Sunday, June 3, 2018

Christ in Jude


~ Jesus Christ Is The Returning Bridegroom ~

The Bible is about Jesus Christ  ~  “Jesus said to them, ‘How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!  Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter His glory?’  And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning Himself” (Luke 24:25-27).

Jesus Christ in the Book of Jude  ~  Jesus Christ is the source of our sanctification, the Merciful One, our Advocate, the Preserver, and the Coming Judge.  Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ: mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you” (Jude 1-2). 

A key teaching of this short letter is that natural man’s evil nature has remained the same throughout history.  His enemies have always been godless people.  Jude compares evil people of his day with Old Testament examples:  “But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.  Woe to them!  For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah” (Jude 10-11). 

Comment  ~  We have only touched the surface of Christ in the book of Jude.  The Apostle Paul told us the Scriptures present many shadows of things to come but the reality is found in Jesus Christ (Colossians 2:17). 

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