The Present Testimony: What is it?

Not so much the testimony of good entrusted to man's responsibility (like seed in sowing-time); nor so much the testimony (consequent thereupon) of exhortation, encouragement, and warning (as in the time of growing, or while men slept, and an enemy was sowing tares); nor again the testimony against evil in man as failed: but rather the testimony for God-the living God; as to what is true of and in Him, spite of all that Satan has done, by man's flesh, in this world,-the salvation of the lost and ruined who own Him; the destruction (when the acceptable time has passed, being despised) of all that know Him not.
It is the testimony, as I take it, of the interval between the entire failure in principle, and the judgment consequent upon the development in action of that failure. And this present testimony of what God is in Christ, it is which, I conceive, the, Spirit will use to right the people of God, and to make the wrong of the world exceedingly wrongful.
"But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And of some have compassion, making a difference: and others save with fear, pulling them out of the lire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen."
Jude 20-25