John’s 2 shorter epistles deal with truth: loving truth enough not to allow anyone to teach anything else, and living that truth enough to love anyone who loves also. But John encourages improving our love by imitating proper models, and he contrasts 2 models in the latter half of 3 John.
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The Church, the Body of Christ, knows the Truth, i.e. it knows Christ Himself and the contenct of what He revealed: the good news about how man can know forgiveness of sins and new life, both now and forever. But the Church also lives out that truth by supporting each other in at least 4 ways.
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Main Idea: Love is a central characteristic of Christian faith.
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Sunday, August 30, 2009: Jim Hunt & George Meissner Talk
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Main Idea: Believers find spiritual satisfaction in Jesus Christ.
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The truth of the Gospel protect God’s people from false teachers. But what do His people do when they show up? John gives us 4 steps to handling them.
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John writes to people dealing with threats to the Church and the truth of the Gospel. The threats are false teachers. Before he tells them how to deal with the false teachers, he tells them how to protect themselves with 3 aspects of the truth.
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The Apostle Paul sent a converted runaway slave back to his believing owner, asking that owner to act like a believer: to act in love toward the offender. While 1 Corinthians 13 tells us what that love is, Philemon gives us human examples of the aspects of Christ’s love in believers.
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Wisdom that comes from God not only acts out what it believes about Who He is, and does so choosing to be joyful, it does so now, that is, it chooses to do so while young, rather than waiting until after “sowing one’s wild oats.” The reason for this comes from Solomon’s implications.
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Wisdom is fearing God, trusting Him and acting out that faith in all of life. It is also knowing Him and living the life He has given to the fullest, rejoicing in it – rejoicing understood in 3 aspects.
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