What kind of men are the false teachers Jude describes in reality?
Jude describes the false teachers in reality as ungodly men. They creep into the congregation unawares, secretly and without people knowing what they are. Though credentialed and polished, they turn God's grace into lasciviousness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ, leading people astray.
Les explains that Jude’s false teachers are “certain men”—not many, but enough—who crept in unawares. They do not announce themselves; they come with credentials and appear perfectly sanctioned. God in His foreknowledge knew them, and they were before of old ordained to condemnation. In reality, they are ungodly: they turn the grace of God into lasciviousness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. Les notes they may sound polished, even like Apollos, yet they lead people astray, and the gullible cannot see the difference. He connects this to Galatians, where false teachers came in secretly to spy out liberty from 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?
The phrase 'certain men crept in' means these men came into the midst of the congregation unawares, secretly, without the people knowing what they really were.