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Gaius: A Picture of Real Prosperity

Dave Shaner

January 13, 2002


Introduction: What things do you look for to determine if someone is prosperous? There are a lot of ways to measure prosperity.

Text: III John 1-8

There are several people in the New Testament named Gaius:

1. Acts 19:29
2. Acts 20:4
3. I Corinthians 1:14
4. Romans 16:23

John prayed that his whole being may be as well as his soul. He's praying that everything else in his life would match his spiritual health.

I. A Prosperous Man

A. John's ____________

1. That Gaius would prosper _______________.
2. That Gaius would prosper _______________.

B. John's ____________ - "that love proves he holds the truth."

1. It is impossible to love the truth and hate the brethren.
2. I Peter 1:22

C. John's ____________ - "that we practice hospitality."

1. I Timothy 3; Titus 1
2. Romans 12:13
3. Hebrews 13:1-2
4. Matthew 10:40
5. III John 8
6. Some thought Gaius was not doing a good thing. - III John 9-10
7. There are a lot of good things you can support, but there is one thing you must support.
8. I Thessalonians 2:19

III. A DANGEROUS MISTAKE - some challenges

A. To equate being __________ with being __________. - I Timothy 4:8
B. To equate being __________ as being __________. - Revelation 3:17

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