Jude. “Keep Yourselves in the Love of God”
- Read Jude 1:1–3 and explain in writing how you can multiply mercy, peace, and love. How can you appropriately “contend for the faith”?
- From this reading I felt like we get a strong Idea that in order to receive all these things multiplied then we admit to being followers of Christ standing not only for what he stood for but also living a lifestyle that shows us this. This allows for us to be living lives capable of receiving Christ mercy and this blessing allows for us to forgive others in our lives with more peace and love.
- We can appropriately contend for the faith by sharing the things that we know to be true always. We need to be able to stand up for the things that we know are true and that we know that God would have us do. We need to tell everyone about the gospel and then just like above need to be living examples where people can ask about us and our believes. Even if they don’t ask we should tell them about the things we know to be true.
- Read Jude 1:4–19 and complete the following tasks in writing:
- Using the Bible footnotes and Jeremiah 1:5, identify the doctrine referred to in the phrase “first estate” from Jude 1:6.
i. Our
First estate is that we lived with God as Spirit Children in the life before
this and according the manner of how our spirit progressed in that life also allowed
for different callings and responsibilities in this Earth Life. Our first
estate is that humble submissive spirits before we came down to gain a body.
- Read the institute student manual commentary for Jude 9, “What Do We Know Concerning the Dispute Which Michael the Archangel Had with the Devil About the Body of Moses?” (p. 439); Article of Faith 1:8. How would you explain this odd disputation between Satan and Michael?
i. In
simple language this was a dispute over the body of Moses and was also a
reference to a story from the assumptions of Moses. They are not actually to be
found anywhere else in the scriptures because they are thought to be an
Apocryphal material. This material though may have some great doctrine also was
decided that many of the materials had been tampered with and had lost much of
the message of what really happened. It could be things like letters from different
apostles to each other asking and writing their own thoughts to try to
understand but not being quite sure. Then someone taking one of those letters
and publishing them as doctrine. This argument over what should happen to Moses’
body should be left as is.
- What does Jude 1:14 say about who will accompany the Savior at the Second Coming?
i. Ten
Thousands of saints, or in other words many different saints will be there next
to Christ for His second coming arrival.
- Study Jude 1:17, 20–25. Write one or two paragraphs explaining how we can avoid the evils that often come from false teachers.
- If things are to change then the changes would come from the apostles who would speak on behalf of the Lord. The Lord is the one who would make the needed changes to the gospel because he rules and reigns over all the creatures of the Earth. Those who teach that He is any less than the supreme ruler are false teachers because they do not know this essential and important truth. Anyone who tries to lead a person away from this message is a false teacher. We need to be able to trust on the Holy Spirit as well as he will guide us to know of the things that are true and that will truly save us in the latter days. He has the ways of building our “holy faith.”
- Another way to avoid teachers of false doctrine is if they are those that go against the gospel principles. People who try to teach that mercy is not a part of the gospel, or that we will always be falling short and never make it or even won’t be held accountable for our sins, these are also false teachers because Christ paid a price for each of us and we owe a debt to follow him and should be willing to accept this sacrifice. We do not need to fear or hate the clothes that will set us apart because as followers of Christ but rather should be grateful and realize that because of Christ we are made clean before Him. It truly is a miracle and anyone that teaches otherwise is truly a false teacher.
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