Lessons From Jude
Biblical illiteracy is our biggest threat.
It’s not the $30 trillion national debt, nor China nor Putin. It’s that we no longer know right from wrong.
Or, if we do, shrug our shoulders and go back to what’s streaming on whatever, and figure right and wrong are no big deal.
Debts don’t have to be paid and consequences are myths.
This indifference is encouraged by teachers and leaders and even preachers. They even defend things like this, or lack the courage to condemn it.
A nation that doesn’t care is a nation that is going to die.
So here’s from things from the Book of Jude to ponder.
. . . but now I find I must write of something else instead, urging you to stoutly defend the truth that God gave once for all to his people to keep without change through the years. 4 I say this because some godless teachers have wormed their way in among you, saying that after we become Christians we can do just as we like without fear of God’s punishment.
8 Yet these false teachers carelessly go right on living their evil, immoral lives, degrading their bodies and laughing at those in authority over them, even scoffing at the Glorious Ones.
10 But these men mock and curse at anything they do not understand, and like animals, they do whatever they feel like, thereby ruining their souls.
12 When these men join you at the love feasts of the church, they are evil smears among you, laughing and carrying on, gorging and stuffing themselves without a thought for others. They are like clouds blowing over dry land without giving rain, promising much, but producing nothing. They are like fruit trees without any fruit at picking time. They are not only dead, but doubly dead, for they have been pulled out, roots and all, to be burned.
16 These men are constant gripers, never satisfied, doing whatever evil they feel like; they are loudmouthed “show-offs,” and when they show respect for others, it is only to get something from them in return.
17 Dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ told you, 18 that in the last times there would come these scoffers whose whole purpose in life is to enjoy themselves in every evil way imaginable. 19 They stir up arguments; they love the evil things of the world; they do not have the Holy Spirit living in them.
Read Jude, in its entirety. It’s short. Read the Bible, for that matter. Ignorance is bad.
And if you find it hard to turn off a streaming show, or refrain from a mocha latte or speak out against a wrong, that’s when you know you must.