Preserved by God
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
True believers endure to the end because God keeps His people from falling away from the faith. Today, H.B. Charles Jr. leads us to a rich passage in Scripture to teach that God keeps us when we cannot keep ourselves.
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H.B. Charles Jr. is pastor-teacher of Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church in Jacksonville, FL, and host of the On Preaching podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | I want you to know that God is able to keep you when you cannot keep yourself. |
| 0:06.5 | That is the wonderful news of Jude, verses 24 and 25. |
| 0:18.2 | What wonderful news that is. God is the one who keeps his people. Welcome to the Thursday edition |
| 0:25.5 | of renewing your mind. Our guest teacher this week is H.B. Charles Jr. and you're hearing messages |
| 0:31.4 | from his series Blessing and praise. It focuses on short passages of scripture that exult God and proclaim beautiful gospel truths. |
| 0:41.6 | And today's considering the reality that we are preserved by God. |
| 0:48.8 | In this talk, I want to turn your attention to Jude, verses 24 and 25. A young boy was walking down the street with his dad. |
| 1:02.4 | He reached up and gripped his daddy's finger as tightly as he could. But as they walked, he |
| 1:10.5 | stumbled, lost his grip, fell to the ground. |
| 1:14.6 | Daddy helped him up. |
| 1:15.6 | They began to walk again, and the little boy, again, grabbed on as tightly as he could, |
| 1:21.6 | but again, at some point he stumbled, lost his grip, and slipped and fell. |
| 1:26.6 | After going through this a few more times, Daddy helps him up and he looks up and says, |
| 1:32.3 | Daddy, I have a better idea. |
| 1:34.3 | Instead of me holding your hand, how about you holding my hand? |
| 1:38.3 | And Daddy clutched his son's little hand in his big grip. |
| 1:43.3 | He stumbled again, but his father was there to hold him up. |
| 1:48.4 | In a greater, deeper, higher way, I want you to know that God is able to keep you when you cannot keep yourself. |
| 1:59.8 | That is the wonderful news of Jude verses 24 and 25. |
| 2:06.0 | Jude is one of the New Testament letters. |
| 2:09.2 | It may be called a postcard because it's so brief consisting of 25 verses. in only one chapter. |
| 2:21.0 | The author of Jude is the half-brother of Jesus, but he introduces himself in verse one |
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