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do you do It's encouraging when someone offers to pray for you. It's even better when they stop right there and pray with you. In the same way it's nice to say we love our Christian brothers and sisters, but it's better when we do something that shows it.

Today on Truth for Life, we'll learn how love is made visible.

Alistair Begg is teaching from the opening verses in Third John. on.

There are four words that we were employing in order to try and come to an understanding of these opening

eight verses, essentially half of this little letter.

Our first word was prosperity under verses one and two, noting that while we disdain any notion of a prosperity gospel,

we cannot avoid the fact that John is concerned for the prosperity,

the well-being of this man by the name of Gaius and that that's prosperity extends

beyond simply his spiritual well-being but it actually has to do with his health

and indeed it would have to do with his business and it would have to do with every legitimate aspect of his life.

We then went to verses 3 and 4 and noted the testimony, that was the second word, the testimony that was the second word the testimony that came

concerning these circumstances and particularly concerning Gaius and the

nature of his love.

And the responsibility, the privilege, the obligation of a pastor,

the supreme concern of a pastor is to help his flock know the truth and then to live by the truth

that they have come to know. And for most of us that is going to mean in the

details of our routine lives.

We may not like to think of them as being routine,

but all of us do have a routine one way or another,

and even the absence of a routine is usually fairly routine after a while.

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