Transformed Relationships: From Compulsion to Compassion.
Philemon: How the Gospel Transforms Relationships • Sermon • Submitted
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Introduction
Introduction
Philemon 12–14 (ESV)
12 I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart. 13 I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel, 14 but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own accord.
Sending my very heart.
Sending my very heart.
Splanchnon - GUTS!
DEEP emotional attachment, compassion.
Campared to : kardio (center of self)
I would have been glad to keep him with me.
I would have been glad to keep him with me.
What if Paul had just told Onesimus to stay?
Not by compulsion.
Not by compulsion.
Paul still wants Philemon to do something. What?
Colossians 3:12–14 (ESV)
12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.Paul wants Philemon to take the next step in his walk with Jesus.
The gospel transforms us from people of compulsion to people of compassion.
John 15:12–17 (ESV)
12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
Jesus gave us commandments. They’re not optional.
But he also called us friends.
He could have called us servants. We ARE servants.
He could have reminded us that he is our Master. He IS our Master.
Jesus did something radical. He called us friends. He chose to put himself on a level with you and me where we could actually love him and love one another.
The gospel will transform lives as we love people the way Jesus does.
The gospel will transform lives as we love people the way Jesus does.
Not by compulsion.
It’s compassion. It’s heart and guts.
Will Philemon have compassion for Onesimus?
Will you and I have compassion for one another? For our neighbors?