Message Mate: Philemon: An Appeal for Grace and Forgiveness




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Summary: Jul 6, 2012 - Jul 10, 2012 Philemon About six years before his execution, Paul wrote a postcard to his longtime friend Philemon, a citizen of Colossae. This, the shortest of the Apostle's writings, is one of the grandest illustrations of grace and forgiveness in all of Scripture. It is a warm, passionate appeal to a slave owner to accept back, forgive, and reinstate his runaway slave Onesimus. Because of the obvious analogy with our being accepted by God and forgiven through His grace, this little letter has become one of the most treasured in the New Testament. God's Masterwork, Volume Six: Letters to God's People—A Survey of Romans-Philemon read more