Jude:
Kept for Christ

Jude, the brother of James, meant to write about “our common salvation.” Instead, he found it necessary to write an urgent warning. People who turned the grace of God into an excuse for sin had crept into the church unnoticed, and the faith “once for all delivered to the saints” had to be guarded and passed on.

Over two weeks in the summer of 2025, we worked through all twenty-five verses of this little letter. Jude calls us to contend for the faith, to remember the words of the apostles, to build ourselves up in our most holy faith, to show mercy to those who doubt, and to keep ourselves in the love of God. And he ends with one of the great doxologies of Scripture, because the God who saved us is the God who keeps us.

“Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory 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 24–25