Christ: He is Able! Christ is Made Unto Us Our: Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption. He is All We Need for Life and Godliness! Come to Him! Amen!

Christ with outstretched hand, He welcomes all who come to Him by repentance and faith!

A Devotional Reading for April 8, 2025

Christ: He is Able

“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”

Jude 24

. . . Part of salvation depends not upon human power, but upon him that has begun a good work in us (Philippians 1: 6). This part of our salvation is great, and calls for no less than the power of God for our help to perform it—as will be easily granted by all those that consider—

1. That all the power and policy, malice, and rage, of the devils and hell itself are against us. Any man that understands this will conclude that to be saved is no small thing. The devil is called a god, a prince, a lion—a roaring lion. It is said that he has death and the power of it. Our perseverance, therefore, lies in the power of God— “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

2. All the world is against him that shall be saved. But what is one poor creature to all the world, especially if you consider that with the world is: Terror, fear, power, majesty, laws, jails, gibbets, hangings, burnings, drownings, starvings, banishments, and a thousand kinds of deaths? (1 John 5: 4-5; John 16: 33).

3. Add to this that all these corruptions that dwell in our flesh are against us. And not only in their nature and being, but they lust against us and war against us to “bring us into captivity to the law of sin and death” (Galatians 5: 17; 1 Peter 2: 11; Romans 7: 23).

4. All the delusions in the world are against them that shall be saved, and swallowed up they would be! [If they] were . . . not elect and God was not himself engaged, either by power to keep them from falling, or by grace to pardon if they fall . . . to lift them up again.