Jude Chapter 1:1-25

Volume 26 of Heavenly Citizens in Earthly Shoes, An Exposition of the Scriptures for Disciples and Young Christians

De: Randy Green

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The Heavenly Citizens series serves as a tool to help the Christian understand not only what the Bible teaches us, but also how to study the Bible. Explaining what the Bible teaches is like giving someone a fish to eat. Teaching him how to study the Bible is like teaching someone how to fish so he can feed himself. Both approaches are essential to developing spiritual maturity.

Jude is the twenty-sixth volume in the Heavenly Citizens series. Pastor Jude was a brother of Pastor James, who authored the Book of James. Both James and Jude were half-brothers of Messiah Jesus (cf., Mark 6:3). Both of them shared Virgin Miriam with Jesus as their mother, but Jesus had no human father like they did. Jesus’ human Father was God, when the Holy Spirit came upon Virgin Miriam and miraculously impregnated her.

Neither James nor Jude (aka Judas) believed in Jesus prior to His death and resurrection; but did they ever catch fire afterward! Pastor James served as chief pastor of the Church of Jerusalem, and Pastor Jude pastored various Jewish churches throughout Judea.

Pastor Jude begins his letter to those Jewish churches in Judea, by explaining that he desired to teach them more thoroughly about salvation in Jesus’ name. Alas, but before he could get started, heresy became the burning issue in these churches; so Pastor Jude wrote this letter to expose the heretics in the churches and their heresies.

Pastor Jude shows a solid grasp of Tanakh (aka the Old Testament), by referring to several eretics of those prior centuries. He compares the heretics of his day with them, specifying the many ways they correspond with each other. Pastor Jude goes on to make note of how the Lord destroyed the heretics of the past, including those people who fell for their heresies and thereby rejected the Word of God. In order to avoid such a fate, the believers must cling to the Word of God as delivered to them via King Jesus’ apostles (cf., verses 17-23). As with all of Scripture, so too with the Book of Jude. The sole and final authority for the Church is the Bible.

The approach for Jude, and for every volume in the Heavenly Citizens series, is to teach the student the meaning of Scripture. We also teach him or her how to study the Bible on his/her own. We do this in two ways: we provide a few rules by which to govern our Bible study, and we demonstrate by example how to study the Bible. Experience is an outstanding teacher. In our books we put into practice the rules for Bible study. By walking through the Bible with us, the reader experiences firsthand what our method of study is like.

We believe the student will come out of our studies with both an understanding of the Bible and the ability to truthfully understand the Bible on his/her own. The path lies before you. Walk through the gate and join the journey with us! And may the blessings of the Lord Jesus Christ be yours in abundance.