People of the World where are you going? Turn back to God! Back to your faithful principles!
JUDGMENT ON FALSE TEACHERS
. Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I was compelled to write to you [urgently] appealing that you fight strenuously for [the defense of] the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints [the faith that is the sum of Christian belief that was given verbally to believers].
OUTLINE EPISTLE OF JUDE
The Epistle was probably addressed to churches eastward of Judaea, among whom Jude had labored; and was probably written about A.D. 66. There are remarkable similarities between this Epistle and II Peter, indicating close communication between the two writers, as they looked out on the heretical teachers of the age and the low state of prevailing morals.
THE APOSTLE’S JOY IN SUPPORT AND OPPOSITION
Beloved, you are acting faithfully in what you are providing for the brothers, and especially when they are strangers;
and they have testified before the church of your love and friendship. You will do well to [assist them and] send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.
WALKING IN TRUTH AND LOVE
And this is love: that we walk in accordance with His commandments and are guided continually by His precepts. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should [always] walk in love.
YOU MAY KNOW YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE
These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God [which represents all that Jesus Christ is and does], so that you will know [with settled and absolute knowledge] that you [already] have eternal life.
TESTIMONY CONCERNING THE SON OF GOD
For everyone born of God is victorious and overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has conquered and overcome the world–our [continuing, persistent] faith [in Jesus the Son of God].
THE TEST OF OUR LOVE
The test of our love. Whoever confesses and acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
TEST THE SPIRITS GOD IS LOVE
By this you know and recognize the Spirit of God: every spirit that acknowledges and confesses [the fact] that Jesus Christ has [actually] come in the flesh [as a man] is from God [God is its source];
LOVE ONE ANOTHER IN DEED AND IN TRUTH
Love one another in deed and in truth. Little children (believers, dear ones), let us not love [merely in theory] with word or with tongue [giving lip service to compassion], but in action and in truth [in practice and in sincerity, because practical acts of love are more than words].
NAMED CALLED AND COUNTED CHILDREN OF THE CREATOR GOD
The Marks Of God’s Children. See what an incredible quality of love the Father has shown to us, that we would [be permitted to] be named and called and counted the children of God! And so, we are! For this reason, the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.