The Only God Our Savior
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. (Jude 24-24)
One of the most glorious doxologies in all of Scripture, Jude ends the epistle on false teachers and the call to sound doctrine with a glorious closing doxology on the glory of God.
This doxology reminds us that there is nothing within ourselves that prevents us from falling into error except the grace and power of God in the indwelling gift and pledge of the Holy Spirit of God.
Jude focuses on God – all to Him! It is because of God and Him alone that we persevere , that our eyes are open to the glorious truths of Scripture all to His glory in the face of Christ Jesus. Only by His Spirit are we kept from stumbling – we owe all to Him! Only He, through His righteousness applied to us in Christ, can He allow us to stand before Him holy and blameless. (2 Corinthians 5:21)
Soli Deo Gloria! To God alone be the glory! To the only God – the Triune God of all creation by His glory in the face of Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior. To Him alone be all glory, all majesty, all honor, all dominion, and all authority!
This doxology in Jude reminds me of the Gloria Patris…
“Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.”
Soli Deo Gloria
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