What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Carver podcast. I'm Bryce and today by

the title of the episode in the spirit of Easter, Good Friday, Palm Sunday. I figured that this

passage would be great to talk about why we believe and are consumed by the scandalous love of God. We are

going to be in the book of Philemon. And if you were someone listening to this, who doesn't know what

the book of Philemon is, it is after Titus before Hebrews. So comment below if you've never heard of

Philemon in your Bible. It is one chapter that is a letter that Paul wrote to his friend

Philemon. And I believe that this letter is so, such a beautiful picture of the love of God.

So we're going to dive into us. If you've got your Biblesibles we're going to be in philemon we're going to start in verse eight so paul is writing this letter

to philemon and he's like at first you know he does the typical paul greeting and then he's like yo

you know i love your faith and i'm grateful for you and this isn't and that. Here we go. Paul's writing now. Verse 8.

Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,

yet for love's sake, I prefer to appeal to you.

I, Paul, an old man, and now a prisoner also for Christ.

Stop right there.

Paul many times throughout the New Testament, Church of

Corinth, Galatia, Ephesus, he is commanding them to do something, right? As Paul is like, look, I know

my authority in Christ, but for the sake of law that we listen to, I'm appealing to you to make the

wisest decision according to the law. Here's the law. So basically what's happening is

Paul is writing a letter to Philemon about Phileman's runaway slave, onceomis. So here's what

happened. Philemon had a slave named Onceimus who ran away from home and he ran to Rome

and knocked on the door and coincidentally, the guy that he stumbles upon would be Paul. Now,

it would make sense that onceomis upon would be Paul. Now, it would

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