A DESPOT IS NOT THAT IMPORTANT?

NOT THAT IMPORTANT?

Jude 4 “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 Master, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Here He is called a Despot by Jude, His earthly brother; the only Master. What a serious thing to be under the authority of Someone Who can upset everything in our lives without consulting us, and by a word can mark for us the moment of our departure! That is the government of God. We may say He is Lord and Master and then fail to talk with Him daily and look at His word to find direction from Him but we only fool ourselves to think such nonsense. God is absolute monarch wherever He is King at all. His government is autocratic. He does not consult with us as to what He shall do with us, where He shall send us, what He would have us to do. Moreover, His government is an imperative government. He never permits us to make compromises with Him for a single moment. He speaks the word of authority and has every right to. He marks the path without ever consulting us, and having done so, our only relationship to that government is that of implicit, unquestioning, immediate obedience.

2 Pet. 2:1 “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”

Same as saying, "We do not want this Man to reign over us." Luke 19:14. "We have no king but Caesar." John 19:15

“Swift destruction”  When the Despot can't tell you how He wants you to do something, and all because 'you' think it’s not important, when He thinks it is, hang on.

Cf. Isa. 42:23-24 “who among you will give ear to this? Who will give heed and listen hereafter? ..... Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they were not willing to walk."

Note: A Despot is to be obeyed in all things.  Cf. Titus 2:9-10.