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Philippians 1:6

“Being confident of this very thing, that

“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”

According to Philemon 1

PAUL Refers to himself as “Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner.”

Paul is in prison, I believe, in Rome. He was writing to a member of the church in Colosse by the name of Philemon.

Philemon obviously was a wealthy businessman who had been greatly helped by the ministry of the Apostle Paul.

What a difference a letter can make!

just a short letter, twenty-five verses, written by a man who choosed not to focus on his own condition but on the need of a fugitive slave running from his past.

This epistle was not written to give us doctrine, nor did it correct anything that was wrong in the church.

It is a letter written by a preacher to a Christian businessman about his runaway slave, whom Paul had met and led to the Lord.

“I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:

Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me.”

Philemon 10-11

Now Paul, the imprisoned apostle, is asking that Onesimus, this fugitive slave, be permitted to be help in time of need.

This letter is preserved for us in Scripture today as an epistle of intercession, asking Philemon to pardon Onesimus and receive him as a brother in Christ.

It was written by the trembling hand of the aged Apostle Paul because he feels it is important to intercede for a runaway slave.

So In this book we have

An imprisoned apostle
A fugitive slave
A wealthy businessman

Each one of them, in some way, was incarcerated.

Philemon had been enslaved by sin, but the Gospel pardoned him.

Paul was imprisoned physically, but spiritually was free;

and Onesimus was free of his sin debt but was still legally indebted.

When Paul found him, the rich man was not as wealthy as he thought he was; and the slave was not as poor as he thought he was either. And the prisoner was the only one who could reconcile the two by bringing the offended one and the indebted together as brothers.

Paul, the imprisoned apostle, writes to Philemon, his son in the faith, and tells him that his runaway slave is now Paul’s son in the faith.

This would make Philemon’s slave his own brother in the faith; and if he is your brother, then he cannot be your slave.

Every one of us has at one time been a slave―a fugitive―in bondage to sin. And though we tried, we could not escape nor be released from our debt.

Some are still living as though they are enslaved by their past.

Every one of us can identify with runaway slave Onesimus.

A man of God found Onesimus and gave him the Gospel, and his life was changed forever.

Though the story began with his being a slave, it ends with his serving in the work of the ministry.

He began as an unprofitable fugitive but became a profitable servant of the Lord.

This letter teaches us that it does not matter where we came from,

Our past can be forgiven,

Our present can be profitable,

Our future can be promising!

Maybe you did not begin well,

But you can finish strong.

It is written in the scripture.

Philippians 1:6

“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” ―

When God touches your life, all that is bad can become good, BECAUSE YOU ARE DIVINELY CONNECTED!

“I AM TELLING SOME ONE RIGHT NOW ,

you don’t have to keep running.

You were at one time unprofitable, but now you CAN BE PROFITABLE to GOD, TO THE CHURCH, TO YOUR WIFE TO YOUR HUSBAND, SONS ,DAUGHTERS, FRIEND AND RELITIVE.

God has a plan for your life.

God does not want you to keep running away like a fugitive slave.”

It is God’s love and forgiveness that transforms a slave into a brother.

The APOSTLE WAS A MENTOR TO THIS SLAVE,

THE Word of God CHANGE this runaway slave and he became a profitable servant in the work of the ministry.

What CAN CREATE A difference between slavery and freedom, between life and death,

From an unprofitable life to one with new purpose

IT CAN TAKE A GOD MAN WHO ARE FILLED WITH THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT, WITH THE WORD OF GOD, THE LOVE OF GOD TO MENTOR AND MAKE intercession ON YOUR BEHALF.

Every one needs MENTOR, WE ALL NEED A MAN OF GOD in our life,

One who intercedes, one with a message to give that will change a life of bondage into a life of freedom.

IT IS WRITTEN IN

Colossians 1:11

Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

Ephesians 3:16-17

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Ezekiel 36:27

I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.

1 Peter 5:10 KJV

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, / confirm strengthen, settle/ establish you.

HE WILL START A NEW WORK IN YOU

Acts 1:8

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”

1 John 2:20

²⁰But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

IN OTHER WORDS

But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.

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