We all love to receive an encouraging note from a friend.

And on one page of the New Testament, we find a very personal letter from Paul to Philemon.

This brief note to a friend is full of doctrinal truth and practical help for us all.

Open your Bible and your heart today as we come to the book of Philemon.

Let's join Scott Pauli now as we study God's Word together. I don't know about you, but I've had such a good time in the book of Philemon in these studies.

Just a good time thinking about the grace of God.

It has refreshed my heart.

And we've been looking at what the love of God

did for Onesimus and what the love of God enabled to transpire between Philemon and

Onesimus. Let's review just a moment. We're coming to the last part of our list today. What did the love of God accomplish? Well, in verse 10,

a slave became a son. In verse 11, an unprofitable man became a profitable man. In verses 12 through

14, a runaway was received. In verse 15, a man who had departed for a season was saved forever.

In verse 16, a servant became a brother. In verse 17, a man who had departed for a season was saved forever. In verse 16, a servant became a brother.

In verse 17, a man known by his sin was now known by someone else's righteousness.

And now we come to verse 18 and 19.

A man in debt now lives on credit.

Listen to verse 18 and 19.

Paul said, if he hath wronged thee, or

oath thee ought, put that on mine account. I, Paul, have written it with mine own hand. I will

repay it, albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides. Some people believe that Paul had been instrumental in

Phileman's salvation, or at the very least in his spiritual development. And so it was as if

Phileman owed Paul. And Paul's calling on that favor. On a human level, he's saying,

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