EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/6/2025 9:13 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “The Lord Presents the Saints”
Bible Reading & Meditation Focus: Jude 24b-25
Message of the verse: “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.”
Yesterday I wrote that it may take a few days to finish this last section of Jude, but I think it will be done this evening. I have mentioned that there are a lot of things going on in my life at this time as my wife is battling cancer and we got some not so good news the other day, but we both know that God is in control, and we are trusting Him for the results of what will happen. I think that it is best if I quote from John MacArthur’s commentary to finish our study of Jude, and I have to say that this has be a wonderful study from this next to last chapter in the Word of God.
“As saints in glory, we will know nothing of the fear and trauma that characterized being in God’s presence on earth…Instead we will experience great joy, which will characterize every aspect of our heavenly life (cf. Rev. 7:16-17).” I think it best if I quote those two verses at this time: “16 "They will hunger no longer, nor thirst anymore; nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any heat; 17 for the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes.’” “This joy refers primarily to the divine joy (cf. Luke 15:7, 10; Zeph. 3:17) of the Father and the Son over our fellowship with other believers—a joy in which the redeemed will share for all eternity. Thus all believers will dwell with God in perfect love and holy delight forever and ever.
3 There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; 4 they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. 5 And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign forever and ever.
“As he ended his epistle, Jude offered praise for the present salvation and future glorification of believers: to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Only God…through Jesus Christ can accomplish the work of a Savior. As a result, Jude reserved the highest praise for the Son. Glory summarizes all the divine attributes in their powerful radiance (cf. Heb. 1:3; 8:1) and the Son (cf. 2 Peter 1:16); dominion refers to the extent of His might and active rule over all (cf. Ps. 66:7); and authority denotes Christ’s supreme right and privilege to do as He wills (cf. Acts 2:33-35; Phil. 2:9-11). This divine supremacy over everything in the universe encompasses all eternity (cf. Rev. 1:8): before all time (eternity past), now (the present age), and forever (eternity future).
“Because He is all powerful, and because His glorious name is at stake, God’s promise to preserve us His saints and to one day present us blameless before His throne can be trusted without reservation. To doubt the reality of that promise is to doubt God Himself. But to embrace it is to find ceaseless joy and never-ending comfort. In the words of Charles Spurgeon:
When I heard it said that the Lord would keep His people right to the end—that Christ had said, ‘My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of My hand,’ I must confess that the doctrine of the final preservation of the saints was a bait that my soul could not resist. I thought it was a sort of life insurance—and insurance of my character, an insurance of my soul, an insurance of my eternal destiny. I knew that I could not keep myself, but if Christ promised to keep me, then I should be safe for ever, and I longed and prayed to find Christ, because I knew that, if I found Him, He would not give me a temporary and trumpery salvation, such as some preach, but eternal life which could never be lost, the living and incorruptible seed which liveth and abideth for ever, for no one and nothing ‘shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.’ (C. H. Spurgeon, from ‘Danger, Safety, Gratitude,’ sermon no. 3074, preached January 8, 1874, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit [reprint, Pasadena, Tex.: Pilgrim Publications, 1978, 54:24).”
This ends our study from the book of Jude.
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