Judgment on False Teachers
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. Jude 1:5
I will therefore... Jude expresses the burden of wanting desperately to warn his readers. Jude sees Old Testament examples as extremely important for Christians (see Rom. 15:4; 1Cor. 10-11). The writer of Hebrews expands greatly on a similar insight regarding Israel’s demise in the wilderness (Num. 14: 28-35).
having saved the... God miraculously delivered the nation of Israel out of Egyptian bondage (Exo. 12:51; Deut. 4:34), only to have them respond in unbelief, doubting, and defecting from faith in God that He could bring them into the Promised Land (Num. 13:25; 14:4). Even to the extent of worshipping an idol of their own making, as well as murmuring against God instead of adoring Him. (Exo. 16:7-12; 1Cor. 10:10-11). That apostate generation died during 38 years of wilderness wanderings (Num. 14:22-30, 35).
He is reminding them that just because they were saved, does not mean they can do anything they want to, and still come to salvation. He is giving as an example, the Israelites (God’s people), who he delivered from Egypt (world).
They were delivered, but started complaining and doubting that God would take them to the Promised Land. God made them wander in the wilderness 40 years, until those who had doubted died.
Without faith, it is impossible to please God. It does not matter whether it is the Israelites on their way to their Promised Land, or believers in Christ who are on their way to their Promised Land.
We do know there will be some who stand before Jesus on judgment day who will profess to be Christians, who Jesus will tell to get away from Him, He never knew them (Mat. 7:21-23).
We must walk in the salvation we receive to inherit heaven. Our faith in Jesus saves us.
afterward destroyed them... Twenty-one Examples of Beings Fallen from Grace:
1. Lucifer. He was sinless and walked in the ways of God perfectly until he sinned (Eze. 28:11-17). He fell from God’s favor and was cast out of heaven (Isa. 14:12-14; Luke 10:8). He became sinful and lustful (John 8:44) and destined to eternal hell (Mat. 25:41; Rev. 20:10).
2. Holy angels. Over one-third of God’s holy angels rebelled with Lucifer (Rev. 12:3, 12:7-12) and became destined to hell with Satan (Mat. 25:41; Isa. 24:21). Many of these committed the additional sin of fornication and are now in hell (2Pet. 2:4; Jude 1:6-7). Angels are sons of God (Gen. 6:1-4; Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:4-7) and yet those who sin are to be punished forever in hell, so sonship is no unforfeitable guarantee of heaven.
3. Demons. They were also created sinless and in God’s grace and favor. That they sinned and are doomed to eternal hell is clear from their own admission of being worthy of punishment (Mat. 8:29; Mark 5:7; Luke 8:28-32; Jas. 2:19). Many of them are now in the abyss (Rev. 9:1-21).
4.Pre-adamites. According to Gen. 1:2; Isa. 14:12-14; Jer. 4:23-26; Eze. 28:11-17; 2Pet. 3:5-8 and other scriptures, Lucifer ruled the earth before Adam and caused all the people of his kingdom to lose God’s favor and be destroyed in the flood of Gen. 1:2; 2Pet. 3:5-8. Not one person, animal, city, or plant was left alive (Jer. 4:23-26).
5. Adam and Eve were created in God’s grace or favor (Gen. 1:26-31). They fell from grace by sin and lost the eternal life they would have kept if they had not sinned (Gen. 2:17; 3:1-19; Rom. 5:12-21; 2Cor. 11:3). Nothing is ever said of their salvation from sin. They are not listed with the faith-worthies of the Old Testament (Heb. 11:1-40). Adam was still a sinner at the age of 810 years (Gen. 6:3). He was a son of God (Luke 3:38). Thus, again, sonship is proved not to be a guarantee of eternal life. God promises to punish every angel or man who sins regardless of sonship or relationship.
6. Adamites. Every person born of Adam was once in grace in Adam and fell from grace or favor when Adam did, for they were in Adam’s loins when he sinned. This is why death passed upon all men (Rom. 5:12-21; 1Cor. 15:21-22; 2Cor. 11:3). If all people fell from the same favor Adam did and are commanded to regain grace in Christ, then it is settled that falling from grace and regaining it can happen more than once (Gal. 4:19).
7. Many Israelites. Before their sin in Exo. 32:1-35 they were born again (Deut. 32:18; Gal. 4:28-29), redeemed (Exo. 15:13; Deut. 21:8), sanctified (Exo. 31:13; Lev. 20:8), converted (Psm. 19:7), in grace (Exo. 33:12-17; Psm. 84:11), had their names in the book of life (Exo. 32:32-33; Exo. 69:25-29), had the same gospel we have (Gal. 3:6-14; Heb. 4:2), and had other spiritual experiences. When they sinned they were cut off from God and were lost (Exo. 32:32-33; 2Cor. 10:1-18; Heb. 2:14; Jude 1:5). Scores of times they forsook God and were cursed (Deut. 17:3; 29:26; Jdg. 2:11-23; 3:5-14; 4:1; 5:31; 6:1; 8:28-35; 10:6-11:33; 12:7-13:1; 20:13; 1Sam. 2:12-36; 3:11-14; 1Kgs. 11:1-13, 11:38-39; 12:25-33; 13:33-34; 14:16-31; 15:29; 16:2; 2Kigs. 17:7-23; etc.).
8. Nadab and Abihu, holy priests of God (Exo. 19:6; 22:31), were cut off in sin (Lev. 10:1-20; Num. 3:4).
9. Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and other holy men of God were cut off by sin and went to She’owl (Num. 16:1-3, 16:23-33).
10. Saul, who had a change of heart and received the Holy Spirit (1Sam. 10:9-13, 10:21-24), went into spiritualism (1Sam. 28:1-25; Lev. 19:31; 20:6). He lost the Holy Spirit (1Sam. 16:12-23), and died by suicide and was cursed by God (1Sam. 31:1-6; 1Ch. 10:13-14).
11. Many disciples of Jesus left Him and His grace and followed Him no more (John 6:66). They believed for a while (Luke 8:13). They drew back to perdition (Heb. 10:26-39). To receive Christ and confess Him for only a moment brings the new birth, so those who believed for awhile had grace to fall from (John 1:12; 1Jhn. 5:1).
12. Judas was once saved because:
(1) He was a familiar friend of Christ (Psm. 41:9). Would Christ call any unsaved man or the devil (as some suppose Judas to be) "mine own familiar friend"?
(2) Christ trusted Judas at one time or He would not have said "in whom I trusted" (Psm. 41:9). Hebrew: batach, to confide in, as to be secure without fear. Used in this sense 107 times. Would He have confided in such a man if he had always been untrustworthy?
(3) Judas ate of Christ’s bread (Psm. 41:9). This always assures eastern people of very personal and intimate friendship.
(4) He had his name written in the book of life with the righteous (cp. Acts 1:20 with Psm. 69:25-28).
(5) He was a bishop of the church Christ is building (Acts 1:20 with Psm. 109:8).
(6) He had part of the apostolic ministry (Acts 1:17, 1:25).
(7) Christ gave him power against unclean spirits to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and disease. This was true of the twelve, Judas included (Mat. 10:1-4).
(8) He was sent forth as one of the twelve to represent Christ among Israel (Mat. 10:5-6).
(9) He was called to preach (Mat. 10:7).
(10) He was commanded to heal the sick, cleanse lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils (Mat. 10:8; Mark 3:14-15; 6:7; Luke 9:1-2).
(11) He freely received power to heal and it was commanded that he freely give (Mat. 10:8).
(12) He had the peace of God to give to a home as did all others of the twelve (Mat. 10:13).
(13) He was a sheep in the midst of wolves like others of the twelve (Mat. 10:16).
(14) He had the Holy Spirit in him (Mat. 10:19-20).
(15) He was ordained by Christ to the ministry as much as the others (Mark 3:14).
(16) He was just as successful in preaching and healing as others (Mark 6:12-13; Luke 9:6, 9:10).
(17) He was an apostle, meaning he was one divinely called and sent to do the work of God (Luke 6:13, Acts 15:33).
(18) Judas fell by sin from the ministry and apostleship (Acts 1:25). How could he do this if he was always a sinner, as some say?
(19) Satan entered into Judas at the close of Christ’s ministry, proving that he was not always an agent of the devil, much less one from the beginning (Luke 22:3; John 13:2). Therefore, he backslid and became a thief (John 12:6), a devil (John 6:70, Greek: adversary), and the betrayer. To make Judas the very devil, a devil from the beginning, and an unsaved man never in grace is to ignore the plain facts of Scripture.
(20) He once had eternal life, as proved from John 17:2 where we read of Christ giving eternal life "to as many as Thou hast given him." Then in John 17:12 it is stated that of "those that Thou gavest Me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition." It is clear, then, that Judas was given to Jesus and Jesus had once given him eternal life.
13. Ananias and Sapphira were saved and of one heart and one soul with all the church (Acts 4:32-5:1), until they agreed to lie to the Holy Ghost at which time they were killed (Acts 5:1-11). "Great grace was upon them all," including Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 4:33; 5:1).
14. The Galatians who had begun in the Spirit and had received the Spirit (Jude 1:3:2-4), were soon removed from Christ and grace (Jude 1:6; 1:5:4).
15. Demas, a preacher in the early church (Col. 4:14; Phlm. 1:24) went back into sin, having loved this present world (2Tim. 4:10). If any man loves the world the love of the Father is not in him. He is lost if he does not come back to God (1Jhn. 2:15-17).
16. Hymenaeus and Alexander were one time in the faith, but made shipwreck of it and put away faith (1Tim. 1:19-20).
17. Many others coveted money and erred from the faith (1Tim. 6:10, 6:21).
18. Many young widows waxed cold toward Christ and cast off their first faith and were damned (1Tim. 5:11-13).
19. Hymenaeus and Philetus erred from the faith and overthrew the faith of others (2Tim. 2:17-19).
20. Apostates were once saved, but fell away and departed from the faith. See Rom. 1:21-32; Heb. 6:4-9; 10:26-29; 2Pet. 2:20-22.
21. Many in the churches were once saved but later threatened with destruction if they did not repent (Rev. 2:5, 2:10, 2:16, 2:20-23; 3:3, 3:11, 3:16).
Besides the above examples of being cut off from God because of sin, the Bible abounds with plain laws, commands and warnings of punishment for those who return to sin. These make it clear that there are no unconditional promises and covenants in Scripture. Passages where no conditions are expressed are automatically limited by hundreds of kindred verses stating conditions to be met. It is not always necessary to state the conditions in every passage. When stated in some, it is clear they apply to all companion scriptures. For example, in 1Ch. 22:10 God promises to establish Solomon’s throne over Israel forever, but this unconditionally stated promise is based upon obedience as seen in points 27-35 below.
Plain Laws and Warnings
Those Before Moses’ Law:
1. You shall surely die (Gen. 2:17).
2. Walk ... be perfect (Gen. 17:2).
3. Keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may fulfil His Word (Gen. 18:19).
Those Under the Healing Covenant:
4. If diligently hearken ... do right ... give ear to commandments ... keep all His statutes (Exo. 15:26).
Those Under Moses’ Law:
5. That I may prove them, whether they walk in My law or no (Exo. 16:4).
6. If you obey ... then you shall be a peculiar people unto Me (Exo. 19:5).
7. Whosoever sinneth against Me, him will I blot out of My book (Exo. 32:33).
8. By no means (note even by means of grace) clear the guilty (Exo. 34:6-7).
9. If you keep My commandments, then will I bless you (Lev. 26:3-13; Deut. 7:12-24; 11:13-14; 28:1-14).
10.But if you will not keep My commandments, then I will curse you (Lev. 26:14-45; Deut. 28:15-68).
11. Beware ... forget not God ... if you do forget Him ... you will surely perish (Deut. 8:11-20).
12. What does the Lord require, but to walk in His ways? (Deut. 10:12-13).
13. Take heed ... be not deceived, and you turn aside from God ... then His wrath will be against you (Deut. 11:16-21).
14. I have set before you a blessing and a curse: a blessing if you obey ... a curse if you disobey (Deut. 11:26-28).
Those Under Palestinian Covenant:
15. Keep the words of this covenant ... do them, that you may prosper ... that He may establish you a people unto Himself (Deut. 29:1, 29:9, 29:13-15).
16. When you hear the words of this curse and you say in your heart, I shall have peace, though I sin. The Lord shall not spare ... because they have forsaken the covenant (Deut. 29:19-28).
17. If you hear ... keep His commandments ... and if you turn unto the Lord with all your heart (Deut. 30:1-10).
18. I have set before you life and good, and death and evil ... keep His commandments, that you may live (Deut. 30:11-16).
19. But if your heart turn away ... you shall surely perish (Deut. 30:17-20)
Those of Joshua:
20. Only observe to do according to all the law ... that you may prosper ... have good success (Jos. 1:7-8).
21. Keep and do all of the law ... if you in any wise turn back ... you shall perish (Jos. 23:6-14).
22. Choose you this day whom you will serve (Jos. 24:14-16).
23. If you forsake the Lord ... then He will turn to do you hurt, and consume you, after He has done you good (Jos. 24:20).
Those of Samuel:
24. If you will obey ... rebel not, then you will follow the Lord (1Sam. 12:14).
25. But if you do wickedly, you shall be consumed (1Sam. 12:24-25).
26. You have not kept the commandment of the Lord ... your kingdom will not continue (1Sam. 13:13-14).
Those of David and Solomon:
27. Keep the charge of the Lord ... that He may continue His Word (1Kgs. 2:3-4).
28. If your children take heed to walk in truth with all their heart (1Kgs. 2:4).
29. If you will walk in My ways ... keep My commandments (1Kgs. 3:14).
30. If you keep My commandments, then I will bless ... but if you break them, then will I cut off Israel (1Kgs. 9:3-9; 11:1-38; 2Ch. 7:19-22).
31. Only if they obey (2Kgs. 21:7-8).
32. If he be constant to do My commandments (1Ch. 28:7-10).
33. If My people humble themselves ... pray ... seek My face ... turn from sin, then will I hear (2Ch. 7:14).
34. If you seek Him, He will be found of you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever (1Ch. 28:9).
35. But if you turn away from My commandments ... Then will I pluck you up ... cast out of My sight (2Ch. 7:19-22).
Those of Old Testament Prophets:
36. The Lord is with you, while you be with Him ... but if you forsake Him, He will forsaken you (2Ch. 15:2).
37. Because you have forsaken the Lord, He has forsaken you (2Ch. 24:20).
38. Because they have forsaken Me ... My wrath shall not be quenched (2Ch. 34:25).
39. But if they obey not, they shall perish ... die without knowledge (Job 36:12).
40. They have forsaken the Lord ... have gone away backward ... I will not hear (Isa. 1:4-15).
41. But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured (Isa. 1:19-20; Jer. 1:16; 2:13, 2:17, 2:19; 5:19; 9:13; 15:6; 16:11; 17:13; 19:4; 22:9).
42. If you will not obey, I will destroy you (Jer. 12:17).
43. When a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity he shall die in his sin (Eze. 3:20-21).
44. The soul that sinneth it shall die (Eze. 18:4).
45. When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits sin ... all his righteousness shall not be mentioned. In his sins he shall die (Eze. 18:24-26).
46. The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression ... If he trust to his own righteousness and commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembered; but for his sin he shall die (Eze. 33:12-13).
47. If you will not hear, I will curse you (Mal. 2:2).
The New Covenant—Under Grace
Those of Christ:
48. If the salt has lost its savour it is good for nothing but to be cast out (Mat. 5:13).
49. He that endureth to the end shall be saved (Mat. 10:22).
50. Whosoever speaketh a word against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him (Mat. 12:32-33).
51. Dureth for a while ... which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away (Mat. 13:21; Luke 8:13).
52. Let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me (Mat. 16:24).
53. Labour for eternal life (John 6:27).
54. If you continue in My word, then are you My disciples indeed (John 8:31).
55. Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin (not a son). And the servant abideth not in the house forever: but the Son abideth ever (John 8:34-35).
56. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me (John 10:26-27).
57. If a man love Me he will keep My words (John 14:21-23).
58. If a man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned (John 15:6).
59. Continue in My love (John 15:9).
60. If you keep My commandments you shall abide in My love (John 15:10-13).
61. You are My friends, if you do whatsoever I command you (John 15:14).
Those of Paul:
62. Persuaded them to continue in the grace of God (Acts 13:43).
63. Exhorting them to continue in the faith (Acts 14:22).
64. When they knew God, they glorified Him not as God ... God have them up to uncleanness (Rom. 1:21-32).
65. They which commit such things are worthy of death (Rom. 1:32; 2:2-3).
66. By patient continuance in well doing seek for eternal life (Rom. 2:7).
67. Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are? (Rom. 6:16-23).
68. The wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23).
69. Who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit (Rom. 8:1-4).
70. If you live after the flesh you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live (Rom. 8:12-13).
71. Because of unbelief they were broken off and you stand by faith ... on them that fell, severity; but toward you goodness, if you continue in His goodness: otherwise you shall be cut off. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in again (Rom. 11:20-23).
72. If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy (1Cor. 3:17).
73. The unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God (1Cor. 6:9-10).
74. Through your knowledge the weak brother shall perish (1Cor. 8:11).
75. I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway (1Cor. 9:27).
76. By which you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain (1Cor. 15:2).
77. By faith you stand (2Cor. 1:24).
78. We labor, that whether present or absent, we may be accepted of Him (2Cor. 5:9).
79. We beseech you that you receive not the grace of God in vain (2Cor. 6:1).
80. I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity in Christ (2Cor. 11:3).
81. Christ is in you, except you be reprobate (castaway)—as in 1Cor. 9:27, (2Cor. 13:5).
82. I marvel that you are so soon removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel (Gal. 1:6-9).
83. If I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor (Gal. 2:18).
84. I do not frustrate the grace of God (it can be done—Gal. 2:21).
85. Who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth (Gal. 3:1; 5:7).
86. Having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh? (Gal. 3:3; cp. 5:19-21).
87. The just shall live by faith (by daily faith, not a faith once for all; Gal. 3:11).
88. After you have known God, how turn you again to be in bondage (Gal. 4:9)?
89. I am afraid for you, lest I have bestowed labor upon you in vain (Gal. 4:11).
90. My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you ... I stand in doubt of you (Gal. 4:19-20).
91. Stand fast in the liberty ... be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage (Gal. 5:1, 5:3).
92. You are fallen from grace (Gal. 5:4).
93. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump (Gal. 5:9; 1Cor. 5:7-8).
94. If you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another (Gal. 5:15).
95. Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh (Gal. 5:16).
96. They which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God (Gal. 5:19-21).
97. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting (Gal. 6:7-8).
98. The spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience (Eph. 2:2).
99. Because of these things (sins) cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience (Eph. 5:6).
100. That you may be without offense until the day of Christ (Phlp. 1:10).
101. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling (Phlp. 2:12).
102. Stand fast in the Lord (Phlp. 4:1).
103. If you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel (Col. 1:23).
104. As you have received Christ, so walk in Him: rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith (Col. 2:6-7).
105. Beware lest any man spoil you... after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ (Col. 2:8).
106. Let no man beguile you of your reward ... not holding the Head (Christ, Col. 2:18-19).
107. Mortify your members upon earth ... for which things’ sake cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience (Col. 3:5-6).
108. He that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done: and there is no respect of persons (Col. 3:25).
109. I sent to know of your faith, lest by some means the tempter has tempted you, and our labor be in vain (1Thes. 3:5).
110. Now we live, if we stand fast in the Lord (1Thes. 3:8).
111. Taking vengeance on them that obey not the gospel ... who shall be punished with everlasting destruction (2Thes. 1:8-9).
112. Withdraw from every brother that walketh disorderly (2Thes. 3:6, 3:14).
113. From which (faith) some have turned aside (1Tim. 1:5-6).
114. Some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck (1Tim. 1:18-20).
115. Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils (1Tim. 4:1).
116. Take heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in so doing this you shall save yourself, and them that hear you (1Tim. 4:16).
117. He has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel (1Tim. 5:8).
118. When they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry; having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith (1Tim. 5:11-12).
119. Some have already turned aside after Satan (1Tim. 5:15).
120. While some coveted after (money), they have erred from the faith (1Tim. 6:10).
121. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold of eternal life (1Tim. 6:12, 6:19).
122. Some have erred concerning the faith (1Tim. 6:21).
123. If we be dead with Him, we shall also live with Him (2Tim. 2:11).
124. If we deny Him, He also will deny us (2Tim. 2:12).
125. Who concerning the faith have erred ... and overthrow the faith of some (2Tim. 2:18).
126. Continue in the things you have learned (2Tim. 3:14-15).
127-148. there are Twenty-two Warnings to Christians in Hebrews.
Those of James:
149. When lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death (Jas. 1:13-15).
150. Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves (Jas. 2:22-25).
151. To him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin (Jas. 4:17).
152. Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him ... he that converteth a sinner (who was formerly a Christian) from the error of his way shall save a soul from death (Jas. 5:19-20).
Those of Peter:
153. He that hears and works righteousness is accepted of Him (Acts 10:35).
154. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil (1Pet. 3:12).
155. If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the sinner appear? (1Pet. 4:18).
156. He that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins (2Pet. 1:9).
157. Give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things you shall never fall (2Pet. 1:10).
158. If God separated not the angels that sinned (they were once holy and in grace) He will not spare you (1Pet. 2:4-9).
159. The Lord knows how to reserve the unjust unto judgment (2Pet. 2:9).
160. Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray (2Pet. 2:15).
161. They allure into sin those who were clean escaped from sin (2Pet. 2:18).
162. Of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought into bondage (2Pet. 2:19)
163. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse than the beginning. It had been better not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn away from the holy commandment (2Pet. 2:20-22).
164. Be diligent that you may be found in Him in peace, without spot, and blameless (2Pet. 3:14).
165. Beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness (2Pet. 3:17).
Those of John:
166. If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth (1Jhn. 1:6).
167. If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin (1Jhn. 1:7).
168. We know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments (1Jhn. 2:3).
169.He that says, I know Him, and keeps not His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him (1Jhn. 2:4).
170. Whoso keeps His word ... hereby we know that we are in Him (1Jhn. 2:5).
171. He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now (1Jhn. 2:9).
172. If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him (1Jhn. 2:15-17).
173. He that does the will of God abideth forever (1Jhn. 2:17).
174. Let that eternal life abide in you (1Jhn. 2:24-25).
175. Abide in Him; that when He shall appear we may have confidence (1Jhn. 2:28).
176. Everyone that does righteousness is born of Him (1Jhn. 2:29).
177. Everyone that has this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure (1Jhn. 3:3).
178. Whosoever committeth sin transgresses the law and incurs the death penalty (1Jhn. 3:4; Eze. 18:4; Gal. 5:21).
179. Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth has not seen Him, neither known Him (1Jhn. 3:6).
180. He that committeth sin is of the devil, not of God (1Jhn. 3:8).
181. Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin (1Jhn. 3:9).
182. Whosoever does not righteousness is not of God (1Jhn. 3:10).
183. Whosoever loves not his brother is not of God (1Jhn. 3:10, 3:15).
184. He that loves not his brother abides in death (1Jhn. 3:14).
185. Whosoever hates his brother does not have eternal life abiding in him (1Jhn. 3:15).
186. Whosoever shuts up his bowels of compassion from a brother in need does not have God’s love (1Jhn. 3:17).
187. He that loves not does not know God (1Jhn. 4:7-8).
188. Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world (1Jhn. 5:1-5).
189. If any man see his brother sin a sin that is forgivable, he shall ask and life shall be given him (1Jhn. 5:16). This proves that when a man sins he incurs the death penalty (Jas. 5:19-20; Eze. 18:4; Gal. 5:21).
190. Whosoever sins and abides not in the doctrine of Christ, has not God. He that abides has both the Father and the Son (2Jhn. 1:9).
191. He that does good is of God; but he that does evil is not of God (3Jhn. 1:11).
Those of Jude:
192. Turning the grace of God into lasciviousness (Jude 1:4).
193. The Lord, having saved the people out of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not (Jude 1:5; 1Cor. 10:1-33).
194. Sinning angels are set forth as an example to others who are tempted to sin (Jude 1:6-7). If God will damn them for sin, He will also damn others.
195. Keep yourselves in the love of God (Jude 1:21).
196. Look for the mercy of Jesus Christ unto eternal life (Jude 1:21).
Those of Christ and John:
197. You have left your first love. Recognize you are fallen, repent, do your first works; or else I will remove your church (Rev. 2:4-5).
198. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you life (Rev. 2:10).
199. Repent, or I will come unto you and fight against you (Rev. 2:16).
200.Those that defile their garments will not walk with Me (Rev. 3:5).
201. He that does not overcome I will blot his name out of the book of life (Rev. 3:5; 22:18-19; Exo. 32:32-33; Psm. 69:25-29).
202. Hold that fast which you have, that no man take your crown (Rev. 3:11).
203. Because you are neither cold nor hot, I will spue you out of My mouth (Rev. 3:15-16).
204. Blessed are they that watch and keep their garments, lest they walk naked and ashamed (Rev. 16:15).
205. All who sin will have their part in the lake of fire (Rev. 21:8).
206. All who sin will not enter the Holy City (Rev. 21:27; 22:15, 22:19).
207. The unjust, filthy, and sinful will forever be that way (Rev. 22:11).
208. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues of this book (Rev. 22:18).
209. If any man shall take away from the words of this book, God shall take away his part out of the book of life (Rev. 22:19).
210. God shall take his part out of the things written in this book (Rev. 22:19).
Scriptures Stating Assurance
1. Whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life ... hath everlasting life ... shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life (John 3:15-16, 3:36; 5:24).
2. I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand (or My Father’s hand, John 10:27-29).
3. I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels ... nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God (Rom. 8:35-39).
4. We shall be saved from wrath through Him (Rom. 5:8-9).
5. There is now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus (Rom. 8:1).
6. He shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand (Rom. 14:4).
7. Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that you may be blameless ... God is faithful, by whom you are called into the fellowship of Jesus Christ (1Cor. 1:8-9).
8. He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love (Eph. 1:4).
9. You were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise (Eph. 1:13).
10. You are sealed unto the day of redemption (Eph. 4:30).
11. He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ (Phlp. 1:6).
12. I am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day (2Tim. 1:12).
13. Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation (1Pet. 1:5).
14. We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ (1Jhn. 2:1-2).
15. Beloved, now are we the sons of God (1Jhn. 3:2).
16. Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory (Jude 1:24).
Eternal security is, therefore, taught in Scripture on the basis of obedience to God. John 6:27; 10:27-29; 15:1-8; 1Cor. 9:27; Heb. 6:4-9; 10:26-29; 2Pet. 2:20-22. If men truly want security, let them meet God’s terms. No man is obligated to sin. God has made full provision to keep men and present them faultless in heaven if they will cooperate; but no provision except hell is made for rebels. All hope of assurance while living in rebellion is a fool’s hope. Any teaching of security that encourages sin is false and satanic. True security is through faith and obedience to God and grace, not disobedience and disgrace.
Warnings concerning the Peril of Apostasy
Jude first warned his readers of the peril of apostasy by citing three examples from the past of apostates who were destroyed (Jude 1:5-7), and then by describing the upcoming judgment on present apostates (Jude 1:8-16).
Examples of apostates in the past
Egypt
Egypt is mentioned as a reminder of the fact that most Israelites who left Egypt were not faithful. An entire generation perished in the wilderness because of their unbelief (cf. Heb. 3:16-19).
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