Jude's Benediction For Us

Jude 24-25

Now all glory to God, Who is able to keep you from falling away and will bring you with great joy into His glorious Presence without a single fault. All glory to Him Who alone is God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord. All glory, majesty, power and authority are His before all time, and in the present, and beyond all time! Amen.

Jude wrote only one chapter, but in it he talks about some very weighty things. This little book is very rich in that it is packed solidly with deep understandings of important truths we need to know.

The book ends with this benediction, which wraps up his whole message to us. 

All glory to God - God is the One Who deserves all the credit.

Who is able to keep you from falling away - God is powerful to hold us securely in His hand and keep us from being deceived by these false teachers Jude wrote about earlier, and also from the extreme persecution that will come in the end of the Last Days.

And will bring you with great joy - God will give us His great joy.

into His glorious Presence - God's Presence is more glorious than we can imagine.

without a single fault. - God has seen the Blood of Jesus upon His altar the Cross and it has washed away all of our sins without a trace, to make each one of us perfectly clean and holy and worth dwelling with God in His glory forever.

All glory to Him Who alone is God, our Savior - God our Savior is a title of the Lord God in the Old Testament, and it survives in the New Testament being used 7 times. We know the Lord God of the O.T. as Jesus in the N.T., Who has always been the One Who saves: Israel from Egypt, the three friends from the fiery furnace, Daniel from the lions' den, and now as our atoning Sacrificial Lamb of God. 

through Jesus Christ our Lord. - God the Father has saved us from the power of sin right now (Salvation), and will save us from the very presence of sin (Redemption, Glorification) through the Death and Resurrection of Christ Jesus our Lord.

All glory, majesty, power and authority are His before all time, and in the present, and beyond all time! Amen. - Our God deserves all the credit (glory), all the majesty, all the highest authority (Lord means Boss) over all creation; right now, from forever past and all past time, and through all future time and all eternity.

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!