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Remembering Our Great Salvation Who needs to be encouraged more than believers in Christ suffering for His sake? And who trusted the Lord for their salvation more than any? First century Christians expelled from Rome and major cities of the Empire. Jews dispersed throughout the Empire, seeking to separate their identities from followers of The…
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The Apostle Simon Peter, who Jesus nicknamed, ‘the rock,’ warns the church about those who disobey God. He quotes scripture pointing to Christ as the cornerstone of the Temple and as a rejected stone causing some to stumble. As we suggested earlier in Apostates from Jude’s letter, these ‘religious’ opponents of Jesus often sway others…
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Why did Jude write to the churches about apostasy? What is apostasy and how do we recognize apostates? As we learned previously in the study of Jude’s reason for exhortation, certain intruders have joined the churches to which he writes. Jude describes them as ungodly people who pervert God’s grace. He accuses these apostates of…
