In the very same way, on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings. Jude 8

These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead. They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever. These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage. Jude 12 – 16

Jude’s letter discloses a very dangerous heresy that infiltrated the followers of Jesus Christ.  On the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings.  He claims that they are acting out their own dreams, not the will of the Father. Therefore, their lives reveal that they do not honor God at all.  They cater to the desires of the flesh, without regard to the law of God. They reject authority because they see themselves as the ultimate authority. They have no time for things of the Spirit.  They please themselves in the name of freedom that they embrace, not the freedom of the Spirit that is the gift of God but false liberty that they invent themselves.

Jude calls a halt to the confusion. These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead.  They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever. Shepherds who eat the food meant for the sheep.  Clouds that promise rain but have none.  When they should be producing a crop, there is none.  If you look carefully you will see that the tree has been uprooted so it is not in contact with the source of fruitfulness at all. Wild waves of the sea, stirring up dirt!  Stars that have no place but wander here and there, soon disappear into the darkness.

These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.  That sums up the insidious heresy.  At first it may look like freedom but it is a horrid bondage.  The problem is, they have no idea of the evil of their choices.  Are we not, in our generation, in the need of people like Jude to puncture our self inflated balloons?