Blaspheme all that they do not understand

 

Jude 5-16

What is left for a people who received the grace of God and all the benefits of grace, and then rely on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones?  Jude gives a profile of such a person or people; they are like unreasoning animals, and they blaspheme all that they do not understand, they are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.

Jude shares three examples with us, one example is God’s chosen people, the next is angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, and the last is a pagan nation Sodom and Gomorrah.  Once a preacher titled his sermon, “It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of an angry God” and it is.  Grace made light of will always turn into judgment!  Beginning in verse five, “Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.”  The prophet Jeremiah gives us insight into their actions: “Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail.  Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered! – only to go on doing all these abominations?”  (Jeremiah 7: 8-10) It sounds like God is speaking to many who attend Sunday services.  If this speaks to you, please pay attention to what else God has to say on this subject; “And I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast out your kinsmen, all the offspring of Ephraim.”  (V. 15) And listen to God’s command to Jeremiah in verse 16, “As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you.” Grace made light of will always turn into judgment! Those angels, who did not stay within their own position of authority, have been kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.  And you are fully aware of God’s judgment on that nation of sodomites.  I understand you may prefer “homosexuals or Gay, but the judgment was still the same.  It’s sad that the church has tried to spin God’s words, but darkness is still darkness and light is still light, a lie is still a lie, murder is still murder, an anything God calls something, is what it is.  God is addressed in the example in Jude 5, His people, not the pagan world, and all who make little of God’s grace, by unbelief, will experience on that Day, the judgment.  God refers often to eternal hell, a place not designed for man, but for the devil and his angels.  Hell is a place of eternal fire and punishment, a place where people choose to go because they made little of God’s grace.

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice