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Ungodly: irreligious or immoral. “ungodly lives of self-obsession, lust, and pleasure”. The word ungodly appears five times in the next few verses.
A long history of warning the ungodly (vss 14-15)
- Enoch preaches against the ungodly in his time
- What are the examples of the ungodly given by Jude?
- Angels
- Sodomites
- Israelites
- Satan
- Cain
- Korah
- Baalam
The works of the ungodly (vs 16)
- Murmurers and complainers walking after their own lusts. The ungodly are led by their desires.
- Israelites in the wilderness are the example of murmuring.
- Israelites murmur about water in Exodus 15:23-26
- Israelites murmur about food in 16:1-8, 11-15
- What is troubling is that these complaints by the Israelites sound legitimate. It’s not that the complaint isn’t legitimate. Or that we’re complaining about something that could be worse. The problem with complaining and murmuring with the LORD is not about the severity of the situation, but that murmuring and complaining is a replacement for prayer and doing our part.
- Complaining can be like verbal cancer.
- Boasting proudly to wealthy influential people so they can climb the ladder of success and gain influence and access to money.
The ways of the ungodly (vss 17-19)
- Apostles warned of the mockers (vs 17)
- Peter prophesied this judgment reserved for the ungodly according to 1 Peter 4:16-19
- and 2 Peter 2:4-6…, 3:7
- Walk after is to be led by because this is what you’re following. If you’re walking after your lusts, then your leadership comes from your lust. If you’re walking after the Spirit then your leadership comes from the words of God and the example of Jesus Christ.
- Separate themselves by their cliques and forms of self righteousness.
- They remove themselves from the work of the LORD and those doing the work of the LORD.
- 1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
- Hebrews 10:23-25 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
- The one’s that forsake the assembly are the complainers and murmurers
- Combating all this ungodliness is the purpose of Jude’s letter to earnestly contend…
