Today, I am reading and commenting on  2 John, 3 John, and Jude.

Merry Christmas

In today’s reading we have three separate letters, two by John and one by Jude.  Today I am going to write about their common theme(s).  In John’s second letter (we looked at the first one yesterday), he writes that God’s command is that we love one another.  John tells us that he writes this reminder because so many deceivers, who deny that Jesus came in the flesh, have gone out preaching.  Such deceivers are the antichrist.  Anyone who teaches anything other than that Jesus lived, died for our sins, and was resurrected, and that He taught us to love others, should be rejected, and avoided.  In his third letter, John tells us that we should welcome, and show hospitality, to those who travel around preaching, and demonstrating, God’s love to unbelievers.  In other words, we should show our love for them, and for their target audience, by providing for their needs.  We should avoid imitating those who maliciously refuse to welcome such people to the local gathering of God’s people.  Jude follows up on that theme by warning us that such people are a blemish on us in our fellowship.  Jude tells us that they boast about their own good deeds, while finding fault with others and grumbling about everything.  They will flatter others in order to manipulate them into following their flawed teachings.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.