When Spiritual Confidence Becomes Arrogance | Jude 8-10

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Our text today is Jude 8-10

Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, 'The Lord rebuke you.' But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively. — Jude 8-10

Some people sound the most certain when they understand the least.

We've all seen it.

A strong opinion. A spiritual tone. Maybe a Bible phrase or two. And suddenly someone speaks as though they are God.

That's the kind of arrogance Jude is confronting.

These false teachers were "relying on their dreams." In other words, they were using personal experiences and spiritual claims to justify what they wanted to believe.

We see the same pattern today when people elevate personal impressions, "God told me" moments, or emotional experiences above Scripture's clear teaching. A verse may say one thing, but a feeling or a supposed revelation is used to override it. In those moments, experience doesn't just influence interpretation—it replaces it.

They didn't submit their experiences to God's truth. That's always dangerous.

A dream, impression, feeling, or strong desire might feel deeply personal. But feeling certain does not make something fact. Every experience must be tested under the authority of Scripture.