Evidence Of Apostates_04

Evidence of Apostates Jude 8-11.This next message exposes the manner and character of false teachers. Jude is warning us about here in Jude 8-11.Here Jude gives us another trilogy to show us more clearly who these false teachers are.To begin with he uses the word 'Likewise' to show the comparison to those who were just mentioned and were judged in vss. 5-7.In other words, these false teachers who are the same ones mentioned in v.4 are acting in the same way as those who rebelled through unbelief in the wilderness, the angels and the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah acted. In spite of these warnings that were in the OT they ignore them in their own practice. In spite of these warnings they still, turn the grace of God into a license to practice sexual immorality and they deny the Lord.They also -defile their flesh, reject authority and blaspheme.So first of all we read that they Rely on dreams, in other words, it seems that they defile the flesh both because their authority is their dreams and they have rejected the authority of Scripture.There is the pronouncement of Woe upon them, v.11Jude pronounces woe to them- these false teachers.Woe is a pronouncement of judgment just as it was used by the Lord in as He announces woe on the cities that rejected Him.They think all is well with them and God, but nothing could be further from the truth. They will find themselves facing judgment in the end for their sexual immorality, their rebellion against the authority of God and the Word.They neither exalt Christ in their teaching nor the Word of Christ in their practice.And as transgressors they might profess to Know the Lord, but their actions and teaching scream otherwise.