Peter Barnes | Jude 16-19
SERMON NOTES
PROUD SPIRITLESS GRUMBLERS
(Jude 16-19)
– grace is being turned into immorality (vv.3-4)
1. People of grace are gracious.
– v.16; these false teachers are grumblers and faultfinders (malcontents, complainers), like Israel in the desert (Ex.15:24; 17:3; Num.14:26-29; Ps.106:24-25)
– see Luke 15:28-32; Phil.2:14
– Joni Eareckson: ‘God of all comfort, keep me from complaining if my burden seems heavy.’
– they do what they want (contrary to Gal.5:24) and boast (Luke 18:9)
2. We are warned against ungodly scoffers.
– vv.17-18; from 2 Peter 3:3 but see also Acts 20:29-30; 2 Tim.3:1-5; 4:3;
– like Bishop Spong’s attack on the African bishops in 1999 as ‘superstitious’ and ‘uneducated’.
3. The ungodly do not have the Spirit of God.
– v.19; without the Spirit, we are not Christians (John 14:16-17; Rom.8:9)
– Matt.7:15-20