Philemon                       

Philemon Chapter -1-
  1:1 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother: to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker, 2 to Apphia our sister and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church at your house: 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ [k].  

4 I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers, 5 for I have heard of your love and the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the devoted ones. • 6 I pray that the fellowship and sharing of your faith might energeo inside of the acknowledgment of every good thing that is inside of us, inside of Christ. 7 For I have great joy and encouragement because of your love, because the hearts of the devoted ones have been refreshed through you, my brother.

8 Therefore, because I possess an abundantly bold speaking inside of Christ to direct you in what is suitable 9 for the sake of love, and, even more, since I am such a one as Paul the aged, now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus, I encourage you. 10 I encourage you for my child, Onesimus, whom I have begotten in chains. 11 He was once useless to you, but now he is useful both to you and to me. 12 I have sent him back to you in person – he who is my very heart – 13 whom I had wanted to keep with myself, so that he might serve me in the chains of the gospel on your behalf. 14 Apart from your consent, however, I wanted to do nothing, so that your good might not be according to necessity, but according to willingness. 15 For perhaps he was separated from you for a time, so that he might be yours through the unfolding of ages, 16 no longer as a slave, but much more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me, yet how much more to you, both inside the sphere of flesh and inside of the Lord.

17 If, therefore, you consider me a partner, receive him as me. 18 If he has wronged you in any way, however, or if he owes you, charge it to me. 19 I, Paul, have written with my own hand. I will repay it. May I not say to you that you owe even yourself to me also? 20 Yes, brother, I would receive benefit from you inside the Lord. Refresh my inward parts inside of Christ. 21 Since I am persuaded of your attentive hearing, I write to you, knowing that you will do even above what I say.

22 At the same time, prepare also a lodging for me. I hope that through your prayers I will be granted to you. 23 Epaphras greets you, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, 24 as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers. 25 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Let it be so – it is so.
 		  
 
Gospel Comments Notes
• Definition: To acknowledge is to prophesy Christ; it is to call forth that which is not outwardly visible. This is the meaning of koinonia energeoing, the working of the fellowship of faith in our gathering together, the meaning of Life in our midst.

• Speak Christ: To acknowledge Jesus as ALL is to speak to and of one another, that we see Jesus alone in one another’s hearts and faces. We do not “list sins,” for we live in no sufficiency in self, but all sufficiency in Jesus. We acknowledge all the details that are Jesus inside of us. We sow to the Spirit, we reap Christ in one another (see Galatians 6:1 & 8).

• The Form for God through Jesus: The Energeoing inside our fellowship together is God in our midst, God in power and as our shared Life together. We call forth the Father; we live inside of Love, the Father at Home in our midst.

• Ruling Verse 7: Jesus is all, already. Jesus is real and He dwells in our hearts. We set our eyes only upon Him; we see no sin or separation from God. Out from seeing Jesus, in our own hearts, and in one another’s hearts and faces, we speak and we walk. Seeing Jesus alone is our Confidence, that He has already made us to be just like Himself. Inside this confidence that God always leads us, we walk as Jesus walks, in Resurrection Life now, in God through us for others. This is the third HOW of God, how we live the normal Christian life. We acknowledge Jesus as all inside ourselves and inside one another. And in acknowledging Jesus as all, we see and acknowledge EVERY Good thing that He is, especially our Love for one another, especially sharing Hheart with God.		 k. One interested in writing sales copy should study Philemon, for it is one of the best examples of succesful persuasion ever penned.