PHILEMON

Onesimus- “profitable, useful”
1. THE DIVINE

• The author is more important than the subject
• A chapter is not the book
• The end of the story is not written
  

2. THE GRACE

• We do not always get what we deserve
  Philemon 1:10, 15
  I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I became in my imprisonment. For this perhaps is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back forever,
• A bad decision can have a good result when grace intervenes
  Philemon 1:11
  (Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
  

3. THE PERSONAL

• The Christian always strives to correct what he did wrong
  Philemon 1:12
  I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.