EVENING
SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/22/2025 8:24 PM
My
Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “Remember”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Jude 17-29
Message of the verses: “17 But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken
beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, 18 that they were saying
to you, "In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own
ungodly lusts." 19 These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded,
devoid of the Spirit.”
There are sometimes when you study a book of the Bible that the
author will put some truth out and then later on will add to it, and in this
case Jude echo’s verses 5-7 and also 11-13, which reminded his readers that
false teacher’s pose a constant threat, and they still do today. These false teachers were present during the
Old Testament times look at Isa. 28:7; Jer. 23:14; Ezek. 13:4; Mic. 3:11; Zeph.
3:4, and so as look at these verses from these different authors you can see
that they go in order and continue to get closer to the end of the Old
Testament, which reinforces the truth that they have existed for a long
time. Now they also afflicted the early
church as seen in 1 John 2:18-19; 2 John 7-11; Rev. 2:2-3, 15-16; 3:9, and they
are also active today, and they will continue to be a threat in the future, (2
Thess. 2:1-4; Rev. 13; 19:19-20). Now
because they have always plagued God’s people, their presence should not surprise
believers in any era.
It
was like Peter in 2 Peter 1:12-13, that Jude exhorted his readers to remember the truths they had already
heard—the words that were spoken
beforehand by the apostles of the Lord
Jesus Christ who predicted the coming apostasy, for after all He knows
everything that will happen. The Lord
Himself was the first one in the New Testament to warn against false teachers
as seen in Matthew 7:15 “15 "Beware
of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are
ravenous wolves” (compare 24:11) “"Many false prophets will arise and will
mislead many.” Now as he defended
his apostleship to the Corinthians, Paul echoed these same concerns:
12 But what I am doing I will continue to do, so
that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be
regarded just as we are in the matter about which they are boasting. 13 For
such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as
apostles of Christ. 14 No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel
of light. 15 Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves
as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds” (2
Cor. 11:12-15).
MacArthur then writes
the following “The apostle gave additional warnings about false teachers in
several of his other epistles (Col 2:16-19; 1 Thess. 2:14-16; 2 Thess. 2:3-12;
1 Tim. 4:1-3; 6:20-21; 2 Tim. 2:17-19; 3:1-9; 4:1-3). Similarly, Peter warned that ‘there will also be false teachers…who will
secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought
them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves’ (2 Peter 2:1).” Now remember that I said that this
commentary has two biblical books in it, and the first one is 2 Peter so we
will be looking, Lord willing, at 2 Peter once we finish looking at Jude. “And the apostle John wrote, ‘Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but
test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets
have gone out into the world’ (1 John 4:1; cf. 2:18-19; 2 John 7; 3 John 9-11).”
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