Jude understood how glorious it is to celebrate our common union in Christ. Magnifying the redemptive grace of God and our undeserved salvation never gets old, does it? Having said that, this emergency 911 epistle (aka Jude), illustrates that it is pastorally negligent to ignore a clear and present danger! To act like everything is spiritually ok, when it's not, is both dangerous and wrong! True shepherds protect the flock at all costs (John 10). On the other hand, when danger appears "hirelings" leave the sheep unprotected. Jesus reminded his disciples that hirelings really only care about themselves. Their personal comfort and well-being is what they are most concerned about. Add to that, Jeremiah 6:14 reminds us that false teachers say, "'Peace, peace!' when there is no peace at all."
After a wonderfully enriching five year journey through the signature Gospel of John, my original plan was to begin a new expository study of a brief, yet power packed, epistle. Philemon. Sadly, I cannot do that at this time. Though the heresy of flown blown Antinomianism has NOT crept into our beloved church family (as was true in Jude's case), hyper-grace sanctification and lower-case “a,” Reformed antinomianism- has! To do nothing and just hope for the best would be a dereliction of duty.