To God be the Glory Jude 24-25
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Introduction
Introduction
He is Able to Preserve Us
He is Able to Preserve Us
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling,
And to present you faultless
Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us.
He is Able to Present Us
He is Able to Present Us
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling,
And to present you faultless
Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,
that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.
So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
He is the Preeminent One Among Us
He is the Preeminent One Among Us
A Glorious Church Should Give The Glorious God Glory!
God is able if We Are Willing!
Now He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.
Mark 6:6 (NKJV)
And He marveled because of their unbelief. Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching.
but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.
1 & 2 Peter and Jude—Sharing Christ’s Sufferings Chapter 38: An Exalted Ending (Jude 24, 25)
Jude let loose with a furious array of admonitions and commands on how to do just that.
• “Remember” the words of the apostles (v. 17).
• “Keep yourselves in the love of God” (v. 21).
• “Build” one another up “in your most holy faith” (v. 20).
• “Pray in the Holy Spirit” (v. 20).
• “Wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life” (v. 21).
• “Have mercy on those who doubt” (v. 22).
• “Save others by snatching them” from the “fire” of Hell (v. 23).
• “Have mercy,” even on those who are unrepentant (v. 22).
But in the end it appears that Jude couldn’t resist his initial desire. As he closes his letter, he decides to return to his intended aim. His thoughts on contending for the faith have concluded; he now writes about their common salvation. Verses 24, 25 are Jude’s contemplation of the beauty and wonder of all that we commonly share in Christ. His description is doxological, and as such we find Jude finishing his letter in the exalted prose of prayer and praise.
To God our Savior,
Who alone is wise,
Be glory and majesty,
Dominion and power,
Both now and forever.
Amen.
God is our Savior (sotere)
Someone who rescues something from danger or violence; especially of Christ as the one who rescued His people from their sins and the resulting danger of judgement.
SOTERIOLOGY sō-tēr-ē-olʹə-jē [< Gk. sōtēría—‘deliverance, salvation’]. The branch of theology that deals with Salvation and the savior.
Savior and Deliverer
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance.
For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began,
but has in due time manifested His word through preaching, which was committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior;
Exhort bondservants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not answering back,
not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.
God alone is wise (sophos)
The only one who is wise.
Having or prompted by accumulated knowledge or discernment.
GOD IS THE ONLY GOD!
That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord,
Are the Most High over all the earth.
IDOLS KNOW NOTHING
“Present your case,” says the Lord.
“Bring forth your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob.
“Let them bring forth and show us what will happen;
Let them show the former things, what they were,
That we may consider them,
And know the latter end of them;
Or declare to us things to come.
Show the things that are to come hereafter,
That we may know that you are gods;
Yes, do good or do evil,
That we may be dismayed and see it together.
Indeed you are nothing,
And your work is nothing;
He who chooses you is an abomination.
GOD IS ALL KNOWING!
Remember the former things of old,
For I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like Me,
Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand,
And I will do all My pleasure,’
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
To God be Glory (doxa)
a state of high honor, brightness, splendor, radiance, greatness
who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.
To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
To God be Majesty (megalosune)
the quality of a person or thing which inspires awe or reverence in the beholder; can be related to size, strength, power, or authority.
who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
To God be Dominion (kratos)
power to direct or determine
strength
To God be Power (exusia)
authority; power
God is preeminent BOTH:
NOW
FOREVER
And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power
which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,
far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,
Conclusion
Conclusion