Episode Transcript
Alright, so we'll be back in the book of Jude.
I say this one this afternoon.
Or we will start reading in verse 10.
That's where we left off last time.
So we're going to pick up right there.
Jude says, "But these speak evil of those things which they know not, but what they know naturally as brute beasts, and those things they corrupt themselves."
Now, Jude has been sharing godly knowledge with us about the ungodly people who have crept in unawares among them.
So let's look back at verse 4 in Jude and just put ourselves in remembrance of that.
So if we glance back up at verse 4 in Jude, Jude says, "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 and denying the only Lord God in our Lord Jesus Christ."
Now, when I did not know Christ as my Savior, I did not go to church services and sit with people and deny the gospel of Christ to other people.
I did not do that.
That is a very foolish thing to do.
When I come to church, I want to learn of God and grow closer to God.
These ungodly people that Jude is telling us about were trying to drive a wedge between God and the people who wanted to learn of Him and grow closer to Him.
If we would turn to Matthew, chapter 7, and I've got your heart, and I'll come over and get you on Matthew, Matthew chapter 7, and we're going to start at verse 15, and we're going to learn a little bit about these.
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It's like Matthew.
So we're gonna be in Matthew chapter seven.
I'm gonna learn a little bit about who.
Matthew chapter seven, we're gonna pick up it.
Verse 15. - Okay. - That is it. - Everybody get there. - How you doing, man? - Chapter seven.
Now Jude has been talking to us about ungodly people that have crept in unaware.
So Matthew chapter seven, verse 15.
He says, "Beware of false prophets."
Now one of the definitions for false prophet is religious imposter.
Religious imposter.
Somebody that pretends to know a guy.
That doesn't really.
He says, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing.
But inwardly, they are ravening wolves."
Now some people, we cannot look at a person.
And we don't know what's on the inside of people as far as if they're saved or if they're not saved.
But there is one person who can.
And that's God.
God knows whether a person is a ravening wolf in sheep's clothing.
And God knows who is not.
God knows his sheep.
His sheep hear his voice.
So God knows who is saved and who is not.
So he says, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing.
But inwardly, they are ravening wolves."
Now how do you know these people?
He says in verse 16, he says, "Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Do men gather graves of thorns or figs of thistles?"
Verse 17, "Even so, every good tree bringeth forth good fruit.
But a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit." 718 says, "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.
Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.
Wherefore, by their fruits ye shall know them."
Now my dad likes to plant trees.
My dad has planted a lot of trees in his lifetime.
Now when I go to visit with him, he likes to tell me which trees are which and show me how much they have grown since he has planted them.
My dad knows this because he is the one who planted them.
And that is what the label on them said when he bought them.
Now my dad, he can look at a tree and he can tell you what kind of tree that is by looking at that tree.
Some people are blessed to be able to do that.
My dad is able to do that.
God can look at us and he can tell what kind of tree we are.
My dad knows which ones are the peach and the cherry and the plum and the apple and all the others that he has planted over the years.
The apple tree that dad planted is not going to start producing plums and the cherry tree is not going to start producing peaches.
When these trees start producing fruit, we call them by such.
The apple tree is an apple tree.
It's gonna produce apples.
The plum tree is a plum tree.
It's going to produce plums.
The plum tree is not going to produce apples and the apple tree is not going to produce plums.
These trees do not start producing fruit until they get planted.
They need good soil to be planted in so they can grow.
They need good watering so they can grow.
What type of tree are you?
Are you a type that produces good fruit?
Or are you a type that produces bad?
When you leave here today, do you go and tell others to come and hear God's word on Sundays?
Or do you go and tell others that I don't like the preacher that they have here because he keeps telling us about how Christ died for our sins?
If you are a tree that likes to produce bad fruit, I want to tell you that it is not too late to be uprooted from the terrible soul that you are growing in and be transplanted in the fertile soul of forgiveness that the cross of Christ was raised in.
Knowing forgiveness by your creator changes everything.
And I can tell you that it will change the fruit you produce.
That sour, bitter fruit will change to something sweet and tasty to others.
And before you know it, you're telling others about a wonderful and gracious Father who loves you so much that he gave his only begotten son for them.
Folks, you don't have to remain a corrupt tree if you are one.
That word corrupt means rotten or worthless.
If one of those fruit trees that my dad planted started producing fruit that was rotten, what do you think my dad is going to do with that rotten fruit?
Do you think my dad is going to get a big old bite of it and say, "That sure is good."
No, that's right.
I can promise you that my dad will take one look at that rotten, worthless, corrupt fruit and throw it away.
If that tree that my dad planted doesn't straighten up and start producing good fruit, my dad will hewed down that worthless, corrupt tree.
This is what is going to be done with the ungodly.
Those who try to drive a wedge between a loving, gracious, heavenly Father and the people seeking him.
Those who point people in the opposite direction of God will be hewed down and destroyed.
That's not Brother Doug talking, we just read it here in God's Word.
Let's look at verse five back in Jude.
Let's look at verse five back in Jude.
We just read verse four in Jude and we went to Matthew.
Now we're gonna go back to Jude and read verse five.
Jude says, "I will therefore put you in remembrance."
He is going to remind you, "Though you once knew this, "how that the Lord had been saved the people "out of the land of Egypt afterward, "destroyed them that believed not."
Just like those trees that produce rutted fruit, dad give them a little time to start producing fruit, God gives us time to start producing fruit.
God gives each and every one of us time and God knows who's gonna change, who's going to seek him and who's not.
I am so thankful for God's patience, folks.
It took forever, seems like forever.
God could have took me out at any time before I knew Christ as my savior and I would be in hell today if it wasn't for God's patience.
God waited on me and if you don't know Christ as your savior, God is waiting on you too. - Amen. - But after a while, if that tree doesn't start producing good fruit, if all it's put out is bad fruit, year after year after year, that tree will be hewn down and another tree will be taken its place.
If that tree that my dad planted doesn't straighten up and start producing good fruit, my dad will hewn down that worthless corrupt tree.
This is what is going to be done with the ungodly.
In verse five we just read, he says, "After we destroyed them that believed not, "they didn't believe.
"They didn't believe and they pointed others to non-belief.
"They were known by their evil corrupt fruit "and they were destroyed."
John 3, 18 says, "He that believeth on him is not condemned."
"But he that believeth not is condemned already "because he hath not believed "in the name of the only begotten son of God."
It doesn't say nothing about you doing work.
It doesn't say nothing about walking down an aisle to some steps that some preacher calls an altar.
It doesn't say nothing about being dipped in water.
What does it say?
"He that believeth on him is not condemned."
And I pray God will open your eyes to that so much.
Only God can show you that.
I can stand here and tell you all day long, but until you seek the Lord, until God shows you, you will not understand.
"He that believeth on him is not condemned, "but he that believeth not is condemned already."
Folks, if you don't believe in Jesus as your savior, you are a walking condemned.
You are a walking rotten tree producing bad fruit.
"Because he hath not believed in the name "of the only begotten son of God."
John 3, 36 says, "He," that means mankind and general, "that believeth on the Son, "he that puts his faith in Christ, "he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life."
Now how many of you in here does not want everlasting life?
Nobody raised your hand.
We all want everlasting life.
And I wanna tell you something, each and every one of us are gonna have everlasting life.
Now where you choose to spend that everlasting life is your choice.
And if you believeth on the Son, you have everlasting life.
"And he that believeth not the Son "shall not see life."
Life is an eternity with the Father, folks.
That is true life.
Survival, your soul will continue on, your spirit will go on.
The spirit is forever.
Life is with God.
"And he that believeth not the Son "shall not see life, "but the wrath of God abideth on him."
Jude says here in verse 11, back in the book of Jude, he says, "Whoa unto them."
Whoa unto them.
When I was a young man, I did not enjoy riding horses that much.
Some of y'all might have, some of y'all might love riding horses.
I was not a big fan of it, but I would do it.
I would ride horses upon occasions, but it was not among my top 10 favorite things to do.
When I did ride a horse, when I wanted it to stop, do you know what I told that horse?
Do you know what I said to that horse when I wanted it to stop?
Whoa, I told it to whoa.
In the old western shows, when the stage coach was out of control because something spoke to horses and the brave hero would ride alongside the stagecoach and jump onto it and grab the reins, what did he tell the horses?
Whoa.
This word whoa is derived from the Greek word uwai.
Uwai.
This word, it is spelled O-U-A-I and it means exclamation of grief.
The word exclamation means outcry.
And the word grief means the pain of mind produced by loss.
Misfortune, injury, or evils of any kind, sorrow or regret.
When that hero tries to stop that runaway stage coach, he exclaims, he cries out, whoa.
Why?
Because he wants those horses to hear him.
He cries out whoa to them because he wants them to listen.
He is trying to save that stage coach and those horses from misfortune or injury.
And if that stage coach is carrying passengers, those passengers are in danger as well.
I believe this is one of the reasons why Jude is warning us of the ungodly creeping in among the brethren.
They start, the ungodly start pointing people in the wrong direction.
And pretty soon, those people who listen to ungodly doctrine are passengers in their stage coach, going out of control and heading in the direction of a whole lot of grief.
Jude says, whoa, just stop folks if you're going the wrong way.
We want to run to God, not away from him.
Second Corinthians 6-14, and we have y'all mark there.
Second Corinthians 6-14.
Second Corinthians 6-14.
Miss Bacon, you fine?
You got it on your court.
Second Corinthians 6-14. (mumbling) Eight, eight.
Second Corinthians 6-14. (mumbling) Second Corinthians 6-14. (mumbling) Paul says, be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
Ungodly people are unbelievers, folks.
He says, for what fellowship hath the righteousness, hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
And what communion hath light with darkness?
And what concord hath Christ with Belial?
That is a false argument.
Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?
For ye are the temple of the living God.
As God hath said, I will dwell in them and walk in them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people.
Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you, and will be a father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Jude says, walk unto them.
Folks, please don't be them.
You have a choice.
Don't let anyone tell you you don't.
When I was a young man, I received a speeding ticket one time.
You know why I received that speeding ticket?
Because I was speeding.
The speed limit was posted by a sign that exclaimed to me how fast I could legally go on that road.
I did not heed the warning of that sign.
Instead, I chose to ignore it.
And it caused me grief because of all the time and money that I lost.
When I told my mom, she had no opinion on me.
She proceeded to tell me that I had a choice.
I could either speed up or slow down.
But the choice was mine to make.
These people that Jude is warning us about had a choice to make, as well as each and every one of us had a choice to make.
They chose to remain ungodly by denying the only Lord God in our Lord Jesus Christ.
They chose not to believe the Lord.
If you choose to stay ungodly, then you are among them.
And Jude says, "Woe unto them."
We have learned that there are two types of people, saved and unsaved.
Or you could say godly or ungodly.
And next week, God willing, we will learn that there are only two types of religion in the world.
Jude says, "Woe unto them, "for they have gone in the way of Cain."
Two types of religion in the world, and we're gonna talk about that next week.
Heavenly Father, we thank you so much, Lord, for this time that you blessed us with to come together, Lord, and to study your word, Lord, and to share it.
Father, we just pray, Lord, that saints who had a vital order and that they leave here knowing more of their Bible, Lord, than when they came here, Father.
Lord, we sure thank you for each and every person that comes, Lord, to hear your word taught, Lord.
We thank you for the lesson that you blessed us with here today, Lord.
Father, we just pray that they will point it to you, Father.
And Lord, as we go back out, Lord, we pray, Lord, that you'll guide our thoughts, words, and actions, Father.
Help us to be fruitful trees, Lord, and not to be unfruitful, Father.
Help us to point others to you, Lord, to you, to Jesus Christ, Lord, the one who died for our sins, Lord, and to Christ, Father.
Thank you, Lord, so much for Jesus.
We ask you to say His name today, Lord, amen.
