"Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: 'See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him'" (Jude 14-15).
The word ungodly is used four times in Jude 15. Verse sixteen gives the characteristics of these ungodly people. The difficulty is that they sound like characteristics of Christians we all have known. Here is verse sixteen: "These men are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage."
Grumbling and faultfinding is stock in trade for the world. However, Christians who work in the world may find it easy to pick up the practice. Instead of providing light, we pick up the darkness. Let us remember that Jude says that it is an ungodly practice.
Same Page Summer Bible Reading
Written July 1983.
The word ungodly is used four times in Jude 15. Verse sixteen gives the characteristics of these ungodly people. The difficulty is that they sound like characteristics of Christians we all have known. Here is verse sixteen: "These men are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage."
Grumbling and faultfinding is stock in trade for the world. However, Christians who work in the world may find it easy to pick up the practice. Instead of providing light, we pick up the darkness. Let us remember that Jude says that it is an ungodly practice.
Same Page Summer Bible Reading
Written July 1983.
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