Jude verses 24 through 25, these are God's words. 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 God our Savior who alone is wise, be glory and majesty dominion and power both now and forever amen so far the reading of god's inspired and inerrant word this is one of the most exalted doxologies in scripture And it's worth noting that it's Trinitarian, not Trinitarian in the immediate form in verse 24 and 25, but rather from the immediate context in verse 20 to 21. Praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And giving there in that description of our dependence upon the triune God, giving the Lord Jesus the climactic place in the naming of the three persons of the Godhead, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And then you have the brief description. That's how we deal with ourselves. And then there's the two other types of people that we must deal with in the church in verses 22 and 23. But it's really, it's coming out of that. Praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. So we're praying and keeping and looking in order to come unto eternal life, and that's the context in which this doxology says, now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling. So you pray to the Holy Spirit that you won't stumble, and he is going to keep you from stumbling because he is able. You keep yourself in the love of God and the love of God and the God of that love is able to keep you stumbling and to prevent you before the presence of his glory. Looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life and Jesus Christ, our Lord Jesus Christ is able and willing to keep us from stumbling and to present us faultless before the presence of his glory. with exceeding joy. And the Lord Jesus, of course, has the climactic place in that. So that when verse 25 says, to God, our savior. Yes, it means the triune God generally, but there's also an emphasis on our Lord Jesus Christ specifically, that He is God, our Savior. He is the one who is able to keep us from stumbling. He is the one who will present us before His presence. He is the one whose presence is glorious. He will present us faultless before the presence of His glory. He is the one whose glorious presence is joyous, that the work of the triune God, the work of the Spirit, the work of our loving Father, the work of our merciful Lord Jesus Christ, our Mediator, is such that when He is done with us, and we stand in the unimaginable and infinite glory of God, it will be an exceeding joy to us, both because of who he is, the one in whom rejoicing ought to be done, in whom there ought to be exceeding rejoicing, and because of what he will have completed in us. that we will want to rejoice in Him who is worthy of our rejoicing in Him. And having been cleansed and holy and no longer having anything in us that is against Him, that not only will we want to be exceedingly joyful in His presence, we will be exceedingly joyful in His presence. And this is a fitting conclusion to this book in which we have been urged to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. danger in the church. There's those who are not genuinely saved, those who are self-deceived in the church, will not rejoice over being mastered by Christ, will not value holiness, will not contend earnestly for the faith once delivered for all the saints. They will have other priorities will be easily sucked in by those who play word games and turn grace into lewdness and are anti-authoritarian and all the things, the grumblers and complainers, flatterers, all the things that have been warned against in this passage. the genuine believer is going to be praying in the Holy Spirit, keeping himself in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And so he doesn't contend for the faith or resist the false believers and the false teachers in his own strength. No, his hope is in the God to whom he is clinging, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and the mediator to whom he is clinging, the Lord Jesus Christ. And since this is the one to whom he hopes to cling and the one by whom he hopes to cling, this dependence upon him overflows into doxology. In the last day, We will give the sword of praise to God that you see in Revelation 5, that he is worthy to receive glory and majesty and dominion and power. As we see the saints there ascribing all these unto him because he has redeemed them by his blood and has made them kings and priests unto God. He has brought them at last into His kingdom as those who have royalty in Him. He's brought them at last as priests unto God who are holy with His holiness. That's the sort of doxology we will be praising, that great praise, doxology meaning praise words unto God. in the last day, but you notice the Lord Jesus was already teaching us to pray, wasn't he, in anticipation of his bringing us to that day. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. The praise that we will give to God in the end is not something that has to wait until the end. Because that for which we are praising him is already sure before it happens. It's already sure because of who he is. And that which he will do has been secured by what he has done. And so we are able to give him praise like this now. Now. to him who is able. To God our Savior, who alone is wise, be. And this matches very much, doesn't it? Whether it's Revelation 5.12 or the conclusion to the Lord's Prayer. Now to him be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen. So whereas your dependence upon him can drive your doxology, your praise of him, your doxology, your praise of him will also drive your dependence. The more you spend time in fellowship with and meditating upon the fact that your Savior is the alone wise God, that your Savior has glory and majesty and dominion and power, the more that is impressed upon our hearts, the more we will depend upon Him. in our neediness and our greatest neediness, which is that holiness without which no one will see the Lord. So let us seek from His Spirit to see this about Him, to meditate upon this about Him, to have fellowship with Him in praising Him, so that as our hearts praise Him, our hearts will be prone to resting upon Him and depending upon Him as well. Let's pray. We thank you, our gracious God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, for giving us this passage right now and for giving us yourself, who are glorious. And we pray that you would indeed keep us from stumbling and present us faultless in your own presence in the last day. Grant that your spirit would stir up our praise of you, so that we who know you to be this God would have a reflex and habit of depending upon you and grant that in our dependence upon you and our certainty that you will indeed finish the work that you have begun, that we would be driven to praise you now already. as we will praise you then in the last day. So grant that work of your spirit, we ask, in the name of your Son, our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.