Power and Glory Forever (Part A)

And you alone know what else turn us from self-destruction judgment to call. That is, he helps us in this life and after this life again, regardless of what experts might say to the contrary, your experts think they know life better than Scripture in the world. Then there are those interested him. That also have infiltrated and think they know better than the word feces cross reference radio with our pastor and teacher against Rick is the pastor of Calvary Chapel Mechanicsville. Pastor Rick is currently teaching through the book of Jude. Please stay with us after today's message to hear you can get more information about cross reference radio, specifically how you can get a free copy of this teaching, but for now let's turn Pastor Rick in the book of Jude as he begins his message power and glory forever. Jude verse 24 now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling into 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.

The power and the glory forever.

That is how he wraps up explosive letter that was so necessary it after dealing with all of those who troubled the church, he turns his attention to the believers he lays out this blessing and it mirrors what the Lord taught us as an example, and in praying deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory in this section that we have before us known as a doxology praise is the principal meal, pièce de résistance could say that often feels like it brings too much unnecessary attention to yourself does say it but anyway this man. Jude is message and the end of this letter. This is a statement of course is loaded with doctrine because man is objectivist to be to get to heaven, and that the of course the believers know this is what we preach.

Question is how how how does a man get to heaven. Jeremiah the prophet dealing with a nation that was determined to mix into their faith, spiritual contraband, those things of God had forbidden.

They were determined to bring them in. The experts came along and said you know it's not good enough to just worship Yahweh. The invisible God should have a statute, we have this you should do that. The prognosticators and the soothsayers all the false teachers arose in Israel, they were supported by the Israelites, God raise up the profits to counter them to shut them off in this struggle has been going on to this day, and it will go on to the end. But in Jeremiah 9, God speaks to the prophet and says this. Thus says Yahweh let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his mind, not let the rich man glory in his riches, but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me that I am Yahweh exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight, says Yahweh very intense that we should know and understand God. That's the wisdom that comes from above. That's what we are looking for. And as I mentioned these last two verses are packed with information to understand and to know God. We may take it for granted some of the things that are said in this class. This final message from from June and as we look at the world burned it burn itself down in preparation for antichrist.

We preach the power and the glory of Christ forever in the face of all these things when I suppose, although it's getting scary. Let me stop preaching the gospel, that is the time especially to preach the good news of Christ who God is what he died to do for those who sin that would be all of us does this mean anything to the believer does it mean anything to you these days of exalted darkness does the gospel message the power and the glory forever does it mean anything. Is it real to you or you just too busy fretting.

Now we look at that 24th verse now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling into present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. I think you know you Jude. We know he started out he wanted to write to them about our common salvation. Verse three. If you have Jude letter before you look at verse three. Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. So he was redirected he was moved to just I want to talk about the love of Christ, a beautiful faith and salvation. But the Holy Spirit laid upon me that there were other things I have to deal with first and then he golf course. Let's go elected fly. But now, at the entrance of the spirit addresses a cage you now you can go back to what you wanted to say because what you wanted to say initially is very good, very helpful so I believe he grants Jude, this desire to speak about our common salvation, which in these words, he reveals the character of God, which is everything the character of God has everything to do with our salvation. Without that character of God, there would be no open door to heaven to be no way in would be shut out if his character were dark and wicked but it is not. He says you're not him who is able and that is a factor.

Christianity God is able. He is very much able. He alone, no one else can turn us from self-destruction from the judgment to come. That is, he helps us in this life and after this life again, regardless of what experts might say to the contrary, they are experts think they know life better than Scripture in the world. And then there are those interested him. That also have infiltrated and think they know better than the word. And just like the Jews did in the days of Jeremiah and the profits they mingle in things that don't belong.

Sadly, those who love the salvation of Christ. Many of them gobble it up so Pastor can you just can you just agree with the experts.

Can you just admit that they know what they're talking about. After all, they have the degrees have the licenses intelligent, well-meaning people, can you just stop disagreeing with them. The answer is no, not at all not in him. Without hesitation I defy the efforts to creep into the church to mingle and to Christianity. Things that don't belong.

I defy them to come along and say when it comes to how you behave as a human being. The Bible is not enough. I defy that I rejected categorically listen Christian or not Christian you going to suffer in life. No way around it you going to feel some of you will deal with depression, deal with it.

You will prevail.

You will get better at dealing with it. If you deal with it and if you run to the world that you run to them you find yourself stuck matter how appealing and charming.

They are dupes for Satan then not intending to do this, but they are if they were to come along and say listen, you have magnetic convert about later syndrome.

Many of you would lock on to that yes I do after I got MCB.

My kid has MCB. That's when this is done, I may just some excuse I've got something what you get for Christmas. I had MCB magnetic convert about a leader and don't you dare Pastor. Don't you dare try to tell me the Bible has a cure for that I will not have it I will enjoy it.

You will celebrate with me will both live happily miserably ever after you make at me saying this stuff. Paul said to the Galatians have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth evidently was saying things to them that that was true, and they knew it, but somebody else came along, whispered in the ear. You've got MCB and they fell for, and he had to deal with this junk the entire collation letter even enough. We are somebody else comes preaching any other Christ. Let them go to hell. That's what his message was Peter said as his divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and reading it. I wanted on reading it. I'm not paraphrasing his divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and to godliness to life and to godliness.

That's the godly life and he continues through the knowledge of him who called us by glory and virtue. I believe that pastor but you do know I have MCB don't you. You do know I get a pass. You do know there are times where I can be mean to other people because I've got this condition. They told me back of the experts are right and you better learn to learn how to mingle it into your preaching or else I'm going find another church to do this and pastors capitulate one of those people.

I can't find them and I can lose is the Lord's work. He had to the church daily such as a being saved without young people and are older people alike.

Often times are in cahoots together with this second Peter chapter 2 while they promise them liberty. They themselves are slaves of corruption or by whom a person is overcome by him. Also he is brought into bondage how you overcome when someone takes you from Christ in your thinking and your approach to life.

When you say he is not able. My Bible says he is able.

I'm going to side with that in the face of those who don't because there's no other way to save them. The alternative is to snuff out my life so theirs can burn brighter, Jesus said, you can hide that fire.

If you do if you try to put it under if you put it under the sofa will snuff it out or set it on fire. I choose to set it on fire and that there is a place for four being a Pyro in Christianity is a place to set fires. He is totally able and he is willing to keep us from stumbling in the stumble leads to a fall.

I like the old King James version to keep us from falling. He holds us up. He's able to do this now again you're going to have times in life when you feel miserable those times in life can last a long time.

Decades you keep fighting and you will build the testimony you keep fighting and you will come out of it. Ephesians chapter 1 verse 13 in him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise you, how much theology is built into that and him you trusted when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. A very thin June wanted to talk to them about the gospel about salvation. I want to write you about our common salvation where it is. He is able, in this more calming. He is able to save Hebrews 725 therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. You believe that do you believe that Christ Jesus always makes intercession for you personally by name by soul that he is drilled down to you that he is so vast and great that he can single you out and every other person at the same time not even break a sweat is able to establish Romans 1625. He is able to aid those who attempted Hebrews 218.

He is able to subdue Philippians 321 is able to keep that which is committed to him.

Second Timothy 112 is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think.

Ephesians 320. If you say you're Christian you say you believe these things, you might have a hard time entering them which you cling, you hold to them you leave the unexplained in the hands of him who is able because you software you understand that your suffering does not diminish the glory, the power, the eternity that belongs to God, the love of God our suffering does not diminish these things. That's why we hold the martyrs up so I because they went out glorifying God in spite of their suffering. That's just the fact to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think. How can I know understand God without God helping me you can't but is pledge to help us. Jeremiah 10 six. Inasmuch as there is none like you are Yahweh your great and your name is great in might when everybody else was disagreeing with Jeremiah. This was his message and in their face.

I suffered for suffered big to but you cannot help but love the man. If you read the prophecy of Jeremiah.

You cannot help but be endeared to this man for his commitment to God's honesty to God I'm sick and tired of suffering for preaching the truth to a people that hate me for preaching the truth. He said I'm not going to preach it anymore.

Then he preached because he is able to keep you from stumbling, which means he is able to hold us up. This does not mean that I am faultless he is able to keep me from falling. That does not mean that I am faultless. It means that he is able to undo the damage my suffering again he can put meaning on it. Not only does it not take away his glory of who he is but he can put meaning on my suffering and my pain in my misery so that when you struggle with depression you face somebody in the world who struggles with depression. You now see I would don't know what you mean Christ is still my Lord. I still trust him. Doesn't matter whether he delivers me today or tomorrow whether he gets me out of the furnace today or not at all. Still not bowing down to the junk God's that surround surround us all. This is the attitude of love. I love the Lord. I do not want to embrace those things that cause me to be suspicious of him. Hebrews 12 looking unto Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith. So so so why are you saying to me that is not a good author and he didn't finish well when he put my faith together as he did not deliver me.

I know I get to these places.

In my personal time with the Lord. I'm going to preach that and hold it back and I don't say it like get rated to preach the topical, but Holy Spirit comes along and redirects and so you get to the agent preaching. Over the years, he still what I put so much into ministry. I put so much into the preaching of the word to the preparation of the delivery and I'm not satisfied with the harvest. Just being honest, I'm not the only one I think Shiva should've gotten more bang for this book, God said to me usual gentleman like tone so are you in it for the fame. Are you in it for the numbers would have just just help me out here. Are you in it for me is the easy one, with a neck like that set me straight. I don't care what the outcome is as long as I am right as long as I am in line with the Scripture understand that he is able to keep me from falling.

At the present me faultless. I don't care about anything else. After that, if I can just maintain that altitude if I dip I'll get back up and Satan knows Satan is afraid that when you lose altitude that you recover.

There are those that did not keep their bright place with the Lord we read about them in verse six deals of the unfallen angels that Jude singled out not only them but you use them as an example then there are those who are to keep that is us. We have our responsibility in our faith look with me in verse 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. Do this to the end brother because it's going to be endless. Now verse herein. Verse 24.

He is able to keep you from falling. That's what the 23rd Psalm is all about. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He says here to present you faultless before the presence of his glory serious enough to die the crucifixion. That's how serious Christ is about presenting you faultless with all your fault and all my faults.

In fact, I like to give you some of my fall so I can have less of them, but it is not work that way and it does not have to because again he is serious enough about presenting you faultless in spite of your faults to die the crucifixion, Paul could say to Philemon about an SMS. He says who once wasn't profitable to you, but now is profitable to you and to me that's what Jesus is going to do with us. You are one son, profitable. Now you are very much of benefit. First Corinthians chapter 1, who will also confirm you to the end that you may be blameless in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ. If Christ could make could not. If he is not going to make me blameless that I'm toast because I am not going to get there on my own. I can promise God that I can promise me and anybody else I will not be blameless, but he's going to make me so I'm gonna receive it, and that loud howl that you here in heaven will be me and delight that I'm in if you can hear it over your own house.

Colossians 1 and you, I love that this single is out.

When you read it in you is a finger-pointing, but is not going that is not condemnation or once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now he's reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and blameless and above reproach in his side. He did not die for nothing did not die for you to mess it up. He knows you going to mess it up. That's why you have this magnificent death and resurrection every benefit that he speaks of is a benefit belonging to the man or the woman was part of his kingdom because they want to be, not to those outside you have no right to apply these blessings to those who are in a state of rebellion and rejection. We have a right to offer them. They don't apply until the offer is received. But for those who receive it. There is therefore now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus, but he who does evil has not seen God.

This is not license to sin. First Peter chapter 2 as free yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as slaves of God.

He goes on to say he can present us faultless with exceeding joy is a static over this. This is a superlative is delighted to cleanse us to bring us into the kingdom. It's what he wants to do otherwise. He never would've died. The crucifixion to be shamed publicly.

Who wants to be killed out in the open square, and right there in the town square.

Who wants to be crucified. I would want to be crucified and private shame of being dealt with.

This way for doing good.

He did it, despising the shame, but for the joy that was set before him, which is your face and mine. That's the gospel message Jesus preach, she said, do not fear, little flock, for it is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

It's what God wants to do the why am I so miserable because of the curse of sin automated to do about it.

Get into the word get into the life fight it in the faith, not with the experts don't side with that team. Don't be caught with that uniform on verse 25 to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen is how he ends he calls out the blaze of praise to God.

He uses outburst enough to go back to verse 24 now to him.

He sums it up now to him who is able to keep her from falling and present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy to God our Savior, God is the only savior of souls from hell's judgment. There is no other equipment we can save each other from various things various troubles, but not the sole we can be part of the process. We are part of the process, we have fellowship with God in this very process.

Jesus is repeatedly acknowledged in Scripture as the Savior in the Scripture repeatedly says there is no Savior but God therefore Jesus Christ and God the son, Englewood, the father, don't stop. We don't get tired of saying as the others that challenge and don't get tired of challenging thanks for listening to cross reference radio today cross reference is the teaching ministry of Pastor Rick Gaston of Calvary Chapel Mechanicsville, Virginia. If you're interested in more information about this ministry, you can visit our website cross reference radio.com.

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