1. Transformation of Grace Part 3

2. Trusting Transformation Philemon 8-16
Transformation of Grace Part 3

3. Outline
Preparation
Plea
Provision
Providence

4. 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.

5. Preparation

6. Plea

7. 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.

8. 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.)

9. 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.

10. Provision

11. 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,…

12. 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.

13. Providence

14. So it was not you who sent me here, but God.
Genesis 45:8
So it was not you who sent me here, but God.

15. 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.