What do these ungodly men do with God's grace, according to Jude 4?
According to Jude 4, these ungodly men turn the grace of our God into lasciviousness. They also deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. They creep in unawares, ordained to condemnation, and lead people astray while appearing credentialed and polished.
Les explains that Jude warns certain men have crept in unawares, secretly, without the congregation knowing what they are. God in His foreknowledge knew what they would do, and they were before of old ordained to this condemnation. In reality they are ungodly: they turn the grace of our God into lasciviousness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. Les points out they may sound polished, like Apollos, with impressive knowledge, but they are false teachers leading people astray. He compares this to Galatians, where false teachers came in privately to spy out the liberty believers have in Christ, not being under the Mosaic Law.
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
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What does it mean that certain men crept in unawares in Jude 4?
The phrase 'certain men crept in unawares' means they entered secretly into the midst of the congregation without the people knowing what they really were.