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Text: 3 John
Title: Imitate What Is Good
Textual Theme, Goal, Need:
Theme: Christians ought to imitate what is good
Goal: to encourage Gaius to imitate what is good.
Need: Gaius is has people around him like Diotrephes who loves power but speaks falsely against John and is not hospitable.
Sermon Theme, Goal, Need:
Theme: Christians ought to imitate what is good.
Goal: to encourage Christians to imitate what is good.
Need: Christians often have influences around them of things that are not good.
Gossip, pride.
Getting ahead.
Textual Outline:
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Introduction
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From the Elder
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To Gaius
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Wish of good Health
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Joy of walking in the Truth
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Body
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Praise for Hospitality
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Show hospitality to work together for the truth.
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Do not imitate what is evil but what is good.
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Diotrephes
1. Full of himself
2. Gossips maliciously
3. Is inhospitable- vs. the truth
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Demetrius
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Is well spoken of.
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Conclusion
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Hope to visit
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Peace
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Greetings between friends
Textual Notes:
Sermon Outline:
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Soap Opera effect
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In 3 John, serious.
Stands in the way of the truth.
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Names
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The Elder of Truth- John
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The Spreader of Truth- Gaius
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The Hinderer of Truth-Diotrephes
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The Model of Truth- Demetrius
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Actions: Imitate what is good!
Sermon in Oral Style:
Congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
It’s confession time.
I want to see a show of hands this evening.
Who has watched a soap opera at some point this week?
Be honest.
I figured there would be at least a few people here who have seen a soap opera.
Soaps have this amazing draw to them, don’t they?
Lots of shows have a draw like that also.
You have the characters that you start to get to know.
They get into situations that you just have to try and find out what happens next.
They have the power to captivate.
You know its got amazing drawing power when you hear of ladies in their 80’s refusing visitors at 1 o’clock because the Young and the Restless is coming on.
The quirk about Soaps that I always found annoying was the way they ramble through a whole list of people’s names like you are supposed to know exactly who they are talking about.
And they are always some exotic names also.
“Mimi told Amanda that Xavier and Fabio stole Marco’s car with the million dollars inside. Then they decided to go kill Mrs. Beatrice and take over her shares in the company.
But Mimi and Shelishia were both in love with Xavier.
And now he’s going to prison and we don’t know who the Father is.
I might make a pretty good soap opera writer, don’t you think?
Soaps rattle off this list of names of people all involved in some sort of dispute or love triangle.
The reason I mention this is because 3 John almost sounds like a mini-Biblical soap opera.
In 2 John, the only name that is mentioned is Jesus Christ.
*In 3 John we have 4 different names mentioned and Jesus isn’t even mentioned once.
The difference between 3 John and a soap opera, of course, is that 3 John’s drama is serious.*
*The conflict between the characters is one that will stand in the way of the Truth being taught throughout the world.*
Soaps leave nothing at stake.
The situations surrounding our passage can mean the difference between eternal life and death.
Just so you get familiar with the players in our passage, we have four of them.
I gave a title to each one of them as well.
First we have John- the Elder of Truth.
Then we have Gaius- the Helper of Truth.
Next we have Diotrephes, the Hinderer of Truth.
And finally we have Demetrius, the Model of Truth.
So let’s let our passage be our guide.
Verse 1 says, *“/ 1/**The elder, To my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in the truth.”*
Before we look at these people, we have to start with the word at the end of that verse.
The word Truth.
This is a very important word in this tiny little book.
*The word truth happens 109 times in the New Testament.*
*3 John uses the word 6 times in this little letter.*
For such a tiny little book, that is a lot.
If you look for the word Truth in Matthew, Mark and Luke, you will only find it 7 times.
*That’s seven times in 68 chapters compared to six times in one chapter.
What does this tell us?
This letter is about truth!*
The first verse of this letter mentions the first two people invovled in this serious drama about truth.
*The person who writes the letter tells us who he is.
It says, “elder.”*
*That doesn’t give us a whole lot to go on, but almost from the very beginning Christians have said this was written by John the disciple of Jesus.
* Part of the reason for this goes back to that little word Truth.
In Matthew, Mark and Luke combined, the word shows up 7 times*.
In the gospel of John, the word Truth is used almost 30 times.
And it shows up another 8 times in 1 and 2 John.
The disciple John was all about the Truth.*
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