CONNECTIONS (1 OF 4)
Scripture: Philemon 1
, Philemon 2
, Philemon 3
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Title: Connections (1 of 4)
Series: The Book Of Philemon
Author: Collin Wimberly
Text: Philemon 1-3
CIT - Paul introduces himself in his letter to Philemon.
Proposition - Paul's introduction lays the foundation for developing and maintaining godly relationships.
INTRODUCTION:
ILLUS: Not long after Jack Benny died, his longtime friend and partner, George Burns, was interviewed on Television.
"Jack and I had a wonderful friendship for nearly fifty-five years." He said.
"Jack never walked out on me when I sang a song, and I never walked out on him when he played the violin.
We laughed together, we played together, we worked together, we ate together. I suppose that for many of those years, we talked every single day.
We all long for those kind of friendships don't we. If you have one or two, you are fortunate. Many people never experience that level of relationship, but all of us need them and want them. We all want friends who will cry with us, laugh at our jokes, and remember our birthdays. We all want someone who will always be there for us, no matter what.
Philemon is a book about relationships and forgiveness. It is a book about a good man, Philemon, a leader in the church at Colossea, his runaway slave Onesimus, and the great old apostle of Christ Paul.
This book gives us some wonderful insights into the connections, the relationships that we need as humans and believers. These first three verses tell us a lot about Paul's own connections.
Paul's connections were underscored first by
I) HOW HE REGARDED HIMSELF - VS. 1a
A prisoner of Jesus Christ. What does this tell us about how Paul thought of himself?
A) HE DID NOT REGARD HIMSELF AS A PRISONER OF THE STATE - Paul was in a
Roman prison. Philemon is one of the prison epistles, written from Rome. He does not say that he is a prisoner of Rome. Nero may have ordered his imprisonment, but they were the driving force behind it.
In fact, they had only a small ...
Series: The Book Of Philemon
Author: Collin Wimberly
Text: Philemon 1-3
CIT - Paul introduces himself in his letter to Philemon.
Proposition - Paul's introduction lays the foundation for developing and maintaining godly relationships.
INTRODUCTION:
ILLUS: Not long after Jack Benny died, his longtime friend and partner, George Burns, was interviewed on Television.
"Jack and I had a wonderful friendship for nearly fifty-five years." He said.
"Jack never walked out on me when I sang a song, and I never walked out on him when he played the violin.
We laughed together, we played together, we worked together, we ate together. I suppose that for many of those years, we talked every single day.
We all long for those kind of friendships don't we. If you have one or two, you are fortunate. Many people never experience that level of relationship, but all of us need them and want them. We all want friends who will cry with us, laugh at our jokes, and remember our birthdays. We all want someone who will always be there for us, no matter what.
Philemon is a book about relationships and forgiveness. It is a book about a good man, Philemon, a leader in the church at Colossea, his runaway slave Onesimus, and the great old apostle of Christ Paul.
This book gives us some wonderful insights into the connections, the relationships that we need as humans and believers. These first three verses tell us a lot about Paul's own connections.
Paul's connections were underscored first by
I) HOW HE REGARDED HIMSELF - VS. 1a
A prisoner of Jesus Christ. What does this tell us about how Paul thought of himself?
A) HE DID NOT REGARD HIMSELF AS A PRISONER OF THE STATE - Paul was in a
Roman prison. Philemon is one of the prison epistles, written from Rome. He does not say that he is a prisoner of Rome. Nero may have ordered his imprisonment, but they were the driving force behind it.
In fact, they had only a small ...
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