Tag: Diotrephes
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When Love Brings Things Into the Light – 3 John 10-11
3 John 10-11 Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth… prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church. Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is…
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The Dangerous Hunger to Be First – 3 John 9
3 John 9 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. Now John turns from Gaius to Diotrephes, and the contrast is sobering. Gaius was a blessing to the body. Diotrephes wanted to be the body. Gaius opened his home. Diotrephes closed his heart. Gaius…
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Three Men in One Little Letter – 3 John 1
3 John 1 The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth. John opens this final letter with affection. You can feel it right away. There is nothing cold here. Nothing mechanical. He writes to Gaius, and he calls him wellbeloved. Not merely loved in a general sense, but dear to him…