Preacher: Jeremy Herbert
Text: Philemon
Theme: Freedom Through Forgiveness
Notes:
Finding freedom through forgiveness and reconciliation will increase your joy in God.
- Joy is accepting that I am reconciled to God through the person and work of Jesus Christ
- Joy is believing that Jesus is my satisfaction, security, and significance
- Joy is communion with Christ so that I experience these things fully
- Joy is a decision to put my faith and hope in Jesus’s life and love
- A biblical response to the law of love
- Augustine describes true love for God as, “…the enjoyment of God for His own sake”
- A biblical response to godly counsel
- Seek godly counsel
- Humbly respond
- Be teachable
- Critically evaluate Scripture and counsel
- A biblical response to power of Christ’s work in others
- A biblical response to God’s wise plan
- God orchestrates all events for His glory and for our good
- A biblical response to forgiveness
- Attitude
- Action
- Reconciliation
Forgiveness and reconciliation require biblical responses
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