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Verse Jude 1:21. _KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD_] By building up
yourselves on your most holy faith, and praying in the Holy Ghost; for
without this we shall soon lose the love of God.
_LOOKING...
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KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD - Still adverting to their own
agency. On the duty here enjoined, see the notes at John 15:9. The
phrase “the love of God” may mean either God’s love to us, or
our l...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. THE INTRODUCTION
Jude 1:1
Jude in his brief introduction speaks of the Christian believers, whom
he addresses, as called ones, sanctified by God the Father, and
preserved...
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These false brethren make divisions among you, but do you build up
yourselves by means of your most holy faith. As regards them, show
mercy towards those who are in doubt; save others, snatching them...
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WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN (Jude 1:1-2)...
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But you, beloved, must build yourselves up on the foundation of your
most holy faith; you must pray in the Holy Spirit; you must keep
yourselves in the love of God; while you wait for the mercy of our...
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THE LOVE OF GOD. God's love to you, i.e. the assurance of it, basedon
His Word.
LOOKING FOR. Greek. _prosdechomai._ See Acts 23:21.
LIFE. App-170....
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_keep yourselves in the love of God_ The words admit equally of being
taken of our love for God, or God's love for us, but the latter
meaning is more in harmony with the general tenor of Scripture, an...
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ΠΡΟΣΔΕΧΌΜΕΝΟΙ ΤῸ ἜΛΕΟΣ as Symeon in Luke 2:25.
Cf. Titus 2:13 προσδεχόμενοι τὴν μακαρίαν
ἐλπίδα κ.τ.λ....
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KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD,— The word 'Εαυτους is put
for αλληλου, _one another,_ both here and in Jude 1:20. See 1
Thessalonians 5:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:13. The meaningand connection
is, that...
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_A BELIEVER WHO GUARDS HIMSELF BY BUILDING UP A GROWING FAITH_
Jude 1:20-23
_Text_
20.
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith,
praying in the Holy Spirit,
21.
keep yours...
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Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord
Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
In Jude 1:20, Jude combines the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: faith,
hope, and love.
KEEP YOUR...
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VERSE 21. KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD.
Constantly keeping before our minds what we owe as a duty to God for
his wondrous mercy and love to us, we will do cheerfully, willingly
and gladly what h...
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1:21 yourselves (f-2) Aorist; be in that state....
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God’s great love was the reason why he originally called people to
begin a life of loyal service (verse 1).
• The false teachers do not have the Spirit (verse 9). So they have
no love for God. And th...
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FIGHT FOR THE *FAITH!
JUDE
_HILDA BRIGHT_
WHAT THIS LETTER IS ABOUT
Jude wrote the letter to warn his readers against false teachers.
These teachers claimed to be Christians. But they were being...
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(20, 21) Exhortation to strengthen themselves in the faith by prayer,
godliness, and hope.
(20) BUT YE, BELOVED. — Exactly as in Jude 1:17 : “ye” in
emphatic contrast to these sensuous and unspiritual...
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CHAPTER 37
THE DESCRIPTION CORRESPONDING TO KORAH; MAKING SEPARATIONS-EXHORTATION
TO THE FAITHFUL TO BUILD UP THEMSELVES, AND THEN RESCUE OTHERS.
Jude 1:19.
FOR the third and last time St. Jude poi...
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ἑαυτοὺς ἐν ἀγάπῃ Θεοῦ τηρήσατε. In
Jude 1:1 the passive is used: those who are addressed are described as
kept and beloved (_cf._ Jude 1:24, τῷ δυναμένῳ
φυλάξαι): here the active is used and emphasise...
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_The Final Charge to the Faithful_. Use all diligence to escape this
danger. Make the most of the privileges vouchsafed to you. Build
yourselves up on the foundation of your most holy faith by prayer...
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BEWARE OF THE TOUCH OF THE UNGODLY
Jude 1:12
What traps and pitfalls beset us! How many have fallen who had as good
or a better chance than we! The angels kept not their first estate;
Adam, though cr...
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THE BELIEVER AND THE FAITH
In contrast to the ungodly, the faithful were to build upon their
faith and pray in the power of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:26; Ephesians
6:18). The idea of building on the f...
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_Building yourselves. That is, raising by your actions a spiritual
building, founded 1. upon faith; 2. on the love of God; 3. upon hope,
whilst you are awaiting for the mercies of God, and the reward...
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To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and
power, both now and ever. Amen.
The Apostle here enters upon the subject of the Church, in pointing
out her safety in Christ, amids...
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CONTENTS
The opening of this Epistle is truly sweet. Jude addresseth all he
hath to say to the Church. It is to you, Beloved, Jude saith that he
writes. He then, through the greater Part of the Chapt...
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_IN THE LOVE OF GOD_
‘Keep yourselves in the love of God.’
Jude 1:21
There are many places and relationships in our human life in which it
is honourable and a privilege to be—how suggestive to brin...
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21._Keep yourselves in the love of God. _He has made love as it were
the guardian and the ruler of our life; not that he might set it in
opposition to the grace of God, but that it is the right course...
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The Epistle of Jude develops the history of the apostasy of
Christendom, from the earliest elements that crept into the assembly
to corrupt it, down to its judgment at the appearing of our Lord, but
a...
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KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD,.... By which may be meant either
the grace and favour of God, that love with which God loves his
people; and then the exhortation to the saints to keep themselves i...
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_But ye, beloved_ Not separating yourselves from your Christian
brethren, but _building up_ Or edifying one another in knowledge and
grace; _on_, or _in, your most holy faith_ The true Christian faith...
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KEEP YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF GOD, LOOKING FOR THE MERCY OF OUR LORD
JESUS CHRIST UNTO ETERNAL LIFE....
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An admonition to holy steadfastness:...
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17-23 Sensual men separate from Christ, and his church, and join
themselves to the devil, the world, and the flesh, by ungodly and
sinful practices. That is infinitely worse than to separate from any...
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_Keep yourselves in the love of God; _ i.e. in love to God, or that
love whereby ye love God; this implies love to each other, as the
cause doth the effect. _Looking for; _ viz. by hope: and so in the...
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Jude 1:21 keep G5083 (G5657) yourselves G1438 in G1722 love G26 God
G2316 for G4327 (G5740) mercy...
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‘But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith,
praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God,
looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.'
Ju...
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HAVING EXPOSED THE UNGODLY JUDE NOW TURNS TO THE GODLY AND SEEKS TO
ENCOURAGE THEM AND GIVE THEM GUIDANCE (JUDE 1:17).
He first reminds God's true people that what is happening is in full
accord with...
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Jude 1:20-21. BUT YE (strongly emphatic), BELOVED, as against those
dividers of the Church who are pulling it down stone by stone, EVER
BUILDING UP YOURSELVES ON YOUR MOST HOLY FAITH, PRAYING IN THE H...
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KEEP YOURSELVES
(εαυτους τηρησατε). First aorist active imperative (of
urgency) of τηρεω. In verse Jude 1:1 they are said to be kept,
but note the warning in verse Jude 1:5 from the angels who did n...
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Jude 1:21
A Christmas Morning Talk with Children.
I. Love is a fire that wants a great deal of keeping. "Keep yourselves
in the love of God." When I am writing in my study sometimes, what do
you thin...
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CONTENTS: The apostasy and apostate teachers described. Assurance and
comfort for true believers.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Jude, James, Michael, Moses,
Cain, Balaam, Enoch, Adam.
CONCLUS...
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THE gleanings of the church respecting St. Jude are few. Du Pin, who
spent his life in ecclesiastical studies, says, he had the surname of
Lebbeus and Thaddeus, was brother of James the less, and is c...
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AND KEEP YOURSELVES. "God does not cease to love any man, since God
himself is _love._ However, you as a person must keep yourself within
the circle of His _fatherly love,_ which is only available to...
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JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:17 Concluding Exhortations. Jude stresses the
proper response of believers to false teachers.
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JUDE—NOTE ON JUDE 1:21 KEEP (or guard) YOURSELVES IN THE LOVE OF
GOD. Christians do this by growing strong doctrinally (v. Jude 1:20),
persevering in p
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
Jude 1:20.—This gives positive teaching. It answers the question,
What can sincere and earnest believers do to guard themselves from the
insidious influence of evil men...
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Shall we go to the general epistle of Jude. Jude introduces himself
as...
A servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James (Jude 1:1),
The word servant in Greek is doulos, bondslave of Jesus Christ. B...
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1 John 3:16; 1 John 3:17; 1 John 4:16; 1 John 5:10; 1 John 5:11;...
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By these means, through his grace, keep yourselves in the love of God,
and in the confident expectation of that eternal life which is
purchased for you, and conferred upon you, through the mere mercy...