The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

2 John 1:6-11, “And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

8 Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.

9 Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.

10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting,

11 for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.”

The passage quoted above unquestionably interlocks our love for the LORD with the love He has for us, as His children. Simultaneously, He enables us to love others while we are simultaneously loving Him. Love, therefore, is circulatory. “We love Him because He first loved us”; and, simultaneously, we love others through Him.

As circulatory as all of this seems, the LORD indeed makes it work to His glory. His involvement clearly separates us from the deceivers mentioned in verse seven above.

At the same time, we are to be careful to always openly express the teachings of Christ that we have within our hearts. For the one who fails in that surely does not possess the Spirit of Christ. May the LORD bless and control us all at all times.

Heartily in Christ,

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

United States of America

“We will never know that Christ is all we need, until He becomes all that we have.” –Corrie ten Boom