The Commendation of Demetrius (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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“Influencers” are big on social media. These individuals have large followings and can affect the opinions and actions of others—but not always for good. Join us on Truth For Life as Alistair Begg contrasts two influential men from the book of 3 John.
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| 0:00.0 | The There's a whole category of people today known as social media influencers, individuals |
| 0:29.5 | with large followings who have the ability to affect the opinions and actions of others. |
| 0:34.8 | These are people who set themselves up as modern day role models, but not always for good. |
| 0:40.0 | Today on Truth for Life, Alistair beg contrast two similarly influential men found in the book of |
| 0:45.4 | Third John, one who influenced for good, another for evil. 3 John and beginning at verse 1. The elder to my dear friend Gaius whom I love in the truth. |
| 1:03.0 | Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you even as your soul is getting along well. |
| 1:12.0 | It gave me great joy to have some brothers come and tell |
| 1:15.4 | about your faithfulness to the truth and how you continue to walk in the truth. I |
| 1:21.0 | have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. |
| 1:25.6 | Dear friend, you are faithful in what you're doing for the brothers |
| 1:29.6 | even though they're strangers to you. They have told the church about your love. |
| 1:35.0 | You will do well to send them on their way |
| 1:36.9 | in a manner worthy of God. |
| 1:39.2 | It was for the sake of the name that they went out, |
| 1:42.2 | receiving no help from the pagans. We ought |
| 1:46.4 | therefore to show hospitality to such men so that we may work together for the |
| 1:51.1 | truth. I wrote to the church but Diotrophists who loves to be |
| 1:56.2 | first will have nothing to do with us. So if I come I will call attention to what he is |
| 2:02.0 | doing, gossiping maliciously about us. |
| 2:05.0 | Not satisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers. |
| 2:09.0 | He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church. |
| 2:14.0 | Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. |
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