Here Comes The Judge Jude 1:14-16

Adapted from a sermon by

Steve Shepherdhttp://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/here-comes-the-

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Jude 1:14 NET Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even

prophesied of them, saying, "Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy ones, 15 to

execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their thoroughly

ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh words

that ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

16 These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic

speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.

A young Bible college student was witnessing in a suburb of Atlanta.

As he approached one house, there was an elderly gentleman sitting on the

porch. He said, “Are you a Christian?” The old man said, “No, I’m a Smith.

The Christians live two doors down.” “You don’t understand. I mean, are you lost?” The old man said, “No, sonny, I ain’t lost. I’ve lived here for 25 years.” “But are you ready for the Judgment Day?” The old man said, “When’s it going to be?” The young man said,

“Well, it could be today or it could be tomorrow.” The old man replied,

“WELL, PLEASE DON’T TELL THE MRS, BECAUSE SHE’LL WANT TO GO BOTH

DAYS.”

Make no mistake about it, judgment is coming and it won’t be a fun day for a lot of people! Many people will not want to

experience that day! Hebrews 10:30 NET For we know the one

who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people." 31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

HERE COMES THE JUDGE!

The idea of hell and judgment are nowhere to be found in Betty Eadie’s

book, “Embraced By The Light.” (1992) It sold 6 million copies and stayed on the

Times bestseller list in hardcover & paperback for more than two years, including more than a year in the #1

position. In November 1973 Eadie allegedly died following routine surgery,

and she returned with a life-changing message revealed by Jesus.

As for Hell she refers to “The Ripple Effect,” her 3rd book, page 89

I can say that I did not see “hell,” and also that I find it hard to conceive of

such a place, given what I experienced. I felt greater mercy and understanding from God than I had ever imagined. To

say that the fires of hell will claim anyone forever is to deny the extent of

God’s love, of his understanding, and of his willingness to forgive.

We doubt his judgment in the first place if we believe he would send us here,

block us from heaven, and then expect us to return to him unblemished.

Somewhere else she said:Hell is separation from God, but he loves

all his children, and though we may move away from him for a time,

eventually, I do not believe one of his children will be lost.

http://www.embracedbythelight.com/

Eadie says that Jesus "never wanted to do or say anything that would offend

me" while she visited heaven. Someone commented: Indeed, Jesus seems to be relegated to the role of a happy tour guide in heaven, not the Savior of the world who died on the

cross. It seems that book contains many fallacies in opposition to the Word of

God.

Jesus is not pictured in scripture as some kind of happy tour guide or as

Santa Claus. He is Savior! He is Lord! He is God in the flesh!

HERE COMES THE JUDGE!Just before the death of actor W.C.

Fields, a friend visited Fields’ hospital room and was surprised to find him

thumbing through a Bible. Asked what he was doing with a Bible, Fields replied,

"I’m looking for loopholes."

There are no loopholes at the judgment but there is hope, but only in Christ as

our Savior!

Court cases are sometimes labeled: “Stevenson vs. The People”

or “Jones vs. Texas." But at the Last Judgment, every case

may be labeled “So-n-so vs. God!”

The Lord will judge everyone! Me too? The Lord is not a respecter of persons when it comes to judgment. However,

the conclusion is yet to come.2 Corinthians 5:6 NET Therefore we are

always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on earth we are absent from the Lord — 7 for we live

by faith, not by sight.

8 Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9 So then whether

we are alive or away, we make it our ambition to please him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done

while in the body, whether good or evil.

11 Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people,

but we are well known to God, and I hope we are well known to your

consciences too.

Everyone and every thing they do will be judged on the judgment day but there

are some specific matters that the Lord may judge more critically. Here they are:

1- God will judge ungodly acts2- God will judge ungodly words

GOD WILL JUDGE UNGODLY ACTS

Jude 1:14 NET Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even

prophesied of them, saying, "Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and

thousands of his holy ones,

15a,b to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their

thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed,…

What a way to say it.

The floorwalker got tired of his job. He gave it up and joined the police force.

Several months later a friend asked him how he liked being a policeman.

“Fine,” said the ex-floorwalker. “The pay is good and so are the hours, but what I

like best of all is that the customer is always wrong.”

Some people are wrong and the police are going to get them! Some people

escape being caught for their wrongdoing for a while. Eventually

they’ll be caught, however, not by the police but by God Almighty!

A Milwaukee woman’s funeral was over, and the body was about to be cremated

when suspicious officials ordered an autopsy. This revealed that death had

been caused by strangulation. The medical examiner called it murder. The victim’s sixteen-year-old daughter was arrested and held without bail. Had the

authorities acted a few minutes later than they did, the evidence would have

been destroyed forever.

No, not forever. Whatever happens in this world (murders, rapes, abuse,

violence, etc.) is carried over into the next world, meaning that God sees it and

will make the right judgment about it.

NO ONE GETS AWAY WITH ANYTHING.

God sees everything and will judge all. And all the ungodly acts committed by

ungodly people are numerous.

In Chicago, a man named David Johnson was on a scaffold eight stories high, when he heard a snap and saw his

partner fall and felt himself sliding into space. “My whole life flashed before

me,” he said. “It was very clear. I could remember when I was a kid. But it

happened so fast that I can’t remember much of it now.”

Johnson seized wildly at a hanging cable and found himself perched on top of an air conditioner. Johnson slipped through the window unharmed. Asked about going up again, Johnson said,

“That’s it for me. I’ll never go up there again. I’ve got to find a new trade. It’s hard to explain how terrified I was.”

Some people should be terrified at the thought of death and the judgment! We can even name some of those people but the Lord knows them better than

anyone.1 Timothy 5:24 NET The sins of some

people are obvious, going before them into judgment, but for others, they show up later. 25 Similarly good works are also

obvious, and the ones that are not cannot remain hidden.

2 Timothy 2:19 NET However, God's solid foundation remains standing, bearing this seal: "The Lord knows those who

are his," and "Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away

from evil.“No one gets away with anything. God will judge the ungodly acts of people. And the Lord knows those who truly

belong to Him.

GOD WILL JUDGE UNGODLY WORDS

Jude 1:14 NET Now Enoch, the seventh in descent beginning with Adam, even

prophesied of them, saying, "Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and

thousands of his holy ones,

15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their

thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh

words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

Lynchburg, VA—In 1983-84 The Rev. Jerry Falwell filed a $45 million lawsuit

against publisher Larry Flynt. Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority,

contended in his suit filed in U.S. district court, that the ad portrayed him as

immoral and an alcoholic. Larry Flynt, from his Los Angeles home, said he was

“really tickled” about the lawsuit “because I want to get him in the

courtroom.”

Flynt said at the bottom of the ad that it was not to be taken seriously. He said, “I

don’t really think any of it is true, do you?”

In his suit, Falwell said the ad’s “inferences and innuendos” falsely said

he “commits illegal, immoral and reprehensible acts, that he is an

alcoholic and that he is insincere and hypocritical in his work as a

fundamentalist minister.”

Larry Flynt is still alive and still slandering others in order to get a

hearing and sell his magazine. In June 2007, he placed an ad in the

Washington Post offering $1 million for documented stories involving sex with

current congressional members or high-ranking government officials. It’s one thing to speak harshly to other human

beings or about them but it is an entirely different matter to speak harshly about

the Lord!

14b “Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy

ones, 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their

thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh

words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

16 These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic

speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.

These people The ungodly men first mentioned in v. 4 and subsequently

referred to repeatedly in (vv. 8, 10, 12, 14, 19;). They are the libertine false teachers

who pervert the grace of God. (NIV Study Bible)

“grumblers and fault-finders”A man joined a monastery where you are only allowed to speak two words every ten years. At the end of ten years he

said, “Bad food!” Ten more years went by and he said, “Hard bed!”

Finally, on his 30th anniversary with the brothers, he thundered, “I quit!” And the priest in charge responded, “You might

as well. All you do is complain anyway.”

A letter in which Albert Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the

product of human weakness and the Bible as “pretty childish” has sold at auction for more than $400,000. The

sale price was more than 25 times the pre-sale estimate.

Bloomsbury did not identify the buyer, but managing director Rupert Powell

said, “it was someone with a passion for theoretical physics and all that that

entails. This extraordinary letter seemed to strike a chord, and it gave a deep

personal insight into one of the greatest minds of the 20th century.”

The letter was written to philosopher Eric Gutkind in January 1954, a year

before Einstein’s death. In it, Einstein said that “the word ‘God’ is for me

nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible

a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless

pretty childish.”

Einstein experts say the letter supports the argument that the physicist held

complex, agnostic views on religion. He rejected organized faith but often spoke

of a spiritual force at work in the universe.

Copyright 2008, The Associated Press.

14b “Look! The Lord is coming with thousands and thousands of his holy

ones, 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their

thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh

words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

No person dare speak badly about the Lord God Almighty. People do, but these people (no matter who they are or how rich and famous they are) are wrong.

God will judge all the ungodly of their ungodly acts and harsh, ungodly words. But where does this leave us who are in

Christ?

Baptist preacher, Harry Ironside, once told this story: One of the first gospel

illustrations that ever made a real impression upon my young heart was a simple story which I heard a preacher

tell when I was less than nine years old.It was of pioneers who were making their way across one of the central states to a distant place that had been opened up

for home-steading.

They traveled in covered wagons drawn by oxen, and progress was necessarily

slow. One day they were horrified to note a long line of smoke in the west,

stretching for miles across the prairie, and soon it was evident that the dried

grass was burning fiercely and coming toward them rapidly.

They had crossed a river the day before but it would be impossible to go back to that before the flames would be on them.

Only one man seemed to have understanding as to what could be done. He gave the command to set fire to the grass behind them. Then when a space was burned over, the whole wagon train

moved back on it.

As the flames roared on toward them from the west, a little girl cried out in

terror, "Are you sure we shall not all be burned up?" The leader replied, "My

child, the flames cannot reach us here, for we are standing where the fire has

been!“Ironside said, "What a picture of the

believer, who is safe in Christ!"

“On Him Almighty vengeance fell,

Which would have sunk a world to hell.

He bore it for a chosen race,

And thus becomes our Hiding Place.”

The fires of God’s judgment burned themselves out on Him, and all who are

in Christ are safe, for they are now standing where the fire has been.

OUR HOPE AND SALVATION IS IN CHRIST, NOT OURSELVES.