Jude 17-21 ” But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you, ‘In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.’ These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in God’s love as your wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.”

Both Peter and Jude were alarmed at the great number of false teachers that were being accepted into the Church. And just as Peter confronted this apostasy in II Peter 2:1-3:10, Jude also confronted the threat of false teachers using our freedom in Christ and the free gift of God’s grace as a license for immorality. Both warned against these teachers preaching a philosophy called antinomian, which believed that since salvation was by grace alone, the requirements of the moral Law were irrelevant…kind of like having your cake & eating it too. But both Peter & Jude sternly denounced this type of thinking…instead urging the people to grow in their knowledge of God’s Truth in order to bear a firm witness of His Truth…all the while willing to bring back those whose faith had waivered.