“Mercy” is God’s kindness and compassion toward His people. ‘Peace” is the well-being that results from this relationship. ‘Love” is (Gk ) agape, a godly love which has the best interests of other persons in mind whether or not they love in return. The word may refer to God’s love for man and to man’s […]
As Acts is called “The Acts of the Apostles,” Jude could be termed “The Acts of the Apostates. The Author: Jude, the brother of James and half-brother of the Lord Jesus. He and his brothers did not believe in and accept Jesus as the Messiah until after His resurrection. Aubrey Johnson, in his book, “Spiritual […]
Verse 11 — Follow means to imitate. From this Greek word comes our English word “mimic.” We must be careful who we imitate. Even in Christian circles there are bad examples like Diotrophes. Demetrius was worthy of imitation, but not Diotrophes. This was probably encouragement from John not to give in to Diotrophes or to […]