Me First
3 John 9 I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us. (NKJV) (Previous devotionals can be found at www.seriousfaith.com)Within a few short years, the early church was already seeing many of the problems that we see today. The apostle John in our opening verse speaks of a man named Diotrephes who was refusing to show hospitality; not because he was trying to protect the truth, but because he loved to have “preeminence” among those around him.Preeminence is the idea of marked superiority, of being the most noticeable and of the highest rank or position.Colossians 1:18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, [...]
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