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Heavenly Father you know the worst about

each one of us and yet you still love us

you know everything that we've done and

said and felt and thought this past week

yet you still want us to come and

worship we know that you can only accept

someone who has Clean Hands and a pure

heart and there isn't one of us who has

the confidence that we are fit to

come but for the sake of Jesus Christ we

are sure of a

welcome and therefore with confidence

with a boldness that surprises ourselves

and sometimes irritates other people we

gladly come and call you our

father and we pray that as you know

everything about us we may get to know

more about

you as you know the innermost thoughts

of our hearts we pray that you will help

us to understand your mind to discover

something this morning from your word

word that we never knew

before to stretch our

imagination to enlarge our thinking to

love you with all our

minds but we pray that you'll Deliver Us

from anything that is purely academic or

intellectual help us to translate what

we think and what we learn into practical

practical

activity into a character that is more

like Jesus every day into a life that

brings glory to your name and joy to other

other

people we pray for those who are on

holiday at this time and we ask that you

will direct them to some fellowship this

day where they can worship in spirit and in

truth we pray for those who must worship

you this morning lying on their backs on

a sick bed we pray for those who are

working so that we may enjoy certain

facilities and services that are

necessary to life and we we pray that

you will bless all your people this day

and add to their number so that when the

Sun goes down tonight there may be

hundreds thousands more all over the

world who have entered Your Kingdom and

who love the Lord who never did when

they woke up this morning and this we

ask in jesus' name and for his sake

God a month ago we finish studying the

first letter of John so this morning I'm

going to talk to you about the second

and the third letter of John two little

letters that come straight after one

John right towards the end of the Bible

just before the Book of Revelation if

you haven't got a Bible and would like

one just raise your hand we'll see you get

get

one the second and third letter of

John the Elder to the elect lady and her

children whom I love in the truth

and not only I but also all who know the

truth because of the truth which abides

in us and will be with us forever grace

mercy and peace will be with us from God

the father and from Jesus Christ The

Father's son in truth and

love I rejoiced greatly to find some of

your children following the truth just

as we have been commanded by the father

and now I beg you lady not as though I

were writing you a new commandment but

the one we have had from the beginning

that we love one

another and this is love that we follow his

his

Commandments this is the Commandment as

you have heard from the beginning that

you follow love for many deceivers have

gone out into the world men who will not

acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ

in the flesh such a one is the deceiver

and the antichrist

look to yourselves that you may not lose

what you have worked for but may win a full

full

reward anyone who goes ahead and does

not abide in the doctrine of Christ does

not have

God He Who abides in the doctrine of

Christ has both the father and the

son if anyone comes to you and does not

bring this Doctrine do not receive him

into the house or give him any greeting

for He Who greets him shares his Wicked

work though I have much to write to you

I would rather not use paper and ink but

I hope to come to see you and talk with

you face to face so that our joy may be

complete the children of your elect

sister greet

you and then another short letter he

must have written at the same time when

you write all your thank you letters at

Christmas you tend to repeat yourself a

bit and the letters look look like each

other a bit so look at the second one

the Elder to the Beloved gas whom I love

in the truth beloved I pray that all may

go well with you and that you may be in

health I know that it is well with your

soul for I greatly rejoiced when some of

the Brethren arrived and testified to

the truth of your life as indeed you do

Follow The Truth No Greater Joy can I

have than this to hear the my children

follow the

truth beloved it is a loyal thing you do

when you render any service to the

Brethren especially to strangers who

have testified to your love before the

church you will do well to send them on

their Journey as befits God's service

for they have set out for his sake and

have accepted nothing from the Heathen

so we ought to support such men that we

may be fell fellow workers in the truth

I have written something to the church but

but

diores who likes to put himself first

does not acknowledge my

authority so if I come I will bring up

what he is doing prating against me with

evil words and not content with that he

refuses himself to welcome the

Brethren and also stops those who want

to welcome them and puts them out of the

church beloved do not not imitate evil

but imitate good he who does good is of

God he who does evil has not seen

God Demetrius has testimony from

everyone and from the truth itself I

testify to him too and you know my

testimony is true I had much to write to

you but I would rather not write with

pen and ink I hope to see you soon and

we will talk together face to face peace

be to you the friends greet you greet

the friends every one of

them if you like reading other people's

letters you should really enjoy the New

Testament because 21 out of 27 books are

letters and indeed letters are often

much more revealing and much more

helpful to give you insights than simply

reading a prepared paper or essay that's

why in many

autobiographies you tend to get the life

and letter

of Sono the latest one published this

week is the published correspondence of

grouo Marx I'd Lance through that the

young people know who I'm talking about

and i' Lance through that in a Bookshop

and it was very revealing to read some

of the letters that well-known comedian

has written much more revealing than

seeing his

films and in the same way God has seen

that most of the truth that he had to

give us in the New Testament came to us

in the form of letter letters some of

them are public written to a whole

church but many of them are private

written to one

individual and John's letters three of

them the first is public but the second

two are very private they're like

postcards they're short they say such

things as hope you are well hoping to

see you soon they're very typical

postcards and yet they're full of the

truth of God and they're most revealing

one is written to a lady and the other

is written to a

gentleman and I hope I won't offend

either sex by saying that the second

letter points up one of The Temptations

or weaknesses of feminine nature and the

third letter points one of the dangers

of masculine nature and that keeps the

balance so either I'm in with everybody

this morning or I've offended the lot of

you well now John the Apostle who wrote

this letter reveals as he writes how

tender how warm how sympathetic a

personality he is and yet How firm he

can be in relation to right and

wrong and yet when you read back through

the gospels and discover what kind of a

man he was by Nature the contrast is

startling when you first meet him he was

such a bad-tempered young man that Jesus

said I'm going to give you a nickname

Thunder and he called him Bones which is

Hebrew for Thunder that was the kind of

man he was he's revealed as a bigot a

man who says if he's not in arot he must

be stopped doing anything he's revealed

as a scheming ambitious man who says

Master when you get into into your

kingdom can I have the best

seat and this man wiy bad tempered

scheming ambitious bigoted becomes the

Apostle of love and quite frankly the

the first thought I had when preparing

this morning was There's Hope for me and

there's hope for you if the the Lord

Jesus can do that with a man like that

and enable him to write letters like

this then he can do it for any of us

human nature can be

changed my Baba recently said to me

human nature can't be changed and I said

that's a lie and it's a lie of the devil

actually but human nature can be changed

thank God it can or wouldn't Heaven be

miserable I wouldn't want to go to

heaven if you L were there and you

wouldn't want to go if I was there as we

are can you imagine living at Close

Quarters forever with people as they are

but if he can do this for a person and

make them this kind of character and

personality then isn't Heaven going to be

lovely now that'll come up again later

the first thing I ought to say really is

that both letters are about the same subject

subject

he's dealing with only one thing in both

letters I don't know if you spotted it

he's dealing with

hospitality the people you have in your

home and this is one of the most

prominent themes of the New Testament

Christians are to be given to

hospitality they are to have an Ever

open door they are to open their hearts

and homes to other

people it's even a qualification to be a

deacon or an elder in the New Testament

and a deacon or an elder who keeps his

home shut to people ought not to be in

office but there are two particular

needs for Hospitality in the New

Testament days which we don't have to

quite such a degree today here's the

first for 300 years they had no church

buildings and if some Christians didn't

open their homes to others the church

would never have

grown if Christians had kept their front

door shut there would have been no

Services no worship and we wouldn't have

been here

today now of course we are in a position

to erect Church buildings do you know

the first thing I did when I got back to

Guilford was go to mme before I went

home and I was thrilled to see what I

did see there even if it's a bit

negative at the moment but I was

thrilled to see it we're going to have a lovely

lovely

building but I hope that when we get

that building we won't stop meeting in

each other's house

homes we shall lose a great deal if we

do now from the very beginning

Christians did meet in larger buildings

as well as their homes they met in the

temple from the day of Pentecost every

day they met in borrowed lecture halls

and all kinds of large buildings but

again and again the New Testament

letters are addressed to the church that

is in your

house and every Christian should be

willing to open his home to fellowships

and not say oh well I have enough chairs

or it's too small or anything like that

or other people have a better home every

Christian should say my home is the

Lord's home for the Lord's people given to

hospitality now they needed it because

they had no church

buildings but they also needed it for

another reason there were two kinds of

ministers in the New Testament those who

stayed put and those who moved on and

there still are and some people are much

better if they move on and some people

are much better if they stay

put the pastors and teachers are better

if they stay in one place and go on

teaching and go on pastoring the

prophets and evangelists and preachers

are better moving on bringing a fresh

voice and a Fresh Approach and so in the

New Testament you've got a combination

of ministers who stay put and ministers

who move around and that's a really

healthy picture and I hope we shall

always have it but the ministers who

move around need to stay somewhere and

in those days there were no hotels no

nice places to stay there were ins but

they were infested with Vermin and

disease and were known as immoral places

and an inkeeper was little better than a

pimp and so the Christian ministers

didn't stay in those

places and there was a real need for

them to go somewhere and have a roof

over their heads and therefore two and

three John are written to Christians is

describing the need for giving

Hospitality to preachers evangelists moving

moving

around now then comes the crunch I told

you that two John was written to a lady

and three John to a men and here I tread

very wearily and delicately and I hope I

tactfully behind every Act of

hospitality lie two Christian

principles love and

and

truth and our Hospitality must reflect

both Hospitality in a Christian home is

not just an act of love it is an act of

Truth and if you underline the two words

Truth and Love in these two letters

you'll find they're all the way through

I love you in truth you're following the

truth follow love truth love truth

love love opens the door of your home

and Truth shuts

it and Hospitality in a Christian Home

must walk a knife edge between the two

knowing when to open the door in love

and when to shut it in

Truth Christian Hospitality can be too

narrow for love and too wide for

truth our front door should be a certain

width no wider no narrower there are

limits to Christian hospitality and we

should fling our doors open right to the

Limit but not an inch Beyond it now that

may sound very startling to some of you

let me then elaborate it as John does to

the lady John says your hospitality is

in danger of being too

wide to the men he says your hospitality

is in danger of being too narrow

and speaking for the men I'm quite sure

he's right about the men and I'll leave

the ladies to speak for the ladies

putting it differently ladies tend to

overemphasize love at the expense of

Truth and men tend to overemphasize

Truth at the expense of

Love ladies will tend to open the home

to too many people men will tend to open

it to too few

and that's presumably why God in his

Mercy arranged that a man should marry a

woman and start a home together and then

they can argue about it and decide who

they open to and who they closed to in

other words the lady's attitude can be too

too

soft by allowing their heart to rule

them and the man's attitude can be too

hard by allowing his head to rule him

and the balance is truth and

love together and let the two things

determine your

hospitality in the L's case the lack of

Truth would lead to wrong

belief in the man's case the lack of

Love would lead to wrong Behavior now

that's simple and God in his Mercy put

the two letters together so we'd get the

balance and the reason I'm taking both

this morning even if we have to pack it

in is because I don't want you to think

I'm unbalanced one way or the other I'm

neither anti- feminine nor anti

masculine I'm for them both both now

let's take the second letter and the

ladies can listen to this the men can

have 20 minutes

rest who is the elder who writes the

letter many people have thought that as

well as John the Apostle there was some

other shadowy figure called John the

Elder you'll find this in school

textbooks and other things but will you

take my word for it there is no evidence

whatsoever for anybody other than John

the Apostle being the Elder who wrote

this why did he not call himself the

Apostle because when a man is traveling

around as a missionary he is an apostle

when he settles down in one place he's an

elder so when he's moving around as an

itinerant preacher he's an apostle when

he's in one Fellowship he's an elder

which is why the Apostle Peter writing

the letter of Peter to the church says I

am your fellow Elder so it's John the

Apostle just want to clear that up in

case any of you'd heard the other but

who is the

lady this elect lady and Scholars and

commentators divide a great deal over

whether this is one individual a lady

and her physical children or whether

this is John's way of talking to a

church in many cases the word you in

this letter is plural not singular and

many of the remarks seem to be addressed

to a church rather than a lady what's

the answer I think the answer is both are

are

right I imagine that here is an a

widow who has a home and in that home

meets a church and this Widow has

spiritual as well as physical children

she's one of those chosen ladies of God

who's done such a lot for other people

in the name of the Lord and she's got a

church in her house and John writes to this

this

lady and her

children and he says this it could be

misunderstood by unbelievers indeed it

was he says I love

you now for an apostle to be writing to

an elect lady and saying I love you do

you know that in the early days because

the Christians used the word love so

much there were all sorts of wild rumors

about orges and other things that went

on in church was so misunderstood people

who don't know pure love have no idea

what we mean by it and John says to this

lady I love you

he also says to the men I love you that

could be

misunderstood but you know Jesus was a

marvelous example of one who loved men

and women perfectly those who have been

transformed by Jesus can say to all men

and all women I love

you but you notice that it's a love in the

the

truth now what does that mean let's

first look at the word truth to Love In

Truth means to love someone as they really

really

are one of the reasons for getting to

know each other well enough before you

get married and having a period of

Engagement is to know each other long

enough to be sure that you love each

other as you

are and not to have an image on a

pedestal a kind of dream that you've

projected onto the other person that

will be shattered very quickly when

you're living in the close quarters of

marriage to love each other as you are

to Love In Truth means to love a person

as they really

are but John says more than this he says

I love you in the

truth not just I love you in truth I

love you truly but I love you in the

truth now what's he meaning he's meaning

the truth of Christianity the truth of

Christ and to love someone in the truth

means to love them as they really are as

a Christian and you know what that means

it means you know the worst and the best

about them and you love them what is the

worst that you know the worst that you

know is that the person you love is a

sinner with a fallen nature like

yourself and capable of any sin in the

book therefore you are never

disillusioned or shattered or

disappointed you love them in the truth

and the first truth about your fellow

Christian is that they are a sinner and

capable of the worst and therefore

whatever they do you love them in the

truth it's tremendous when you can love

a person like that because the worst

that you discover doesn't destroy your

love God loves us in the truth he knows

the worst about me knows the worst about

you and he still loves he loves me in

the truth he's got no delusions about me

you may have but he hasn't and he loves

me and that's

wonderful but there's something more

about a Christian you can love an

unbeliever in the truth as far as the

worst goes but now let me tell you what

the best is about your fellow Christian

the best is that that person is going to

be perfect that person has Christ's

spirit in their heart and he's making

them a new person and they're going to

be glorified as well as Justified and

you can love them in the truth for what

they're going to

be now a love like that has no delusions

it believes the worst and the best it

believes the worst of what they are in

themselves and the best of what they are

in Christ and can look at a Christian

and say I love you in the truth I know

the worst and the best about you I know

the worst of which you're capable and I

know the best of which you're going to

be and I love you in the truth you can't

love anybody like that outside the truth

it's the truth of Christ about a man or

a woman every one of us is capable of

the most dark and terrible

deeds and every one of us Believers is

going to be like Christ and you can love

someone in the truth apart from anything

else you know that you're not going to

have to put up with their faults forever

you can look forward to the day when

they're perfect in character they can

look forward to the day when you are I

love you in the truth I'm spending too

much time on that but it's lovely isn't

it and when you do that John then says

grace mercy and peace will be with

us how do you get grace mercy and peace

in a Fellowship of Christians when you

love each other in the

truth when you know the worst and you

still love each other and when you look

to the best and love each other for it

and then grace mercy and peace will be

with you well now that's Love In Truth

John now says in the Greek language

Eureka it's translated find in verse

four but the literal word is Eureka I

can never read that without thinking of

dear old Archimedes in his Beth and

jumping out with great joy and running

down the street with a bath to towel or

without I don't know and shouting I

found it I've discovered it the

displacement of a body in water equals

or whatever it was he did discover now

John says I have the same feeling as

that no he wouldn't know about

Archimedes or would he might have done

somebody tell me afterwards whether

Archimedes was born in time but John says

says

Eureka I rejoiced greatly to discover

what that some of your children are

following the

truth it's great when people follow the

truth when they live by reality the

truth as it is in Christ he said I am

the truth and to follow the truth is to

follow Christ and to follow Christ is to

follow the truth and the nearer you get

to him the more truth you'll know about

yourself as you are and the more truth

you'll know about him as he is and

therefore the more truth you know about

what you're going to be they're

following the truth you notice that

follow means behave as well as believe

some people follow the truth up here but

nowhere else that's not what John means

to follow the truth is to live it

out to keep the balance John now says

and I beg you dear lady follow love keep

these two things in perfect balance the

longer I live the more I come to the

conclusion that the secret of real

maturity is balance and that when we're

young we like to go to

extremes we like to go after one thing

or another but mature people keep things

in balance and these two things Love and

Truth a mature Christian keeps them in

that delicate and Perfect Balance I'm

thrilled to discover that you follow the

truth I beg you to follow love keep them

both and you know what love is and here

he reminds this woman and you need to

remind ladies that love is not how you

feel but how you

act it's not a matter of having great

feelings of liking towards someone it's

a matter of doing your duty of keeping

his Commandments that's love and we must

rescue the word love from the

sentimental emotions which have now

become so attached to it that it's

almost excluded anything else and bring

love back to the simple matter of

loyalty the kind of loyalty that sticks

to a person for better for worse for

richer for poorer in sickness and in

health and does not let go and loves and

cherishes to the end that's love in fact

it would almost be a good thing if

wherever the Bible says love we said

loyalty because that's what what love

really is loyalty to a person it's not

just having your heart go twice as fast

as usual at the sight of someone it's

being loyal to them loyal to them and

sticking by them through thick and

thin love divorced from Duty will run

Riot and Duty divorced from love will

starve that's not mine that's a gem of a

man called plumber do you like it love

divorced from Duty will run riot and

Duty divorced from love will

starve now he comes to the real business

of the letter the sad fact is that not

everybody in the world in which we live

follows the

truth I find it saddening with my own

children to find out how easily in their

earliest years they discovered that

telling lies could protect them orus

came naturally nobody I know ever taught

them to tell

lies but we like every parent had to

correct them when we knew they did and

say now that's not true is

it unless the sad situation is that many

deceivers have gone out into the world

many people are saying things that are

not true they don't want to know the

truth either about God or about

themselves they are in a state of rebell

I to the truth and they don't want it

and therefore they devise cunningly devised

devised

fables which are just not

true and John knows that they will come

to this lady and her children and above

all he says they will not tell you the

truth about Christ what is the truth

well I've given it to you in 1 John

Jesus is divine and human he's God and

man perfectly one both together fully

God fully men and those who are against

the truth will either deny his Humanity

or his

divinity in John's day they denied his

humanity and said he didn't really come

in the flesh he was just a

ghost but in our day they they deny his

divinity and in our day they say he was

a great man but he wasn't God he may

have been a great teacher doing his own

thing and leading people and setting

them free

but he wasn't God now there are a lot of

people in the world who are telling us

that Jesus is not fully God or not fully

men and they will not acknowledge this

truth it isn't that they deny it they

won't acknowledge it may I say something

very strongly and

firmly you must not only listen to what

a preacher says You must listen what is

the truth

well I've given it to you in 1 John

Jesus is divine and human he's God and

Men perfectly one both together fully

God fully men and those who are against

the truth will either deny his Humanity

or his

divinity in John's day they denied his

humanity and said he didn't really come

in the flesh he was just a

ghost but in our day they div they deny

his divinity

and in our day they say he was a great

man but he wasn't God he may have been a

great teacher doing his own thing and

leading people and setting them free but

he wasn't

God now there are a lot of people in the

world who are telling us that Jesus is

not fully God or not fully

men and they will not acknowledge this

truth it isn't that they deny it they

won't acknowledge it

may I say something very strongly and

firmly you must not only listen to what

a preacher says You must listen to what

he does not

say because it is often in what he does

not say that he goes astray from the

truth it is what he does not

acknowledge that is important look for

the gaps in what a man says not just

what he says but what he carefully leaves

leaves

out and now now says John to this lady

your door must be shut absolutely

tight against someone who is not there

to preach the

truth that is the limit of Christian

Hospitality they may be without food

they may be without a bed you must not

take pity close the door now that's a

hard thing to say and it would take

Grace in a woman to close the door at

that point but why should one do that

it's seems such an unchristian act the

answer is

twofold a man who's not preaching the

truth is doing a wicked

work John Wesley came across such a man

and he said I have met murderers of the

body and I have preached to them and

they have responded to Grace but these

are murderers of men's

Souls it's far worse to kill a man's

Soul than his body you kill his body

you're doing something that affects him only

only

temporarily only in this world but to

kill his soul you've done something that

destroys him

forever and therefore there are people

who preach false views about Christ whom

you must never have in for a meal you

must not say come in you must close the

door you know who I mean don't you you

must say there is not a welcome here my

dear lady don't even welome welcome him

don't even greet him for to say goodbye

to him is to say God be with you and to

say good morning is to say I hope you

have a good morning don't even greet

him and then John has run out of paper

he's reached the end of a small sheet of

parchment which held about 300 words and

he says I have so much I want to say but

I'm not going to put it on on paper and

write it in ink I want to come and talk

this out with you and then he says I

want to come and see you so that my Joy

may be complete why is his Joy not

complete the answer is this dear lady

some of your children are following the

truth I Rejoice to find some of them

like this but I want to come to help all

of you to follow the truth and then my

joy is complete well that's the first

letter or the second rather now let's go

to the

third John has the same love for men and

women like Christ in Christ there is is

no male or female and so he says to gas

I love you in the

truth now gas was a lovely man a lovely

man every Church of which I've been

Minister and this is now the 28th of

which I've been Pastor it's all right

they didn't kick me out after a few

weeks but um in the Methodist Ministry

you have a number at a time as you know

and in every church every one of those 28

churches I can think of a

guas I can think of a man who fits this

description and I thank God for such men

his character shines out as a lovely man

and yet John doesn't say I love you

because you are

lovely he says the same here I love you

in the

truth now this is the answer within any

church and any group and any Fellowship

there are some people you will like more

than others at the human level you're

bound to we're different in temperament

and Outlook and background there are

some people you take to you

like and if there is only liking in a

church then it is not a church it's a

club and it will be a club with cliches

in it and Hospitality will be too

limited and homes will only be open to

people of the same type and that's not a

fellowship but when you love people in

the truth you don't love them because

you like them you don't love them

because they're lovely you love them in

the truth and the truth is in every

Christian the truth abides in US says

John so you love everyone and John loves

gas in the truth the same as he loved

everybody else in the

truth now he says I pray that all may go

well sometimes I've said to a person are

you well and they said oh yes I'm much

better now thank you and I've added well

I meant more than that

to the unbeliever the phrase are you

well means simply his

body and if his body is well he says yes

I'm fine but the Christian knows that a

man is more than a body he's a

soul body and soul together and to be

really well both need to be fit and

healthy and

strong the world is full of people who

are well in body but sick in Soul

desperately sick they need a surgeon

they need a drastic operation and a

black heart removed and a white one put

in transplant but a new heart not a

secondhand one and there they are

they're walking about the streets you'll

see them they're sick in Soul study the

faces in a London tube train next time

you're taking a journey they're well in

body but you'll see sickness in Soul

fear boredom disillusionment

disillusionment

merice and so John says to GS I I want

all to be well with

you I know it is well with your soul

isn't that terrific you know the song

Don't You It is Well it Is Well with My

Soul there's nothing like feeling

spiritually fit and healthy it's great

to feel physically fit and to be

refreshed and renewed in body but to be

well with the soul when peace like a

river it is well it is well next time a

Christian says are you well say very

well thank you but say it about your

soul first and so John says now I know

you're well in Soul I want you to be

well in body

too may I underline that a Christian can

be spiritually healthy but not

physically healthy do you notice that it

doesn't follow

automatically there are those who

believe that if everything's right

spiritually everything will be right

physically it doesn't

follow it is well with your soul G is

I'm going to pray that you may have

health too do you notice he says I pray

about it health is physical but it's a

thing to pray about as well we should

pray about everything God made our

bodies as well as our souls so we pray

for the whole lot we have a concern for

the whole men because we believe in

Souls we don't neglect people's bodies

and because we believe they have bodies

we don't neglect their souls do you

remember Paul writing to Timothy

he says Timothy I'm a bit concerned

about your tummy trouble I advise you to

take a little wine for your stomach sake

hasten to add that he meant him to rub

it in but um no he didn't actually

that's just for for those who are a bit

worried about the text but Paul said

look I'm concerned about you

Timothy I'm concerned about your

body this was our Lord's own way Jesus

preached to a great crowd of people for

three days and then he didn't make an

appeal do you know what he said he

didn't say now let's have an act of

dedication he said you know these people

are hungry they haven't had anything to

eat we better find them some food isn't

that lovely concern for souls and bodies

This is Love guas you're well in your

soul I hope and pray that your body will

get bit better had he been overdoing it

was he tired in the Lord's service what

would gone wrong it is well with your

soul now he says I know that you're a

man who follows the truth and everybody

else knows it the Brethren tell me

everybody tells me there could be few

greater tributes to a man than that he

follows the

truth we might say he's a true man he's

a true friend he's a true Christian same

thing true ringing true that's

guys now he says not only do you follow

truth but you follow love you welcome

preachers you welcome these Christians

who go around they've left home and

family for the Lord's sake not for their

own ambition or gain but for his sake

and they refuse to take anything from

the heathens so they are dependent on Christian

charity I believe that this is a

fundamental principle of the Lord's work

that the Lord's work should be

financially supported by the Lord's

people otherwise it looks like

commercialism I remember when Billy Rah

came here the number of people I met who

said how much is he going to get out of

it well of course he didn't take a

hapney for his trips to Britain that

there might be no ground for anyone

thinking it's commercialism but these

traveling preachers they refused to take

any money even if it was offered from

unbelievers they said no we want you to

have the gospel free Paul did the same

and I believe a Church's Finance should

be run the same way

I have reservations therefore about

official Chaplan and other

things I even wonder whether we should

expect the state to pay for teaching

Christianity in

schools these men took nothing from the

Heathen they said we will go out for the

Lord's sake we'll rely on him to provide

for our needs through his people and gas

was one of those who was in a position

to provide for their needs

let's make it quite certain that if this

Christian lives by faith it's because

that one lives by works do you see what

I mean if this Christian is living

believing that God will provide it is

because this Christian is living as a

provider for God and this is the pattern

and both are living by faith one because

God told them to live on gifts and the

other because God Cho told them to give

and the two become part partners and

sharers in the work and guas was a

sharer in the task he never left his

place but he shared in the missionary

work and every penny you give here to

keep a missionary somewhere else makes

you a partner in Mission now here we

come to a rather nasty person isn't it

happy that the clock has gone round I

don't need to spend long time on him

diot trophies he's as nasty a character

as guas was nice he couldn't be Ed on

his teaching his truth was all right but

his love just wasn't there he was a man

who wanted to be boss of that little

church he liked to have the first place

he didn't want any Rivals he didn't want

anybody else he didn't want any other

preachers he didn't want anybody but

himself and so he wouldn't acknowledge

even the Apostle John talked a lot of

nonsense about him it says he wouldn't

welcome any other preacher and if his

church members gave Hospitality to a

visiting preacher preacher he turned

them off the membership role incredible

men and he was the preacher here and

diates is a nasty character and John

says he's overemphasizing Truth at the

expense of

love the women are opening their doors

too wide and he's shutting it too tight

he lacks love they lack

truth you see the balance again and so

he says don't imitate people like that

I'll tell you who to imitate Demetrius

he's a man is true if you want someone

to follow follow him I've come to the

conclusion that people learn more by

imitation than

instruction don't know if that strikes

you but I look at my children you know

they pick up far more from me

unfortunately from imitation than

instruction I tell them to do things but

they do what I do instead and they

imitate we mimic the literal word here

is mimic most of the things you do you

mimic that's how you learn that's

perfectly good it's a good way of

learning and in the New Testament Paul

dares to say imitate me as I imitate

Christ it's how you learn copy me now

copy those who do good not those who do

evil copy Demetrius not

diates I haven't had a diophy in every

church I've been in thank God I haven't

occasionally such thorns in the flesh come

come

along but John says imitate this man not

that man learn to walk the Christian

Life by watching a good Christian doing

the same thing so he finishes the letter

your peace you notice that joy in the

previous letter is related to having

truth peace is related to having love

can you imagine that church where diophy

was can you imagine that church meetings

can you imagine the divisions I can see

them saying I like cifas I like Apollos

I like Paul and comparing ministers you

can see all that coming and so he says

peace be to

you if you get love and truth in Balance

you'll get joy and peace in the

church if your truth is right you'll

have joy if your love is right you have

peace isn't this

lovely let me close by making a

statement publicly definitely of this

church Let It Be widely known that our

homes our church and our Pulpit are wide

open to any servant of the gospel of

Christ let it also be known that our

homes and our church are tight

shut against those who pervert the

teaching of

Jesus that's our Hospitality our

Christian Duty

it is a knife edge to walk may God give

us wisdom to know where the line is and

pray oh God our Father your hus your

word always lays Upon Us duties that are

too great for us burdens and

responsibilities that are too heavy and

our poor feeble Minds hesitate to draw

this line that must be drawn and the

limit to our

Hospitality oh God our heavenly father

we come to you now because you never

command anything without giving the

grace and the strength to do it and we

ask now that you will help us as we

welcome your

servants from time to time from all over

the world help us to balance Truth and

Love and above all we pray that in our

attitude and relationships to each other

we may love one another in the truth for

amen from time to time parents bring

babies to

church and they do so not as a kind of

coming out ceremony or a naming ceremony

and this has nothing to do with

christening it's not a kind of dry

cleaning as somebody put it

this is bringing a baby that God has first

first

given and giving the baby back to God

it's the most solemn and serious thing

to do really because there's nothing

more precious to parents than their baby

and to give away the thing that is most

precious to you as a very big gift when

you do it you say God this baby is not

ours from now on it's

yours he's yours to do whatever you wish

with him and whatever you do we shall

never never say anything we shall not

want him for

ourselves if in our old age you want him

the other side of the world preaching

the gospel We shalln't complain he's

yours and we are going to be foster

parents bringing up this baby for you as

moses' mother brought up Moses for

Pharaoh's daughter that's the big thing

that Barry and darene have come to do

this morning and bringing little Andrew

Robert back to God God gave him and now

God is getting him back again will you

turn to the end of your hym

book number

878 where we're going to read just a few

scriptures about a Christian Home 878

responsively here o Israel the Lord our

God is one Lord and thou shal love the

Lord thy God with all thine heart and

with all thy soul and with all thy might

and these words which I commend theee

this day shall be in thine

heart and thou sh teach them

dently children and shall talk of them

th in House Husbands Let each of you

love his wife as himself and let the

wife see that she respects her

husband children your parents in the

Lord for this is right hon your father

and mother

fathers do not provoke your children to

anger but bring them up in the

discipline and destruction of the put on

then as God's chosen ones holy and

beloved compassion kindness loneliness

meekness and

patience for one another and one compl

another forging each other as the Lord

has forgiven you so you also

and above all these things put on love

which binds everything together in

Perfect Harmony and whatever you do in

word ored do everything in the name of

the Lord Jesus giving thanks to God

father through

stand going to ask you bar and I'll in

you promise to do all within your power

to bring this child up in the knowledge

and fear of the Lord and to put no

stumbling block in the way of his future

faith we do going to ask the members of

the congregation here do you promise to

pray for this family and do what is

within your power to help them to keep this

promise Andrew Robert God gave you to us

and we give you back to him and pray

that you may grow up to be one of of his

servants the Lord bless you and keep you

and your family

amen take this child and bring him up

Lord let us bow our heads in

prayer father we pray that by your mercy

this boy May one day through his own

decision and Faith come to know those

things which we most desire for him at

this moment we ask that to this end the

dedication of these parents to the awesome

awesome

responsibility of bringing up this

child we pray that they may be given

your grace your strength your love that

they may their home may have the joy and

the peace that is not to be found in

other homes only those places where

Jesus Christ is the head of the house

and where father and mother are one in

Amen Let us sing together hymn number

kneeling in my presence

presence [Music]

[Music] all

all [Music]

[Music] press

press Christ

Christ [Music]

[Music]

[Music] children

children

for our

children we [Music]

[Music] PR

sec in

in Jus

[Music]

name grace mercy and peace will be with

you from God the father and his son our

Lord Jesus

Christ as we love one another in truth

truth amen

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