The Joy Of Shared Faith

5-19-19 The Joy of Shared Faith (Philemon 1-7)

¹ Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,

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

³ Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

⁴ I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers, ⁵ because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints, ⁶ and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.^[a] 7 For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.

Philippians 2. In verses 7-8 Paul writes that Jesus; “…emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,[c] being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”

“To Philemon our beloved fellow worker ² and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house”

⁴ I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,

“⁵ because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints,”

“If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.”

⁶ and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.

⁷ For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.