Jude 1:24-25 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“24Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy— 25to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority through Jesus Christ our Lord before all time, and now, and for all eternity. Amen.”

If we are in Christ, by biblical faith in Jesus Christ, and so we have died with Christ to sin, and we are now walking in fellowship with Him in obedience to His commands, in the power of God; if He is truly our Lord and master, then we have nothing to fear. It doesn’t mean we won’t ever feel fear, for to feel fear warns us of danger ahead so that we can be ready for what is coming, and so we can pray for the strength we need to endure whatever is coming next, and for the wisdom to make the right choices, and to trust God fully.

If we are truly in Christ, by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in Him, He can keep us from falling back into sin if our trust is securely in Him and if it is not in ourselves, in our own flesh. He can keep us from falling if we do not let fear overtake us and believe the lies of the enemy which are against us that say we’re helpless against the temptations of the flesh. He can keep us from falling if we do not compromise with the world of sin and give in to the temptations of the flesh. He will empower us to obey Him if we are willing.

But we have to want to obey Him. We have to want to die to sin and to follow Jesus Christ with our lives in surrender of our wills to the will of God. And we have to not tempt fate, i.e. we have to not take foolish risks and think we can go “this far” and that we will not go further. We have to set boundaries for ourselves and not put ourselves in positions where we might be tempted. And we have to remove from our lives everything possible that might present a temptation for us, that might trip us up so that we fall.

So our hearts have to be right with God. “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person.” “The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.” So if the heart is filled with lust, sinful desire, hatred, unforgiveness, pride, selfishness, and idolatry, this is what will be produced in the person’s life.

See: Matthew 15:17-20; Luke 6:45; etc.

So if we feed the flesh, and not the Spirit, i.e. if we continually take into our minds and hearts what is pure garbage (sinful, hateful, lustful, prideful), that is what we will produce. For you may have heard the old saying, “garbage in, garbage out.” We are not going to have pure hearts and minds if we are allowing ourselves to be consumed by what is impure and immoral and wicked, and if that is what we approve of. For one little compromise can lead to another and to another, until now it is a huge compromise with sin.

Many people professing faith in Jesus Christ, though, are continuing in sin because they have been fed a bunch of lies coming from Satan, and they have adopted those lies into their daily lives, and they have, thus, rejected the truth of the gospel as taught by Jesus and by His New Testament apostles, taught in the correct biblical context. For they want to continue in their sin, but they also want the assurance that when they die they will not end up in hell. But they cannot have it both ways. It doesn’t work that way.

So if you are someone who is struggling with sinful addiction, probably more often than not in the area of sexual immorality, please know that Jesus Christ made a way out for you from sin so that you can serve Him with your life in walks of obedience to His commands. But you have to bow to Him in submission to His will. You have to, by the grace of God, deny self, die to sin, and obey God in life practice, in the power of God. And you have to cooperate with God and with His work of grace or you will never be free.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

God is Able to Keep You from Stumbling
An Original Work / November 9, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Blessed Be Your Name

by Matt Redman

In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
When I’m found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness

When the sun’s shining down on me
When the world’s ‘all as it should be’
On the road marked with suffering
Though there’s pain in the offering

Blessed be the name of the Lord

You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord, blessed be Your name

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