\u201c24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.\u201d<\/p>\n
These verses follow Jude\u2019s concern and warning about the tendency for some people within the church community to fall away from the gospel, to presume upon God\u2019s grace as a licence to follow their own fallen nature and tempt others to do the same. This leads to all sorts of depravity, like Sodom and Gomorrah.
After having addressed these issues, Jude offers the solution to these concerns in the benediction of these two verses.<\/p>\n
Now unto him<\/strong> \u2013 Jude brings all this to God, the problem is more than we can handle and we need to give it over to him;<\/p>\n that is able to keep you from falling<\/strong> \u2013 by his death on the cross, and as his spirit lives within us, Jesus has freed us from the power of sin and Satan; in His strength we are secure. and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory<\/strong> \u2013 by his substitutionary death on the cross, Jesus has given us his righteousness; through him we are judged as faultless before God, even before his glorious throne of judgment. with exceeding joy<\/strong> \u2013 this is the key to understanding the nature of Jesus\u2019 love for us \u2013 it\u2019s not with a sombre, stern, and legalistic approach that he gives us his judgment, it is with pure delight in securing our salvation – a happy gift indeed;<\/p>\n To the only wise God our Saviour<\/strong> \u2013 This is the beginning of our response to what Jesus has done for us. Only in Jesus do we know the nature of the one true God, he alone has saved us, and apart from him we are lost. His wisdom in this is beyond our imagination, only he is truly wise.<\/p>\n be glory and majesty<\/strong> \u2013 to recognise with gratitude who Jesus is; as God, his nature is at an infinitely great level and beyond our understanding;<\/p>\n dominion and power<\/strong> \u2013 to recognise that Jesus alone has the overriding power to rule our world. both now and ever<\/strong> \u2013 what we receive by accepting his gift transforms our life now, but unlike our worldly pleasures, it has everlasting consequences; it is secure and never fades with time, and it changes things forever, so also our gratitude and praise will never fade.<\/p>\n Amen<\/strong> \u2013 we all join in agreeing, ‘Indeed!’, or ‘So let it be!’<\/p>\n Praise Jesus who keeps us in his loving care.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201c24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.\u201d A Benediction These verses follow Jude\u2019s concern and warning about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-verses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29305"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29311,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29305\/revisions\/29311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questionsandbelief.org\/sw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
This is wonderful to reflect upon. It means that we are not doomed to follow our fallen human nature and go along with social depravity, we really do have the strength to resist all temptations \u2013 through God\u2019s almighty strength for us in Jesus;<\/p>\n
This too is wonderfully reassuring. We may see resisting temptations as a struggle, but we can be boldly confident in that struggle, not defeatist, as the victory has been won for us;<\/p>\n
But most importantly, we need to allow him to rule our hearts, if we are to know the joy of his gift of salvation.<\/p>\n