Dennis Bevans – Class 6: Walk in Truth

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This is day six of the 2019.
Idyllwild Bible School.

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Our first period teacher his
brother.

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Dennis Bevins his General
subject is John letters from the

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disciple whom Jesus loved.
Today’s topic is walk in truth

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brother Dennis Good morning.
Wanted to start this morning by

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again.
Saying, thank you from both

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Tiffany and myself and our whole
family, thank you for the

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opportunity to come and speak
with you this week.

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Thank you, sincerely, for the
invitation to be part of this

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Camp.
It’s been a really great week

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around the word of God and we
appreciate all the kind words

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and seeing the people that we
haven’t seen in a few years,

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it’s just nice to have that
feeling as we go back down the

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mountain.
I wanted to go back to a couple

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comments.
I made yesterday that perhaps

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lacks the clarity that I thought
it did and based on some of the

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comments, I got afterwards.
Okay, so I got it wasn’t as

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clear as I thought, so it might
be a good introduction to this

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class today.
Anyhow, and that is first, when

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we made the reference to the
high priest and having the blood

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put on the right, ear, the right
thumb, the right big toe that

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really is a very Is a lot of
things that can come out of

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that, but the simple point I was
trying to drive home is that we

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cleanse, our hearing the work of
our hands and our walk and so

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the right side is the side of
strength, that’s why.

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The Jesus is at the right hand
of the father.

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So if us working our way towards
the kingdom, can make sure that

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we have purified through the
blood of Christ.

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The things we hear the things we
do, and the way we walk, We are

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following that old.
It model that was pointing

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towards Jesus.
Who did that in Perfection?

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Another thing that I said that
got a little bit of attention

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was when I put the picture of
the phone on the screen and I

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want to make sure I’m not saying
that abstain from using phones

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and all phones and iPads are
evil.

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There’s a lot of things that
wouldn’t happen in our life.

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If we didn’t have the electronic
devices, nothing wrong with that

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content notwithstanding.
So I’ll put the asterisk there.

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But if it’s you being used in an
appropriate manner, is nothing

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wrong with it.
The problem becomes when it’s

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the priority.
So, it’s one thing to enjoy

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catching up with your friends on
Facebook or whatever.

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And that’s a very valuable tool.
It’s another thing to do that

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instead of your readings.
So if we’ve got priorities

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straight and we’re spending time
sharpening our skills and

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Understanding God’s word through
Reading and personal study,

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there’s no realistic expectation
than, that’s a 15 to 20 hour.

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Add a commitment but if it’s if
we have our waking hours and we

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can’t squeeze in time for God,
it’s at opportunity to look at

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priorities and I know from my
own personal life that it’s very

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easy to get on your phone or on
your computer.

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And before you know, it there’s
hours have passed and you really

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didn’t finish anything.
So the purpose was really

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prioritization not necessarily
the existence of or the use for.

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So hopefully that’s a little
more clear than I said

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yesterday.
We’ve spent the last few days

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talking about intimately,
knowing our God and His word

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living his love so that we might
dwell, or Tabernacle with him,

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and his son for eternity.
And that’s probably the most

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recurring statement that you’ve
heard in this week.

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It requires us doing things
God’s way, not just looking or

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acting the part, but leaving the
World Behind and serving the

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body in sincerity and love.
So this morning, we’re going to

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focus on the second and third.
Letters which were two

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individuals, one to a nun named
sister that most certainly knew

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the lessons from the first
epistle, but had failed to apply

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it in a very specific way.
And the other to a well-beloved

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in named brother Gaius, these
two letters are very different,

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but they are built on the same
concept because they both are

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offshoots of the first epistle.
So let’s hone in on second John

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now We must know and do and that
was a phrase that came up

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earlier in the week, know and
do.

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But that starts with Ecclesia
life, we know and do and then

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the opportunity to work,
together, starts first at the

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household of faith.
The only way we can truly show

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the love, our love to Christ is
to show love to each other.

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Love in a spiritual sense,
requires a common understanding

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of the truth.
HP Mansfield was quoted as

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saying NG true love, cannot be
manifested, where the truth is

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absent.
And I like that phrase.

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So before we look at the verses
in this short letter, I want to

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make something very clear so
that we don’t miss the forest as

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we’re looking at the trees, I’m
not saying that we should not

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make any effort at all to help
the homeless or somebody with a

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meal when they’re hungry.
I’m not saying, we shouldn’t

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give to Charities that might be
close to our heart.

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Whether it’s cancer research or
heart disease or whatever it is,

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Is part of being a decent human
being is helping other people

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and Jesus himself exhorts us to
represent him to the world

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around us.
So those are all well and good.

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However they cannot and do not
replace service to the occlusal

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body.
It can be supplemental to and

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should be supplemental to, but
it is not instead of John gets

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very personal in this letter,
and I think it’s been recorded

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for our learning because it’s
Something we all are naturally

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inclined to do we naturally are
inclined to do what feels right.

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And sometimes that’s harder as
it gets closer specifically when

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it’s to our own individual and
natural family.

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So let’s begin by looking at the
first verse The Elder unto the

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elect lady and her children.
Whom I love in the truth and not

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only I but also they that have
known the truth.

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So the Elder he’s obviously
referring to himself, this is

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John himself and he’s talking
kind of extending that concept

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of the little children, only now
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It’s just, it’s specific to one.
The word elect is translated,

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chosen in that famous phrase,
many are called few are chosen.

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The word lady he uses is
actually from the root word

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kurios which is the word
translated Lord, in the Greek,

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in the Greek Testament.
It’s used in verse 3 for

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example, but this is the
feminine form of that word.

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It’s only used twice in the New
Testament here in verse 5.

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So it’s a word specific to her.
The love word Agape.

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Oh, the verb form of agape, and
this known word is intimate.

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So when we put it together as a
very quick, but important

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introduction, He’s calling her
chosen.

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He refers to her as Lord, he
acknowledges her

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self-sacrificing.
Love and her reputation in the

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Ecclesia and it’s High Praise.
It’s a critical lesson to us

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because what we know the
letters, not all positive but

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he’s going to start it that way
and he’s going to end it that

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way.
And that’s a good thing for us

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if we jump in and there’s a
problem and we skip the niceties

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and jump right to the problem,
most of the time, the problem

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we’re trying to address doesn’t
get addressed because nobody’s I

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remembered it.
All they remembered is how rude

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you were.
So by starting with the positive

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that there really is more good
than bad.

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Let’s focus on the good address.
The – needs to be addressed.

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And then let’s go back to the
positiveness of our hope.

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I made a reference earlier in
the week to be transformed.

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I think this is also in the
first volume where it talks

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about using the word of God as a
sword.

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So do we use it as a surgeon or
an executioner?

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What we’re seeing John do now is
surgically work in the life of a

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sister who needs to make a
change to the saving of herself

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specifically and perhaps her
family.

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Verse 24, the truth sake, which
dwelleth in us and shall be with

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us forever.
So obvious connection to the

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first letter that we would dwell
or Tabernacle forever.

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That’s the word, a on to the End
of the Age, literally.

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So he’s building on this
Tabernacle theme.

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Grace be with you, mercy and
peace from God the father.

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And from the Lord Jesus Christ,
the son of the father in truth

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and love.
I Rejoice greatly that I found

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of thy children.
Walking In Truth as we have

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received a commandment from the
father.

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So we’ve got Divine favor,
forgiveness and kindness.

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Unity and fellowship.
The only source of that is truth

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and Olga pail of.
Now that word of thy children,

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the RSV adds a significant Word
to it.

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It says that I found some of thy
children walking in the truth

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which notes that part of her
brood is walking in the truth

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tells us in given the direction
of the rest of this letter, that

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some of them are not, which is a
way for every one of us, every

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parent in the meeting can now
relate to this letter to some

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degree because some of her
children have followed the truth

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and some of them have not
perhaps they were and they left

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the Add reality is, though all
of us want our children to walk

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with us towards the kingdom.
It’s often times that I

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shouldn’t say.
Oftentimes.

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Sometimes it is not the case
even though we come after it

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with prayer, but that makes it
relevant because this sister can

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relate to both sides.
The sister that can relate to

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the children that follow and the
sister that can relate to the

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children who have left it makes
her highly relatable to us.

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So I beseech thee lady not as
though I wrote a new commandment

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unto thee, but that which we had
from the beginning that we love

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one another.
So he’s going to get to the

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point pretty quick short letter.
This is that agape, love

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self-sacrificing.
Love in action.

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But he’s noting it, that it has
to be reciprocal.

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It’s not a one-sided thing.
It’s not self-sacrificing.

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Love to someone.
It’s self-sacrificing.

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Love showing the love of God.
Odd to someone who can

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self-sacrifice and show their
love to God through.

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You, it requires reciprocation,
which is the purpose of a

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collegial life.
The exposition of love is not

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new, but it applies directly to
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And if we mistakenly believe
that acts of kindness and

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Hospitality to unbelievers,
including in this case, her

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unbelieving family.
It’s cannot be a replacement for

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the reciprocal, love and working
in the Easier with God’s people.

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Now, it’s something
academically.

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It’s easy to identify, but it’s
hard to do our natural

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inclination drives us to our
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We are all wired that way.
So we have to override that to

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make sure that the Ecclesia
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That doesn’t mean family.
Never, often times that

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relationship, even if it’s a
friendship, not a family member

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gives them an opportunity to
come back because they can see

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the love.
So, I I want to make sure we’re

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attain that love, but that the
priorities must be to the

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household of faith first and
he’s going to build on that.

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And just a couple verses Jesus
said it this way, he that loveth

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father or mother more than me
is, not worthy of me.

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He that loveth son or daughter
more than me is.

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Not worthy of me.
It’s kind of harsh in the

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context if you will, but I think
it’s important.

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True love is respect and
obedience to the commands of

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God.
We have to know and then do So

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let’s look at verse 6.
This is love that you walk after

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his Commandments, this is the
Commandment that you have heard

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from the beginning.
You should walk in it.

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So the definition of love is to
walk in truth, not acts of

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kindness, but walking in truth,
For many deceivers are entered

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into the world who confess not
that.

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Jesus Christ is come in the
flesh.

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This is a deceiver and an
antichrist.

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So, it’s a direct contrast to
verse 6 walking.

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The truth versus being a
deceiver that’s in the world.

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The the word deceiver in the
Greek.

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Actually, deceiver is not what
you.

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And I might think of it in the
dirt in that sense in the Greek.

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It means wandering roving and
leading to error.

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So not saying deceivers Is
wrong, but picture The Wanderer

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that’s going the wrong
direction.

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One is walking god’s way.
The other is wandering towards

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error.
These Wanderers had entered into

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the world as opposed to coming
from it with no influence of the

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truth.
And that’s why they are called

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Antichrist because they have
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So read that again, who confess
not?

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That Jesus is come in the flesh.
This is a deceiver and an

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antichrist.
They’ve entered the world which

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suggests that they were not part
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At one point.
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truth to exhibit, true love, but
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So they do not wander towards
the world which in effect is

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denying Jesus by the lifestyle
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Verse 8, look to yourselves that
you lose.

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Not the things which you have
wrought, but that we receive a

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full reward.
In the RSV, we is you that you

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lose, not the things which you
have wrought.

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It’s a little more directed
because it’s not a generic

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letter to a generic population.
It’s a specific letter to a

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specific sister, a lesson being
learned, that can be applied

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generically to all of us.
The word lose is a little more

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harsh in the literal Greek.
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not just, I lost it up.
There it is.

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It’s utter destruction.
And here’s where it’s hard on

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our natural inclination.
It’s easy to deceive ourselves,

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especially when it comes to
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And if we’re not careful, we can
lose our salvation by that

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self-deception.
So if indeed these children are

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already lost, she Is
jeopardizing her own hope and

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her own reward if she is chasing
after them?

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Now, the best way to lead our
lost children or really anyone

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who ever leaves for that matter
is to show them the way and not

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chase them their way.
It’s to show them the love and

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the right walk, but not to chase
them where they’re going.

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The heart asked question.
We have to ask that becomes

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harder.
When it’s a family member in

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honesty is, who is leading who.
And if I’m always chasing

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somebody who’s leading away from
God, I am no longer leading on

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behalf of God.
I may be loving, but I have

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misplaced the Love Again.
Easy for us to do.

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It was said earlier this week
that how we respond to our

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failure is far more important
than our actual failure and this

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indeed falls into that same
category for whosoever,

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transgresseth and abideth, not
in the doctrine of Christ hath.

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Not God, he that abideth in the
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He hath, both the father and the
son.

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We talked a little bit about
Matthew 18 yesterday, that is

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love, it’s loving to help
address a concern before it gets

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bigger, but to dress it
one-on-one and escalate only

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when necessary.
And when love is present, The

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RSV renders it this way.
Anyone that goes ahead and

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abides, not taking the
transgression word, completely

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out of it altogether because
it’s really not about us being

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evil.
It’s not about the person that

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left being evil, it’s about them
choosing to abide outside the

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camp, and if we do not dwell in
the doctrine of truth then then

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we become Godless because he is
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So we want to make sure that we
put One being within the camp

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because that place within the
camp is where hope is outside

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the camp.
There are maybe good things

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going on.
Maybe they have good Christian

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values or they’re not doing
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But if they are outside the
camp, they have become a Godless

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person.
Now relating to the Christian

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World At Large is easier to do
for sure, but we have to

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recognize this is written to a
sister in the truth that John

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had high respect for he that
abides in truth has the father

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and the son, very good reference
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If there come any unto you and
bring not this Doctrine, receive

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him not into your house.
Neither bid him.

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God, speed, quite direct,
perhaps even harsh.

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Given we know.
He’s talking about some of her

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wandering children.
Godspeed is an Old English,

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slang term, the word God is not
in the text, it really means to

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Rejoice or to be glad.
In fact, the word, your is not

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in the original, either the RSV
renders it as the that receive

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him not into the house, which is
better.

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In the contact, he’s not saying
non-believers need to be shunned

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and kept on the porch.
That’s not the point but we

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don’t bid them rejoicing.
It is one thing to ask God to

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bless their efforts back towards
the truth and into the camp,

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that’s a good thing to do.
It’s healthy.

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It’s even something we should do
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However, it is an entirely.
Another thing to ask God to

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bless their efforts as they
wander away from him.

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God has always Always always put
a premium on truth and so should

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we?
It must remain the Hallmark of

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our community so that if we
continue to be a people whose

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nose is in the word that we’re
reading and studying and getting

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closer to our god academically
and then letting that academic

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knowledge live through us
because if it stays academic,

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only it is useless, it’s trivia.
But if it changes who we are and

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makes us more like the sun
glorifying, the Father, that’s

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the purpose of all reading and
study.

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So hold that concept for just
another verse For he that

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biddeth him.
God speed is partaker of his

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evil Deeds, having many things
to write unto you.

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I would not write with paper and
ink, but I trust to come unto

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you and speak to you face to
face that our joy may be full.

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So she would have to share the
responsibility for the harm

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caused by wandering towards
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We all must put the truth in
Doctrine and appreciate God’s

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word first, especially in these
last days.

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Now, when he talks about things
with paper and ink, I have a

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personal story that I think of,
every time I read that verse and

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you may relate to this to some
degree, but I have ruined a

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friendship in email.
Maybe you have to where you said

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something that was intended to
be funny.

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But it was not read as though it
was intended to be funny and it

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was read as highly insulting.
What’s worse is the person I

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sent it to?
Didn’t tell me, they were

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insulted, I had to figure it out
and I’m not the spark, is the

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brightest star in the sky.
It took me a couple years to

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figure out, I had ruined this
relationship.

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I learned a very valuable lesson
in any of you who get emails for

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me PNC, this lesson that I put
little happy faces in my emails

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all the time even if I’m riding
him to my boss.

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So that if I think it’s supposed
to be happy, you know, I’m

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intending to be happy.
So it’s sad, but it’s true.

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And what a travesty was a really
close friend and we’re still

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friends today.
It’s not that we didn’t get past

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it, but that relationships never
the same, it can’t be.

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I heard the guys feelings and he
went Through a very difficult

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time.
And for two years where I would

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have been the person, he came to
first, I was a person, he

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avoided because I had offended
him that harshly.

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I don’t feel good about that.
My guess is I’m not the only one

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that’s done it.
I wish I had understood what

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John was saying, then perhaps I
would have been better about not

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putting that in writing and
having that conversation face to

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face.
John is the last of the living

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Apostles.
This personal visit would have

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been very special, it’s a sign
of his respect for her as well.

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He in this letter is not beating
her up.

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He’s not slapping her around.
He’s trying to correct an error

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that she probably does not see
because he wants to hide a

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multitude of sins by her turning
back to the ways of Truth.

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The same model that he was
talking about in that first

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letter, the model built on
Matthew chapter 18, Do the

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children of dialect, sister
greet.

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Their should be the children of
dialect, sister Greek tea.

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Amen, this is a bookend, it
started with the ecclesial

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family.
It ends with the ecclesial

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family.
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Amen is not in the text or in
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The conversation is not over the
pen and paper part is he’s going

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to follow it up with a personal
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So we remember the fourth thing
that Jesus said from the tree on

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Monday, the principle of
adoption, the concept of taking

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care of the Ecclesia in its
darkest hour for his sake and in

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his absence Sadly, the world
will only get darker as we see

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his return approaching the
opportunity to work together and

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stand together in the truth that
we might in some way to show

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each other.
The love that will bring us to

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the kingdom, is only going to
get harder as the day

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approaches.
Now, we truly long for a day

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when the truth is found in its
proper place and where the body

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is served in love.
So that our when our Master

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returns, he finds us a people
watching waiting.

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Learning growing and
demonstrating the love of the

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father to each of us in
reciprocally that makes us a

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people focused on his word and
his family which is truly the

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only way we can dwell or as
we’ve been saying Tabernacle

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with the father and the son
forever.

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So let’s shift gears to the
third letter with some of our

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remaining time.
The Elder unto the well-beloved

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Gaius whom I love in the truth.
So we have a similar

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introduction, he certainly
identifies himself as the same

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way, but here he chooses to give
us the name, not just of this

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person, but of a problem person
in the meeting a little, in a

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few verses.
I can’t tell you exactly why he

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chooses to name this one and not
the other other than I would

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think.
It may have been a little harsh

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to have that sister’s name
known, but by the description of

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her anyone who knew that,
Ecclesia probably could have

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figured it out, that’s my best.
Guess I couldn’t say for sure,

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but that’s when my thoughts
would be, it is interesting.

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However, that Gaius name means
Lord.

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So there’s a very similar
connection, it’s a name of a

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Latin origin so it’s likely that
he was Roman by descent.

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His name appears twice in the
axe button, twice in Letters by

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Paul, but that was likely a
different person than the one is

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that John is writing to.
So we’re talking about a person,

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we know very little about other
than his name.

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But we know that he was loved by
John because that’s told us in

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verse one verse to verse 5 and
verse 11, Beloved, I wish above

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all things that thou mayest
prosper and be in health even as

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thy soul prospereth.
For I rejoiced greatly when the

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Brethren came and testified to
the truth that is in thee.

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Even as thou walkest in the
truth, the word Health that be

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in health is the word translated
whole in Luke 5 and 31, as well

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as the word sound four times by
Paul in the context of having

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sound Doctrine.
So that thou mayest prosper and

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be whole or Be sound even as thy
life prospers.

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I have no Greater Joy than to
hear that.

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My children Walk In Truth,
beloved thou, doest Faithfully

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whatsoever.
Thou doest to the Brethren and

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to strangers.
Here he is being rendered as a

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son in verse 5.
The RSV says, it is a loyal

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thing you do.
When you render any service to

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the brethren, Colossians 3 and
23 whatsoever you do do it

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heartily as to the Lord and not
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So the one thing he counsels the
sister on to be careful, he is

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praising the brother on that he
is doing this well so we get

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both a positive and a negative
example.

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Now the stranger’s word at the
end of verse 5 does not

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necessarily mean Outsiders.
That word is also translated

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host elsewhere verse.
Six suggest that they are inside

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the meeting so it might be
someone who Was a member but not

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personally known to him and that
is easy to do, we come to a

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Bible school?
And we know a lot of people, but

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there’s always some that we do
not know and they may be

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strangers to us, though.
They are members in the

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household and they are part of
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And so here’s the one question
that might come to our minds as

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we look at that as Brethren.
And then an after comment to

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strangers, how do we treat
people in the Ecclesia that are

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strange to us?
This is one thing that we all

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academically can answer, but I
find this to be a place that our

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00:26:15,300 –> 00:26:17,400
community is just not very
self-aware.

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A lot of times if you really
want to know how hard it is to

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fit into the clicks that exist
in all of our meetings, just ask

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someone Came from the outside to
candidly answer you, but do not

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ask this question.
If you do not want to know the

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00:26:33,000 –> 00:26:37,800
answer, it is hard for someone
coming into the meeting to

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penetrate 30-year relationships
and that’s natural.

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It just is but pretending that’s
not hard, that’s not fair.

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So we want to be careful that we
are self-aware that when people

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are strange to us, even though
they’re part of the host that we

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let them feel the Love of God in
our presence.

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No, it cannot be the same as the
relationship that’s been going

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on for 20, 30, 40, 50 years,
that’s impossible.

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Timed is required for that to
happen.

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But demonstrating the love, that
allows a relationship to grow so

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that it’s a relationship.
They want to have with someone

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else whether or not.
It’s you.

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That’s was at stake.
We’re representing the father

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showing his love reflecting his
glory.

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Verse 6, which have borne
witness of the charity.

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That’s that word Agape.
Again before the Ecclesia, whom

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if thou bring forward on the
journey after a Godly sort, Thou

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shalt do well because that for
his namesake, they went forth,

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taking nothing of the Gentiles.
We therefore ought to receive

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such that we might be fellow
helpers to the truth.

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The RSV in, for the section, in
red reads Journey, as befits,

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God’s service.
The exhortation is to strengthen

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gas in view of the bitter
hostility.

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He received that we’re going to
look at in the very next verse.

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I wrote unto the Ecclesia but
diotrephes who loveth to have

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the preeminence among them?
Receiveth us.

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Not this letter, referred to is
lost to history.

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We don’t have the letter that
he’s making reference to, but

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evidently it was not very well
received because it challenged

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the authority of someone.
And that’s That freaks on the

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pride of any person.
Whenever somebody challenges us,

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our natural inclination is to
stand up and push back.

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Matter of fact, if you would
look at the person next to you,

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right now, if you’re in, don’t
get up.

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But if there’s somebody right
next to you, put your hands like

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this.
I know this is hard, I’m going

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to make you move.
Yep, on each other’s hands hand

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to hand. now, whoever is on the
left, please start pushing Okay,

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00:28:56,200 –> 00:28:59,400
you can stop.
Now, did anybody on the right

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00:28:59,400 –> 00:29:03,700
start pushing back?
Did everybody on the nobody fell

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00:29:03,700 –> 00:29:07,100
over so that suggests that
somebody on the right?

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Did not didn’t Just Surrender
our natural response when people

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00:29:11,800 –> 00:29:16,700
push is to push back.
So by questioning the authority

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of diotrephes he is and he’s
triggered a natural response in

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pushing back, especially when
he’s known.

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At least by John is wanting to
be preeminent.

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In contrast to the praise heaped
on Gaius here, diotrephes hurt,

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the development of the
Collegiate.

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Even though he may have been
sound doctrinally, we absolutely

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need to have a platform of sound
Doctrine but it needs to

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00:29:44,100 –> 00:29:47,000
influence our behavior and our
ego.

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We cannot let right Doctrine.
Make us arrogant.

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It must be tempered with his
love for us to dwell with the

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father.
Now, diotrephes is a name that

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means nourished by jove, okay?
So what is that?

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Well, jove is the original name,
that became the Roman god,

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Jupiter.
Guess what?

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Greek god was renamed.
Jupiter.

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Zeus.
Now, I suppose it might be hard

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to be a bit arrogant when your
name means nourished by a

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powerful.
God, remember, the slide we

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talked about yesterday regarding
the false doctrine of the

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Trinity that crept into this
class A couple times.

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Well there he is Zeus.
As high as you can be in this

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Pantheon, he became Jupiter.
Then that one as we got to the

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Christian mythology, becomes
God.

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We obviously have talked about
that a little bit.

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I don’t want to beat it up
anymore.

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Just a reminder that it’s up to
us to read and study, so that we

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are not caught off guard.
That’s the purpose of this so

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that we do not stray and let our
egos replace the sound doctrine

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of the truth.
Verse 10.

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Wherefore I come.
If I come, I will remember his

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deeds, which he hath done
prating against us, with

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malicious words and not content
therewith, neither doth, he

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received himself the Brethren
and forbiddeth them that would

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and casteth them out of the
Ecclesia, the the prating

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against.
That’s the only time this is

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used in the Greek in the New
Testament.

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And it means to utter nonsense
to utter nonsense with malicious

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00:31:24,000 –> 00:31:26,900
words.
Now malicious is the word

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00:31:26,900 –> 00:31:30,400
normally translated evil.
So you put that together

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uttering nonsense with evil
words.

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Matthew 18, we’ve talked about a
few times and it course, it does

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end in disfellowship.
If all other practices in

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sincerity and love fail, that is
the last alternative that we are

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00:31:46,500 –> 00:31:51,600
told to, and it’s sanctioned by
Jesus, but it has to be done in

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love for it to be scripturally.
Sanctioned the purpose is to

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save the offending brother or
sister and get them back into

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the camp and walking the way to
the work to the Lord.

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It is not to preserve the truth,
it’s not to purify an assembly

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00:32:09,400 –> 00:32:12,800
or whatever other terminology
you may have heard or said in

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00:32:12,800 –> 00:32:18,800
times past the purpose is it
must be done out of love for the

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00:32:18,800 –> 00:32:23,200
sake of the Lost.
That’s what has to be the

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driving principle.
So this influential and arrogant

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00:32:26,700 –> 00:32:29,900
brother had lost sight of what
really mattered in ecclesial

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00:32:29,900 –> 00:32:32,400
life.
What really matters in Ecclesia?

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Life is the Ecclesia.
Verse 11, beloved follow.

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Not that which is evil, but that
which is good.

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He that doeth good is of God,
but he that doeth evil hath not

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seen God Now this word follow in
the RSV is imitate to imitate,

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not that which is evil.
So a sample sample is stated so

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that it can be learned and
avoided.

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And sadly, it seems like a
relevant example here nearly

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2000 years later.
Psalm 34:18 says depart from

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Evil and do good seek peace and
pursue it.

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00:33:12,100 –> 00:33:15,800
Another Old Testament theme that
John is picked up because God

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manifestation must be both in
word and deed.

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00:33:20,400 –> 00:33:27,300
It’s that concept of knowing and
doing verse 12, Demetrius hath,

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good report of all men and of
the truth himself.

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Yay.
And he also bear record.

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We also bear record and know
that our record is true.

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00:33:35,900 –> 00:33:40,300
Now, Demetrius name be means
belonging to series, which is a

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00:33:40,300 –> 00:33:43,700
Roman goddess of agriculture.
Not quite as daunting, as

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00:33:43,700 –> 00:33:48,300
powerful Zeus, certainly not as
masculine, perhaps names, do

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matter.
He was knowing as living up to

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the name that he had been called
to be a part of not the name.

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00:33:54,400 –> 00:33:59,300
He had been given at Birth.
And so he closes with some

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00:33:59,300 –> 00:34:03,000
similar words that we saw from
this last the second letter.

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I had many things to write, but
I will not with ink and Pen

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00:34:06,200 –> 00:34:08,800
write unto thee.
But I trust, I shall shortly.

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00:34:08,800 –> 00:34:11,400
See thee, and we shall speak
face-to-face.

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00:34:11,800 –> 00:34:15,400
Peace, be to thee our friends
salute thee greet the Friends by

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00:34:15,400 –> 00:34:21,699
name, very similar closing.
So I’d like to with our extra

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time, I guess we’ve got about 10
minutes.

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We’ve talked a lot about that,
very first slide.

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We looked at on the on our very
first class and that was the

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seven things that Jesus said
from the tree and how we focused

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00:34:34,699 –> 00:34:37,900
a little bit on, I think all of
them we’ve touched.

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But one of them, I thought might
be worth looking at this.

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Is that slide of case?
You’re wondering what slide is.

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00:34:43,000 –> 00:34:46,699
He talking about one of them
might be worth looking at just a

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little bit more and that’s the
With one, I believe we gave it

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00:34:50,000 –> 00:34:54,000
an honorable mention but is such
an important piece to this

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00:34:54,000 –> 00:34:56,199
story.
I thought if we had some time

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00:34:56,199 –> 00:34:59,500
and we do we would take just a
couple minutes and look at Psalm

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22.
Of course, this is the first

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00:35:05,300 –> 00:35:10,000
half of that first verse When
Jesus is quoting, as he dying as

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he’s dying, my God, my God.
Why hast Thou?

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00:35:12,100 –> 00:35:14,900
Forsaken?
Me and he gives us this

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00:35:14,900 –> 00:35:18,400
reference point.
So you and I would know exactly

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00:35:18,400 –> 00:35:21,400
what Jesus was thinking.
When he died, if we want to

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00:35:21,400 –> 00:35:24,400
understand what was on his mind,
he is telling us.

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00:35:24,400 –> 00:35:27,100
This is what he is thinking and
we find it.

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00:35:27,200 –> 00:35:31,700
And as a blow-by-blow
description of the emotion and

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purpose of the crucifixion.
When someone is crucified we

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mentioned they actually
suffocate, it’s not blood loss

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and so it makes sense that he
didn’t just quote the whole

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Psalm.
Although I strongly believe he

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00:35:44,800 –> 00:35:48,400
knew the whole Psalm and as we
read the song We Won’t today but

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00:35:48,400 –> 00:35:51,700
we can see amazing pieces of the
glory.

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00:35:51,700 –> 00:35:55,100
It would end.
Once the suffering was over

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00:35:55,900 –> 00:36:00,600
verse 24, specifically removes
doubt from the mind of the

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writer, which tells us he wasn’t
doubting that his father was

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00:36:04,500 –> 00:36:05,100
there.
There.

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00:36:05,100 –> 00:36:08,000
He was not worried that he had
been left behind.

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He was giving us a quotation so
that we would know where his

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00:36:11,800 –> 00:36:15,300
thoughts were to see what it
actually means.

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00:36:15,500 –> 00:36:17,700
We’re going to focus on a couple
verses here.

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Let’s look at verse 6.
I am a worm and no man, a

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reproach of men, and despised of
the people.

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00:36:28,600 –> 00:36:31,500
Probably the most powerful verse
in this song.

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00:36:32,600 –> 00:36:38,100
The word worm is used 43 times
in the in the Hebrew and 34 of

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them are translated.
Scarlet will find it used in the

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00:36:41,500 –> 00:36:45,400
stories of Tamar of Rahab of
Ruth and that is not a

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00:36:45,408 –> 00:36:48,900
coincidence, a word study on
this is definitely worth the

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00:36:48,900 –> 00:36:53,600
effort, but this tells us from
Strong’s that it was referring

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00:36:53,600 –> 00:36:59,500
to add, I made by the dried body
of a female worm, which I’m

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00:36:59,500 –> 00:37:04,000
going to say it wrong.
But casilla Yes, yes.

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00:37:05,400 –> 00:37:11,500
She would attach herself to a
dry tree, give birth and then

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00:37:11,500 –> 00:37:14,200
die.
So it makes it a very highly

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00:37:14,200 –> 00:37:19,100
relevant image to put in our
minds as a representation of the

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00:37:19,100 –> 00:37:25,400
Lord.
Now, what’s astounding is that,

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00:37:25,400 –> 00:37:30,700
when we look at Psalm 22, which
we all have done, it is an

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00:37:30,700 –> 00:37:36,000
interesting progression from
Psalm, 22 Psalm 23, Psalm 24.

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00:37:36,200 –> 00:37:41,900
Psalm 22 is very much focused on
the past to you, and I the past

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00:37:41,900 –> 00:37:46,300
of Jesus, the work that he has
done the work, that was done on

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00:37:46,300 –> 00:37:51,100
our behalf.
Psalm 23 then is going to focus

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00:37:51,100 –> 00:37:54,300
on Jesus, current work what he
is doing right now.

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00:37:54,500 –> 00:37:58,300
And so as we look at this Psalm
we look for words that show us

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of his work today that he is our
Shepherd that he leads us, he

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00:38:04,400 –> 00:38:08,500
restores us, he’s leading he’s
comforting, these are the works

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00:38:08,500 –> 00:38:14,300
that Jesus is doing right now.
He’s prepared a table Goodness

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00:38:14,300 –> 00:38:21,000
and mercy are at stake and he
closes with and I will dwell in

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00:38:21,000 –> 00:38:23,400
the house of the Lord of God
forever.

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00:38:23,900 –> 00:38:28,000
The very end.
Now shifts from current work to

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00:38:28,000 –> 00:38:33,200
the Future, work, tabernacling
with the father and the son

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00:38:33,500 –> 00:38:38,000
forever.
And then we get to verse 24, but

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verse Psalm 24, which is now the
future state of Jesus.

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00:38:42,600 –> 00:38:47,000
What we want to be a part of
with him and the father and so

631
00:38:47,100 –> 00:38:51,400
will cherry-pick a little bit of
this, the Earth is the Lord and

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00:38:51,400 –> 00:38:56,000
the fullness thereof the world
and they that dwell therein who

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00:38:56,000 –> 00:38:59,000
shall Ascend to the hill of the
Lord who shall stand in his holy

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00:38:59,000 –> 00:39:01,200
place.
He shall receive the blessing

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00:39:01,200 –> 00:39:04,900
from the Lord and righteousness
from the god of his salvation.

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00:39:05,800 –> 00:39:11,800
When we see Psalm 22, 23 24, we
have the past, the present, and

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00:39:11,800 –> 00:39:15,900
the future work of Jesus
culminating in tabernacling

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00:39:15,900 –> 00:39:20,100
together with the Sun as a
family forever.

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00:39:22,900 –> 00:39:26,100
So as we come to the close of
our classes, this week, I

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00:39:26,100 –> 00:39:29,300
thought it would be fitting for
us to look at the final words of

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00:39:29,300 –> 00:39:33,300
scripture, which are quoted,
excuse me, which are penned by

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00:39:33,300 –> 00:39:37,400
John, making it relevant to us
today.

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00:39:39,800 –> 00:39:42,700
Revelation 22 will pick up at
verse 11.

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He that is unjust, let him be
unjust.

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00:39:46,900 –> 00:39:51,400
Still, he that is filthy, let
him be filthy, still, he that is

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00:39:51,400 –> 00:39:54,000
righteous.
Let him be righteous still, and

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00:39:54,000 –> 00:39:58,800
he that is Holy, let him be.
Holy still, behold, I come

648
00:39:58,800 –> 00:40:01,700
quickly.
And my reward is with me to give

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every man.
According as his work shall be,

650
00:40:04,600 –> 00:40:07,800
I am the Alpha and Omega the
beginning.

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00:40:08,100 –> 00:40:12,400
And the last Blessed.
Are they that do his

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Commandments that they may have
right to the tree of life and

653
00:40:17,000 –> 00:40:20,300
may enter in through the gates,
into the city for without are

654
00:40:20,308 –> 00:40:24,100
dogs, and Sorcerers and
whoremongers and murderers and

655
00:40:24,100 –> 00:40:26,400
adult adalat errs, and
whosoever.

656
00:40:26,400 –> 00:40:30,900
Loveth and maketh a lie.
I Jesus have sent mine Angel to

657
00:40:30,900 –> 00:40:35,000
testify unto you.
The things in the Ecclesia has.

658
00:40:35,200 –> 00:40:38,900
I am the root and offspring of
David, the bright and Morning

659
00:40:38,900 –> 00:40:44,300
Star.
The spirit and the bride say,

660
00:40:44,300 –> 00:40:49,900
come, come and let him that.
Heareth say come and he let him

661
00:40:49,900 –> 00:40:52,200
that is athirst.
Come and whosoever.

662
00:40:52,200 –> 00:40:54,700
Will let him take of that Water
of Life freely.

663
00:40:55,100 –> 00:40:58,200
For, I testify unto every man,
that heareth, the words of this

664
00:40:58,200 –> 00:41:01,600
prophecy of this book, If any
man should add unto these

665
00:41:01,600 –> 00:41:05,200
things, God should add unto him.
The plagues that are written in

666
00:41:05,200 –> 00:41:08,000
this book.
If any man shall take away from

667
00:41:08,000 –> 00:41:10,900
the words of the book of this
prophecy, See, God shall take

668
00:41:10,900 –> 00:41:14,300
away his part of the book of
life and out of the holy city.

669
00:41:14,500 –> 00:41:18,600
And from the things that are
written in this book, He which

670
00:41:18,600 –> 00:41:22,900
testifieth these things saith?
Surely I come quickly.

671
00:41:23,400 –> 00:41:26,900
Amen.
Even so come Lord.

672
00:41:26,900 –> 00:41:32,600
Jesus the grace of the Lord.
Jesus Christ be with you all.

673
00:41:33,300 –> 00:41:33,700
Amen.