Now we come to this awesome idea of sinners marked out for condemnation. Let me try to give you a little thumbnail sketch of how this works. Here is how we need to understand it: individuals who come unto this world, enter this world as children of Adam. Paul says in Romans, by one man—that is Adam—sin entered the world and death through sin; and death spread to all men, so all men die. Why is there death in the world? Because of sin, that is why. And every human being comes into this world in the mass of fallen, utterly sinful, humanity. And God, in his mercy and grace, calls out of the mass of fallen humanity, a people for himself: his people. We see that in the Old Testament and we see that in the New Testament. And God sees fit...to pass by others, so that there is under the head of predestination: the elect and the reprobate. Never use that word
Dennis Prutowreprobate...lightly. Even Calvin said, I would never declare someone reprobate in this life, until they bond their grave rejecting Christ. Never use it lightly. It is the reprobate that Jude is talking about.1
13 wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.