Jude--Christ Our Keeper

Jude--Christ Our Keeper

First, we are to keep the faith. “Contend earnestly (the word is the same as strive, agonize, in Luke 13:24) for the faith once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3, R.V.).

Second, we are to keep ourselves in the love of God, that He may be able to keep us (Jude 1:21). Jude uses the word kept ironically in Jude 1:6 : the angels which kept not their first estate are kept in chains unto judgment. In Jude 1:13 the same word kept is used to sinners is kept the blackness of darkness for ever.

Third, the Lord is able to keep us from falling. It is a stronger word used here, guard, showing Christ’s power to protect us from the perils Jude has been enumerating, and, finally, to present us faultless before the presence of His glory in that great day.