TEXT: JUDE 24, 25
TITLE: I PRAY THIS BENEDICTION UPON YOU: STUMBLING
INTRODUCTION
- What does it mean to stumble?
- Examples…
- Is it a bad thing to stumble?
- If I am stumbling, at least I am moving…
ACKNOWLEDGE GOD
- Who is able
- Who is our Savior
- Who alone is wise
APPEAL TO GOD
- To keep you from stumbling
- God is able to keep us from stumbling
- Why, then, do we stumble?
- Examples…
- Is it a bad thing to stumble?
- If I am stumbling, at least I am moving…
- To present you faultless
- Before the presence of His glory
- With exceeding joy
ASSIGN GLORY TO GOD
- Be glory – doxa
and
- Be majesty – megalōsynē
- Be dominion – force, strength, might, more especially “manifested
- power” is derived from a root kra--, “to perfect, to complete”
and
- Be power – exousia –liberty of doing as one pleases, the right to exercise
- Power
AFFIRM THE GLORY’S DURATION
- Now
- And forever
CHALLENGE FOR THE WEEK:
THAT I WILL BLESS OTHERS TO KNOW THAT
THEY DO NOT HAVE TO STUMBLE
