Sermon Tone Analysis

*Philemon 1-25*

 

The apostle Paul was a prisoner in Rome for the cause of Jesus christ, he had been arrested of enduing a riot on the temple grounds in Jerusalem, every were Paul went there was revival or riot...

while in his rented house under house arrest, he was chained to a guard and the guard was changed every four hours, why so they could not get away, many gave there hearts to Jesus. it was during this time that he wrote the letter of Colossians and Ephesians, chained to that guard he desorbed the  armor of the roman solider, we will look at this next week,

during this time he also wrote this postcard of Philemon,.

Tychicus was the “postman” who delivered Colossians (Col.

4:7) and Ephesians (Eph.

6:21), and Onesimus (the bearer of this epistle) accompanied him (Col.

4:9).

These letters could possibly have been written during the Caesarean or Ephesians imprisonment, as some assert; but the weight of evidence supports the traditional view that Paul wrote them during his Roman imprisonment.

The date was probably a.d.

60 or 61.[1]

 

 

  Onesimus was a runaway slave and very probably a thief into

     the bargain.

"If he has done you any damage," Paul writes, "or,

     if he owes you anything, put it down to my account--I will repay

     it" (Phm 18 - 19).

Somehow the runaway had found his way to Rome,

     to lose himself in the thronging streets of that great city,

     somehow he had come into contact with Paul, and somehow he had

     become a Christian, the child whom Paul had begotten in his bonds

     (Phm 10 ).

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Onesimus was a run away slave he robed his master and fled both counts are very serous, we assume that Onesimus run into Paul in Rome, he  went through his money and gives his live to Jesus Christ.

Onesimus, makes himself of great value to the apostle Paul...

.. some where Paul ran into Onesimus and he was converted to Jesus Christ, now that he is saved he has a decision to make what to do about this runaway slave.

Paul was a rabbis and he was familiar with the law and what you will find in the law my be surprising.

put yourself in the place of Paul you are a Jew rabbis by training.

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*/Deuteronomy 23:15-16/*

15 “You shall not give back to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you.16 “He may dwell with you in your midst, in the place which he chooses within one of your gates, where it seems best to him; you shall not oppress him.

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this is a great surprise , according to the law of Moses Paul was privileged to hold on to him.

Paul chooses to send him back , as a testimony to those who were at the church at Philemon’s home. he could have kept him and been justified in doing so, he could have set him free, but what Paul did showed a great love for both men.. Slaver to us today is foreign.

How could one man own another..

 

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a different culture, ( frediscksburdge  Virginia- I saw one of the blocks still there, it was the same in Paul’s day,) you were nothing but a “: living tool”

You had no rights and could own nothing.

if you were part of this culture and herd that you were bought with a price you would understand.

do you know what is  like to be put on a public corner and stand on a block in front of others as you are sold, stripped of every thing including your family have a person buy you for there use or abuse.

and then to have a writer to say you were bought with a price and every slave hearting this would ask is this what it means to be a Christian.

we are owned by Jesus the minute we say yes to him

 

Your master could kill you and you had no way of requires, there was no one you could appeal to , you are nothing more that a animal.

if you..

 

Rome was literally filled with slaves.. the tax records in Rome in the in the time of Paul showed 870,00 people~/ 500.00 of them were slaves,  of the new births recorder there were %70 salves, Rome had a problem  they were letting them go by the thousands.

when one would rebel because of the numbers they would be delta with harshly for fear that there would be a  uprising, so it took very little to put your slave to death.

What made it worse was that the slaves were deliberately held

     down.

There were in the Roman Empire 60,000,000 of them and the

     danger of revolt was constantly to be guarded against.

A

     rebellious slave was promptly eliminated.

And, if a slave ran

     away, at best he would be branded with a red-hot iron on the

     forehead, with the letter F--standing for fugitives, runaway--and

     at the worst he would be crucified to death.

Paul well knew all

     this and that slavery was so ingrained into the ancient world

     that even to send Onesimus back to the Christian Philemon was a

     considerable risk.

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Just when St Paul was reaching Rome, four  hundred slaves men and women including  no doubt literary slaves of high culture along with the most menial, were executed and deliberant sanction of the senate, while troops lined the streets to prevent a popular rescue.

and why because  their master, pedanius, had been murder by one of his household; under terrible provocation, if all tales were true.

and Old custom, says the dispassionate historian Tacitus, required in such a case that the whole exaction slaved household should suffer death, as a deterrent, .. Crucifixion at the masters absolute sentence was the common punishment for even petty larcenies by slaves.

and it need not be said that other and more everyday penalties were cruel in proportion.[4]

if you were a runaway you were branded with a F on your forehead telling everyone that you were a fugitive.

Luther put it that *we are all  Onesimus*, and this is true we were at one times slaves to sin..

 

we are as Paul put it many times a bond slave of Jesus Christ.

we are his we have no rights we have noting but Him and the he in turn pours upon us His wealth and calls us SONS and Daughters...

 

Paul in this letter says he is a prisoner and this was literally but also we are his, , just as that slave we have been bought with a price we are now bond slaves of Jesus Christ, you will sever somebody..

 

Onesimus now going back to his master Paul writing this letter to him interceding for him on his return.

Philemon 1 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,

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Paul was a prisoner of Jesus notice he does not say of Nero or of  Rome but of Christ Paul understood that his life was  Jesus’ that he was not in prison by accident but by design.

we have to understand that we are his, no matter the circumstances we are his.

and with that it helps me not to gripe about my circumstances so much I am here by and for Christ.. my stupidity gets me into trouble, but God even allows that to teach me.

My life is in his hands no mater what.

as david prayed

 

*/Psalm 31:14-15/*

14 But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord;

I say, “You are my God.”

15 My times are in Your hand;

 

PS 139

 you know me, you have hemmed me in from front and behind and have laded your hand on me.

My life my times my circumstances are in his hands and he can be trusted, Paul a Prisoner of JESUS CHRIST..

 

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also notice that he did not used his authority, I am the APOSTLE PAUL you will do this.

the ministry is not being a dictatorship or pulling rank on others it is service.

being available.

many with there mouths say I want to be in ministry, but were are they, they are not here , what they are saying to me is that they want to be in control they want to be seen they want to control people.

it is not to be like that !!!!

 

 

 

*/Matthew 20:25-28/*

25 But Jesus called them to Himself and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them.26

“Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant.27

“And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave—28 “just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

 

in the ministry there is those who would get into running your life, you must do this our that , this is the wrong concept of the ministry..

 

in the ministry it is if you want to be used it is to serve.

not what do I get out of it our how can I militated someone to do what I want.

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Philemon 1 To Philemon our beloved friend and fellow laborer,

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Philemon is unknown except from this epistle, but several things may be concluded about him.

He was: (1) a Colossian (Col.

4:9); (2) led to Christ by Paul, probably in Ephesus (v.

19); (3) fairly well-to-do (implied by the generosity mentioned in vv. 5, 7 and his ownership of slaves); (4) loved by the brethren (v.

1); and (5) active in the work of the gospel (fellow worker, v. 1).[5]

 

he had a church in his home,

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Philemon 2 to the beloved Apphia, Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:

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*apphia*

this apparently is his wife