Jude 1:5-7 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“5Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe. 6And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day. 7In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.”

Needing Reminders

We all need reminders, don’t we? The older I get (almost 77 years old) the more I need them. I have to make myself notes, mark things in my calendar, set alarms for myself so I don’t lose track of time, and ask others to remind me. And I need to be willing to be reminded of things by others that I may have forgotten, or that slipped my mind, for I am at that age when things can go out of my mind as quickly as they came into my mind. Writing is now taking much longer than it used to, and I have to proofread multiple times.

I can so easily forget some of the simplest of things, things I may have known most of my life but which can now just slip right out of my memory. I can forget how to do routine things I do every day on the computer, so I am now starting to write myself reminder notes, which only help me if I remember that I have the reminder notes and where I keep them. And if you are close to my age, you may identify with what I am sharing with you here. And if you haven’t noticed, the Bible repeats the same stuff over again.

Although You are Fully Aware

Not all of us are “fully aware” of everything the Scriptures teach us. So, for some people, they may be hearing these things for the first time. Even us old timers, who have studied the Scriptures for 50 years or more, may be hearing these things for the first time. But what Jude is describing here, we can read about in the books of Exodus and maybe also Leviticus. But this story is repeated for us throughout the Old Testament and New Testament Scriptures (see: 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13).

Anyway, God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – delivered His people out of slavery in Egypt via His servant Moses, who He assigned to this job. And He did kill the Egyptians who were chasing after the Israelites to bring them back under slavery (or to kill them). But later on, in the wilderness, He ended up killing the majority of His people who refused to obey His commands and who engaged in idolatry, revelry, drunkenness, sexual immorality, disobedience and rebellion against God/Christ Jesus.

Sodom and Gomorrah

The primary sin they committed was sexual immorality, which is including homosexuality. And God’s Word still speaks against all sexual sin, adultery, and idolatry, which are three in one. Sexual immorality seems to top most lists of sins in the Scriptures. And the Scriptures do separate sexual immorality from the others as though it is a worse sin than the others, for it is a sin against one’s own body, which should belong to Christ, who is our husband with us as His bride, and to one’s spouse (if the person is married).

1 Corinthians 6:18: “Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.”

And sexual immorality of many kinds, including homosexuality, is probably the predominant sin in the lives of multitudes who profess faith in Jesus Christ (in USA), primarily males (including nearly half of pastors), but including women and children, too. Most of this appears to be connected to the viewing of pornographic images and to self-gratification. So many men (mostly men) and some women are addicted to sexual sin, and so they are living in idolatry and in adultery against Jesus Christ and against spouse.

They Will Die

All people who are living in sin, who are living in addiction to any addictive sin, but most especially sexual immorality, who are not obeying God and His commands, as a matter of life practice, they will not have salvation from sin and eternal life with God if they do not repent of (turn from) their sin and now follow our Lord in obedience to His commands. For if sin is our practice, and not obedience to God, we will not inherit eternal life with God. For faith = obedience, and disobedience = unbelief (see Hebrews chapters 3-4).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

I Want To Remind You
An Original Work / November 8, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

For those still walking in sin and not in obedience to God’s commands:

Broken Cord

An Original Work / August 29, 2018
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Your bond is broken with your Lord and Savior
And your testimony is separate from Him.
Your words not matching your actions today.
Repent of your sin and bow down and pray.
Live what you testify in truth always.

Purity’s lacking in your life and witness,
For you profess one thing, but other you do.
Not moral, spiritual. Still of the flesh.
Not living in truth to what you confess.
Lying about it puts you in a mess.

Living a lie is your practice, ‘tis true of you.
Masquerade righteousness – none of it true.
Your heart is not given to your Lord God.
Because of how you live, you are a fraud.
Turn from your sin and give your life to God.