Jude
wrote to identify the apostasy that had crept into the Church in his
day and to warn future generations to guard against false doctrine.
There were false teachers presenting Gnostic beliefs as truth. They
believed and taught that their flesh could do anything it liked and
as a result, they were guilty of all kinds of lawlessness.
Jude
1:4, “For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before
of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace
of our God into lasciviousness (filled with sexual desire), and
denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. 5. I will
therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that
the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward
destroyed them that believed not. 6. And the angels which kept not
their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved
in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great
day. 7. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like
manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after
strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance
of eternal fire.”
Sin
and apostasy must be identified and addressed in the Church. The
Bride of Christ will be presented to Him without spot. Another role
of the Holy Spirit is to illuminate the darkness and remove the
covering for sin. The Word of Truth illuminated by the Spirit of
Truth will set the souls of men free to walk in the liberty which
only God can give. (The Message: A Critical Review Of End Time
Events, p 45, available at Amazon.com).
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