Chatham Christian Church

And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write...

And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write...

To the angel of the church in Ephesus write...

On Easter Sunday morning the Apostle John outran Peter to the tomb.... some sixty years later the Risen Lord appeared again to John.

Surely if God intended the Revelation to be understood He would have given us the basics we need to understand it... and this He has done...

John's third letter is addressed to the beloved Gaius, and in it we will be challenged to prosper in the truth, support the truth, submit to the truth, and witness to the truth.

We must be committed to the truth.

John wraps up his letter in the last four verses with three more assurances, actually certainties, and a final warning.

If you died today, would you go to heaven?

Paul's made it absolutely clear that if we’ve received the gospel and are holding fast to it, we’re saved. Saved from the consequences of our sin. Do you believe that?

After all, Nikes make you a winner, or at least they make you look like one. And as a result they have become the most recognizable shoe in the world and a household name.

God is love and the ultimate expression of God’s love was made 2,000 years ago when He sent His only begotten Son. That fact has changed our lives. However by itself that fact doesn’t change many lives.

God defines love. And if we define love as expressed in God and revealed the Bible, love can be the guiding principle of life.

Love helps us understand God. And God helps us understand love.

John reminds us that even though the spirit of the antichrist is prominent, the spirit of truth will win.

A Christian must be a believer... a Christian is also called to be an unbeliever. The same Scriptures that encourage us to believe also encourage us not to believe.

John has made it very clear that we can be assured of our standing before God... Not only can we have assurance, we can actually have confidence before God.

There is a lot of uncertainty in the world today.

This morning we continue our study of the two most powerful forces in the world: love and hate.

John has already drawn our attention to light and darkness, life and death, truth and error, God and the devil. And this morning we come to love and hate, the two most powerful forces on earth.