Philemon Week 3 - When the Gospel and Culture Collide - Bible Study - 04.22.15

The recording for the first week is not available online, but you can download the notes from that study by texting PHILEMON to 31996.Paul, being Paul, could have demanded what he wanted from Philemon; but he will only humbly request. A gift must be given freely and with goodwill; if it is forced, it is no gift at all.In verse 9, Paul describes himself. The NIV translates the greek phrase as—as Paul an old man, and a prisoner of Christ. A good number of scholars wish to substitute another translation for old man. It is argued that Paul could not really be described as an old man. He certainly was not sixty years old; he was somewhere between that and fifty-five. But, on this basis, those who object to the translation old man are wrong. The word which Paul uses of himself is presbutēs; and Hippocrates, the great Greek medical writer, says that a man is presbutēs from the age of forty-nine to the age of fifty-six. Between these years, he is what we might call senior; only after that does he become a gerōn, the Greek for an old man.For more information visit http://northplacechurch.com/