Walking in Truth and Love

God Loves Us
God's Eternal, Preserving, Renewing Love

God's Love Manifested

2 John 4-11. The Message

4-6 I can’t tell you how happy I am to learn that many members of your congregation are diligent in living out the Truth, exactly as commanded by the Father. But permit me a reminder, friends, and this is not a new commandment but simply a repetition of our original and basic charter: that we love each other. Love means following his commandments, and his unifying commandment is that you conduct your lives in love. This is the first thing you heard, and nothing has changed.

Don’t Walk Out on God

7 There are a lot of smooth-talking charlatans loose in the world who refuse to believe that Jesus Christ was truly human, a flesh-and-blood human being. Give them their true title: Deceiver! Antichrist!
8-9 And be very careful around them so you don’t lose out on what we’ve worked so diligently in together; I want you to get every reward you have coming to you. Anyone who gets so progressive in his thinking that he walks out on the teaching of Christ, walks out on God. But whoever stays with the teaching, stays faithful to both the Father and the Son.
10-11 If anyone shows up who doesn’t hold to this teaching, don’t invite him in and give him the run of the place. That would just give him a platform to perpetuate his evil ways, making you his partner.

For Reflection

Many times we are reminded in the New Testament, that there are those who would pervert the gospel. During the early development of Christianity, one of the perversions arose out of the misunderstanding of Christ's divinity and humanity.  To understand Christ as either divine or human, but not both, is to neutralize the meaning of God's sacrifice for our sake.

Only through the study of Christ can we understand our salvation as God has intended. Study and prayer in the fellowship of authentic Christians is an effective way of warding off the seduction of those who preach the Antichrist.

Pray

Pray that you will be diligent in your study and prayer life so that you may be able to arm yourself with the truth.