Jude: Practical Exhortations_Jude 17-23.pptx

In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.

1. BIBLE STUDY OF

JUDE

THE ACTS OF THE APOSTATES

Jude 17-23
Practical Exhortations

2. 3 Important Exhortations

«Be on the lookout for scoffers!

- Get ready for challenging
times!

-Exercise both mercy and
wisdom when dealing with
backsliders!

3. First Exhortation

Be on the
lookout
for
scoffers!

dude TEE

4. The Scoffers Playkook

- They follow their
ungodly passions!

5. The Scoffers Playkook

« They follow their ungodly
passions!

- They cause divisions!

6. The Scoffers Playkook

« They follow their ungodly
passions!

« They cause divisions!
- They are worldly!

7. The Scoffers PlayhooK

* They follow their ungodly
passions!

« They cause divisions!

* They are worldly!

« They are devoid of the
Spirit!

8. Second Exhortation

challenging

a a

9. Get Ready for challenge!
- Build up your faith!

10. Get Ready for challenge!

e Build up your faith!
«Build up your prayer life!

11. Get Ready for challenge!

e Build up your faith!
e Build up your prayer life!
- Abide in God's love!

12. Get Ready for challenge!

e Build up your faith!
e Build up your prayer life!
«Abide in God's love!

«Trust in God's eternal
mercy!

13. Third Exhortation

es. 3 Exercise both
= 2 mercy and

"LUI wisdom when
a a dealing with
¡ele “backsliders”!

Jude LAS

14. -Be merciful to those
“wavering”!

Siakpivu (diakrino)

15. «Be merciful to those
“wavering”!
«Rescue the “perishing”!

16. How to treat backsliders
«Be merciful to those
“wavering”!

« Rescue the “perishing”!

«Dig out the “dug in” _
without landing in a pit
yourself!

17. 6

BIBLE STUDY OF

JUDE

THE ACTS OF THE APOSTATES