II John 1:8 “Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.”
In context, the phrase, “those things which we have wrought”, refers to the teaching “that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh” (II John 1:7), and it is also called “the doctrine of Christ” (II John 1:9). It is said to “have” been “wrought” because the Apostles were diligently working to preach and teach the things that they had witnessed themselves and had received directly from the Lord. In this case, the “doctrine of Christ” declares that “Jesus Christ” is the Son of God and truly God, that God the Father sent Him into this world to Sacrificially give His Life to “save his people from their sins”, that He gave His Precious Life to redeem “his people”, that His body lay in the tomb for three days and three nights, that He Resurrected Himself, that He walked on this earth for forty days after His Resurrection, that He ascended up to His Heavenly Throne, that on His appointed day He will return to raise the bodies of “his people” to life, and that He will take His Resurrected “people” to be forever with Him in the Heavenly Home that He has prepared for them. The “deceivers”, the “antichrists”, are hatefully trying to negate and destroy the “doctrine of Christ”. Thus, we are charged to “Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought” concerning the true “doctrine of Christ”. And now, in our day, the “deceivers”, the “antichrists”, are still posing an ominous threat to the true “doctrine of Christ”. The threat is no longer subtle, it is now aggressively blatant. So, let us “go in the strength of the Lord GOD” (Psalms 71:16) and “Look to” our “selves” to “be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might” (Ephesians 6:10), “put on the whole armour of God” (Ephesians 6:11), and “be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord” (I Corinthians 15:58).