WHAT MADE DIOTREPHES A FOOLISH PASTOR?

WHAT MADE DIOTREPHES A FOOLISH PASTOR?

Samuel Machado

Diotrephes the Elder!

Slipping From Grace!

Gave ROOM For the DEVIL!

The OLD LIAR!

Returning Back to the UGLY Vomit!

Diotrephes was LED BACK into FLESH!

Disturbing the Assembly!

Denying the LORD'S Missionaries!

Diotrephes Had Clearly Upset!

The APOSTLE JOHN!

Becoming the VERY REASON!

For the THIRD EPISTLE of JOHN!

Men Like Diotrephes!

Do Exist in the CHURCH Today!

Being Corrupted in the HEART!

And, Corrupting the ASSEMBLY!

They are RESERVED!

For the Final Fire! Amen!

Shalom,

Samuel Machado

JESUS LOVES YOU THE WAY YOU ARE!

Judges 6:24

3 JohnNew Living Translation (NLT)

Greetings

1 This letter is from John, the elder.[a]

I am writing to Gaius, my dear friend, whom I love in the truth.

2 Dear friend, I hope all is well with you and that you are as healthy in body as you are strong in spirit. 3 Some of the traveling teachers[b]recently returned and made me very happy by telling me about your faithfulness and that you are living according to the truth. 4 I could have no greater joy than to hear that my children are following the truth.

Caring for the Lord’s Workers

5 Dear friend, you are being faithful to God when you care for the traveling teachers who pass through, even though they are strangers to you. 6 They have told the church here of your loving friendship. Please continue providing for such teachers in a manner that pleases God. 7 For they are traveling for the Lord,[c] and they accept nothing from people who are not believers.[d] 8 So we ourselves should support them so that we can be their partners as they teach the truth.

9 I wrote to the church about this, but Diotrephes, who loves to be the leader, refuses to have anything to do with us. 10 When I come, I will report some of the things he is doing and the evil accusations he is making against us. Not only does he refuse to welcome the traveling teachers, he also tells others not to help them. And when they do help, he puts them out of the church.

11 Dear friend, don’t let this bad example influence you. Follow only what is good. Remember that those who do good prove that they are God’s children, and those who do evil prove that they do not know God.[e]

12 Everyone speaks highly of Demetrius, as does the truth itself. We ourselves can say the same for him, and you know we speak the truth.