2 John 9 : “ Anyone who does not remain in Christ’s teaching but goes beyond it does not have God. The one who remains in that teaching, this one has both the Father and the Son .” The Second Epistle of John, the “postcard epistle,” is the shortest book of the New Testament. While it is short, it’s a great work of exhortation, calling its audience to action. The theme of 2 John is that of truth and deception. John’s greatest concern is that his sheep are walking in truth (2 John 4, 3 John 3,4). And the truth he is referring to is love. The command from the beginning is that we love one another. And loving one another is walking according to his commands (2 John 6). Simply put, we are to walk in love. The deception of that truth comes in the form of what we confess. In verse 7, John writes, “Many deceivers have gone out into the world; they do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh .” I emphasize those last few words because of their importance in our understanding of Jesu