“Able to keep you from stumbling” (Jude 24)

Once a saint is on the Way to Heaven, God can keep Him from stumbling, but “narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:13). First of all, saints don’t sin willfully. What do I mean by that? If you think you’re saved, and willfully choose to sin, according to Scripture, you’re not saved. “If we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins” (Hebrews 10:26).  

After someone is saved, he will stumble, but he repents and resumes walking in the Spirit. “A righteous man may fall seven times And rise again” (Proverbs 24:16). This may happen several times a day. The saint should have a sense of “righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit” (Romans 14:17), and he should see temptations as a threat that “exalts itself against the knowledge of God, (and) bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5).

Yes, God supernaturally gives saints a new heart and the indwelling Holy Spirit, “but we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us” (2 Corinthians 4:7). “He who glories, let him glory in the LORD” (1 Corinthians 1:31).  

“Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it” (1 Corinthians 10:12–13).

“Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever. Amen” (Jude 24–25).

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