There are many aspects of our Saviour's ministry for which we desire to give Him all the glory. We ascribe all majesty to Him in that He has overcome the power of the evil one in making an atonement for our sins. We delight that His dominion is as extensive as the universe, because it means that no alien power shall ever intrude to abort His victory. We admire His power- that He has the keys of death and of hell. We rejoice that He has all authority in heaven and in earth: an authority which will never wane.
But the things which Jude alights upon here are matters of personal encouragement in respect of our individual pilgrimages. Let us worship Him with pleasure in these days of our preparation, for the certainties set before us in our text.
Jesus is able to keep us from falling. We have often stumbled but always we have been enabled to get up again. Sometimes our lives have seemed to us to be like the staggering of a drunken man lurching from one situation to another. But we are still on the Christian journey and we have, in our rum, come to the final summit. We will not fall, never to get up again, just yards short of our destination -- Jesus pledges it.
He will keep us, assist us, support and encourage us to the very end.
He is able to present us faultless. He has the power to change us so that we will appear before God without fault. We have never been faultless before except in that briefest of instants after we had sought the Lord for pardon -- but, when it matters most, He will present us faultless. We shall not be as we have sometimes been in this life. We have thought long, studied hard, planned meticulously. only to feel the power go from us when it mattered; consequently, we failed. But in that great graduation, when our Saviour formally presents us to His Father as the fruit of His toil oil Calvary, there will be no fault upon us.
God-haters will long for the mountains and rocks to fall on them, to hide them from the face of Him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, when the great day of His anger comes. But at that very time it is promised to believers that they will be presented faultless before the presence of His glory. When God's holiness is revealed in all its splendour, then will the righteousness of our Saviour be found to be holiness enough for us. It will give the Saviour exceeding joy to see the travail of His soul made perfect in us. The Father will be delighted in His Son's work. All heaven will be thrilled and we shall know great joy. What a prospect!