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Beloved Jude closes this epistle with a doxology. Jude’s doxology reminds us of God’s care and our destiny.
Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
if you want to know the place that Jesus Christ should have in your life, especially in these days of apostasy, in these days where right is wrong, and wrong is now right, in these days where it looks like people are losing their minds. Beloved in these days when, people are falling from the truth, morality, and a sound mind. Here is this marvelous benediction. Jude closes his letter with a doxology that gives all the praise of the Almighty; in the midst of what is happening in the world and the church, Jude’s doxology reminds us of God’s care and our destiny. Right now, we are watching a nation fall, right now we watching people losing their minds, we are watching People love only themselves and money. And they are proud, stuck-up, rude, and disobedient to their parents. We are watching people who are ungrateful, godless, heartless, and hateful. Their words are harsh, and they have no self-control or shame. These people hate everything good. We are watching people who are traitors, reckless, conceited, and loving pleasure rather than loving God, we are watching people who have an outward appearance of godliness but deny the power of true godliness.
Beloved everything that is happening in our world today, Jude said Now to Him. The word Now is in the present tense. Listen this present time. I mean right now, it is to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blamelessbefore the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Him who is able. This speaks of the omnipotent God. Jude is reminding them and us that the answer lies only in the power of God. He is able to keep you, and you aren’t able to keep yourself. Whatever may be said about your self-efforts, the supreme truth is that God can and is keeping us, and your supreme hope should rest on the assurance that He is keeping. He keeps us from stumbling, He keeps us from quitting He keeps us from getting caught up, with false teacher lies, and He going to present us faultless. Listen beloved with all the false teaching and immorality around us, God is keeping us, from stumbling. In mountain climbing, the beginning hiker attaches himself to the expert so that if he loses his footing he won’t stumble and fall to his death. In the same manner, if we keep connected with God, we cannot fall. He keeps us safe. Jude began the letter by addressing those who are preserved in Jesus (Jud_1:1). Then he exhorted Christians to avoid dangerous men and to keep themselves in the love of God (Jud_1:21) Here at the end he concluded with the recognition that it is ultimately God who keeps us from stumbling and falling. Paul put the same idea in Php_2:12-13: work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
Look at the word blameless or faultless. Listen a fault is a defect, it’s to find fault, to express blame; listen to me a fault is a flaw in the character of a person. In other
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