Remembering the Word of God (Jude 17-19)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 06-07-04

 

My Worship Time                                          Focus:  Remembering the Word of God

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                     Reference:  Jude 17-19

 

            Message of the verse:  “17 But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:  18 how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. 19 These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.”  (AV)  “17 But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold.  18 They said to you, ‘In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.’ 19 These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.”  (NIV)

            In verse 17, Jude is explaining who we had gotten the Word of God from.  It came from the apostles, and they are the ones that Jesus Christ has sent out for a mission, for that is what the word means.  It was the responsibility of some of the apostles to write the NT, or to pass on the information to another so that they would write it down.  The book of Mark is an example of that.

            Jude gives an example of what was written in verse 18, and this portion of Scripture has been written about in different books of the Bible.  He writes that mockers and false teachers will come into the Church and will spread their poison. 

            In verse 19, he writes what these false teachers will do and the reason that they do these things; they live “natural” lives instead of living Spirit filled lives, because they do not have the Spirit of God in them.

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  This passage teaches me the need of staying in the Bible and searching for the truths that are in it so that I will not fall prey to those who are peddling poison.

 

The Word of God challenged my heart as I read it this morning.

 

My Steps of Faith Today:  Trust the Lord with the trials that are still going on in my life, and seek His wisdom.

Memory verse for the week:  1Cor. 13:4

 

Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,