The elder, believed to be the Apostle John, wrote to Gaius, commending him for treating others fairly, whether they were brethren or strangers. It seems that John’s point in writing was to tell him how nasty a man named Diotrephes treated him; he may have been part of Gaius’s church.
If you profess to be a Christ-follower, your temperament should be in the likeness of Jesus. If you don’t show a loving heart to others, do you truly have Jesus? Does the Holy Spirit reside in you? When we first started going to our church, we immediately faced opposition from someone who thought that I shouldn’t be using an electronic Bible. I get it; notifications can be distracting. However, what he didn’t know was that I was capable of verifying everything taught in real time, including looking up the Greek meanings and other things because I had my study tools right in front of me. He wanted the preacher to admonish me for using it. That didn’t happen, and I’m still there, and he’s gone. Not everyone who claims Jesus is saved, and you can tell who they are by their fruit.
Don’t get so comfortable in your “Christianity” that you fail to reflect the likeness of Christ. People notice. John wasn’t going to put up with such nonsense from Diotrephes, and planned to handle the situation by reprimanding his evil deeds the next time he visited Gaius.
Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God. 3 John 1:11
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