I. EXORDIUM:
Do you have answered prayers?
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To enumerate what we do here on earth while waiting for our LORD JESUS CHRIST.
IV. TEXT:
Philemon 1:22 (Amplified Bible)
At the same time prepare a guest room [in expectation of extending your hospitality] to me, for I am hoping through your prayers to be granted [the gracious privilege of coming] to you.
V. THESIS:
GOD prepares a place for us, we hope and we are aided by our answered prayers while here on earth.
VI. TITLE:
Paul's future meetup with Philemon
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Author: Apostle Paul
B. Date written: 60 A.D.
C. Purpose: To appeal to Philemon to receive, forgive and restore Onesimus even as Philemon would receive Paul
D. To whom written: Philemon.
He was apparently a member of the church at Colosse, which seems to have held its assemblies in his house (Philemon 1:2). His benevolence (Philemon 1:5-7), and Paul's request for him to prepare a lodging (Philemon 1:22), indicate that he was a man of some means.
As Paul had never been in Colosse (Colossians 2:1), Philemon must have met him elsewhere, possibly in Ephesus, which was not far away. It would seem that he owed his conversion to the apostle, Philemon 1:19.
—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines
E. Main Theme:
A personal plea with Philemon to forgive and restore Onesimus, his once runaway slave, now converted through the ministry of Paul. As a runaway slave, it is inferred that he robbed his master and fled to Rome (Philemon 1:18). There he came under the influence of Paul and was converted (Philemon 1:10). He became a devoted disciple of Christ (Colossians 4:9). Paul would have chosen to detain him in Rome as a helper (Philemon 1:13), but not having the consent of Philemon (Philemon 1:14), he felt it to be his duty to send the slave back to his master. So the apostle writes this beautiful letter of intercession, pleading with Philemon to receive Onesimus as though he were receiving the apostle himself.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines
F. Keywords: Receive (forgive and restore) him
Philemon 1:12 (Amplified Bible)
1:12 I am sending him back to you in his own person, [and it is like sending] my very heart.
Philemon 1:17 (Amplified Bible)
1:17 If then you consider me a partner and a comrade in fellowship, welcome and receive him as you would [welcome and receive] me.
G. Keyverses:
Philemon 1:16-17 (Amplified Bible)
1:16 Not as a slave any longer but as [something] more than a slave, as a brother [Christian], especially dear to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh [as a servant] and in the Lord [as a fellow believer].
1:17 If then you consider me a partner and a comrade in fellowship, welcome and receive him as you would [welcome and receive] me.
VIII. MAIN BODY:
A. Preparation
"At the same time prepare a guest room [in expectation of extending your hospitality] to me,"
Psalms 23:5 (Amplified Bible)
23:5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my [brimming] cup runs over.
Isaiah 25:6 (Amplified Bible)
25:6 And on this Mount [Zion] shall the Lord of hosts make for all peoples a feast of rich things [symbolic of His coronation festival inaugurating the reign of the Lord on earth, in the wake of a background of gloom, judgment, and terror], a feast of wines on the lees—of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
1 Peter 1:13 (Amplified Bible)
1:13 So brace up your minds; be sober (circumspect, morally alert); set your hope wholly and unchangeably on the grace (divine favor) that is coming to you when Jesus Christ (the Messiah) is revealed.
GOD is the Source of all preparation and GOD is the One preparing a place for us.
John 14:2 (Amplified Bible)
14:2 In My Father’s house there are many dwelling places (homes). If it were not so, I would have told you; for I am going away to prepare a place for you.
How awesome is our GOD is!
B. Hope to meet again
"for I am hoping"
Psalms 25:3 (Amplified Bible)
25:3 Yes, let none who trust and wait hopefully and look for You be put to shame or be disappointed; let them be ashamed who forsake the right or deal treacherously without cause.
Psalms 42:5 (Amplified Bible)
42:5 Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, my Help and my God.
Psalms 62:5 (Amplified Bible)
62:5 My soul, wait only upon God and silently submit to Him; for my hope and expectation are from Him.
Our Hope is in the LORD JESUS CHRIST. Our Hope is in the Person of the LORD JESUS CHRIST.
C. Answered prayers
"through your prayers to be granted [the gracious privilege of coming] to you"
John 15:7 (Amplified Bible)
15:7 If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.
Isaiah 58:9 (Amplified Bible)
58:9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, Here I am. If you take away from your midst yokes of oppression [wherever you find them], the finger pointed in scorn [toward the oppressed or the godly], and every form of false, harsh, unjust, and wicked speaking,
Jeremiah 33:3 (Amplified Bible)
33:3 Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, fenced in and hidden, which you do not know (do not distinguish and recognize, have knowledge of and understand).
JESUS is the Answer to all our prayers.
IX. CONCLUSION:
GOD prepares a place for us, we hope and we are aided by our answered prayers while here on earth.
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