The name of Philemon means “loving,” and the name Onesimus means “useful.” This letter is a masterpiece of graceful, tactful and delicate pleading for a forgiving spirit. It is about one Christian’s plea to another to forgive and restore a third person. This letter is about reconciliation and relationships between Christians. Consider the perfect Bible and this letter.
After Paul introduced himself, he went on to bless them. He prayed.
Verse 3; grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
GRACE, AND NOT GRAVE! GRACE BECAUSE HIS UNDESERVED FAVOR. God’s favor. PEACE AND NOT PIECE! PEACE BECAUSE BEING RIGTH WITH GOD.
Verse 4, love and faith of the Philemon ARE SEEN.
1.Toward the Lord Jesus Christ.
2.toward the saints
Verse 6, DO EVERYTHING FOR JESUS CHRIST?
Verse 7, the heart of the saints is refreshed through Philemon.
Philemon 9-10, “For love’s sake…appeal to you.” This is “appeal” is “parakaleo,” this is the Greek word verb form of the noun, “Comforter.” (John 14:16) The Holy Spirit. This appeal, and this call, is the tenderest words in the Bible.
Verse 13, the imprisonment for the gospel is mentioned, Paul rather died for the Gospel.
Verse 14, 2 kinds of Goodness, goodness in, which is better?
1.compulsion
2.Free will.
Verse 16, Paul focus on a newly convert, a beloved brother, this love, is the highest form of love, God is the source.
Onesimus is a brother,
1.in the fresh
2.In the Lord.
Verse 18, if he has wronged you. One of the most beautiful examples of imputation! “God declares the believer righteous.” Paul used this method to appeal Philemon.
Verse 20, “refresh my heart in Christ.” NOW ! In Prison, refresh me! Paul appeal.
Verse 25, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
Enslaved by an Argument!
There is a transforming power in Jesus Christ. From a slave to a brother in Christ. The Christians have spirit kinship, by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The theologians are looking for a perfect underlying text, THE KJV UNDERLYING PERFECT GREEK TEXT; they cannot forgive anyone who does not endorse Verbal Plenary Preservation (VPP), MAYBE they have no found any Word such as “forgiveness” in his perfect underlying text.
Are they INDIRECTLY saying THOSE WHO DO NOT ENDORSE VPP cannot reach God? And they INDIRECTLY saying there is no bread of heaven given accept the perfect Bible, ACCEPT THE PERFECT UNDERLYING TEXT?
They forget that the Lord is the bread of Life. And they continue to mislead the flock from the Good Shepherd, SO THEY SPLIT THE BP Churches INTO PIECES.
What good is this perfect underlying Text?
From Sodom and Gomorrah, DEATH, the theologians move on to the Dead Sea, they tried to find the living water in the Dead Sea. They cannot find any living water there, so the theologians dig a pit and jump into it, and they said, “We had find the perfect underlying text of the KJV, it is 70 times purer than the entire Bible in the world, let us died for it.” And they said they have the victory through the perfect Bible. Is this another religion they have found in the pit they dug?
They took around the perfect “Bible,” when they had found a child, who has nothing, and they took the child by their arms, and they asked the child to read his KJV, and then they said “this is not enough” and they pursue the child to read the Greek Perfect Bible, they said they are seeing God in the perfect underlying text. They wanted to pass the perfect Greek Bible to our children. The theologians argued about this “word,” that “word,” this article 4.2.1, this constitute 4.2.1, they made the church like a parliament, and they argue the “words” in the Westminster Confession, so there were the endless quarrels and useless arguments began! And then they continue to argue for this landmark, that landmark, this and that undone.
And the theologians who are teaching VPP said, they are the fundamentalist, and they said confidently that they have found the “foundation.” And they accused us, that we are not the fundamentalist. And they asked those brothers in Christ, “Where in the world is God?” And all their theologians said, “Perfect, Perfect, Perfect! Do not pray for one another, but pay for one another for a Perfect Bible!” They see that prayer meeting is not important than a perfect Greek NT Text, so they sacrifice the prayer meeting!
Perfect, perfect, perfect, not need to preach Christ, but pay for one another for a Perfect Underlying Text,” so they sacrifice the pulpit, and overturn the unity of the congregation for the sake of a perfect underlying text.
And they continue, “Therefore, be it resolved together for the Perfect Bible, if we BP churches do not resolved in a perfect underlying Bible, we will not talk to them and greet any of them any longer, no more a beloved brother in Christ, but stink and hated brother in Christ”
THEY SAID WE MUST BE TRANSFORMED INTO A kind of SLAVE, they see us, NOT a BROTHER IN CHRIST, AND WE MUST BECOME SLAVE FOR THE PERFECT UNDERLYING TEXT OF THE KJV. "A SLAVE OF THE PERFECT TR IS BETTER THAN A BROTHER IN CHRIST!” We must become a slave of an argument, in order to be mature!
Read, Proverb 12:18, Proverb 18:21, and asking these theologians who is this Balaam in Old Testament? How about our spirit, do we want to be like Balaam? We must move on from learner to be a probationary. Even to maturity. Do we continue to curse, and not to bless those who read CUV, NKJV, and NIV?
Paul wanted young Timothy, “Not to argue about words.” 2 Tim 2:14, do not become a slave to “mere languages,” slave to “words”
Justin Martyr said they read, “The memoirs of the apostles or the writing of the prophets.” (Apology 1.67). They never claim their copies were perfect! There were Latin and Syriac versions of the NT by Ad 200, and a Coptic one within the following century. No one claimed the Latin and Syric versions are perfect!
"The authority of the Holy Scripture……dependeth not upon the testimony of any man or church, but wholly upon God…it is to be received…” (Westminster Confession of faith, 1.4) The Bible is to pass judgment on the theologian, not he the Bible.
"If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?” (John 3:12) Jesus Christ wanted us to believe the Bible! By faith. Paul does not want us to quarrel about words! The word of God, our Bible is thus NOT to be reduced to a miscellaneous argument of “words” We must fully believe and obey His Word! The very Word of God!
There are “words” or things in the Bible which are hard to understand, but this does not keep us from understanding, assuming they were intended to be understood. But we must know when and how to put a stop to endless and useless argument. (1 Cor 2:14.) There is no end to study for complete understanding; it requires sincere Bible study. Stop enslaving ourselves in argument of “words” The truth will set you free! (2 Cor 3:17)
Paul had fought the good fight, but he did not want to fight over mere “word,” the mere meaning of “word”! Do everything for edification, not for endless and useless strive about “words.” “STRIVE NOT ABOUT WORDS TO NO PROFIT….” (2 Tim 2:14)
DO NOT QUARREL ABOUT WORDS! Why? No Profit! Simple!
It is equally important today that all men should have access to the Bible in a language that is meaningful them. We knew, King James Version has met the test of universal acceptability. The reverence for the text is obvious in the high degree of faithfulness to the original Greek and Hebrew which is characteristic of the King James Version.
Some says, "THERE IS GOOD REASON TO BELIEVE THAT KING JAMES VERSION IS STILL THE MOST ACCURATE AND RELIABLE TRANSLATION WE HAVE. THERE IS NOT GOOD REASON TO REPLACE IT WITH SOME EPHEMERAL MODERN TRANSLATION."
The people who read the KJV, they must make sure they understand the Bible well. But, others should be allowed to read NKJV, NIV, CUV, freely, as God's Word, or as for a reference and commentary. Understand the Bible COME FIRST! Unity must not be sacrificed! For no profit! For a argument.
The THEOLOGIANS MUST ADMIT KJV IS NOT PERFECT! NOR IT's UNDERLYING TEXT. IF THE THEOLOGIANS INSIST TO SAY THE UNDERLYING TEXT IS PERFECT, UNTIL THEY HAVE TO STRIVE WITH “WORDS” TO SUPPORT VPP. THIS IS WRONG!
Where is the universal acceptability for VPP?
Thought
The meaning of “philemon” is?
What is the meaning of “appeal” in this epistle?
Slavery in Christianity
Profit of VPP
No comments:
Post a Comment