Hello, my friends. Welcome back. It is time for you and me to get our minds aligned

with the truth of God through our study of the Scriptures. Here on The Morning Mindset,

my name is Kerry Green. I'm thankful that you joined me today. We are walking through

a very short New Testament letter called Philemon. This is a letter the Apostle Paul wrote

to his friend Philemon and his family. And we see at the beginning of the passage the

church that meets in his house as well. And I think it's important for us to keep that

in mind because the Apostle Paul is writing this to a larger group. Now it's interesting,

as we look at the language of the letter, he definitely is speaking directly to Philemon,

primarily, about a situation that's going on in his household. But this is intended

to be read to the entire church as well. And so we need to keep that in mind because

it's interesting how the Apostle Paul does not shirk away from talking about private issues

in a public setting. And he does so because he expects that the church of Jesus Christ

is a family that is in each other's business and is helping one another in life to live

as believers of Jesus Christ. So before we dive in today, I just want to say thank you

for listening. I want to welcome those who are listening from all around the world.

We have people in the United States, naturally, that's where I published this episode for

more of this podcast from. But we also have people listening in Cameroon and in Slovakia

and in Finland and Sweden. And we have people in Paraguay and Bolivia. Thank you so much

for listening to the morning mindset. I'm glad you are here. All right, as we dive in today,

the situation is one in which the Apostle Paul has met a runaway slave named Onesimus and has

led him to place his faith in Jesus Christ. So he's now a believer in Jesus Christ. And Paul

finds out this runaway slave Onesimus belongs to his friend Philemon and his family. And so Paul

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