VERSE 1: (Allow me to introduce this book) It's called Phi-lemon
It's oh so personal [1:1]
The book bares the name of the person whom the words are to [1:1]
Paul's urging dude, praying for this servant who [1:4] refreshed the saints, day by day, in the Church, its true [1:5]
He was encouraged too, by this dude's passion
Fellowship, growing in faith, it was fantastic [1:6]
But he had this slave, Onesimus, this man happened
To steal some things, ran away, yeah he fled faster [1:15/1:18]
Philemon didn't know, he ended up in Rome, where God redeemed his soul, through Paul's teaching yo [1:10]
The gospel of Christ made some things change, cause now he and Philemon became the same slaves
Slaves to Christ
Onesimus stayed beside Paul in prison, he had changed his life [1:11/1:13]
So he served Paul, it hurt Paul, to have to let him leave [1:11]
With this letter in his hand hoping he'd be received [1:12]

HOOK: Take him back (take him back)
It don't matter what he did
Christ forgives homie, that's what it is
I know you've been wronged, he's been gone for a minute
But now God got up in him, so I call for forgiveness

VERSE 2: So Paul the Apostle, saw that he ought to
Resolve what was harming the Body, he got to
So he comes on strong, but then also, as a fellow servant of God as he talks to him [1:8-9]
Philemon, pleading for Onesimus
Please don't grieve him, I need him, but he is still yours so, just listen his [1:13-14]
Presence is dear to me, but it's dearer to you [1:16]
And it's so clear to see, since hearing the truth
He's been adopted and cleaned [1:10] and often it seems
That God in His sovereignty, saw that these things
Like him thieving and leaving, you for a season
Through that, God redeemed him and cleaned him so he can [1:15]
Be yours forever as a brother in Christ [1:16]
So receive this letter, don't cut him off twice [1:17]
And whatever he owes you charge it to me
Even though you owe me, I want you to please just.. [1:18-19]
VERSE 3: Paul wrote he was sure and secure in the fact that
Philemon would surely enjoy taking back [1:21]
This man who had wronged him before in his past but
Now they were one in the Lord it's a wrap [1:16]
Just like Onesimus, we need forgiveness when we grieve our Lord who saved us and filled us with
His Spirit to seal us in, heal us from the illest sin
Even though we're sinning men, look at what we did to Him
But He takes us back, and what we owed
Was paid on the cross, with the blood that flowed
From the side of His body, now I'm in the Body
Of Christ, in the light, still I say I'm sorry
To God for the charge that was held against me
I'm forgiven, because He was nailed to a tree
So I yell and I scream, as I'm telling these people
That we need to be like Jesus and seek to...