Lord Jesus Christ in Jude
Verses within this Study.
1:1, 4, 4-LJC, 5, 9, 14, 17, 21, 25.Click on the following links to jump to a section within the study of this Bible Book: Lord only, Jesus only, Christ only, Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus, Lord Jesus, Lord Christ, Lord Jesus Christ, Saviour
God
is used by itself four times. Lord
is used by itself three times. Lord God
is used once. Lord Jesus Christ
is used three times. Jesus Christ
(without Lord
) is used twice. No other combinations of the names of the Son of God are used. Jude's message, related to this study, is simple: The Lord God
has judged unrighteousness and will judge unrighteousness and Jesus Christ
is Lord
and equal to the Lord God
.
Lord Only
Click here for all of the Verses that use Lord
and here for the Summary on the name / role of Lord
.
Jude uses Lord
for Lord God (Father)
and uses Lord
for Lord Jesus Christ
. His book can be summarized, for this study, with the statement that there are men in the church challenging the Lordship of Lord God (Father)
and of our Lord Jesus Christ
. As God has done in the past, our Lord Jesus Christ
will do. That is, prove His Lordship by bringing suffering upon these beings beyond their imagination. Lord
is used here for the power and judgment associated with the role of Lord
.
Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
(Please see the note in the Study on Jude for the sentence breakdown by punctuation and more detail.) Please also see the note under Lord Jesus Christ. Jude starts out saying that he wanted to write about what we all have in salvation (the common salvation
). However, God had him concentrate on the Lordship
and judgment
of God the Father and of our Lord Jesus Christ
and how those roles deal with saved people in an ongoing personal relationship that is part of salvation. Notice that this verse starts out with For
('Here's why'). He is giving us the reason that God had him concentrate on warning about some people in the church that are teaching error. Jude didn't want to write a warning, and get people mad and fighting against him, but he did what God told him to do. Jude also tells us to do the same thing when we see the same error being preached. Jude warned us about ungodly men
. Please see the note for Romans 4:5 to find links to every place where the Bible uses forms of the word ungodly
.
In our verse, Jude uses Lord
twice to show that both God the Father and God the Son are Lord
and to show that they are in complete agreement.Therefore, someone can't come back and claim that they received an answer from God the Father that is different from what everyone else received from God the Son.In addition, by using Lord
twice, Jude makes this a doctrinal matter. Someone can not be right with the God of the Bible and reject Bible doctrine. In addition, Jude tells us that these men are denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ
. Romans 6:16 says that if people follow these men and their gospel of lasciviousness
, then they are denying our Lord
and making these men their Lord
. It doesn't matter what people say, the measurement is to whom ye yield yourselves
. These men are challenging the Lordship
of God the Father and of our Lord Jesus Christ
. In Jude 1:5-9 Jude gives us examples of what the only Lord God
did to people that denied His Lordship. Then in the rest of the book, Jude deals with the Lordship of our Lord Jesus Christ
. That is why Jude names them in the order that he does in this verse. Jude uses Lord
for the power, authority and judgment of that office and Jude puts our Lord Jesus Christ
on the same level as the only Lord God
.
Jude 1:5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
(Please see the note in the Study on Jude for the sentence breakdown by punctuation and more detail.) Jude starts this sentence with therefore
to tell us it is based upon the prior sentence. Please see that verse and associated note above. Jude warned that there are certain men crept in unawares
who teach a false gospel that is attractive to our flesh and as a result of God's people turning to this error, the Lord
brought destruction upon those who believed not
the warning from God. This verse is the start of a section that goes through 1:7 using Old Testament examples of how the Lord
brought destruction upon those who were supposed to belong to God yet believed not
. Jude very clearly teaches that the Lord
judges actions and not just the lies that come out of our mouth.
This sentence is referring to God the Father because it is talking about God's dealing with the Jewish nation when He saved the people out of the land of Egypt
. The mixed multitude
started these problems in Exodus 12:38 and they also caused problems in the return of Nehemiah 13:3. These people started out calling for God's people to show God's love and compassion on their 'little mistakes' which led to murmurers, complainers
(Jude 1:16) and eventually God had to destroy all of the people He led out of Egypt except Joshua and Caleb. The Lord
led their children into the promised land and destroyed them that believed not
because their failure to remove these people destroyed their own faith and led too their own destruction.
People like to excuse sin and claim that it is the fault of leaders not warning them of consequences. That lie was dealt with in our verse and explained in this note before this. The Jews lived with the results of following a godly man who was involved with the world (Joseph). And while he kept God's people separate from the world during his life, future generations mixed with the world until God's people had to be judged for turning their back on God and choosing the lusts of the flesh and of the world. When they got tired of the results of sin and turned back to God, God brought them out of the world, but they didn't separate completely but brought a mixed multitude
with them who kept alive ideas of 'toleration' that turned the grace of our God into lasciviousness
and led to God destroying that generation. So we can not ask for a clearer example of the Lord
bringing judgment upon people who tolerate 'a little sin' and blame their leaders for failing to warn them. It wasn't that they didn't have warning but that they refused to listen. However, that isn't the only excuse used to turn the grace of our God into lasciviousness
and Jude doesn't stop with this one warning. The next sentence starts with And
, which means it is added unto this sentence and we do not have the full message if we ignore it. Jude also includes further examples to show that God is conswistent in His judgment of sin and it doesn't batter who it is that does the sin. Jude is warning us that the Lord
will judge us, our children and our followers if we don't drive out these people who teach this error because trhey will get us and our followers to do sin which always brings judgment from God.
Jude 1:9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
(Please see the note in the Study on Jude for the sentence breakdown by punctuation and more detail.) Jude tells us about Michael the archangel
and people reference this verse for their argument about who the two witnesses
are in Revelation. However, that speculative argument is not what this sentence and context is all about and that argument distracts from the true message of this sentence. Michael the archangel
did not claim power or position above what he really had but called upon the Lord
in recognition that the Lord
is the one who truly has the power and position to rebuke the devil. We are foolish if we do not follow this example.
Jude 1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
(Please see the note in the Study on Jude for the sentence breakdown by punctuation and more detail.) This is clearly referring to God the Son (as Lord
), since it is God the Son who will return and not God the Father. In addition, this sentence includes Jude 15 which clearly states that the Lord
will execute judgment
and this judgment is for their ungodly deeds and of all their hard speeches against him
. In context, Jude is talking about people within the church who preach heresy. These heretics don't talk against God the Father but against Jesus Christ
. The Enoch
referred to in this verse is the one who was father to Methuselah
, walked with God: and he was not; for God took him
(Genesis 5) and is believed to be one of the two witnesses
of God in Revelation 11. He is also in the 'Chapter of Faith'. Hebrews 11:5 tells us By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God
. Enoch
lived in the time before Noah, which was as bad or worse than it is today. While all around him were compromising and making excuses for sin, Enoch
had this testimony, that he pleased God
. Part of his testimony was that he preached Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him
. Enoch
did not go along with these people preaching toleration and excuses for sin but condemned those who turned the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ
. Enoch
preached judgment by our Lord Jesus Christ
when He cometh with ten thousands of his saints
. Enoch
is our human example of how to deal with compromisers among God's people.
Jesus Only
Jesus
is not used by itself in this book. Click here for all of the Verses that use Jesus
and here for the Summary on the name / role of Jesus
.
Christ Only
Christ
is not used by itself in this book. Click here for all of the Verses that use Christ
and here for the Summary on the name / role of Christ
.
Jesus Christ
Jude 1:1.
Jude uses Jesus Christ
in only one verse, but used twice in that verse. That makes the verse a doctrinal truth, and what a powerful statement that verse is. It gives us a literal statement of the doctrinal use of Jesus Christ
within the Bible.
Click here for all of the Verses that use Jesus Christ
and here for the Summary on the name / role of Jesus Christ
.
Jude 1:1 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:
(Please see the note in the Study on Jude for the sentence breakdown by punctuation and more detail.) Reportedly (and I believe it is probably true), this Jude
and James
were the half-brothers of Jesus
and physical sons of Joseph and Mary. Notice that Jude does not call himself 'brother of Jesus Christ' but calls himself a servant of Jesus Christ
. In order to be used by God, Jude humbles himself and avoids any posibility of people thinking that he is related to the God part of Jesus Christ
in any way beyond what any other saved person could have. Mary (and the rest of the physical family of Jesus
) would also have been careful to avoid any false claim such as the words see / sight
the mother of God'. However, Jude does call himself the brother of James
because even though James was not one of the original 12 apostles, he was a leader in the church as we see in Acts 12:17, 15:13 and other places. Like James, Jude would have received a position of authority within the church after he was truly saved because he would have peersonal knowledge and understanding that others would not have because he had experience that they did not have.
Notice that Jude says that he is writing to those who are preserved in Jesus Christ
. As a servant of Jesus Christ
, Jude would also be preserved
. preserved in Jesus Christ
means the words see / sight
kept spiritually as uncorrupted as when first saved' or the words see / sight
saved and showing the life and spirit of Jesus Christ
. Unfortunately, most saved people today haven't personally been involved in preserving food and, therefore, don't understand this word like experienced people would. Preserved
is found in Genesis 32:30; Joshua 24:17; 1Samuel 30:23; 2Samuel 8:6, 14; 1Chronicles 18:6, 13; Job 10:12; 29:2; Psalms 37:28; Isaiah 49:6; Hosea 12:13; Matthew 9:17; Luke 5:38; 1Thessalonians 5:23 and Jude 1:1. Probably the easiest way to understand the definition of this word is to look at Job 29:2 which says Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me
. Job was alive but he wasn't in the same shape that he was in before God turned Satan loose on him. Being kept like he was before Satan would have been preserved
. When God saves us He cleans up our lives. When Jude says he is writing to those preserved in Jesus Christ
he means those who have been kept as spiritually pure as when they were when first saved. Through the ministry of Jesus
and the ministry of Christ
they have avoided sinful destructive ways.
Christ Jesus
Christ Jesus
is not used in this book.
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and here for the Summary on the name / role of Christ Jesus
.
Lord Jesus
Lord Jesus
is not used in this book. Click here for all of the Verses that use Lord Jesus
and here for the Summary on the name / role of Lord Jesus
.
Lord Christ
Lord Christ
is not used in this book. Click here for all of the Verses that use Lord Christ
and here for the Summary on the name / role of Lord Christ
.
Lord Jesus Christ
Jude uses Lord Jesus Christ
for all three roles of the Son of God. However, the context of Jude's message is to put special emphasis on the role of Lord
. Thus, Jude also uses Lord Jesus Christ
to say that Jesus Christ
is Lord
. Click here for all of the Verses that use Lord Jesus Christ
and here for the Summary on the name / role of Lord Jesus Christ
.
Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
(Please see the note in the Study on Jude for the sentence breakdown by punctuation and more detail.) Please also see the note under Lord. Jude mentions our Lord Jesus Christ
for the first time in this verse. He is speaking against the false prophets and tells how the only Lord God
dealt with this type of people in the past. Then, starting in 1:17, Jude tells how our Lord Jesus Christ
will deal with them. These people are denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ
by denying the changed life that they bring to a saved person through the ongoing personal relationship that is salvation.These are the people who claim that we can't deny someone's claim of salvation just because they live for the flesh and never showed a God caused change in their life.These people concentrate on 'winning the lost' (getting professions) exclusevely when dealing with sin and judgment and ignore, or deny, that there will be judgment of sin for the saved person. They are the people who claim that the judgment seat of Christ
(Romans 14:10 and 2Corinthians 5:10-11) will not have punishment but will only be 'a loss of reward'.However, the therefore
of 2Corinthians 5:11 makes the terror of the Lord
a direct result of the judgment seat of Christ
.These people also distract from the truth by teaching that the terror of the Lord
is 'because of lost people' and distract from the fact that only saved people are at the judgment seat of Christ
.Therefore, the the terror of the Lord
must come upon (therefore
) the saved at the judgment seat of Christ
.These false prophets teach good godly preachers to deny the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ
when they convince them to deny that judgment (part of the role of Lord
) includes punishment and the terror of the Lord
for saved people.
Jude 1:17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Verses 17and 18 form a single sentence that reminds us that we were warned of mockers who should walk after their own ungodly lusts
.
(Please see the note in the Study on Jude for the sentence breakdown by punctuation and more detail.) Mocking is way of challenging the authority of another person when you can't open dispute what they command. Jude tells us that these mockers
walk after their own ungodly lusts
. These are the same people who turn the grace of our God into lasciviousness
in order to justify their lusts
. We are warned of lusts
in the New Testament in Matthew 5:28; Mark 4:19; John 8:44; Romans 1:24, 27; 6:12; 7:7; 13:14; 1Corinthians 10:6; Galatians 5:16-17, 24; Ephesians 2:3; 4:22; 1Thessalonians 4:5; 1Timothy 6:9; 2Timothy 2:22; 3:6; 4:3; Titus 2:12; 3:3; James 1:14-15; 4:1-3; 1Peter 1:14; 2:11; 4:2-3; 2Peter 1:4; 2:10, 18; 3:3; 1John 2:16-17; Jude 1:16, 18 and Revelation 18:14. Certainly, we can agree with Jude that the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ
warned us about these mockers..
who should walk after their own ungodly lusts
.
As the prior note explains, Jude's whole book is a warning about those that challenge the authority of the only Lord God
and of our Lord Jesus Christ
. Jude uses Lord Jesus Christ
is this verse for each and every role of the Son of God. The apostles of Jesus
tell of His example as a man and eliminate our excuses for living in sin and not controlling our fleshly lusts. (Please also see the note for this verse in the Word Study on Apostle for the use of this word within the Bible.) These people mock Jesus
because their religion doesn't enable them to overcome their sin and rather than confessing their sin, they mock and deny the holy and pure life that 'God in human flesh' lived as a man. They also mock Christ
because their religion doesn't change them or help them to grow spiritually or give them any of the things that come through Christ
. They also mock our Lord
because they think that they rule their own lives. But, as Romans 6 and the prior note show, they are really servants of sin unto death
who will be judged for their sin by our Lord Jesus Christ
.
Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Jude 1:20-21 form a single sentence. (Please see the note in the Study on Jude for the sentence breakdown by punctuation and for details on the rest of this sentence.) As shown many other places in this study, salvation requires God the Father, the Holy Ghost and each of the roles of God the Son. When Jude says the mercy...unto eternal life
, he is talking about salvation and he deliberately names each of the roles of the Son of God. As Jesus
, the Son of God lived and died as a physical man and paid the debt to get us out of the great white throne
judgment (Revelation 20:11-15). As Christ
, the Son of God died to pay for sins that we do after our initial profession and provides the ongoing personal relationship with us which gives us spiritual maturity and makes us fit for Heaven. (Please see the Overview of the Lord Jesus Christ Study for how these truths are supported by the entire New Testament.) Finally, as Lord
, the Son of God will judge us at the judgment seat of Christ
(Romans 14:10 and 2Corinthians 5:10-11) where He will reward the obedient and give the terror of the Lord
to the disobedient. Anyone who claims salvation while denying the ministry of any of these roles in their life does not meet the Biblical definition of true salvation.
Saviour
Jude 1:25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
(Please see the note in the Study on Jude for the sentence breakdown by punctuation and more detail.) Click here for all of the Verses that use Saviour
and here for the Summary on the name / role of Saviour
. Jude tells us that God the Father is our Saviour
, just like we are told in Luke 1:47; 1Timothy 1:1; 2:3; 4:10; Titus 1:3; 2:10; 3:4. As has been explained in the notes for those verses, Saviour
is a role that is fulfilled by more than one person; just like'parent' is a role that is fulfilled by more than one person. Also, just like'father' and 'mother' that is fulfilled different detailed tasks within the role of'parent', so also does God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ
fulfill different detailed tasks within the role of Saviour
. God the Father made the plan of salvation among other tasks. In Titus 1:3
Jude tells us Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints
. As we see there, the plan of salvation created by God the Father requires us receiving and keeping the faith which was once delivered unto the saints
. Jude then warns us about people that we need to earnestly contend
with (1:4-19) and summarizes with the warning for us to But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life
(1:20-21). We see here that God the Father's plan of common salvation
requires us to do our part of maintaining the ongoing personal relationship that is salvation
. Jude warns us that people who claim that we don't have to do our part are to be avoided and that they will be judged. God the Father provided a plan of salvation
that is open to all and yet excludes these ungodly people and His plan of salvation
includes a way for us to tell the difference between truly saved and these mockers
.