“So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; and...
Who were Jesus’ greatest persecutors? Who were those who were “hot on his tail” continuously, looking for ways to trip him up with his words, who were continually accusing him falsely of wrongdoing when all he was doing was what was good? Who wanted him dead? Who plotted his death and had it...
In context, Jude was writing to the church, the body of Christ, and he was cautioning them and warning them against people who were within the gatherings of the church who were ungodly, but who were most likely putting on a show of righteousness on the outside. For it says that they had crept...