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do you do The Apostle John in his third letter commended a man named Demetrius as someone to imitate. What made Demetrius such a good role model

for the early church and what can we learn from his example? We'll find out today on Truth

for Life as Alister Big teaches us from the closing

verses in Third John.

So last time we considered what we referenced as the condemnation of diotrophies in quite a hard and striking study and we come now to our final study which concerns the

commendation of Demetrius and instead of three black marks or red marks he gets three gold stars. Well look at the three

gold stars just briefly. First of all no one has anything bad to say about

him. Demetrius is well spoken of by everyone.

When you say diatrophies, people go, oh, wait a minute.

When you say Demetrius, they go, oh, we love Demetrius.

He's a great guy. Therefore we ought to labor, so to lower the top sale of our

arrogance and our own agendas. The Brooks no rivals and refuses to be on the

receiving end of guidance from others. To recognize that we've been given two years and one mouth so that we may hear more and say less.

Because you see, at the end of the day and that may be sooner than any of us realize our own individual day.

People will not remember for long human eloquence.

They won't remember for long mental brilliance.

They'll remember other things and I guarantee you they will remember goodness.

In my barbers yesterday I noticed that there was a sign that said here in Tones you get a great

welcome a good haircut and good lollipops. And I thought, you know, how nice is that? There'll be children growing to

manhood and beyond and on the day that we Tony is long gone they'll say I

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