August 27, 2017 | Pastor John Bayles | Contending for Fellowship, Favor and Forgiveness | Philemon 1-25

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August 27, 2017 | Pastor John Bayles | Contending for Fellowship, Favor and Forgiveness | Philemon 1-25

Contending for Fellowship, Favor and Forgiveness
Philemon 1-25

This letter to Philemon. like Colossians, is another close up look at the process of restoration of relationships. Only here in this first verse Paul describes himself a s prisoner of Christ Jesus. This is an appeal to freedom found in Christ. Paul is pleading with Philemon, a Christian, to receive Onesimus, a Christian as a brother in Christ not as a former slave in chains. We will see in this passage a difficult appeal to literally live in a new covenant context.

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