Contending For The Faith
Jude 1-10
Questions:
1. Who is the stated author of the
epistle?
2. Why may the name of Judas have
been shortened or contracted to Jude?
3. What relationship with Jesus is
stated?
4. Does this relationship make it
impossible that he could also be the physical half-brother of Jesus?
5. What is the stated relationship
with James?
6. To which James is this reference
most likely referring?
7. What are the three ways in which
Jude identifies his readers as Christians?
8. Why does a Christian, who is
already preserved in Jesus Christ, need mercy?
9. Why is “peace” a real need among
Christians?
10. What does the text mean when it
refers to our salvation as the “common” salvation?
11. What, in Jude 3, indicates that
Jude changed his mind about the subject of his letter?
12. Put the expression “once for all
delivered” into your own words.
13. Who are the “saints”?
14. In your own words, state why Jude
is warning to contend earnestly for the faith.
15. What does the word “crept”
indicate as to the manner in which the men came?
16. In verse 4, there are three words
that describe the man Jesus (compare it in the ASV of 1901). What are they?
17. In verse 4, there are three words
that describe these condemned men. What are these three words?
18. In verse 5, why is Jude asking
them to remember something?
19. Does Jude mean they knew
everything that God knows? All of what
things did they know?
20. Two great facts about the
Israelites are mentioned in verse 5. What are they?
21. God knew before that most of the
Israelites would not believe. Why did He wait until afterwards to destroy them?
22. How was the unbelief of the
Israelites demonstrated?
23. What does this imply concerning
belief?
24. To what angels is Jude referring
in verse 6?
25. Does verse 7 say, or even
indicate, that angels have committed fornication with people?
26. In what way could the rebellion
of the angels against God be termed “going after strange flesh”? (Note the
expression “like manner”)
27. To what must “eternal fire”
refer?
28. Why did Michael dare not rail and
accuse the devil in verse 9? What would have been wrong with his doing so?
29. No Old Testament passage tells of
such a dispute as seen in verse 9. Does this mean that Jude is in error in
referring to such a dispute? Why so or why not?
30. Is it necessary to find some
written or secular source for everything that Jude wrote?
Multiple Choice: Underline the correct answer
1. Jude means: (A) a prince who
prevails with God; (B) Saviour; (C)
renowned; (D) exalted father.
2. The only Biblically named angels
among God’s created beings in heaven are: (A) Uriel and Raphael; (B) Michael
and Gabriel; (C) Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, and Raphael; (D) Castor and Pollux.
Scripture Fill-In: Only one word require in each blank (uses KJV)
1. “___________, the ___________ of Jesus
Christ, and ________ of James, to them that are ___________ by God the _________,
and ___________ in Jesus ___________, and ___________:”
2. “___________,
when I gave all ___________ to write unto you of the ___________ ___________, it was needful for me to write
unto you, and ___________ you that ye should ___________ ___________
for the ___________ which was once ___________ unto the ___________.”
3. “And the ___________
which ___________ not their first ___________, but left their own ___________,
he hath ___________ in everlasting ___________ under darkness unto the ___________
of the ___________ ___________.”
4. “Even as ___________
and ___________, and the cities about them in ___________ ___________, giving themselves over to ___________,
and going after ___________ ___________,
are set forth for an ___________, suffering the ___________ of ___________ ___________.”
5. “Yet ___________
the ___________, when ___________ with the devil he ___________ about the body
of ___________, durst not bring against him a ___________ ___________, but said, The ___________ ___________ thee.”
True or False: Put either a “T” or “F” in the blanks
_____ 1. Jude, like
all other New Testament penmen, was a lover of titles and wore more than his
rightful share of the same.
_____ 2.
Introductory matters are of little concern either to speakers or writers.
_____ 3. God is
active in man’s conversion and sanctification while man is totally and
helplessly passive.
_____ 4. Jude’s use
of “the faith” in Jude 3 means the same as the gospel of the soul saving system
of truth.
_____ 5. Of all who
left Egypt under Moses only Joshua and Caleb failed to enter earthly Canaan.
_____ 6. God
destroyed a full quartet of Jordan Valley cities in Abraham’s era.
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