Group Notes & Questions | "Old Testament Stories" | Jude 5-7 | 9.10.23

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A. SERMON SLIDES

Old Testament Stories
Jude 5-7


Jude 5–7 (ESV)
5 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— 7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.


Apostasy = departing (leaving) the Faith


Share examples from history:
1) Calm Them
2) Remind Them
3) Warn Them


3 Examples of Old
1. Children of Israel saved from Egypt
2. Angels leaving their proper place
3. Sodom and Gomorrah and sexual immorality


aselgeia =

“This was the ugliest word in the Greek language. It indicates an absence of restraint, shamelessness, an ‘I don’t care what others think’ attitude, unbridled lust, sensual dress and behavior, or a parading of perversion.”
Dr Rod Mattoon


These first 3 O.T. examples will have this in common:
1) Shameless sexual behavior outside God’s order
2) A penalty of eternal damnation


Children Of Israel
What example is this?


Exodus 32:6 (ESV)
6 And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.


The Angels


“What in the Nephilim is going on?”


No one will NOT be kept by God


Sodom and Gomorrah
“unnatural desire” = hetero flesh = other (strange) flesh


Ezekiel 16:49–50 (ESV)
49 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. 50 They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.


Genesis 19 Perversion
1) Human desire for sex with angels
2) Rape
3) Homosexual sex


God’s “order” for sexual relationships:
Is to be experienced ONLY within the boundaries of a legal and binding covenant between one man and one woman.


Jude 10 (ESV)
10 But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.


B. GROUP DISCUSSION

  1. Read Jude 5-7. Can you recite these Old Testament examples?

  2. Talk about the brazenness of each of these examples. And where do you see that same sort of brazenness in sexual freedom and choices today?

  3. In what way has this spirit from the evil one “crept into” the church unawares?

  4. Do you believe that the Bible affirms sex only in the confines of a binding covenant between one man and one woman? Where can we see this Biblical concept, and where can we see sin in this area in the Bible…even from the Patriarchs of the Faith, even in the genealogy of Jesus Christ!

  5. What are the areas of sexual sin you think the church has avoided or over-emphasized? How do we best restore this Biblical mandate and boundary for sexual relations?

  6. What is the difference between one who is struggling or sinning in this area with great guilt or confusion, and one who is proud in parading their perversion?
    Do we treat them differently? How?

  7. Prayer and praise