Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called. Jude 1
Probably no other book in the New Testament is as relevant to the situation facing Christians today as the little epistle of Jude. Often subtitled as ‘the Acts of the Apostates’, this book describes the massive spirit of apostasy that we see all around us in the 21st century, unlike in any other period of Christian history. Jude wrote of people professing or pretending to be Christians, but were not.
Jude reminds his readers that this state of apostasy had been foretold by the early apostles: ‘But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit’ – Jude 17-19.
One of the outstanding hallmarks of our age – and all in the past 40 years or so – is society’s acceptance of homosexuality as acceptable and even promoted. Jude warns that God never has taken this sin lightly: ‘Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.’ -Jude 7-8.
Jude wrote to ‘exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints’ -Jude 3. Don’t let the apostates lead us astray. – Jim MacIntosh
Here is the link to the video of this message: https://youtu.be/QrV3iXiuqEA