150 likes | 175 Views
Transformation of Grace Part 3. Trusting Transformation Philemon 8-16. Transformation of Grace Part 3. Outline. Preparation Plea Provision Providence. Big Idea.
E N D
Trusting TransformationPhilemon 8-16 Transformation of GracePart 3
Outline • Preparation • Plea • Provision • Providence
Big Idea The Transformation of Grace requires us to obey God’s word AND trust God’s divine providence in all things, especially those that might seem counter-cultural.
Colossians 4:7-9 Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord. 8 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts, 9 and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.
1 Corinthians 7:20-21 Each one should remain in the condition in which he was called. 21 Were you a bondservant when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)
1 Corinthians 7:22-24 For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ. 23 You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men. 24 So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God.
Ephesians 6:5-6 Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, 6 not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,…
1 Peter 2:18-19 Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. 19 For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly.
Genesis 45:8 So it was not you who sent me here, but God.
Genesis 50:20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.