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Maybe you can remember the very first time it was said to you.
Or maybe even clearer is the time that you said it to your physically grown child, those few words of “/it’s time to stand on your own two feet/”.
I sure remember when it was said to me; I was boarding the greyhound heading up to Birmingham Ala, to what the government called its processing station.
That was place where they took all kinds of tests known to man on you to make sure that you are healthy enough to serve your country.
And from then you went to 8 weeks of Basic training.
The there would be 7-8 months of specialized training.
So it was going to be almost a year’s worth of training, almost a year of not being at home and seeing the folks; so my dad felt it was time to say what he said; /“it’s time to stand on your own two feet.”/
Those times when that is said can be the most natural and most happy times of life, because someone is growing up.
Like when a child is leaving for college; or right before they walk down the isle and become man or wife; or just like me in my case, I was blazing my own trail in life.
That happens because life doesn’t stand still; but naturally opens up doors and opportunities for marriage, kids, professions, etc.
Yet there are situations when persons are faced to grow up and stand on their own two feet; even when they feel that they can’t or shouldn’t have too.
I can’t help but think of a friend of ours that was with us in Bible College.
As a girl of sixteen her dad died surprisingly; her mother couldn’t handle it so she abandoned her three kids on their own.
Here was a sixteen year old girl who just wanted to be sixteen; she didn’t even know how to drive; she had to have someone else show her.
She suddenly found herself having to stand on her own two feet.
She dropped out of HS and went to work to support herself and her two younger sisters.
Between working to pay for rent and buying groceries, she somehow was invited to church and became saved; that was all the family she had up to that point.
But there in church she meet a young man, fell in love, became married and God called him to preach and she is now a pastor’s wife.
She is one of the sweetest persons I know, not bitter at all that she had to grow up in a hurry; while others her own age took their time.
That’s sad but it is true about life.
Yet it is even truer when it comes to being a Christian in this world.
Sometimes we are faced and even forced to grow up spiritually speaking real quick.
That’s what is happening when we look at the second major person here in the book of Philemon; Onesimus the runaway slave who became saved is faced with having to stand on his own two feet now as a Christian and take responsibility for what he has done.
This was a major test of his newly found faith of being a Christian.
Right out of the shoot, his faith is being tested!
Remember last time we talked about Philemon’s test of his faith.
He was wronged and as we saw he as the older Christian was faced with the test to /deny/ himself what was his legal right to have done to his runaway slave.
But Onesimus as the new, young Christian in the Lord; his faith is being tested as to its sincerity!
The word /sincerity/ and its other forms (sincere) are found a good many times in our bibles.
For example,
 
Joshua* *24:14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in /sincerity/ and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
1Cor 5:8  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of /sincerity/ and truth.
 
2 Cor  1:12  For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly /sincerity/, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you ward.
2 Cor  2:17  For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of /sincerity/, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
 
2 Cor 8:8  I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the /sincerity/ of your love.
Eph 6:24  Grace /be/ with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in /sincerity/.
Amen.
Tit 2:7  In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, /sincerity/..”
 
Our sincerity as a believer is just everywhere in the scriptures; we just can not dismiss it.
We can’t get away from it.
To understand what is at sake here when it comes to our /sincerity/ as believers look with me at one of those references 1 Cor 5:8.
Paul said, Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of /sincerity/ and truth.
Two things here;
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The word used here.
The word Paul uses for our English word /sincerity/ goes back to Hebrew word /eilikrineia/ (eye-lik-/ree/-ni-ah); /Strong’s/ /#1505/: Literally “/judged by sunlight/.”
The word alludes to Oriental bazaars where pottery was displayed in dimly lit rooms.
Unscrupulous merchants would patch cracked pottery or cover defects with wax.
Intelligent buyers would hold up the pottery to the sun and judge its quality by the sunlight.
/Eilikrineia/ is transparent honesty, genuine purity, manifested clarity, and unsullied innocence.
It describes one who does not fear thorough examination of his motives and intents, because he has nothing to hide.[1]
Paul is saying that as Christians ourlives should be lived and judged by the light!
 
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The apostle Paul also compared /sincerity/ to unleavened bread (1 Cor.
5:8), which is always a biblical symbol of purity.
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*What was UNLEAVENED BREAD*?
— bread baked from unfermented dough, or dough without yeast or “leaven” (Gen.
19:3; Josh.
5:11; 1 Sam.
28:24).
Unleavened bread was the flat bread used in the Passover celebration and the priestly rituals (Lev.
23:4–8).
The tradition of eating unleavened bread goes back to the time of the Exodus 12, when the Hebrews left Egypt in such haste that they had no time to bake their bread (Ex.
12:8, 15–20, 34, 39; 13:6–7).
Leaven was produced by the souring of bread dough.
Its exclusion from ceremonial breads symbolized purity.
You just couldn’t get anymore purer, anymore scared, anymore genuine, anymore sincere than unleavened bread to a Jew!
Now with that idea in mind about sincerity let’s think about Onesimus.
He’s a new Christian, he’s done wrong and now he’s facing this test which will display just how true, how genuine, how authentic, how real his faith is in this new found God! Him going back and facing up to what he’s done is a major test of his faith in God! His life was literally in the palm of someone else’s hand, yet since he found a God that was bigger than his sin problem maybe he realized that God is still bigger than this problem that he has brought on himself.
For everyone that has every done something wrong, ever hurt someone else, ever was at fault for a problem that others had; Onesimus paved the way.
He stands for all Christians that have ever had to come back and admit those most painful little words, “I was wrong …”
            When we have wronged someone else that’s the prime time for us to learn how /to stand on our own two feet/ as a Christian while proving just how sincere our faith really is.
There will be times when others have wronged us: but I think that the times of us hurting others just might overshadow it.
So when our faith is put to the test of having to face someone else remember these few thoughts.
/To Stand on our own Two Feet means…/
I. Confession
That’s no big earth shaking thought, but it is the first step.
When was the last time that you had to painfully confess that you were wrong to someone else?
Maybe nothing life-changing, but you were wrong nevertheless?
If you have to go back a few years in your mind to when you were wrong; then this right here just might be your problem.
Have you ever meet someone that thought that they never done anything wrong?
I thought I would have to wait until I was in heaven to meet someone like that, but there they were in all their glory!
Happy in their minds that they never have to say they are sorry.
Give me a break!
/Confession does for the soul what preparing the land does for the field.
Before the farmer sows the seed he works the acreage, removing the rocks and pulling the stumps.
He knows that seed grows better if the land is prepared.
Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts/.
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      A.
Confession to God
(1) Confession leads to Salvation.
Rom 10:9 -13 That if thou shalt /confess/ with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
(2) Confession helps us stay right with God.
 
1Jo 1:6-9  /If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: /
/ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
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/If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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/If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness./
When we have wronged God with our sins, confession is the first step back into fellowship.
Confession keeps us in the light!
Confession keeps us right with God.
Spurgeon said “keep a short list of your sins with God”, i.e. confess regularly.
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