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Invite your attention to a 
passage found in the book of 

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Philemon. 
And I want to begin reading 

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there with you. 
In verse 8, Philemon, and verse 

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8, Therefore though, I might be 
very bold in Christ to command 

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you. 
What is fitting yet? 

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For Love's sake? 
I rather appeal to you being 

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such a one as Paul the agent and
now also a prisoner of Jesus 

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Christ. 
I appeal to you for my son 

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onesimus, whom I begotten wild 
in my chains who was once 

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unprofitable to you, but now is 
profitable to you. 

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And to me, I am sending him 
back, you therefore receive him.

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That is, My own heart for a 
little while from this one 

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chapter book here. 
This letter from the great 

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Apostle Paul to Philemon, we 
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from this story. 
We want to talk about the 

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qualities of a forgiver. 
And number two, the actions of 

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forgiveness will simply call our
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This afternoon for giving a 
runaway slave Philemon was a 

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Christian in colossi. 
Earlier we find that he was 

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converted by the great Apostle. 
Paul, his wife's name was Sophia

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and his son's name was 
archivists. 

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And the Bible says that the 
church met in their house, you 

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know Philemon is family, 
evidently was well off, at least

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enough to own slaves and one of 
those slaves was named onesimus.

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I don't know how old this slave 
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we find that one day in search 
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He decides to flee. 
Lee thinking he can go and get 

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lost in the underground of Rome 
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another faceless run away. 
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providentially or not? 
Providentially or not he would 

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run into the it would run into 
one of the greatest preachers, 

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the world ever knew he runs into
the great Apostle, Paul, who 

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teaches him, the gospel, he 
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the gospel and he becomes a 
child of God and changes his 

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life forever. 
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Here, we find has changed his 
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realizes his value and realizes 
also that he was of Great Value 

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to him in Chains and in Bonks, 
but he realizes, he can't keep 

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him. 
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unfinished business with 
Philemon and he knows he has to 

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send them back. 
He knows that switch. 

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Right, so he writes a letter and
he sends him back to Philemon. 

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In this letter, it really. 
It's a petition to forgive his, 

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The Plea to forgive what is 
society. 

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Say what in society, say, back, 
in those days about runaway 

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slaves, I read three things 
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When you were a runaway slave, 
none of them was very good at 

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all. 
They were all terrible. 

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One of which and here's the 
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They were taken to a Roman 
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Remember this morning, I said 
that crucifixion was so awful 

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that the Romans literally 
shuddered even think about it or

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even speak about it. 
The terrible thing it was so bad

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that a Roman citizen could never
be crucified. 

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We know all that. 
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have said crucifixion was for 
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that was his fate perhaps to be 
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Secondly, there was another 
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someone that became a fugitive. 
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He was taken, he was bound and 
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But thirdly, there were 
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Now, I got to tell you. 
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cattle my entire life. 
I have branded more cabs than I 

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could even count. 
I know what it's like to take a 

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hot Branding Iron and put it in 
the fire. 

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I know what it's like to string 
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him on his hip. 
I know what that's like. 

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I know the smell of the burning 
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I know that too. 
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happening to fugitives or 
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times. 
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they would take a hot Branding 
Iron and it would be the letter 

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F and F represented. 
Fugitive, they would take that F

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and bore it into the forehead of
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So he would be scarred for the 
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So, no matter where he went, 
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and you can't trust him. 
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Things happened to run away. 
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But in contrast, to all this 
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forgive him, I want you to 
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I want you to forgive him. 
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is and this is interesting to 
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He's expressing his confidence 
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Watch this. 
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you can forgive onesimus because
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verse 4. 
He says I thank God. 

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Good for you. 
I know you're someone that can 

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forgive because you have these 
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I never understood. 
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when an older person would 
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was younger. 
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I didn't, I've never gotten 
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I don't understand that. 
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younger person. 
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much. 
Praise because I don't want you 

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to get the big head. 
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If somebody is worthy of praise 
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What is Paul doing here? 
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forgiving qualities that 
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He's giving him legitimate 
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Did you know that legitimate? 
Praise is somebody's greatest 

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encouragement. 
I have people in my life that 

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gave me legitimate praise. 
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flowery stuff. 
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stuff. 
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That's well deserved and given 
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Withheld. 
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is somebody's greatest. 
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praise is very important. 
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Number one, a nourishing food 
for virtue, and a strong 

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antidote against sin. 
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Because it Praises someone for 
the qualities that they possess 

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and it sets the standard that 
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give you an example. 
Thought about this just a little

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bit ago, I'm a little sad. 
I was talking to shy about this.

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My youngest is 18 and just 
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I have been a part of my kids 
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Both of them are there 1821. 
I've been a part of every single

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thing they've ever done. 
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I've loved it would have done it
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But now I'm going to have to in 
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And all of those days of having 
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young child is gone. 
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grandchildren and that's even 
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spoil them rotten and send them 
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So that's coming up. 
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legitimate praise. 
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goes and there's something that 
happens and they're going to get

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in trouble, but they have the 
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own two feet. 
Look you in the eye and tell you

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the truth. 
They're going to get in trouble,

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but they tell the truth when you
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telling the truth. 
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Number two, it sets the standard
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They want that reputation. 
They want to continue with that 

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reputation. 
My dad thinks I'm a truthful 

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courageous person and it's an 
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The Apostle Paul is giving 
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is well deserved, but it's also 
extremely brilliant because he's

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going to ask him to forgive this
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bit number one for having 
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He says, I know you can forgive 
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Lord. 
Look at verse 5, I have on the 

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screen hearing of your love and 
faith, which you have toward the

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lord Jesus, Again, well-deserved
compliment, absolutely, but it's

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extremely brilliant. 
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know. 
You can forgive Philemon because

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of your concern for the Lord. 
You're a faithful member of the 

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body of Christ. 
You are aware of all the things 

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that the Lord has done for you. 
You have a desire to honor the 

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Lord in your life because of 
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Now, if you look at the words up
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present tense. 
Meaning you You two have. 

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In other words, this is your 
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I thank God for you because you 
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the Lord in Ephesians chapter 4,
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kind to one another 
tender-hearted forgiving one 

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another, even as God in Christ, 
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God, forgives us. 
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he does so for Christ's sake. 
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Ephesians? 
He says, forgive one another As 

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God, forgives you, and he did. 
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concern, for the Lord would 
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Colossians chapter 3 and verse 
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Bearing with one another and 
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anyone has a complaint against 
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you. 
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So, the first characteristic of 
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for the Lord. 
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For people in verse 5, it says 
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which you have toward the lord 
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I got to say something about 
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First of all, I got to say, what
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You know, love is a lot of 
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But let me talk about what love 
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Love is not ecumenical. 
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ecumenical love is really a 
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and it actually means this, it 
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of someone, regardless of what 
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they practice and regardless of 
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Sometimes people say that we 
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false Doctrine, because after 
all, we love them and love being

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a queue medical. 
We And that is not in the Bible,

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it doesn't say that at all. 
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read about is always a got Bail 
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love. 
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That is always attributed to 
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sacrifice for others. 
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about love and I know it's 
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Sometimes people are just not 
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fuzzies, it's the way it is. 
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there's some people that you 
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that way and then there's some 
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said you had to and that's a 
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talking about, though deals with
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In fact, that's the difference 
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you treat. 
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You can say that you feel a 
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demonstration of your actions 
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It is the outward manifestation 
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So we love her hate someone 
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Agape love. 
Concern for people, your love 

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for people. 
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six for in Christ. 
Jesus, neither is there 

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circumcision nor uncircumcision 
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working through love. 
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that we have passed from Death 
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Brethren, he who does not love 
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Again, you have the capacity to 
forgive because of your concern 

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for the Lord and your concern. 
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Thirdly, your concern for 
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In verse 6, it says that the 
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effective by the acknowledgement
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Christ Jesus. 
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means the joint sharing of one's
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this. 
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become effective and we Vine 
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active in action. 
It's a matter of having an 

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active faith that has the power 
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In other words, Philemon will be
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effectively if he exhibits. 
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of hand. 
Now, Barn says this, he explains

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that Paul felt that this case 
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to show the world how much he 
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Gospel. 
But number four, he also had the

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capacity to forgive because of 
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First six, again that the 
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Christ, Jesus some translations,
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literally in the Greek it says 
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Deeds with all of its Joy's with
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responsibilities is for the 
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Now, I want to notice this. 
Now I want to notice the actions

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of forgiveness. 
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Notice this thing. 
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8, let's read that passage First
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though, I might be very bold in 
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What is fitting yet for Love's 
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I rather appeal to you as being 
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now also a prisoner of Jesus 
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Now, Now. 
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to forgive onesimus, he says I 
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then he says some other stuff. 
We're going to get to in a 

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minute. 
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the scene Philemon is reading 
the letter. 

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Standing right in front of him 
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The runaway slave that had 
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Perhaps ticha kisses standing 
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Perhaps he's there as well. 
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says, I come to you as Paul the 
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What does that mean? 
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so the agent I'm thinking 
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about an old man, you know, 
Scholars. 

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Tell us that about the time of 
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would have been about 60 years 
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give or take and he's writing to
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about 60 years. 
Years old and yet Paul says, I'm

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coming to you out of love, as 
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What does that mean? 
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Philemon had her son, our 
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Colossians chapter 4, a son in 
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preacher, 60 and 60, the two 
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says, I'm coming to you as Paul 
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that has been accelerated By 
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my I think the lat I like I said
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roped. 
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months old. 
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most of my life. 
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riders, one of them was a rookie
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other was an older bronc Rider, 
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He looked beaten had wrinkles on
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this young bronc Rider and the 
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to be at least 60 and he says to
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said, well son, I'm 30. 
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than that. 
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son, it's the miles, it's about 
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that's what Paul was saying. 
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about that, I know, I don't look
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I look a lot older now than I 
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I think some of the experiences 
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they turn our hair gray, they 
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That's what Paul was talking 
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What else did Paul say? 
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marks of the Lord Jesus, in 
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that he had, that's what he's 
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And he's getting to the tender 
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I'm coming to you not by 
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And by the way, Paul could have 
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to say, you take him back, 
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He said I could have done it 
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of love as Paul the agent, you 
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change a little bit but then he 
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that's not enough he says oh and
by the way I come to you as a 

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prisoner of Jesus Christ. 
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never said prisoner of Rome? 
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prisoner of Jesus Christ. 
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these things. 
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Jesus Christ. 
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the request. 
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Now here's the request I appeal 
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might be gotten while in my 
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Now, there are three actions of 
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forgiveness. 
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reception read with me, verses 
11 through 14, who was once 

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unprofitable to you, But now is 
profitable to you and to me I'm 

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sending him back. 
You, therefore receive him. 

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That's my own heart whom I wish 
to keep with me that on your 

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behalf he might minister to me 
in my change for the gospel, but

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without your consent I wanted to
do nothing. 

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That your good deed might not be
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voluntarily. 
So why take him back? 

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Why take him back? 
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Watch this. 
He is repentant, he is 

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transformed and Is proven 
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He is repentant, he's 
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faithful. 
Now, you might say, wait a 

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minute, where is it's a 
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Where does it say that there's 
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onesimus? 
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implied twofold. 
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implied in the very fact that 
he's now a Christian repentance 

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is a changing of the mind that 
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It's a matter of changing In 
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The very fact that he was a 
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Now demonstrates, that he is 
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that he is repentant. 
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done that. 
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to the scribes and Pharisees to 
show the fruits of repentance 

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and not just say the words, you 
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grandfather. 
I never really paid attention. 

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I never really realized how much
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over the years when he was 
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And some of the things I have to
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Some of the things that my 
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years, I didn't like here. 
Like I go and make a mistake or 

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I would do something and perhaps
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over again. 
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and I'd say a sorry, dad and my 
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don't you be sorry before you do
it or or time will tell if you 

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really are sorry because it will
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Behavior. 
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philosophy. 
I believe in the concept that we

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are what? 
We are. 

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Absolutely I tell my kids that I
told them that their whole life.

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You are what you are. 
Why, because you do what you do.

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Man, my kids hated hearing that 
but you know what did I tell 

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him? 
You know what? 

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If you don't like the reality 
change, the reality and you can 

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do that. 
But you are what you are because

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you do what you do. 
That's what my father was saying

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in time, it'll show if you 
really are, sorry, because you 

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keep doing the same thing over 
and over in time, it'll show if 

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you really are repentant and 
you've really made the change 

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nothing. 
I used to hate hearing, my dad 

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says this, are you sorry really 
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Sorry, you just got caught. 
My father was pretty brilliant 

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at the time. 
I didn't think he was but he was

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pretty brilliant. 
This man is changed in his 

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behavior. 
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part right there and that is. 
He's transformed he's 

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transformed Paul says receive 
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Take him back because he's 
repented and secondly he's 

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transformed in verse 11. 
Who was once unprofitable to 

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you? 
But now is profitable to you. 

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And to me, in other words, he's 
not the same guy. 

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You know what's interesting 
about the words in English 

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useless and useful, they kind of
sound similar, but they're 

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different. 
Okay, you know, they had a name 

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for slaves to, you know, it's 
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usually Bible names meant 
something. 

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We can go back to various When 
Rachel gave birth and to a son 

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she died in childbirth and son 
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sorrow later. 
Changed to Benjamin son of my 

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right hand. 
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Mephibosheth. 
His name actually means 

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dispeller of Shame which I don't
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Because he was really the object
of Shame. 

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But names in the Bible usually 
meant something. 

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Did you know that the word 
onesimus also means something, 

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it actually means useful. 
I understand too that we slaves 

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were slaves back then if they 
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would be given the nickname 
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useful. 
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they continued to be such. 
They actually bore that name in 

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a Permanent way. 
What he's saying is he's 

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transformed. 
He was not useful to you before,

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but he is useful to you again 
onesimus. 

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Now. 
Why? 

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Because he's transformed and 
he's profitable for you, he can 

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serve you in the right manner. 
For the right reasons, listen to

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Colossians chapter 3. 
And by the way, this would have 

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been brought at the same time 
this letter, 22 and 23. 

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Listen to this Bond servants 
obey in all things your Masters 

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according to the flesh. 
Not with eyeservice as men 

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Pleasers. 
But in sincerity of heart 

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fearing God and whatever you do,
do it heartily as to the Lord 

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and not to men. 
So Paul is telling Philemon that

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onesimus is now useful because 
he's now living up to his name. 

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Why he's transformed? 
He's repentant he's not the same

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guy but number three. 
He's proven faithful, proven 

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faithful verse 12. 
I'm sending him back. 

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You therefore receive him and 
then it says that is my own 

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heart. 
All right, got to make a point 

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about heart. 
That's from the new King James. 

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Now, sometimes people say this 
things like this, they say, I 

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know what the Bible says, but I 
just feel it in my heart. 

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Okay, that's not the heart of 
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Bible. 
All deals with the person's 

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intellect. 
In fact, the heart of the Bible 

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thinks reasons believes and will
base among other things, as with

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the heart of the Bible is so a 
person that changes their heart 

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is a person that changes their 
mind. 

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It is not a better felt than 
told process. 

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Okay, that's the heart of the 
Bible, that's not what this word

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is. 
When Paul said in the new King 

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James that is my I want you to 
receive him back because of all 

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those things. 
That is my own. 

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That's not the same word. 
In fact, the King James. 

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I think it's a better 
translation of that word. 

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It says that is mine own bowels.
In other words it refers to the 

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deepest feeling in your heart. 
It'd be the same thing. 

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If I went up to Shahi and I said
Shaw, hey, I'm asking you to do 

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this. 
I know it's difficult but I'm 

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asking you from the bottom of my
heart. 

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That's exactly what Paul is 
saying. 

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That's what he says when he says
that is mine. 

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Own heart. 
That word in the Bible, when 

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it's used is always referring to
the deepest part of a man's 

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emotion. 
Not the heart of the Bible, 

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different word, verse 13, watch 
this whom I wish to keep with me

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that on your behalf he might 
minister to me in my change. 

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Paul said, even though I keep 
him here for myself, I would 

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love to keep him here for 
myself. 

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I can't do that. 
You know, I think what he's 

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saying is to, he is so valuable 
this ex-slave of yours. 

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He is so valuable and useful 
that he helped me in my chains. 

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Just as if it was you, that was 
there. 

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Doing the very same thing. 
I count it as if it was you He's

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transformed. 
He's proven faithful. 

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But in verse 14, But without 
your consent, I wanted to do 

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nothing. 
That your good deed. 

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00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,400
Must be by compulsion as it were
but voluntarily. 

452
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:32,000
So the reason you should receive
him, he's repentant transformed 

453
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,800
and proven faithful. 
But the second part, the second 

454
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:39,600
action of forgiveness is 
restoration restoration. 

455
00:27:41,500 --> 00:27:45,600
Beginning in verse 6, 15 for 
perhaps, he was departed for a 

456
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,900
while for this purpose that you 
might receive him forever. 

457
00:27:49,900 --> 00:27:53,000
No longer as a slave but more 
than a slave of beloved brother.

458
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,000
Especially to me. 
But how much more do you both in

459
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,700
My Flesh? 
And in the Lord, now, 

460
00:27:59,300 --> 00:28:02,500
commentators will say that. 
The entire thing that happened 

461
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,200
was providential and why not? 
Why could it not be? 

462
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:07,700
Surely, it could be 
providential. 

463
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,900
I heard Joe. 
Hisle say one time recently, he 

464
00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:14,300
said everything's providential, 
he said the difference between 

465
00:28:14,300 --> 00:28:18,000
coincidence and Providence is 
coincidence, is Providence 

466
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,100
incognito. 
Okay. 

467
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,700
I'll accept that. 
Why could it not be 

468
00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:33,800
providential? 
But even still, if it wasn't it,

469
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:40,000
at least the saying he departed 
for a while and it was a good 

470
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,900
thing that he departed for a 
while. 

471
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,400
Because now he's a faithful 
member of the body of Christ. 

472
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:51,000
He's a Christian and I'm sending
him back to you to be restored. 

473
00:28:51,100 --> 00:28:54,700
A brother in Christ. 
In fact, where it says restore 

474
00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:57,900
forever to receive forever. 
Always means eternally. 

475
00:28:57,900 --> 00:29:01,700
In other words, you now Have 
this relationship with him in 

476
00:29:01,700 --> 00:29:07,300
this life and also for eternity.
It's at least that. 

477
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,600
Now here's the third one and 
this one's hard. 

478
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,600
Here's the third one, the third 
and final one. 

479
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:24,000
Restitution. 
Verses 17 and 18. 

480
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:29,300
If you count me as a partner, 
Receive him as you would me. 

481
00:29:30,700 --> 00:29:33,900
But if he has wronged you were 
owes you, anything put that on 

482
00:29:33,900 --> 00:29:39,400
my account now. 
There's a wrong done, obviously 

483
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:43,000
needs to be made right whatever 
file in the Philemon is out 

484
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,000
financially. 
He's got it coming back to him 

485
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,900
and what would he have been out 
financially? 

486
00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:51,400
Well, number one, there would be
the price that he paid for 

487
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,800
onesimus. 
The first time, the price of the

488
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:57,600
slave, number two, it would have
been the price of his 

489
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,300
replacement. 
Now, we can read back when 

490
00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:03,600
Joseph was sold into slavery. 
He was sold by his brothers for 

491
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:07,800
20 pieces of silver, the price 
of a slave, when Jesus was 

492
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,800
betrayed, he was betrayed and 
sold for 30 pieces of silver. 

493
00:30:11,900 --> 00:30:17,000
The price of a slave I read at 
the time of this writing that 

494
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,900
the price of a slave would have 
been about 500 denarii. 

495
00:30:20,900 --> 00:30:29,800
I or 500 day's wages so he would
have been out at least the price

496
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,000
that he paid for onesimus the 
price that he paid to replace 

497
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,800
him. 
But there's more, you know, 

498
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,400
during this time there It was a,
it was very common that people 

499
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,500
that had slaves, people that had
slaves, sometimes those slaves 

500
00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:47,200
would prove themselves to be 
worthwhile and worthy over time 

501
00:30:47,300 --> 00:30:51,100
and they would free them. 
In fact, in a 30-year period, 

502
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:56,500
five hundred thousand slaves 
were released to Rome So you 

503
00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:59,800
don't roam said, Rome said, so 
it doesn't become an 

504
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,300
overwhelming problem. 
Does you got all these homeless 

505
00:31:02,300 --> 00:31:05,300
slaves coming into Rome? 
This is what you're going to do 

506
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,900
and it was under the idea of 
manumission it was the idea of 

507
00:31:08,900 --> 00:31:11,400
the freeing of the slaves. 
This is what you're going to do,

508
00:31:11,500 --> 00:31:16,200
you can free the slave, but you 
o five percent tax on his value 

509
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,900
had to pay taxes. 
So can't you see, watch this, 

510
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:25,500
the price of onesimus, the price
of his replacement and the 

511
00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:28,500
taxation. 
He would have paid as a result. 

512
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:34,100
He is at least out all of that. 
Now some commentators would say 

513
00:31:34,100 --> 00:31:37,900
that onesimus stole money from 
Philemon, on the way out the 

514
00:31:37,900 --> 00:31:40,400
door and that's what he meant 
when he says what he owes you. 

515
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,500
There's there's no evidence of 
that to me. 

516
00:31:44,300 --> 00:31:48,500
There's no evidence. 
But Philemon is out some stuff, 

517
00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:52,100
right? 
And here is this slave. 

518
00:31:53,300 --> 00:31:58,400
And he's got nothing. 
But he's a Christian now and 

519
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,300
Paul sends him back and says 
accept him back. 

520
00:32:02,700 --> 00:32:06,600
You know, restitution is what 
has always been important. 

521
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,500
Remember when Zacchaeus and Luke
chapter 19, you know he was a 

522
00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:14,000
tax collector, he was a 
publican. 

523
00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:19,600
And Zacchaeus as it climbs that 
sycamore, tree to see the king 

524
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:24,100
to see Jesus. 
You remember what Zacchaeus said

525
00:32:24,100 --> 00:32:26,900
it's has been Zacchaeus stood 
and said to the Lord Lord look 

526
00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:29,900
I'll give half of my goods to 
the poor. 

527
00:32:31,300 --> 00:32:35,100
And if I have taken anything 
from anyone by false accusation,

528
00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:41,100
I restore fourfold. 
Jesus said today, salvation has 

529
00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:44,900
come to this house. 
Paul is saying if you consider 

530
00:32:44,900 --> 00:32:49,400
me a partner which means a 
fellow Christian, then receive 

531
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,300
him as you would me. 
And if he has wronged you or 

532
00:32:52,300 --> 00:32:58,800
owes you anything, I love this. 
He says put that on my account, 

533
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,000
don't you see a little picture 
here? 

534
00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:05,700
Can't we see a little picture? 
In this little scenario, 

535
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,000
Philemon represents the one 
that's wronged. 

536
00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:13,200
In this little scenario from a 
spiritual perspective, it 

537
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:18,500
represents God who has been 
wronged onesimus run. 

538
00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:21,300
Represents the sinner that ran 
away from God. 

539
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,800
God has been wrong, God is 
wrong. 

540
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:30,900
When we sin there, had to be 
somebody to pay the price Paul 

541
00:33:30,900 --> 00:33:32,900
represents. 
Jesus Christ in this when he 

542
00:33:32,900 --> 00:33:41,300
says, put it on my account and 
incidentally, I like what 

543
00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:47,100
somebody said, one time he said 
you never become more like God. 

544
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:52,900
Than when you forgive. 
And you never become more like 

545
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:57,800
Jesus than when you pay the 
price for somebody else. 

546
00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:02,900
Paul said he's got nothing. 
I want you to take him back 

547
00:34:02,900 --> 00:34:05,400
because he's repentant, he's 
transformed, he's proven 

548
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,400
faithful, he's a faithful 
friend. 

549
00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:12,600
He had to leave for a time. 
Providentially probably, he had 

550
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,100
to leave for a time that you can
receive him forever. 

551
00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:20,100
Not only in this life as a 
fellow Christian but also in the

552
00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:26,000
life that is to come eternally. 
Receive and forgive this runaway

553
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,699
slave in closing this afternoon,
you know, we don't hear any more

554
00:34:29,699 --> 00:34:32,400
about Philemon. 
We only hear about his son our 

555
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,600
campus, but I believe that he 
forgave onesimus. 

556
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:39,300
I believe that He restored him. 
I believe he forgave his debt 

557
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:43,199
and by the way, you know, when 
the Bible says to owe, no, man, 

558
00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:46,699
anything I'm going to close with
this, but when the Bible says 

559
00:34:46,699 --> 00:34:50,199
owe, no man, anything but to 
love one another you know, 

560
00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:52,699
there's a, there's something in 
there that we have to look at 

561
00:34:53,699 --> 00:34:56,100
When it says owe. 
No man, anything, it's talking 

562
00:34:56,100 --> 00:35:00,600
about depths now. 
It doesn't mean that you can't 

563
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,000
pay on credit. 
It doesn't mean you cannot pay 

564
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,600
overtime. 
I've heard people interpret it, 

565
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,800
that way, you can't do anything,
you have to pay cash for 

566
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,300
everything, that that's not what
that means. 

567
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,000
What it means is we have to 
honor all of our debts. 

568
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,300
We have to honor all of our 
obligations. 

569
00:35:16,300 --> 00:35:18,900
So when it says owe no man, 
anything it means. 

570
00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:23,000
I'm gonna honor my obligations 
to a person that I owe it to and

571
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,800
I'm going to A on it for the 
rest of my life until it's paid 

572
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:30,800
off. 
But then it says, but to love 

573
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,700
one another that is the debt 
that we pay that we will never 

574
00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:37,300
pay off forever. 
Forever. 

575
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:45,400
Now, if somebody says, I'll just
use shy, if Shahi, I owed Shahi 

576
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:51,800
money and I said, I can't pay 
And he said, pay me a dollar a 

577
00:35:51,808 --> 00:35:56,200
month and I do, I've satisfied 
that debt but what if shot he 

578
00:35:56,200 --> 00:36:00,300
says that's okay. 
You don't owe it. 

579
00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:06,100
I forgive you the debt. 
Okay, I'm not liable and I'm off

580
00:36:06,100 --> 00:36:10,000
the hook in that regard. 
He forgave me, the debt that I 

581
00:36:10,008 --> 00:36:14,000
could not pay. 
From a spiritual perspective. 

582
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,300
Folks. 
This is really the entire Point.

583
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:22,000
Jesus paid a price. 
He didn't know because we had a 

584
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:27,800
debt, we couldn't pay. 
In this scenario, in this 

585
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,800
scenario he was a runaway slave 
that couldn't pay his dad. 

586
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:35,400
Either. 
Paul said, put it on my account.

587
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,800
Forgiving a runaway slave.