This episode we examine, perhaps the most personal letter written in Scripture. But, the more I studied and prayed the more I discovered what an in depth representation of the gospel. I saw the law of CHRIST - a law of love! I saw humility and a desire to see the church built up! Oh, what an amazing tender and intimate book in Scripture! Join with us as we examine the book of Philemon. Grace and peace to all who are in CHRIST JESUS.
1 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,
To Philemon our beloved brother and fellow worker,
2 and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,
5 because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints;
6 and I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through the knowledge of every good thing which is in you for Christ’s sake.
7 For I have come to have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
8 Therefore, though I have enough confidence in Christ to order you to do what is proper,
9 yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—since I am such a person as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus—
10 I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my imprisonment,
Philemon 1-10
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