Antidote To Apostasy
A. CONTEXT.
1. Contend for the faith (vs. 3). Why?
2. Same beginning as 2 Pet. 2. (vs. 4; 2 Pet. 2:1-3).
3. Description of false teachers using figures of speech (vs. 5-16)
B. THE ANTIDOTE TO THE LEADING OF APOSTATES (vs. 17-23). WHAT DO WE DO?
A. PETER (2 Pet. 2:1-3).
B. PAUL (Acts 20:29-30; 2 Tim. 3:1, 5-9, 14; 4:2-4; Gal. 1:6-9).
C. JOHN (1 John 4:1; 2 John 9).
A. WHO GETS BLAMED FOR TROUBLE? WHO SPLITS CHURCHES?
(1 Kings 18:16-18; 22:7-8; Gal. 4:16).
B. WHO DOES GOD BLAME? (1 Cor. 4:16-17; Rom. 16:17-18).
A. WE ACT FROM A COMMON PERSPECTIVE (1 Cor. 1:10).
1. Christians are involved in a cause (Phil. 1:27).
2. Heaven is our preoccupation (Col. 3:1-2).
B. OUR PERSPECTIVE HAS AN EFFECT ON OUR ATTITUDE AND BEHAVIOR
(1 Cor. 2:14-16; Gal. 5:16).
C. AND AN EFFECT ON OUR DESTINY (Rom. 8:1).
A. PROTECTION FROM THE FIERY DARTS OF SATAN (Eph. 6:16).
B. AND ERROR (Eph. 4:12-14)
C. SEE WHAT ACCOMPANIES PAUL’S WARNING (Acts 20:29-30, 32).
D. WHERE DOES FAITH COME FROM? (Rom. 10:17).
A. FOR WISDOM (James 1:5).
B. FOR STRENGTH AND BOLDNESS (Eph. 6:18-19).
C. FOR OPPORTUNITY (Col. 4:2-6).
D. IN THE SPIRIT (1 John 5:14).
(1 John 5:3; 2:4-5; John 14:21, 23-24, 15).
A. HOPE OF THE RESURRECTION (1 Pet. 1:3).
B. THE HOPE OF FORGIVENESS (Heb. 8:12; Luke 18:13).
A. vs. 22. ON THOSE WHO WOULD DISPUTE WITH YOU.
1. Teaching and preaching to impart God’s true will (2 Tim. 4:2).
2. In season and out (Phil. 3:1; Acts 20:26-27).
3. Our object (2 Tim. 2:23-26).
B. vs. 23. SOME SAVE, SNATCHING THEM OUT OF THE FIRE.
THOSE WHO STUMBLE (Gal. 6:1-2)..
C. vs. 23. HAVE MERCY WITH FEAR.
THOSE WHO FALL (2 Thess. 3:6, 14-15; Heb. 12:11).
D. LOVE THE SINNER ç è HATE THE SIN.
A. WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT ERROR?
1. Ignore it?
2. Tolerate it?
3. Embrace it?
C. JUDE GIVES US CLEAR INSTRUCTION.