I'm Pastor Mike Winger and this is Bible Thinker the program dedicated to thinking

biblically about everything. The book of Philemon is about a runaway slave who is being sent back to his former master

under the direction of the apostle Paul.

And it is intense when you get into the background of it and you read the actual

one chapter letter we call it the book of file limit it's just one chapter it is intense and

profound and I think it says so much about brotherhood and grace and the attitude we should have in trying to resolve conflicts between people, between humans and other humans, especially Christians and other Christians.

That's kind of the highlight, the focus of the letter.

So we'll get into all that beautiful, beautiful letter.

I'm excited to study it with you guys tonight.

I'll try and get through all of it tonight.

I need to.

I'm committed. I'm committed I'm committed so better or worse we'll plow through

but but yeah to get into it you're gonna need to know the background which is

basically just three people.

Three people that you need to know about in this letter.

There's several people mentioned, but there's three that are the key players

in the book of Philemon, and it's Paul Philemon and Anesimus.

So these three people are the key players. Paul the

Apostle, you're well familiar with Paul the Apostle, he authored the letter. This

isn't even a debate even amongst like the more skeptical critical scholars like

they believe yeah this is

definitely from Paul the same Paul that wrote Colossians probably written around the

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