God our Protector
Jude vv.24-25: " to Him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy, to the only God our Saviour be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen."
Jude ends his fiery epistle, which denounces false teachers who pervert the grace of God into immorality, with a joyful doxology praising God for His wisdom and glory. He tells us that God is able to protect us from falling into sinfulness and to present us as sinless before Him on that great day of judgement.
All this is because Christ died for our sins and rose again the third day. If we receive Him as our Lord and Saviour we can have this assurance and joy!
(Originally published in the church bulletin Jan 18, 2015.)