Sermons

Part VI
3 John 1-14 Guidance on hospitality
3 John 1 Gaius was a common Roman name
3 John 2 Gaius had great spiritual vigor and Paul prayed his health would match
3 John 3-4 Gaius’s reputation was that he walked what he talked
1 Thes 3:4-8 Sending someone to check on your spiritual children was a common practice
1 Cor 4:14-16 Paul had similar relationships with his spiritual children
3 John 5-8 Gaius took care of strangers and brethren
James 2:14-17 Faith is worthless without works to back it up
Heb 13:1-3 Strangers may be angels, lost like were once were, or believers hiding from persecution
3 John 9 Diotrephus was a power monger and unhospitable
Matt 20:21-28 We are to desire servant hood over personal greatness
3 John 10 Diotrephus spoke against brethren, was inhospitable, and excommunicated opposition
3 John 11 The fruit of Diotrephus revealed he was not truly saved
1 John 5:2-3 Diotrephus’s actions fail the test of fellowship
1 John 2:3-4 Diotrephus’s actions pass the test of an antichrist
3 John 12 Demetrius was another common Roman name and a good role model like Gaius
3 John 13-14 John closes his letter similar to 2 John