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Sweet Sunday Sermon – Introduction to Second John

Submitted by Dr. GP John’s second and third brief letters, while altogether different from the first Epistle are nevertheless of great importance. They bring before us guiding principles that have often been overlooked, but are needful if the people of God are to walk in a way pleasing to God. In 2 John a Christian…

Submitted by Dr. GP
  • John’s second and third brief letters, while altogether different from the first Epistle are nevertheless of great importance.
  • They bring before us guiding principles that have often been overlooked, but are needful if the people of God are to walk in a way pleasing to God.
  • In 2 John a Christian lady is warned regarding false teachers. Through John’s warning we learn what our individual attitude toward all anti-Christian propagandists should be.
  • In 3 John the message is the very opposite. We learn through the apostle’s instruction to Gaius what our behavior should be towards those who are lovers of Christ and who go forth proclaiming His truth.
  • These Epistles are charming in their simplicity, and give us a wonderful insight into the heart of a man who speaks of himself as an elder rather than as an apostle, even though we know he was that.
  • John deals primarily, as we have seen, with truth concerning the family of God.
  • Peter’s letters deal chiefly with the government of God.
  • Paul’s Epistles are concerned mainly with the church of God.
  • But in these last letters, written many years after both Peter and Paul had sealed their testimony with their blood, we get instruction regarding church fellowship that we cannot afford to ignore if our fellowship is to be real.
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62 responses to “Sweet Sunday Sermon – Introduction to Second John”

  1. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    The universe is nearly 15 billion years old.
    The earth is about 4.5 billion years old.
    No humans are found that old by a long way.

  2. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Fossils

  3. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Space is the Place :

    When the Black man ruled this land, Pharaoh was sitting on his throne. I hope you understand. When the Black man ruled this land, Pharaoh was sitting on his throne. I hope you understand…

    We travel the space ways the space ways the space ways from planet to planet from planet to planet from planet to planet. We travel the space ways the space ways the space ways from planet to planet form planet to planet from planet to planet….

  4. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Prophetika / Centennial
    Sun Ra
    2 / 2

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFw6ziwipyo

  5. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    David,

    And that is the crux of the matter. It still takes faith. The Africans came up with their stories according to their understanding. Every culture finds its way to enlightenment. There is a common thread running through them.

  6. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    “Every culture finds its way to enlightenment.”

    … or it is achieved at the individual level…

    … if you don’t find enlightenment in this life you might achieve it in the next life…

    … until you reach nirvana … enlightenment in the final life…

    … suffering in life is one way to build good karma and be rewarded when you pass…

  7. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Donna

    If there were different stories, yes. But when there was straight plagiarism, outright thief, to damage those stolen from. Now that represents an entirely different picture. An Afrikan picture many still don’t know, have a clue about.

  8. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    In fact because the euro-gentiles had no history of their own lies needed to be told. Lies most of us believe today.

  9. GP Avatar
    GP

    New Year’s Day
    The name of Fernando de Magellan is not so well known as it should be. ‘Tis over 350 years ago since he first discovered for us the Pacific Ocean, and to reach it he had to go through the Straits which have ever since borne his name–straits extending hundreds of miles, sometimes narrowing to the breadth of a broad river, and again expanding to the breadth of seas. What a day that was when, after long windings to and fro, his ships entered the waters of the Pacific! These were the first keels which ploughed it. His ships came back, but their brave commander never did; the silent sea which had beckoned him on lured him to his death. Is it much different with the boom of the clock which tells us we have entered on the unknown stretch of a New Year? I think not; we are all voyaging, and no ship has gone in advance into the New Year. What lies ahead of us? No one knows, and no one needs to know. The important thing is, that with all our tacking to and fro we are seeking to drop our anchor at last in the good haven. If that is our aim, and we are prayerful and earnest about it, it matters little what the year has in store for us: all will prove well and rightly done in the end. Bend heart and head to this, and leave all else with God. (J. Reid Howatt.)

  10. GP Avatar
    GP

    Testimonies to the Bible
    “In this book,” said Ewald to Dean Stanley, “is all the wisdom of the world.” “That book,” said Andrew Jackson, as he lay on his death-bed, “is the rock on which our republic rests.” Said the great chemist Faraday, “Why will people go astray when they have this blessed book to guide them?” “If we be ignorant,” say the translators of 1611, “the Scriptures will instruct us; if out of the way, they will bring us home; if out of order, they will reform us; if in heaviness, they will comfort us; if dull, quicken us; if cold, inflame us.” Hooker said, “There is scarcely any part of knowledge worthy of the mind of man but from Scripture it may have some direction and light.” Theodore Parker said, “The literature of Greece, which goes up like incense from that land of temples, has not half the influence of this book of a despised nation. The sun never sets upon its gleaming pages.” Heine, the infidel, said, “What a book! Vast and wide as the world, rooted in the abysses of creation, and towering up behind the blue secrets of heaven. Sunrise and sunset, promise and fulfilment, birth and death, the whole drama of humanity, all in this book.” (Sunday School Times.)

    Study of the Scriptures
    The Abbe Wincklemann, a classical writer on the fine arts, after descanting with great zeal on the perfection of sculpture, as exhibited in the Apollo Belvedere, said to the students, “Now go and study it, and if you see no beauty in it, go again and again, go until you feel it, for be assured it is there.” So we say to the Bible student,
    “Go and study the Scripture, and if at first you discover no beauty, go until you feel the power of its glorious truths, for be assured it is there.” (J. Bawden Allen.)
    The Scriptures a safeguard of a nation
    If we wish to know what the Christian tradition has done for us, we must examine the moral standards of nations who have differed from us in not having it. For example, we must look at the Greeks of the fifth century before Christ, or the Romans at or after the period of the Advent. The Christian faith and the Holy Scriptures arm us with the means of neutralising and repelling the assaults of evil in and from ourselves. Mist may rest upon the surrounding landscape, but our own path is always visible. (W. E. Gladstone.)

    The inestimable value of the Scriptures
    Dr. Smith, of Edinburgh, preaching recently, said the Scriptures were an unalienable treasure of the Church, and urged his hearers to make a more diligent use of them. He told of an Australian farmer, who for years tried vainly to make a competence out of his soil. He transferred it at a low price to a neighbour, who shortly discovered a priceless mine upon the property. “So,” the preacher said, “we are apt to forget that underneath the newspapers and novels which cumber our tables, lies a small volume which is worth inestimably more than all of them.”

    The Scriptures a winding splendour
    Passing from Bonn to Coblentz, on the Rhine, the scenery is comparatively tame. But from Coblentz to Mayence it is enchanting. You sit on deck, and feel as if this last flash of beauty must exhaust the scene; but in a moment there is a turn of the river, which covers up the former view with more luxuriant vineyards, and more defiant castles, and bolder bluffs, vine-wreathed, and grapes so ripe that if the hills be touched they would bleed their rich life away into the bowels of Bingen and Hockheimer. Here and there there are streams of water melting into the river, like smaller joys swallowed in the bosom of a great gladness. And when night begins to throw its black mantle over the shoulder of the hills, and you are approaching disembarkation at Mayence, the lights along the shore fairly bewitch the scene with their beauty, giving one a thrill that he feels but once, yet that lasts him for ever. So this river of God’s Word is not a straight stream, but a winding splendour–at every turn new wonders to attract, still riper vintage pressing to the brink, and crowded castles of strength–Stolzenfels and Johannisberger as nothing compared with the strong tower into which the righteous run and are saved–and our disembarkation at last, in the evening, amid the lights that gleam from the shore of heaven. The trouble is, that the vast majority of Bible voyagers stop at Coblentz, where the chief glories begin. (Christian Age.)

  11. GP Avatar
    GP

    In his book Miracles in Black, Dr. John C. Wengatz tells of an African convert who was left at a new mission station to carry on the Lord’s work with a cannibal tribe. It was the dry season when Joao Mbaxi took over, but soon the tropical rains would be coming. Month after month went by, however, without a cloud appearing in the sky. Then came the time for the normal dry period. By now everyone was suffering, and many were on the brink of starvation. In all the years they had worshiped their ancient gods, the rains had never failed them, and so Joao was told that he must leave the country and take “the white man’s God” with him. The courageous Christian refused to go. Then, flushed with anger, the chief sullenly warned, “If your God is as good as you say and so powerful that He rules the sky, why doesn’t He send us the needed showers? If it doesn’t rain by sunrise tomorrow, we will drink your blood and eat your flesh!”
    Recalling the Biblical account of Elijah, Joao went to his hut and prayed for divine help with the same urgency as that of the ancient prophet. Meanwhile the members of the tribe waited for the dawn when the Christian leader would become the victim of their horrible feast. Just before daylight, thunder was heard in the distance, lightning flashed across the sky, and abundant rain refreshed the entire region! As a result, the believer was able to continue his work for Christ.

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    555dubstreet

    Real Time America
    The King Is Dead
    Long Live The King
    Isaiah 53 lyrics

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