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do you do The Bible has a lot to say about love. It teaches us that love is patient and kind.

We should bear with one another in love. In fact, we're to love our enemies.

So why was the Apostle John so quick to condemn a man who was causing trouble, a man named

Diotrophies? We'll hear the answer today on Truth for Life.

Alistair Begg is teaching from 3rd John. We're focusing on verses 9 and 10. You read your Bible and it says, you know it would be a really good idea if you didn't

think of yourself more highly than you ought. But with sober judgment. Diotropy's

got this wrong. He refused to view himself in the light of God.

And John isn't rebuking him, and I say it to you again

purposefully, he's not rebuking him because his belief is warped,

but because his behavior is wrong. And so John writes, I wrote something earlier along

this line to the church, but diotrophies who loves being in charge denigrates

my counsel. Now just in case we get it wrong or we fail to see what he was doing,

look at what we're told. There are six things that characterize him. Relax, we're not going to work our way through them one at a time,

but let's just notice them. Verse 9, he loves to be first, he will have nothing to do with us. He gossips maliciously. He refuses to welcome the brothers. He stops those who want to. And then he puts them out of the church. What a nice guy. And so look at

what John says. So if I come,

if I come verse 10, I will call attention to what he is doing.

I don't think we need to see this as a threat.

I think we need to see this simply as a statement of fact.

John is not writing in this way because his nose has been put out of joint.

John is not writing in this way because this is a personal matter between himself and diotrophies.

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