First let's get something clear about erroneous notions of Paul and his founding a new religion, which he didn't. True, the halakhah of his Judaism switched from the Pharisaic oral law to the Ruach Hakodesh, but his religion was still one of the Judaisms of the time, not a new non-Judaism Gentile religion.

MOSHIACH'S LETTER THROUGH THE SHLIACH YOCHANAN TO THE BRIT CHADASHA KEHILLAH (III)

This letter is written to Gaius with the prayer that as he

prospers spiritually he will prosper in every other way with

health and a balanced life pleasing to G-d (see verse 2).

Yochanan had in some way helped to lead him to the L-rd (see

verses 3-4) and Gaius in turn had shown kindness and hospitality

to travelling emissaries of Moshiach's shlichut (verse 5) who had

reported Gaius' generosity (verse 6) before the Brit Chadasha

kehillah where Yochanan is presently, probably the same Brit

Chadasha kehillah as in I and II Yochanan, in Asia Minor.

The purpose of the letter is to commend an itinerant emissary of

Moshiach's shlichut named Demetrius (verse 12). When planting a

new congregation or doing any form of outreach, the nonbelievers

are not to be asked for money (verse 7). Therefore, the

congregations and their elders are to offer hospitality and

material help to travelling messianic ministers and

servants of the L-rd such as Demetrius (see vs. 5-8). Gaius is

warned to beware of the example of Diotrephes, who enjoys too

much being the person in charge. This man is a malicious gossip,

a person who thinks nothing of excluding people from his

ministry, or putting a ban on ministers by lording it over others

and telling them who they can or cannot have fellowship with.

This kind of behavior almost throws the salvation of this man in

question (see vs. 9-11).

III Yochanan 9 I wrote something to the Brit Chadasha kehillah;

but the one loving to be first (among) them, Diotrephes, does not

receive us.