Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
Verse two is the greeting and salutation to the book of Jude. Jude’s readers needed mercy, peace, and love in their dealings with apostate teachers.
Mercy,
Apostates caused a state of wretchedness for Jude’s readers. Mercy is God’s compassionate comfort for beleaguered believers living in misery, the consequence […]
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Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
peace,
Peace is the ability to sit down on the inside. This peace comes from God and is not engendered by human effort. The Greek word for "peace" means to join together what has been separated. It is the result of having been separated from and then receiving […]
Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.
and love
Love is God’s love towards His people under duress. "Love" here is self-sacrificing love (agape). We need God’s unconditional love in times of doctrinal duress.
and love be multiplied to you.
It is not enough for these spiritual qualities to come in part; they need to be multiplied in […]
Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
Beloved,
Since Jude writes to warn his readers, he calls them "beloved." This is a term of […]
Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
I found it necessary to write to you
Something came up so that Jude found it necessary […]
For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Now Jude gives the reason why it is necessary to contend for the faith (v.3). This is the occasion […]
For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. who long ago were marked out for this condemnation,
who long ago were marked out for this […]
For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
There are three descriptions of apostates […]
But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
God’s attitude toward apostates is clear from the Bible. Jude gives three examples from the Old Testament of God’s judgment on those who opposed […]
But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
that the Lord,
The word "Lord" refers to a Christophany–a physical appearance of Christ in the Old Testament. Christ Himself accompanied the Israelites through the wilderness. […]