Not a Servant but a Brother

Q: What does the Bible say about forgiveness?

The Bible teaches that forgiveness is essential, as Paul encourages Philemon to forgive Onesimus as a brother in Christ. Forgiveness is a central theme in Scripture, deeply rooted in the character and commands of God. In Paul's letter to Philemon, he beseeches Philemon to receive Onesimus, not merely as a servant but as a beloved brother. This request embodies the grace of God that transforms relationships. Paul emphasizes the importance of love as the basis for forgiveness, stating that our actions should stem from love for Christ. Just as God forgave us for Christ's sake, we are called to extend that same grace to others, reflecting the transforming power of the Gospel in our relationships.

Q: How do we know the doctrine of grace is true?

The truth of grace is backed by Scripture, which reveals God's unmerited favor toward sinners through Jesus Christ. The doctrine of grace is the cornerstone of Reformed theology, emphasizing that salvation is entirely a work of God, not based on human merit. In the story of Onesimus, we see a powerful illustration of grace in action. Onesimus, who was a runaway slave and a thief, encounters the Gospel through Paul, resulting in his transformation from unprofitable to profitable. This change exemplifies the work of grace—the unearned favor of God that brings about genuine repentance and faith. Scripture consistently affirms this doctrine, pointing to God's sovereign choice and initiative in salvation, notably in passages such as Ephesians 2:8-9, which states, "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God." Thus, the doctrine of grace stands firm upon the authority of God's Word.

Q: Why is the concept of brotherhood in Christ important for Christians?

Brotherhood in Christ emphasizes unity, love, and mutual support among believers, reflecting the nature of the Gospel. The concept of brotherhood in Christ is crucial in the Christian faith as it reflects the radical transformation that occurs through the Gospel. In Philemon, Paul instructs Philemon to accept Onesimus not just as a servant but as a brother, underscoring that all believers are united in Christ, regardless of their past or social status. This relationship transforms how we view one another. It compels us to act in love and forgiveness, embodying the grace that we have received from God. The church is called to function as a family, where each member contributes to the spiritual growth and well-being of others. This concept fosters a community of support, accountability, and encouragement, allowing believers to reflect the love of Christ in their interactions and to practice selflessness and service to one another.

Q: What does the Bible teach about God's sovereignty in difficult circumstances?

The Bible teaches that God's sovereignty governs all circumstances, and He uses them for His ultimate purpose and our good. Scripture presents a clear message regarding God's sovereignty in both the good and difficult circumstances of life. Paul illustrates this principle in his appeal to Philemon regarding Onesimus's departure. He suggests that perhaps Onesimus left for a season that he might be received forever, indicating that God orchestrates events for His divine purposes. This understanding is central to the Reformed faith, highlighting that all things work together for good for those who love God (Romans 8:28). God is at work in our trials, not merely allowing them to happen but actively using them to bring about redemption, growth, and renewed faith. The assurance that God is sovereign over every aspect of our lives provides comfort and hope, ensuring that nothing is outside of His control or purpose.

I would like for you to turn
in your Bibles with me to the book of Philemon. The little book of Philemon.
I want to tell you a story today. It's really a story with one
main character, because any time that we read
the Word of God, and preach from any portion of God's Word, Old
or New Testament, the main character is the Lord Jesus Christ, because
the Scripture says, To him give all the prophets witness. Ye
search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have life, and
they are they which testify of me. So there's one main character,
but there are three earthly characters that are important in this story. One is a man called Philemon. You see his name, the epistle
of Paul to Philemon? Philemon didn't write this epistle.
Paul did, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and it was
written to Philemon. He lived in Colossae. You read
the book of Colossians. Well, that's where he lived,
in Colossae. Philemon was a believer, not a secret believer, an open,
frank, earnest, faithful believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. In
fact, there was a church that met in his home. It had a pastor. But the church met in his home.
Evidently, he was a Prosperous believer. And another thing,
many people believe that Philemon was one of the 70 disciples which
the Lord sent out in Luke chapter 10. He sent 70, remember, and
they came back and reported what the Father had done with them
and through them. Some believe that later he became
a bishop at Gaza. I do not know. But he had a large
house and a church met in his home. And he had many servants,
which was common in that day. That's Philemon. Now, the second
character in this story is a man called Onesimus. Remember that
name, Onesimus. Evidently, Onesimus, being a
servant of Philemon, we know that. He worked for Philemon.
He was a servant in this believer's home. He served him. Onesimus
was not a believer. He was a servant in the home
of Philemon, and evidently he had embezzled some money. He
had a position of trust as a servant in that home, and he had stolen
and embezzled some money from his master, robbed him, and ran
away. He fled to Rome. Well, at this
time, we meet the other character in this story. There was Philemon,
the wealthy householder, Onesimus, is unfaithful and unprofitable
servant who had robbed and stolen and fled. But at Rome, there
was the Apostle Paul. Onesimus fled to Rome. The steps
of men who are believers, are going to be believers, are ordered
by God. And he fled to Rome. Well, Paul was in Rome. And Paul
was a prisoner in Rome. But Paul was such a prisoner,
at this time that he had his own residence. He was allowed to live in a house. He was in prison, a prisoner
of Rome, because he preached the gospel. But he was living
in a house with guards all about him. Guards guarded Paul, but
he was allowed to live in this house, allowed to have his friends
there, and allowed to preach. That's an unusual situation,
but that's the way it was. Paul was in prison, but he was
allowed to receive people. And this man, Onesimus, evidently,
he knew of Paul. Well, I don't believe you could
work for Philemon and not know of Paul. You know, if this man,
believer or unbeliever, servant or whatever, came in contact
with Philemon every day and knew that church man in the home,
He's going to know about the Apostle Paul. Well, Onesimus
knew of Paul through his master Philemon. And believe it or not,
when he fled to Rome, I don't know how much time passed, but
he went to see Paul. Evidently, like the prodigal
son, he came to himself by God's grace. He realized what he'd
done. He realized he had embezzled
funds from his master and robbed him. He realized he was under
condemnation like the prodigal son. He must have said to himself,
the servants in my master's house fare better than I do up here.
And he went to see Paul, I believe, to get Paul to intercede for
him. That may be, Bob, why he went
to get Paul to intercede with Philemon. He knew how much Philemon
loved Paul, how much Paul loved Philemon. And you know, when
he came to see Paul, Paul preached the gospel to him. And he heard
the gospel and was converted. That's what it says. You look
at verse 12 of this book. And Paul talks about sending
him back to Philemon. He said, "...whom I have sent
again, that thou receive him, that is, mine own vows as myself."
whom I would have retained with me, that in your stead he might
have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel." Paul had
begotten him as a son in the gospel. He wanted to keep him.
But he knew he needed to send him back to his master. And so
Paul wrote this letter under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
Here this servant was unprofitable, unfaithful, thief, ran away from
his master. came to Paul, heard the gospel,
became a new creature in Christ, redeemed by the grace of God.
Paul said, now profitable to you and me both. And Paul wrote
this letter and handed it to him and said, take this to your
master. And I want you to read this letter
with me. Now here it is in Philemon, verse 1. Paul says, I'm a prisoner
of Jesus Christ. Timothy, our brother, Timothy
was with him. I'm writing to Philemon. our dearly beloved
and fellow laborer, and to our beloved Athia, that's his wife,
and our Archippus, our fellow soldier, to the church in your
house. That's the pastor. Archippus
preached in that little church in the home. Grace to you and
peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank
my God making mention of you always in my prayers. hearing
of your love and your faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus
and toward all the saints, that the communication of thy faith
may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is
in you in Christ Jesus. For we have great love and consolation
in your love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by
thee, brother. Wherefore, though I might be
much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
In other words, he said, I'm sending this man back to you,
and I could charge you and command you to receive him in Christ. I'm an apostle, and I could tell
you that, but for love's sake, I'd rather beseech you. I want
you to receive him, not because I told you to, but because of
the love for Christ. And for me, being such a one
as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ, I'm
basing this request on your love for Christ and your love for
me. And I beseech you for my son, Onesimus, whom I have begotten
in my bonds. Paul calls him a son now. The
thief has become a son. Which in times past was to you
unprofitable, but now, now that God has done the work of grace
in his heart, he's profitable to you and to me. Whom I have
sinned again, that thou receive him, that is, you receive him
as me, my own inner being. That's the way you receive him.
Whom I would have retained with me, that in your stead he might
have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel. But without
your mind, without your permission, I wouldn't do it. I would do
nothing. that your benefit should not be as it were of necessity.
I don't want to keep him here. I could do it. But I want him
willingly. If you want to send him back
here to help me, you do it. But I'm not going to keep him
without your permission. Now watch this. For perhaps he
therefore departed for a season that you might receive him forever.
These things are all in the mercy of God. A person leaves. Under
all kinds of circumstances and situations, God ordains it. He leaves you for a season, then
you might come back forever. That's right. That was an awful
thing when Philemon woke up that morning, Onesimus was gone, and
half of his money was gone with him. And I know he said, I've
treated him right all his life, I've done these things. It never
occurred to him the man's gone to hear the Gospel by the will
of God. And he came back forever. I'll
read on. All right. Verse 16. Now, but don't receive
him now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved,
especially to me. But how much more to you, both
in the flesh and in the Lord. He works for you. He's your servant.
And now he's your brother. If you count me there for a pardoner,
you receive him as myself. Now watch this, it's what leads
me to believe he's stolen some things. If he hath wronged thee
or owes thee anything, charge it to me. Isn't that good? He probably owed him a lot. Probably
wasted. Like that prodigal son, his father's
inheritance is gone. But he said, that's alright.
If he's stolen or wronged you or owes you anything, you charge
it to me. I've written it with my own hand.
I'll repay it. Albeit, I do not say to you how
you owe unto me even your own self. Besides, I taught you the
gospel. This is a simple request to a
man that you owe your life to me, he said. And I'm asking you
to forgive somebody else. Yea, brother, let me have joy
of thee in the Lord. Refresh my bowels in the Lord.
That bowels is my heart, my soul, my innermost being. I have confidence
in thy obedience. Having confidence in thy obedience,
I wrote to you, knowing, oh, I like this, that you will do,
you will also do more than I say, beyond the call of duty, the
second mile. But withal, prepare me a lodging,
for I trust through your prayers I'll be given to you. I trust
through your prayers I'll be permitted to come see you again.
And here with me, it says there, but it doesn't mean they're there,
it means they're here with me, salute you, Epiphas, my fellow
prisoner in Christ, Mark, John Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke,
my fellow laborer, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with
your spirit. Now here's what I want you to
see. Here are three men. Paul the Apostle, friend of Philemon,
bondservant of Jesus Christ, prisoner in Rome, but God's instrument
to preach the gospel to this runaway slave, Onesimus. Philemon,
the believer down there in Colossae, the brother, the companion, the
faithful man, the church meeting is in his home. Now a servant
has offended him. And by all rights should be prosecuted
and punished. He's guilty. He's stolen. He's run away. He's fled. But
here's the servant. He's been converted. He's repented. He's come to Christ. He's heard
the gospel. The thief is now a child of God. The awakened
sinner is a believer in Christ, and he's going home. He's going
home. And he's taken a letter in his
hand to his master regarding this whole matter. and how he's
to be received. And I want you to note one thing.
This is the reason I say there's one main character with all of
these three, or whatever, there's one main character, there's one
point, the key to this epistle. I want you to notice that in
this little book of fourteen complete sentences, just fourteen
sentences, Paul uses the name of the Lord Jesus Christ ten
times. Ten times. I know he uses his
own name a few times, Philemon's name or Nesimus' name, but he
keeps bringing in this person, keeps bringing in this person,
Christ, Christ. And I'll tell you why. You see,
a believer's life is Christ Jesus. A believer has many other relationships,
many other people whom he loves, to whom he's devoted, to whom
he's responsible. But this is Paul's life, it's
Christ Jesus. This is Paul's message, it's
Christ Jesus. And who I am, and where I am,
and what I do, and the motive for which I do it, is not my
relationship with someone on this earth, it's my relationship
with Christ Jesus. That's it. That's it. In other words, when Paul wrote
to the Ephesians, he said, you be kind one to another. You be
tenderhearted one to another. You forgive one another. even
as God, for Christ's sake, forgave you. That's the basis. That's
the foundation. My friend, Brother Barnard, was
told to talk to a young lady one time about her relationship
with God, and he went to talk to her. And the more he talked,
the more angry she became. And finally she said to him,
she said, well, preacher, for Christ's sake, leave me alone. And he said, all right, I'll
do it for Christ's sake. I'll do it for Christ's sake.
Whatever I do, I'll do it for Christ's sake. I'd rather talk
to you and help you, but if you say, for Christ's sake, leave
me alone, I will. Because that's why I do what I do, for Christ's
sake. I hope for Christ's sake that
none of us will say that, but for Christ's sake we'll beg mercy
and grace. All right, let's look at verse
1. Look at verse 1. Paul, a prisoner
of Jesus Christ. And Timothy, our brother, unto
Philemon, our dearly beloved and fellow laborer. Oh, that
I might learn this right here at the beginning. Nero put Paul in prison. Nero stationed these guards around
his house. But Paul says this, I'm a prisoner
of Jesus Christ. I'm here not because Nero wants
me here, I'm here because Christ wants me here. See, that's the
first thing that's established. Paul is where his master wants
him to be. Joseph said to his brethren when
he revealed himself to them, and he'd come over a terrible,
terrible road of bad experiences on account of these eleven fellows.
And he said to them, he said, what you did to me, you meant
for evil, but God meant it for good. And that's what Paul is
saying here. I'm here because the will of
God is that I be here. And I've learned in whatsoever
state I am to be content. This is where God put me and
this is where I'm going to stay until he takes me away. Bishop
Samuel Rutherford was in prison in Aberdeen. for preaching the
gospel. And he would date his letters
to his friends from the Lord's palace in Aberdeen. Well, John Newton said something
like that. I am content with beholding his
face. My awe to his pleasure resigns,
and no changes of season or place will make any change in my mind.
While blessed with a sense of my Lord's love, A palace, a toy
would appear. And prisons would palaces prove
if Jesus would dwell with me there. And that's why Paul starts
this letter off to his friend. I'm where I am by the will of
my Lord. And where you are and who you
are by the will of our Lord. It started off that way. Then
the second thing he says is this. He greets the man's wife and
pastor. In verse 3 he says, Grace to
you and peace from God our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ. Peace. That's where we find our
peace, in Christ. From God the Father and our Lord
Jesus Christ. Peace under any circumstances.
You know, like I said a moment ago, a believer loves and cherishes
many things and many people. I love and cherish this church.
and its fellowship. I love and cherish my wife and
my children, my grandchildren. I love and cherish my friends.
I love and cherish the Word of God. There are many things that
are very, very precious to me, very precious. But my first love
is Jesus Christ, my Lord. That's my first love. And see,
He is my faith, He is my hope, He is my love. He's my life and
He's my peace. Any peace that I have on this
earth and any rest and joy is not in these things or people,
but in Him. Thursday night, I read a Parker
call to me about 10 or 10.30 and told me that my dear friend
Mamie McPeak was desperately, desperately ill in the hospital
and perhaps, perhaps at that time Thursday night, would not
make it through the night or the next day. So I dressed and
went down there. And I walked into the room. Darcy and I walked into the room
with Burl, her husband. And she was lying there in the
bed, very, very sick, but looked up at me with that brightest,
sweetest smile that I enjoy seeing every Sunday walking out of this
building. And I said, Are you resting in Christ? Alertly and
strongly and with a happy expression, she said, Brother Henry, my hope
is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and His righteousness. And she just went on. I wish
I could have recorded it and played it for you this morning.
I wish everybody could have been there. I have these treasures
that I just have to relate to you. But I experienced it. I'm
so glad the Lord chose me. And you know, He chose me before
I was born, before the world began. She said, well, if He
hadn't chosen me then, He never would have chosen me after I
was born, would He? I said, no, I don't reckon He would. She
said, you know, I heard your message last week on believing
God. Do you believe God? She said,
I believe God. She said, there's some people
who believe in a God. She said, I believe God, the
living God, the only God. the Almighty God. She's just
preaching to me. My spirit was just soaring, just
rejoicing. And she said, you know, Beryl
and I tape everything you preach on television. We get twelve
messages on every six-hour tape. She said, we play one every night
and just rejoice in the Gospel. And on and on. And when she got
through talking to me about Christ and her relationship with Christ,
she said, If it's the will of God for me to live, that's fine. I'll be happy. But she said,
if it's His will to take me, I'm ready to go be with Him.
I have peace. I'm happy. Whatever He says is
all right with me. She turned and said, Burl, now
you stay in the little house and don't make any quick decisions
or anything. I said, God will take care of
you. The Lord will provide. And when she came to the end
of that little exposition and such a blessing, I said, Mamie, one of the clearest evidences
to me that you are indeed a child of God and that you are indeed
on your way to glory is the peace that God has given you in Christ
under these circumstances. It's one thing for me, healthy,
walking around, in full strength to say, well, if the Lord will
for me to live, I'll live. If He will take me, He'll take
me. That's one thing to say that standing here. It's a whole different
situation to say it when the doctor says, this is it. Huh? And that peace can only come
through Christ. You tell me where else you can
get it. Come on. You just come up with any philosophy, any theory,
any religion, any tradition that'll give a man or woman total confidence
and total peace when he's looking at death and judgment and eternity. Tell me where you get it. And
I'll tell you this, only where that dear soul has her peace,
Christ. What we're reading, right? Christ
died for me, paid my debt, and I'm justified with God, and I'm
not afraid to meet God. I'm afraid to meet God on any
other foundation, any other basis. I don't want to die and meet
God on the basis of religion, or works, or law, or any duties
or deeds. I want to die and meet God on
the basis that Christ is my hope. And that's what he's saying.
Grace and peace to you in Christ. In Christ. And then look at verse
4. I thank God, I thank my God making
mention of you always in my prayers because I hear of your love,
I hear of your faith, which you have toward the Lord Jesus and
toward His people. I hear about you, man. I've always
contended that a true Christian, listen to me now, a true Christian
doesn't have to wear a religious uniform. He doesn't have to wear a cross.
Why do you wear that cross? To show I'm a Christian. You
don't need to do that. He doesn't need to wear a t-shirt with a
slogan on it. I despise them. He doesn't have
to dye his hair three colors and hold up a sign, John 3, 16,
at the golf matches. I despise it. He doesn't have
to keep a bumper sticker on his bumper, if you love Jesus, blow
your horn. or he doesn't have to wear a
lapel pin, or he doesn't have to belong to these silly prayer
organizations and all these different places, athletics and things
like that, other than the church to which you belong, to prove
he's a Christian. If you love Christ and you love
people and you're concerned for others and you're walking with
God, people will know about it. That's right. And that's how
they'll find out about it, not from you. Not from your lapel
pin or your bumper sticker, but from your mouth and your deeds
and your conversation and your attitude. And that's what Paul
is saying to this dear man, I've heard the Word is out on you. The Word is out on you. You love
Christ and you love people. I'm telling you the truth. And
this other stuff is nothing in the world but playing games. in trying to impress someone
with your religiosity and piety. Impress them with your consecration
and dedication and devotion and kindness and generosity and love. And they'll say, well, he's got
something. He's got something. All right,
look at verse 8. Well, verse 6 says this. It says,
"...the communication of your faith may become effectual by
the knowledge that every good thing is in you in Christ. In
other words, he's saying, Philemon, what you are and who you are
is not because of what you've done, it's because you're in
Christ. That's who makes the difference, right? All right,
verse 8. Now he says, Philemon, wherefore
though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin you, to charge
you, to command you to do that which is right, But for love's
sake, this is the basis, because you love Christ. The love of
Christ constraineth me. And for love's sake, I rather
beseech you, being such a one as Paul the Aged, and now a prisoner
of Jesus Christ, and I beseech you to receive my son, Onesimus,
whom I have begotten in my bonds. Do it because you love Christ. And let me say something else
here. You know, actually people can be commanded
to do things, ordered to do them, fussed at if they don't do them.
But you know, if they do them, they're not doing them willingly
and they don't mean anything. The only service that God accepts
is that which is willing, that which is from the heart. That
which is done not for recognition, or praise, or honoring ourselves,
but for His glory, because we love Him. I'm doing this because
I love you, because I love Him. And Paul said, that's the only
basis I want to put it on, because you love me, because you love
Him. And then he says in verse 11,
he says, in times past this man was unprofitable. Unprofitable. Let's forget the past. Let's
forget it. He's unprofitable, but now he's
profitable to you and to me. What made the difference? Old
Onesimus was a worthless thief, a renegade. Now he's a son and
a believer. The grace of God made the difference,
the gospel. It will make a permanent change
in anybody's life, permanent change. Oh, what a difference
the grace of God makes. Here, I love this verse 15. For
perhaps he therefore departed for a season that thou shouldest
receive him forever. Perhaps. Use this in your trial. Let me
learn to use it too. The providence of the Lord, the
purpose of God. Perhaps he departed. And we hate
to see them go, and we hate to see them go through the trials
through which they go. We hate to see them humiliated
and embarrassed and troubled. We hate to see that. But I tell
you, whatever steps, wherever the steps, and whatever the steps
that He's pleased to lead me over, if it'll result in my conversion,
if it'll result in my truly coming to know God and Christ Jesus,
it'll be worth it. That's right. It'll be worth
it. I remember when my son Paul left
home at 17, and I didn't see him again for four years, almost
three and a half. Those were difficult times and
hard days for him as well as for us. But I wouldn't take a
million dollars for it now. because it brought Paul to the
end of Paul and the end of himself, and it brought him to faith in
Christ and to love Christ. And perhaps he departed for a
season that we might receive him forever. I wouldn't have
done it that way. I'd rather take the easy route.
I don't like to hurt, do you? I don't like to cry. I don't
like to be troubled. But if we could just see, this
is what Paul is saying to Philemon, he left you. He left you ugly. He left you in a terrible way.
But just for a season. And I don't know, a season, maybe
four years, maybe twenty years. Who knows? There's no time with
God. I mean, a thousand years is a
day, and a day is a thousand years, so who cares about days?
But he may have left for a time that he might be back forever.
Wouldn't that be something? Let me tell you this, much as
I love every one of you, if I never see you again here, because of
some difficulty, it'll be all right if I can see you there.
It'll be all right. It'll be hard, but it'll be in
His will. Maybe He's worked it out that
way. Maybe you with children, and others, loved ones who hurt
you deeply. It's all right. God's in all
these things. And it may be, perhaps, I don't
know. where it's in His hands anyway,
isn't it? If you do or you don't, perhaps you'll receive Him forever. Perhaps. All right, the last
few lines, I want you to look at verse 22. Paul said, well,
he says, I have confidence you'll do what I tell you, more so.
But verse 22, But withal, prepare me a bed and lodging, fix me
up a room. I trust that through your prayers
I'll be given to you. I believe the Lord will let me
come back to see you. But I've got some fellows with
me here. Look at this hall of faith. I didn't say hall of fame. It is fame, but faith. With me
is Epiphas, my fellow servant in Christ. Epiphas was the minister
at Colossae. He was not the pastor in this
home, but a minister in Colossae. He was there with Paul. John
Mark, remember John Mark? That's Barnabas' sister's son.
He went with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch, and he was the point
of contention between Paul and Barnabas one time, but they came
back together. Aristarchus, he was of Macedonia. He went to Rome with Paul. That
was his home, Macedonia, Philippi. Demas, oh, Demas, yeah, he was
the one who later on left the gospel, but he was here in jail
with Paul. Luke was the beloved physician.
He wrote the book of Acts, my fellow laborer. And he says,
all of these fellows send their greetings and salute you. You
know, what an encouragement to read this book and regard its
lessons because of these men here who sent it. Paul wrote
it and sent it, but I'm sure John Mark Luke, Epaphras, Aristarchus,
and all these men said, send our love with that book. That's
our book, too. Well, this is my book, too. I
just think maybe it would be a blessing to you if it would
be our book. All right, Mike, come lead us
in number 272. This is what Mamie said to me
the other night. And incidentally, she had emergency
surgery that night at 4 a.m. and is doing much better. and perhaps will be taken out
of intensive care very soon and put in a private room. But you
pray for Mamie. But she says, either way, either
way, if it's His will to stay here, that's fine. If it's His
will to go, that's fine too. Because why? My hope is built
on nothing less than Jesus' blood. All right, let's stand and sing.

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Not a Servant but a Brother

What does the Bible say about forgiveness?

How do we know the doctrine of grace is true?

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What does the Bible teach about God's sovereignty in difficult circumstances?

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