Mar 10, 2015
Reconciled, Changed and 'Useful' for the Glory of God
The Book of
Philemon
A message of hope, grace, and love through Jesus Christ our
Lord!
Teaching through the Book of
Philemon, this message speaks of reconciliation and forgiveness,
and from going from being unsaved and unuseful to being saved and
useful for the glory of God.
"Therefore,
though I might be very bold in Christ to command you what is
fitting, yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—being such a
one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ— I
appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten while in my
chains, who once was unprofitable to you, but now is profitable to
you and to me.
I am sending him
back. You therefore receive him, that is, my own heart, whom I
wished to keep with me, that on your behalf he might minister to me
in my chains for the gospel. But without your consent I wanted to
do nothing, that your good deed might not be by compulsion, as it
were, but voluntary.
For perhaps he
departed for a while for this purpose, that you might receive him
forever, no longer as a slave but more than a slave—a beloved
brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the
flesh and in the Lord. — Philemon 1:8-15
Recorded 7/25/99. Released 3/10/2015
Chris
Lawson
Jude 3