Do not imitate what is evil...!

3 John 1:11 NKJV

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God.

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† Shalom †......! Day #185. Do you know that he or she who does evil has not seen God? Let us pray. Father, let us not imitate evil and do evil, but do what pleases You. In Jesus name we ask and pray, amen!

Friends, Jesus said in Matthew 5:8  "Blessed [are] the pure in heart, For they shall see God." And again in this verse today apostle John is telling us those who do evil has not seen God. A pure heart is not an evil heart, therefore only the pure in heart will see God. It means also he or she pure in their motives in serving God and serving one another,  serving with all humbleness, serving in and with love, walking right with God. Evil-workers vainly pretend or boast acquaintance with God. Let us not follow that which is proud, selfish, and of bad design, though the example may be given by persons of rank and power; but let us be followers of God, and walk in love, after the example of our Lord.

Beloved, follow not that which is evil,.... Follow not evil in general, it being hateful to God, contrary to His  nature and will, and bad in itself, as well as pernicious in its consequences; and particularly follow not, or do not imitate the particular evil or evils in Diotrephes; as his pride, ambition, love of preeminence, and tyrannical government in the church, and especially his hard heartedness, cruelty, and inhospitality to the poor saints; and so the Arabic version reads, "do not imitate him in evil"; the examples of persons in office and authority have great influence. But that which is good; follow and imitate that, be a follower of God, imitate Him in acts of kindness and beneficence, be merciful as He is; copy the deeds of Jesus Christ, who went about doing good, and declared it to be more blessed to give than to receive; and tread in the steps of those good men, who have shown love to the name of Christ, by ministering to his saints; for though the apostle may mean everything that is good, which is to be followed and imitated in any, yet he chiefly designs acts of kindness and beneficence to poor saints and ministers: to which he encourages by the following, he that doeth good is of God; he is a child of God, he appears to be so, in that he is like to his heavenly Father, who is kind and merciful; he is born of God, he is passed from death to life, which his love to the brethren shows; he has the grace of God, and strength from Christ, and the assistance of the Spirit, without either of which he could not do that which is good. Amen...!

Let this day be the day of the Lord!

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In His Majestic service,

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