Last week we discussed Jude’s warning about the false teachers that were rising up in his time and which continues today.  The second part of Jude he reminds us of the wrath toward those who do not follow his commandments.

5Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. 7 In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

Jude wants to remind the church that even though God protected the Isralites and removed them from Egypt he later destroyed most of the same people for not believing.  We are not to assume because God has been merciful to us in the past that we are free from his wrath.  The only way to be free from all danger.  Likewise Jude talks about the angels, who where made pure and in the image of God, who on their own free-will left heaven and became sinners.  We are all familiar with the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, the two cities from the Old Testament which were so sinful and taken to unnatural sexual acts that God had to destroy the city by fire so that its impurity would not spread.  We live in a society today that is a lot like those cities,  sexual promiscuity is a norm, sin is glorified, and being holy and righteous is ridiculed.  That is why we are called to not be part of this world even though we must live in it.  We are here in this world so that we may reach the sinners and bring them into the Glory of Christ.  It was not that long ago that each of us was a lost and alone sinners, but because of grace we are alive in Jesus and dead to the world.  Today reread the book of Jude, but this time use a different version of the bible such as The Message or TNIV both of which are availble free to use at www.biblegateway.com

All Bible References are NKJV