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We are reminded that God graciously unites us into one family. We are encouraged to serve one another with humility.

Introduction: The Gospel demands all of us. It is something that penetrates our minds and hearts. It changes the way we live, think, spend our finances, raise our children, do marriage, and relate to others. It demolishes social barriers, economic barriers, and ethnic barriers. There is no aspect of…

It has been an amazing week. On Monday night as I tried to clean up my house and my Dad was watching Monday night football, I saw a player go down without being touched. My heart sank. I know football and this wasn’t a normal football injury. You may care less about football and in just a few seconds…

Order of Service Welcome Hymn - Psalm Reading “You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit. You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke…

Reminder One more week before review. Next week will be John The 20th will be review. Review Why do we call them the gospels? How many synoptic gospels? Why do we call them synoptic? What do the gospels teach us? What was the first gospel written? Why study New Testament survey? What is internal and…

Intro; Andy and Dave were best friends from childhood. Andy came from a very influential family in town and were faithful members at the Baptist church. Dave was from the wrong side of town and his family did not attend church. But this societal difference did not affect their friendship in life. They…

A little context for you. The book of Philemon is a short letter written by St. Paul in the early 60’s. Paul writes to a wealthy Christian man and church leader named Philemon living in Colassae who’s slave named Onesimus ran away and befriended Paul. The book of Philemon is perhaps one of the most clear…

COUNT THE COST OF CHRISTIANITY I went in the Navy SEALS website and it says right in the beginning of their website: this is how you can assess and ponder whether you want to be a Navy SEAL. Then they lay out exactly what it's going cost you, and what they describe is intense. In the first phase of training,…

Lord, grant me the grace to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change those things that I can, and the wisdom to know the difference Wilberforce MP dedicated his life to abolishing slavery Undoubtedly influenced by Paul in Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave…

Last week we started a sub theme of our study of the church. There are certain things good churches do; just as there are certain things bad and dying churches do (think Revelation 2-3 ). Last week I took the whole sermon to preach about the most important activity of a healthy church - The preaching…

Main Idea Build intentional bridges that support the weight of truth. Outline and Core Passage I - What Relational Evangelism Is II - Why we do evangelism III - It is what Jesus modeled for us IV - How You can live this out 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are…

Intro: There is an old saying that goes something like this, “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care!” That is a true statement. Matter of fact, that is a statement of biblical proportions. 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. In the…

We’re continuing our flyover of the New Testament, and we’re flying fast. Last week we flew through 7 books: James, and then 6 letters written by Paul: Galatians, 1 & 2 Thessalonians, 1 & 2 Corinthians and Romans. Today, we’re going to review Paul’s remaining 7 written during his Roman imprisonment.…

Paul’s Plea read 10-21 Paul wants the Gospel to be at work in Philemon’s life wants him to forgive wants him to accept Onesimus as a beloved brother as an equal in the sight of God Read 22 Pray Prepare A Guest Room Paul is making plans to visit what does that make Philemon think? he is going to check…

Paul’s Plea Paul writing to Philemon about his runaway slave Onesimus who is returning V 8 - 16 read V 17-21 Pray Partnership V 17 If you Regard me as partner, comrade, brother in arms, brother in Christ Paul is assuming Paul is putting the responsibility on Philemon to regard Paul the same then accept…

The New Man Onesimus is a new man, a new creation born from above, adopted into the family Onesimus has changed from being a useless slave to a useful brother in the eyes of God Onesimus was a sinner on his way to hell someone not deserving of anything good like the rest of the human race, a blind beggar…

Philemon’s Spiritual Maturity Paul hear about the faith and love Philemon has Paul prays for more maturity for him and the church the knowledge of everything that is good to be known so that Jesus would be glorified Paul here is reminding Philemon that he it is by grace that he is who he is Paul is going…

Greetings grace to you to be filled with grace to be humble and in need of grace grace to live the christian life the way God intends grace for every aspect of the christian life but it needs to be acquired by faith Paul is going to continue with thanksgiving and prayer for Philemon and the encouragement…

The Big Ask Happy Mother’s Day again! In watching the news this morning as I was getting ready to come to the church one of the newscasters said that Mothers are often not appreciated in our culture today. Yet in my experience, you will seldom meet someone who would say they don’t appreciate their mother.…

Paul’s Greeting Who is the letter written to? and why to the church? the same greeting that is in all of his letters but why does Paul begin with grace and peace is this just something they said back then? Read Philemon 1-3 . Pray The structure first 3 verses Paul a prisoner Christ Jesus Paul followed…

Philemon Philemon is a personal letter written to a good friend by the Apostle Paul in regards to a new brother in Christ, Onesimus Onesimus was and still is a slave of Philemon Paul is sending back Onesimus to Philemon but not just as a slave but a brother we are looking at the introduction of this…

Scripture Text 13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we have…

Last week we took time to remember all the things that God is to us. -He is a Sovereign God. -He is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. -He is the Father of Mercies. -He is a God of Comfort. Today I want us to stop and take a look at how exactly God is working. 1. God allows trials to come our way!…

“Confronting Benny” - Ben Patterson, He Has Made Me Glad, 2005; Larson & Ten Elshof, Editors, 1001 Illustrations that Connect fi-lee-mun (Google:British, Webster) fuh-lee-mun (Google:American, Webster,BibleSpeak.ord) fill-luh-mun (BibleSpeak.org) Learned from KJ - Fi-lee-mun He's our mediator and our…

Theme: The appeal of the Gospel is made tangible in life by servants made useful by the Gospel. Illustration: Providence and One Life Bible Study. “All things come to pass immutably and infallibly so that there is not anything befalls any by chance, or without his providence.” The lot is cast into the…