judas one was the good Judas one was the bad Judas the bad Judas was called Judas Iscariot and he's the one that betrayed Jesus so this is not written I've had people have Spanish say to me brother breaker why did Judas Iscariot get to write a book of the Bible and put it in the Bible and I have to go now now because in Spanish it's the same name with us but in English I guess one of the reasons why we have it has Jude rather than Judas is in order to avoid confusion we're not confused and we don't come to that that erroneous conclusion Oh Judas Iscariot wrote one of the books of the Bible that's not true Judas Iscariot did not leave us any books of the Bible he was as Jesus said a devil he was evil so we don't remember Judas Iscariot but this would be the other Judas in the Bible now who was this Judas he was one of the 12 disciples we're gonna start by giving a little bit of history of who this guy is and then we're gonna have to look at some our timeline again I'll have to lay it out here and we'll have to get an idea of who this Judas fella is and I'd like to say I guess before we start I'd go to Luke chapter 16 if you will but I didn't read any commentaries before I did this study this is my study this is what I've come to the conclusion of and this is my study I don't read commentaries often if at all when I was a young Christian a lot of times I'd go to some man's commentary a lot of times I would read Rockman's commentaries but I got let's say I have not read all of ruffman's commentaries all the way through why because I went to the man's Bible College and I said under him in class and listened to him and I've listened to a lot of his his teachings on tape and things like that but my desire as a Christian is not to follow man it's to follow the Bible so I don't go and say well what does this guy say about Jude what does this guy say about this book and and they copy what they say what I found is that oftentimes men that teach the Bible verse by verse so they will go to other men who have taught the Bible verse by verse who have gone to other men who've got and oftentimes you get the the wisdom of man or you get what men say the Bible says and I don't want to do that I want to go by what the Bible says want to teach it so I not going any commentaries or anything like that and then teaching what some guy said about the book of Jude I want to teach you verse by verse through the book of Jude from what I've studied from the scriptures and what the Lord's given me and give you as much scripture as possible not my opinion not the opinions of others of what they say about the book of Jude but what the Bible says but with that stated also I want to give you this also over the ages men have said this about you or that about you so I want you to know what they say but that I want you to go by what the Bible says okay so sometimes I'll throw out well there's some people that believe this others believe this but let's always go to the book let's always go to the Bible and let's base our doctrine based upon what the Bible says not what some man says so I hope you're not gonna follow what I say when I teach verse by verse I do so in the hopes that I'm teaching the scripture and that you'll believe what God says it's not about me it's about what does the Bible say so let's start out here with Luke chapter 16 verse 13 through 16 and we read the beginning of Jude Jude 1:1 in which you said Jude the brother of James okay who is this guy the brother of James named Jude we find out his name is also Judas and in Luke 16:13 we read oh excuse me sorry I said Luke 16 it should be Luke 6 I do that sometimes my bad Luke 6 13 through 16 sorry just thumb back a few few pages and get Luke 6 13 through 16 and there we read like Luke 6 13 through 16 and when it was day he called it to him his disciples who is this Jesus and of them he chose twelve whom he had named apostles and now it gives us the names of the Twelve Apostles verse 14 Simon whom he also named Peter and Andrew his brother James and John Philip and Bartholomew Matthew and Thomas James the son of Alphaeus and Simon called zealots and they'll appear and Judas the brother of James and Judas Iscariot which was also the traitor so there you have the two different Judas Judas of which I spoke and the false Judas the bad Judas the the one who denied Jesus was Judas Iscariot the other Judas is the brother of James so this dude that is writing the book of Jude who we shortened his name to Jude in our Bible this Judas is without a doubt the brother of James and so if he is the brother of James that he is one of the Twelve Apostles so what we're reading here is a book given to us by one of the Twelve Apostles now the question arises which James I did look on the internet just a real quick in a couple different places to see what people think because we have two different James in the Bible we have James the brother of Jesus and then we have another James was that James is Emma D or James something like that so we have two different James so we I talked a lot about that in our in our verse-by-verse Bible study through Acts so which James is this well let's go to Acts chapter 1 in verse 13 and there's a little bit of a controversy there and I'm I'm not gonna try to pin it down I think that you can come to your own conclusion and if I tell you everything well then you won't study for yourself so I'll let you go study and find out which James this is is this actually James the Lord's brother or is this the other James if this is James the half-brother of Jesus then this would be Judas or Jude the half-brother of Jesus let me when I told you to go to Acts let me go back to mark or a quick mark chapter 6 Jesus had brothers and sisters that were Mary's children okay and they were several of I believe it's in mark chapter 6 verse verse 3 mark chapter 6 verse 3 is not this the carpenter the son of Mary the brother of James and Joseph and of Judah and Simon now here he's called Judah but in another passage where it gives this I believe it's in Matthew 13 that he's called Judas let's go there real quick Matthew chapter 13 go to Matthew chapter 13 and verse 55 it's speaking about gee Judas speaking about the children of marries who these would be the half-brother of Jesus he's not this the carpenter's son is not this is not his mother called Mary and his brother and James and Joseph and Simon and Judas so Judas has another name in the Bible if this is the one it's talking about Judah so it's Jude his name sometimes he's called Judah in the Bible sometimes he's called Judas boo in the New Testament he's called Jude now people say why is it Jude why don't they just say Judas well because the New Testament was written in Greek and as they transliterated the name from Greek it came out as Jude rather than Judas or Judah or things like that Judah is more of the Hebrew name for him but is this the real half-brother of Jesus if this is the brother of James that is the half-brother of Jesus then this Judas would have been Jesus's brother is this the Judas that's writing this book or is it the other Judas who has a brother named James and let's go to Acts chapter 31 in verse 13 either way this Jude was one of the Apostles or at least he was there always with the Apostles acts 113 and when they were come in they went up into an upper room where abode both Peter and James and John and Andrew Philip and Thomas Bartholomew and Matthew James the son of Alphaeus and Simon Zelotes and Judas the brother of James all right notice that there's two James mentioned in this verse Peter James and John okay Peter James and John were the three that were always around Jesus so you got Peter James and John and then you've got another James which is it says here James the son of Alphaeus so you've got James the Lord's brother and you've got James the son of Alphaeus and this guy Judas is the brother of this James and where it's mentioned in context of this it looks like it's the other James the James the son of Alphaeus so it's kind of for me I'm I'm not able to say 100% that when it says brother of James that's the James that was the brother of Jesus if so then this Jude would be jesus's half-brother i think it might be the other james that would mean that he would be just one of the 12 apostles or 12 disciples and his other brother was one of the disciples and his name was james so that's one of those things it's kind of hard to come to conclusion and it's interesting to me how man will come to the conclusion you go the internet you look up who wrote the book of jude all the men go oh well it was the brother of James the Lord's brother so Jude was jesus's half-brother and you go well there's two James so which one could it be if it was the Lord's half-brother then the book of Jude would be talking a lot more about Jesus I think but whoever it is he was with the apostles let's go to Acts chapter 15 now he was also with Paul so this Jude whoever he is his brother was James and whichever of the James it was he was one of the Twelve Apostles he walked with the apostles he knew the apostles so I want you to get a hold of that which ever James it was and like right now I really can't say which one I don't know if I should even try cuz I don't want to be wrong but whichever James it was he would have known Jesus this Jude he would have been with Jesus and he would have been one of the Twelve Apostles with Jesus okay and we saw that right didn't I show you that Luke chapter 6 let me make sure I wanna make sure I'm telling you right that Jude was indeed one of the Apostles Luke chapter 6 where he's named his apostles we read this but Luke chapter 6 and verse 13 and it says and Judas yep so verse 16 Luke 36 16 mentions Judas as the brother of James as one of the Twelve Apostles so this Judas was one of the Twelve Apostles and he was either the brother of James which was Jesus's half-brother which means he was Jesus's half-brother or he was the brother of James the son of Alphaeus it can only be one of the two and I kind of lean more toward the other one he was just one of the Apostles he wasn't the half-brother of Jesus but I'm not certain on that so that's why when I'm not certain on something I'll tell you I'm not certain about that but I would ask you to do further study on that and see for sure now not only is he one of the Apostles that knew Jesus and ran with Jesus if I read my Bible correctly and I mentioned this as we went verse by verse through the book of Acts this Jude would have also known Paul so this Judas guy would have also been with Paul so I guess I'll put up here also with Paul the Apostle and let me show you why I believe that this Jude is the same guy that ran with the Apostle Paul in Acts chapter 15 Paul comes together with all the other apostles in kind of a church council if you will and the guy in charge during that time was James there was a guy named James now the other James had had been killed but the one that's still alive is the guy that's in charge and I'm not going to get back into all this you go to the brothers Bible study in the book of Acts to learn more about all this but this is the early church coming together and Paul is there with all of the other apostles all eleven and look what happens in Acts chapter 15 of verse 22 then please did the Apostles and elders with the whole church to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas namely Judas surnamed barsabbas and Silas chief men among the brother so Judas has another name Bar sabes now there's some questions on this is this Judas in Acts chapter 15 the same Judas that is mentioned in Acts chapter one and is also mentioned in Luke is it the same Jesus that was the Judas that was the follower of Jesus one of the twelve fossils some people say yes some people say no well it appears to me than it is and but that's why I put a question mark here is it the same one I wish it would have said the brother of James right there that would have made it very clear to know if it was but as I read the book of Jude and I look at the book of Acts when I read this book the book of Jude I clearly see the influence of Paul and the influence of Peter in this book of Jude and as we go verse by verse you'll see that you'll see that the guy that wrote the book of Jude knew Paul and knew Peter and he is constantly either quoting something Paul said and using Paul's doctrinal words or he's quoting from Peter so clearly he would have been there with Peter and Paul at one time and learned from both of them or he could have gone to one and learned one thing and went to another learned the other but he was definitely someone that knew the early apostles and here in Acts chapter 15 it tells us that Judas went with Silas Silas is with Paul at the end of his ministry Acts chapter 15 verse 27 it says we sent therefore Judas and Silas who shall also tell you the same things by mouth and then in verse 32 and Judas and Silas being prophets also themselves exhorted the brother with many words and confirm them so Judas was someone who went with Silas and Silas was someone that Paul won to the Lord so this Judas here is connected with all right he is connected the author of the book of Jude is connected with Jesus he was one of the twelve he is connected with Peter and the early apostles because he is one of the Apostles and he's there in acts 15 when they all meet together and I believe that's the Judas that they're talking of I don't see how it could be another Judas it could be but it doesn't it wouldn't make sense and then he's also connected with Paul because he runs with Silas who was one of Paul's converts all right so with that stated I want you to understand and I've got a lot to get into today I don't even know if we'll get to the book of Jude because I've got to give you so much background information but I want you have you got that so far have you got that so far Jude is Judas Judas was the other of the Twelve Apostles that was with Jesus not Judas Iscariot the other Judas the Judas that was the brother of James now the only question is was that James the half-brother of Jesus or the other James that was one of the apostles that's that's one of those things and then this Jude is also referred to as Judah and so he's very Jewish but is he the same Judah or Judas that's also called barsabbas that is over here in acts 15 and that goes out with Silas it appears to me yes as I connect the dots and a lot of times that's what we do as we read the Bible sometimes something's not explicitly spelled out in the Bible so as you read the Bible you gotta have to connect the dots and I hope I connected them correctly okay I'm fallible I can make mistakes huh I'm not gonna stand up here and say losers loses it when I don't know it I just say I don't know but I can say what it appears like to me and I'd ask you to study it for yourself to make sure but what it appears like to me is that the guy who writes the book of Jude is indeed I know this one of the Apostles but he is also this is what I'm iffy on he also is the same Jude in Acts chapter 15 that goes with Silas and the reason that I lead to saying that he is is because when we read Jude you cannot help but see Paul all over this guy whatever he's learned and his doctor and he learned it from Paul and you can't help but see Peter and Peter's doctrine all over the sky so this would have been a guy Jude that would have followed Paul and Peter in the beginning of his ministry he's full of Peter later he saw Paul and God revealed the Paul some things so he took Paul's knock so he was without a doubt the Apostles is he the same one though that that is an Acts chapter 15 that went out with Silas I think so I think so from what I understand now in order for me to help you to understand this book and what it's written to let me first do this okay and there's so much that I got to get into for you to understand here's the Old Testament law right there all right here's the church age into the church age is the tribulation then comes Armageddon and then we have the Millennial Kingdom so this right here is your Tribulation Period this right here is the Millennial Kingdom all right this is the church age in which we are now all right I did a video many years ago on the order of the books in the King James Bible if you get a chance to look up that video I'd like you to see that because the the books we have in the King James Bible the 66 books are in a certain order in order in which they weren't always in in in the olden times when the King James Bible came out the King James translators said put him in the Bible in this order and there was a reason for that I believe God did that I believe God put the books of the Bible in this order in a premillennial pre-tribulation 'el order for us today and that's what he did now let me show you why I say that I'm gonna give you the brief version of it right now but I would ask you please go look up that video it's called the order of the books in the King James Bible and I believe that the New Testament is more or less kind of in chronological order the New Testament starts out with the four Gospels Matthew Mark Luke and John now I want you to remember Matthew Mark Luke and John are all Old Testament until Jesus literally dies because the Bible says the Testaments starts are the death of a testator is what starts a New Testament so you have Matthew Mark Luke and John and those are all old tests until Jesus actually dies so there's a little bit of an overlap there and the the last couple chapters of Matthew our New Testament last couple chapters of Mark last couple chapters of Luke last couple chapters in John so there's an overlap there so when you're reading Matthew Mark and Luke and John please remember everything you're reading is still Old Testament until Jesus actually dies and when he actually dies on the cross that's when the New Testament begins and that's when we have New Testament I just can't reiterate how important that is that you know now after the book of John comes the book of Acts and so we have the book of Acts and the book of Acts starts with the early church and the book of Acts is talking about a transition from the Apostles to Paul and so the book of Acts tells us why Paul's in the Bible Paul wrote some books he wrote Romans to Philemon and so when you look at the order of the books in the Bible they're in the order of this chart that I drew up here all the time what's the next book after the book of Philemon the next book after the book of Philemon is the book of Hebrews well when is God going back to dealing with the Hebrews right here in the Tribulation Period so the book of Hebrews has has a double application and as we've studied the book of Hebrews verse by verse I showed you how Hebrews would have been written here when God was still dealing with Jews and in Paul's mind this was gonna be right here so Paul would have written to the Jews and was trying to tell him come to Jesus because he didn't realize the church age would be as long as it was he really thought the rapture could have been back here and so Paul was thinking in his day there would be the rapture so he was saying no cameraman write to the Jews and tell them that Jesus Christ is the Messiah and the book of Hebrews is all about who Jesus is and then that he was also the blood sacrifice what Jesus did now what comes after the book of Hebrews well after the book of Hebrews comes the book of James the book of James is a very strange book people to this day say I don't know what to do with the book of James it doesn't make sense I think James teaches you're saved by works and it sounds like it and I get emails all the time for people saying Robert break your you're such a dolt you're such a you're such a false prophet because you're telling people you're saved by grace through faith and that's not true you're saved by works and I say proof text please give me a a Bible verse to prove your false opinion and they always go to James and here's what I always do I say please turn to James chapter 1 and verse 1 and read that with me and who is James again to be the brother of this guy and they turned to James and I say read to me verse 1 and answer this question is the book of James written to me today James chapter 1 and verse 1 says James a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad greeting now I have a question for you are you one of the twelve tribes scattered abroad if you are then that book is written to you and you need to read it if you are not one of the twelve tribes scattered abroad then the book of James is not written to you what is the book of James the book of James would have been written way back here when God was still dealing with Jews probably around the same time as the book of Hebrews and the book of James and as we study the book of James I can't wait to get into it the book of James is so doctrinally to the tribulation period that it's uncanny there's very little in the book of James that we can apply to the church age today now there are some principles and things that we can sure but there are a lot of things in the book of James that are pointing directly to the tribulation and what the Jews will go through during that time so I can't wait I've actually written a commentary about the book of James and so many people probably have read this already I've got a commentary on the book of James I've got a commentary on 1st and 2nd Peter and you know you can buy that or whatever or read it even free on my old website rrb 3com or you can go and you can find that on Amazon I believe it is if you want to get ahead and read it first but the book of James is clearly has a tribulation application written by someone that was writing to Jews now next verse books we have our first Peter and second Peter now 1st and 2nd Peter are peculiar because 1st and 2nd Peter Peter was here now remember in Acts chapter 15 what happened the early church got together this is when both Peter and Paul got together and I'll try to explain this to how Peter and Paul got on the same page on their doctrine so I say that the book of 1st and 2nd Peter has a double application to the church age and then their stuff in 2nd Peter our first and second Peter that sound like he's talking to Jews remember Peter shows up after Jesus okay Jesus comes Jesus says he came only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel John the Baptist shows up before him to announce his coming then shows up Peter and the early apostles so Peter and the early apostles are here and if you know your Bible you clearly know this that Jesus is coming and Jesus is preaching the kingdom message jesus is coming pre preaching the kingdom message the kingdom message was Jesus is the Messiah so you need to come to Jesus Stephen is stoned at the stoning of Stephen that would be when God says alright well put this to John God says all right you guys rejected me now I'm going to go to the Gentiles but John's coming and John preaches the kingdom of heaven is at hand so you've got the kingdom message being preached during the early part of the New Testament in the early part of the book of Acts and that Kingdom message is for the Jews so and you go to the law the Old Testament law it's all about the Jews so God begins the New Testament dealing with Jews Jews only and that's why it was so important for us to go verse by verse through the book of Acts in order for you to understand a lot of people today try to take their doctor from the early book of Acts and they get messed up because they don't see the transition the book of Acts is a transitional book it's a transition from let me write this up here I want to be thorough I want to be too thorough but the book of Acts is a transitional book acts equals transition a transition from Jews as a nation because that's what God was dealing with he was dealing with the Jews as a nation to the church in which God is now dealing with individuals individual when Jesus came he came as a Jew to his nation and he came as the promised Messiah and they thought but he was there to deliver the nation from the the Romans the Roman government so they were looking for a nationwide revival and a salvation of the Jewish nation the nation rejected their Messiah but some individuals got saved so Jesus says okay now all individuals can be saved through the gospel the book of Acts is a transition from Peter to Paul and we clearly see how the early book of Acts is all Peter Peter Peter Peter Peter Peter Peter later the book of Acts is all Paul Paul Paul Paul Paul and we don't even mention Peter anymore the early book of Acts is from Jews over here to both Jew and Gentile now Jews and Gentiles can be saved the book of Acts is the Apostles doctrine at the beginning which is all about signs wonders and things like that healings and everything like the raising of the dead over here to Paul and Paul's doctrine and today Paul says we live by faith and not by sight we don't need these so it from Israel to the church or the body of Christ we can call it alright now I need to explain this because it's so important a lot of people do not understand the Bible second Timothy 2:15 says study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth when you go to the Bible the Bible is not a buffet table and you go to the Bible and you say I'm going to take all the doctrine from every dispensation I'm gonna take some of this well take some of the law well I'll take a little bit of this and I'll just put it all together and I'll make myself a church that's not how it works where are we now in the Bible right now we are about right here let me see I'll put it in another color here we're about right here we're at the end of the church age and the rapture is about to come when the rapture comes then Jesus Christ will go back to dealing with the nation of Israel as a nation but until then we are still under the gospel of Paul for sprin thiis 51:34 we are still under this dispensation there's people out there to say there's no such thing as a dispensation well that's just over and you look at that Nero man what's wrong with somebody like that if there's no such thing as dispensations then we're still under the law and we can't eat bacon you know what one of the greatest proofs of dispensations are the fact that we can eat bacon today I don't know why people are so quick to try to get rid of dispensations that means you can't even some things that if they did in the Old Testament then you could kill them now 1st and 2nd Peter what comes after 1st and 2nd Peter then comes 1st 2nd 3rd John when I look at 1st to 3rd John I see a double application I see that parts of John can apply to the church age but there's also some places in John that he's talking to people in the tribulation about the Antichrist coming and there's also some places in John or it sounds like he's talking to somebody in the Millennium I like to say that the 1st 2nd 3rd John has a triple application today there's some places in 1st 2nd 3rd John we can apply today but then he says something about John in in 3rd John or 2nd John or was the first John something about you shall see God when will you see God when he comes back in the Millennium so the way the Bible is written it's written in an order of events that will take place and we get to the later part after Paul's epistles we start to see it's it's applying more to the tribulation Peter was more an apostle to the what Jews then to the Gentiles yes Peter once some Gentiles to the Lord in chapter 10 and 11 but then he was like a Paul's the one that went out and actively was winning Gentiles to the Lord Peter could care less about the Gentiles his ministry was more to the Jews but that doesn't mean he didn't accept the teaching of Paul he did he accepted the message of the blood that's why we have in his epistle first Peter 1:18 and 19 where he's talking about the blood of Christ which was the message of Paul so then we have after verse a third John then we have Jude oh if we have the book of Jude doesn't that kind of make it look like that Jude is only a tribulation all application well no because some of the book of Jude applies to the church age but then some of the book of Jude looks like it applies to the tribulation so for this reason there are some people and then you have the book of Revelation the last book and the book of Revelation what does it do it starts talking about a church then most of the book of Revelation is all about the tribulation and then it mentions the Millennium so the book of Revelation talks about everything but the book of Jude because of where it's placed in the Bible some people will say the book of Jude does not apply to the church today and when you read the book of Jude you should not try to apply it to us I think that's silly because here's what I see I see Jude let me see what in the color I can put old Jude in here I see Jude here Allah during the time of Jesus Jude would have known Jesus and followed Jesus teachings Jude continues on and Jude is over here when the church gets together in chapter 15 and Jude gets ahold of Paul's doctrine so this doctrine here the Apostles doctrine is all for the Jews it's coming back over here the Apostles doctrine what they taught will be around again after the rapture because it will go back to the way it was back here there'll be signs there'll be miracles there'll be all this and I've taught that before I check out my video on YouTube the postponement theory if you want to know more about that so you've got Jude he's like Peter because Peters over here as well so he would have known Jesus teaching he would have followed the early teaching of the book of Acts Jude would have then he met up with Paul and he said you know what Paul I'm gonna accept what what you teach so when I read the book of Jude I don't see how you can take Jude and say it's only two Jews out here there's a lot of the part of the book of Jude that sounds a lot like Paul so I say and I teach that the book of Jude has kind of a double application it applies to today in many parts but there's also some parts that apply over here to the tribulation and as we go through verse by verse the book of Jude you'll see that and you go yeah I see what you mean brother breaker I mean it starts out good like like he's writing to the church but then you get a little farther on it sounds like he's writing Jews in the tribulation why would it be like that because when Jude writes his book wherever it was probably would have been around here sometime he was thinking the rapture was going to be right then and then these people were about to go through the tribulation you see I don't think anybody knew that the church age was gonna be two thousand years long you said how can you say that Robert breaker cuz of Paul you go to first uh that's the loneliest chapter four he said then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up he's writing about the rapture Paul and he says we Paul was thinking that the rapture would be in his day so Paul was thinking now the rapture is going to take place and when it does you Jews need to know something and that's why I believe Paul wrote the book of Hebrews I believe Paul wrote Hebrews and he wrote it to the early Jewish believers but also to the lost Jews that he knew would go through the tribulation because in the back of his mind he was thinking Jesus was going to take him out in his lifetime so when we get to the book of Jude we need to understand that mindset I hope your I know this is kind of confusing I hope you're with me that Jude would have been writing to believers in the time of Paul but in the idea that the rapture is coming soon and I want to make sure that people who are left behind read this book also and so there's passages in the short short small book of Jude that don't sound like Paul they sound like Peter and they sound like the Apostles doctrine and they sound like something that's going to take place in the tribulation so this is one of the main reasons why we should rightly divide the word of truth because when we do then we understand it now when was Jude written I believe that the book of Jude was written sometime around this here acts 15 probably around acts 15 are just shortly after and let me show you why I believe that when you go through the book of Jude here's what you see look at this in verse 4 for there are certain men crept in unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation ungodly men turning the grace no this way says the grace of our Lord until a civic sidious nacinda naidu only Lord God in our Lord Jesus Christ so the Jude is writing about people that are coming into his fellowship that are wicked and they're trying to stamp out Paul's message of grace when does that take place in the book of Acts well that takes place in Acts chapter 15 so let's go to acts 15 in Acts chapter 15 we see this Acts chapter 15 now go to Acts chapter 15 and look at what it says Acts chapter 15 verse 1 in certain man which came down from Judea taught the brother and said except to be circumcised after the manner of Moses you cannot be saved verse 2 when therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and dispute ation with them they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain other of them should go up to Jerusalem of the Apostles and elders about this question verse 3 being brought on their way by the church to pass through Phoenicia and Samaria declaring the Converse version of the Gentiles and they calls great joy into all the Brotherhood and then they were come to Jerusalem they received their church and of the Apostles and elders and they declared all things that God had done with them now verse 5 but there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed saying that it was needful to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses hmm verse 6 and the Apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter and when there had been much disputing so what happened all right in comes some Pharisees and the Pharisees say well I think it's great what you're preaching but you got to keep the law who would have these men have been the men that have crept in to try to change the doctrine of the early church now what is the doctrine of the early church well let me go back real quick to Acts chapter 13 this is what Paul began to preach that was different from the early apostles Paul had a message that he says in the book of Galatians was given to him by God and his message is found Paul's message is found in haxe 13 verse 38 and 39 well let's go to acts 13 38 and 39 let me show you it says Paul is preaching he says be it known at you therefore men and brethren that through this man Jesus is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins and by him all that believe are justified from all things for which you cannot be justified by the law of Moses Paul preached the message of grace that you're saved when you believe when you believe that's when you get forgiveness of sins when you believe suppose message with salvation was by grace through faith when you get forgiveness he said you're justified and you're not justified by the the law of Moses anymore it's not the law that saves you that's what God told Paul to preach and that led to this happening people were going around going what about this below do we keep the law now look at this I taught this in the book of Acts let me just briefly put this up here as we went through the book of Acts we saw this we saw that in the book of Acts the message was all about who Jesus was in the beginning it was all about Jesus as the Messiah he liked that deal I had do that in my little cursive but as Paul comes along God reveals to Paul a look Paul it's not just who Jesus is that you're supposed to believe it's what Jesus did and when you believe in what Jesus did that's when you get forgiveness of sins that's when you're justified so you're justified by faith salvation is by grace through faith faith in what faith in the blood atonement of Christ so what we're seeing here now let's go back to Acts chapter 15 there's some men coming into the church that are trying to undermine the preaching of Paul and they're coming along like it says in verse 5 but there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believe the Pharisees belief what would the Pharisees have believed they would have believed who Jesus was they believed that Jesus was indeed the Messiah but they didn't believe that he saves you they believe you still have to keep the law to be saved what were they doing they were rejecting the message of salvation by grace through faith they believed who Jesus was but they weren't going to take that leap over here - Paul sighed and say yeah yeah Jesus is so powerful that you don't get saved by keeping the law anymore now you're just saved by faith so that question shows up is that the law or are we saved by grace now Peter stands up in verse 7 and begins to talk look at the confession of Peter in acts 15 11 now I hear people say this a lot they're what you call hyper dispensation I hear hyper dispensation let's say I don't believe is a part of the body of Christ I don't believe Peter preached the same message as Paul while that's ludicrous Peter preached a different message than Paul that's not what I see when I read the Bible I see that in the beginning of the book of Acts yes a very different message but as you read the entire book of Acts you see that Peter got on the same page as Paul and Peter accepted this message because of Peters confession in acts 15 11 but we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved even as they so here in Acts chapter 15 Peter says I accept Paul and Paul's message of grace and I believe that salvation is by grace through faith now when you go back to the book of Jude and you look at verse 4 it all makes sense he said there were certain men who crept in and what were these men they were ungodly and they were turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness egde of grace well that's where the message of grace came up Acts chapter 15 so I see Jude here at the meeting in acts 15 and with all the other apostles accepting the message of grace and then he says now watch out for these guys whom I believe that Jesus is the Messiah and that's why they're in our group in the first place but they don't believe that you're saved by grace through faith alone watch out for them they're wrong so does that make sense I hope it does so in the book of Jude or have someone coming in they're there they're coming to the early body of believers after Jesus who all had one thing in common they all believed that Jesus was the Messiah and that's all they believed that's what made them believers at that time and Paul comes along and Paul says now there's one more thing God says to believe you need to believe that Jesus Christ not only is the Messiah but he's the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world he is the the sacrifice and you must trust in that sacrifice because under the law they sacrifice the animals you don't do that anymore Jesus was the Lamb of God he sacrificed himself so now you come to him and you trust in his blood atonement for salvation and they said no we're not gonna trust the blood we believe he's the Messiah but we can't go that far we want to stay under the law why would they want to stay in the law because they were Pharisees they were priests they made their living by sacrifice and animals so how on earth could they go around and tell everybody Jesus Christ is the finish sacrifice then they're out of a job so they believe to an extent that Jesus was the Messiah but they did not believe in the gospel of salvation so then Jude comes along and right sometimes after chapter 15 this book in which he says watch out for these wicked devils these evil ungodly men who are against the gospel of grace and who are coming in and they're false prophets they're false religious leaders and as we read through the book of Jude you will plainly see that's who Jude is talking about religious lost people who do what they do for money all they wanted was money now I believe in the double application of the book of Jude like I said I believe Jude was technically written during the church age during this time but Jude is also he's like Peter he cares more about the Jewish believers than the Gentile believers so when Jude is writing he's writing more to Jews and as we read through the book of Jude you'll see there are many passages in Jude that we can clearly apply to the church age to us today but then there's some stuff that Jude says ago that we just got a scratch there he goes that sounds like he's talking about this time and I want you to remember that in the back of your head as we go through Jude how it can have a double application all right so where do we begin well Jude in the end in our order of books makes many people think that Jude must only be written to Jews but again as we read it you can't help but see that double application that we can read it for both you see we don't take the book of Jude and say well it's not for us so we throw it out of the Bible it's there for a reason so we can read it but we must rightly divide it because there are some great passages of Scripture in the book of Jude I actually use the heat when I preach for example verse three beloved when I gave all diligence write unto you of the common salvation it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort to you that you should earnestly contend for the faith well amen I mean that's what we're supposed to do the gospel isn't what our faith is supposed to be in we call our Christian faith the gospel so I'm going to earnestly contend for the gospel of Paul 1st Corinthians 15 1 through 4 and tell people hey this is what you believe in to get saved but then he says which was once delivered unto the Saints well some people say now he's talking about that other gospel of Peter way back here but yet know Peter and all the other apostles came together here and they got a hold of Paul's message of grace and they said we believe it's by grace so he must be talking about that message so I do see that the book of Jude can be applied to us today but we have to do it correctly we have to rightly divide because there's some places in the book of Jude where you're like what like for example verse 5 he's talking about someone that believed not was destroyed like in verse where is he talking about verse 15 to execute judgment on all he's talking about Jesus Christ coming back with his Saints verse 14 to execute judgment that's here that's the Battle of Armageddon Hey Jude why did you skip the rapture because I believe in Jude's mind he's writing this thinking the rapture could come at any time and those of us that leave well then if somebody's left behind they weren't safe maybe they'll read this and they'll be prepared for when Jesus comes in Armageddon so put yourself in the mindset of the early Christians what they were thinking when Paul explained the the rapture they figured the rapture was going to come in their day and they figured that after that their books would still be read and they'd be read by the Jews tribulation and they would be for them during that time I don't know how to make that any clearer when I read the book of Jude I look at it in that in both ways I look at it as trying to take the entire book and apply it to the church but when I come up on a wall and there's some places in Jude where I can't apply it to the church that I said well maybe that part over there must be applying to the future tribulation and he's writing to the Jews in that time because he was a Jew thing was Judah Judas and just as Paul wrote a book to Jews Hebrews Jude would have been writing to Jewish Christians and and so it makes sense if you just rightly divide so it looks to me that Jude is written to us today why would I say that because I showed you the verse where Jude ran with Paul and Silas and Paul one of Silas is converts so you cannot wrongly divide and that's what I believe hyper dispensationalists do they wrongly divide the scriptures hyper dispensationalists say well the church doesn't start until Paul and yet Jesus Christ talks about his body and his church and you read Paul and Paul says it's one body and it's made up of Jews and Gentiles and it began at the cross but the hyper dispensationalist set this thing up where they say nothing in the book of Jude is for us today it only implies over here then that's pretty dumb then I can I don't have any verse of scripture that tells me to earnestly contend for the faith in well that stinks I don't have any verse of scripture that warns me verse 4 that some ungodly men are going to come along and try to pervert the gospel and get rid of the gospel of the grace of God man what do I do I don't have any verse of scripture in which it warns me about these evil wicked people coming in and and how evil they are and in all the book of Jude talking about them no no I think you're wrong I think we need to rightly divide we need to follow scriptures we need to understand who qu was and I've done my best to explain to you who he was where he was and what he was thinking and why he wrote he was in the mindset of raptures come in my lifetime I'm gonna write to those that are saved around me knowing that when the rapture does come then those Jews that are still here that must go through the tribulation maybe they'll read this - and that's the only way that the book of Jude makes sense so now I've gone 56 minutes trying to explain the book of Jude just to get started and we haven't even read one verse so let's go ahead and read verse 1 Jude the servant of Jesus Christ the brother of James and again is that James the Lord's brother or is that the other James lets you try to figure that out but it says the brother James to them that are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called now there's three mentioned here and I'll look at that next time the three people that he mentions but how could he be called writing this only to the tribulation because it says the sanctified the preserved in the called those of us that are preserved in Christ that's eternal security Paul taught eternal security nobody has eternal security in the tribulation except for London 44,000 I guessed it but they're a little different they get the seal their forehead but in the tribulation you know yeah it's not the same gospel as Paul you could take the mark of the beast and die go to hell so I don't see Jude here writing only to juice but as we get to the end of the book of Jude it makes you scratch your head cuz you're like no that doesn't sound like that applies to today that sounds like it plays out here so that's the only way we can rightly divide I hope I've explained that in such a way a lot of people say brother break do you repeat yourself a lot well sometimes I do repeat myself because my dad always said the best way to learn is repetition repetition repetition and he would repeat himself and say it three times every time you said that I said what is it dad he said repetition repetition repetition and there's been a lot of times in my life when somebody said something it goes in one ear and out the other and they said it again same thing but third fourth fifth time they said it I finally oh now I get it and they're like yeah we should have got it the first time well sometimes we don't so I try my best to explain it I'm sorry if I repeated myself but I want you to get a hold of this book the book of Jude can apply to us today and I'm going to teach it as applying most of the book to us today but I'm also going to teach to you that there's a double application of the book of Jude as soon as the rapture takes place sure is the world there's gonna be some Jews that were left behind they're gonna get the Bible and they're gonna read the book of Jude and when they read the book of Jude it's gonna mean something to them in this time period so I want you to get that in your mind God does that God writes the Bible in such a way that every passage has a double triple or Drupal application Old Testament he's writing about future events that are going to take place and they did but it also will apply to a future event out here so God can do that God can give us something it has a double or triple prophetic application and I find that quite interesting and I believe that you does that it can literally apply to us today but also can apply to Jews after the rapture has taken place on what they need to do watch watch out for what they need to watch out for because Jesus said that the Antichrist is going to show up after the rapture he's gonna try to deceive the very elect he's gonna try to deceive God's people the Jews and how is he gonna do that he's gonna put men in there I mean creeping in unawares that are trying to turn the people into thinking at the end of Christ is really the Messiah so there you go that's about an hour long I didn't even get to get into the text but I do feel like I've explained where I'm going with this book and I hope this has been a blessing to you you may say wow that's a lot of information we'll go back and watch the book of Acts first and then this will be more something that you can understand so we're gonna start here soon in our verse-by-verse Bible study through Jude I don't know how long it's gonna be might be three or four videos it might be more it might be less I'm gonna do the best I can but I want you to see what it is and how it it can have that double application so we'll start next time on the book of Jude thank you

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Published: Mon May 27 2019