Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. The Bible tells one big story of

redemption and we want to spend five minutes every day journeying through the Bible from start to finish, and exploring how all of it

points to Jesus. Hey friends and welcome back to a year in the Bible with daily grace. My name is

Shelby Turner. I'm one of your hosts for this podcast and today we are going to

talk through three really short books

second John third John and Jude the books of second and third John were written by

someone who calls themselves the elder. Jude was written by someone who calls themselves the elder.

Jude was written by Jude, who was the brother of James

and the brother of Jesus.

If you want to hear more background information

about these books, be sure to check out my intro videos for them on the Daily Grace Podcast

Instagram account.

All right, let's get started with the Book of Second John.

It's only 13 verses long, and the elder, John, wrote it to a church near Ephesus.

Now, it's addressed to the elect lady,

and this can be kind of confusing because it was probably not

written to an individual woman.

The term lady used here is the Greek word,

Kiria, which referred not to a woman,

but to a group or subunit of people.

It just happens to be a feminine word, but it did reference a group of

mixed gender people. And the fact that John adds elect on to that word makes us think that he was

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