Yeah. You also are among them called to belong to Christ Jesus. I mean, you see the you see a lot of the same kind of language that intimacy that that you unity that united with Christ, the definitive David language, through the prophets and holy scripture, the Holy Spirit by the resurrection Jesus Christ, we live receive grace, we've got a grace thing that brings about the obedience of our faith. So you got grace. You got faith. You got obedience. You've got the gospel language there. Paul, the the word in verse one is Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, sometimes translated sermon or bondservants, but the word is slave of Christ Jesus. That's how intimately dependent upon the Lord he viewed himself. He could have played his authority card in several places. Like I'm a big deal. I'm Paul, like, I'm an apostle. I'm super important. I'm a big deal, but he's always saying that I'm, I'm not. He's like, it's Christ. You know? And he does this state this this V shaped gospel has so he's he's not just modeled it, but it's just the prison that he views everything about him and what he's doing. And for so I think that's the challenge to us more than anything is the gospel and the grace and the presence of the Lord not just, this is a challenge of how we're supposed to live, but it's so it's so so much of a part of us that that's how we live our lives. And I think that's, that's kind of the the message and the challenge to the church to believers. Who are we in Christ? What does it mean to be created an image of God? What does it mean to bear God's name it with its that we're super connected to Jesus. I don't even have the right language to kind of flesh it out fully, you know. But but you see that it's an intimacy, it's a connection. It's a it's so much of who we are and how we live. And that's exactly how Paul chose to live. So questions on Philippians the gospel, I'm zooming now, y'all. All right. I want to do something a little bit creative. And I hope you all are okay with that. All right. It's kind of like falling human. Everyone, turn Oh, turn to follow him in and don't look at me because it's so small. And grab before Hebrews Philemon. No one can read from palaemon Chapter Two because there isn't one it's only one chapter 16 verses palaemon. It's all the way towards the back. It's like Right, right. So your Hebrews, you've you've probably heard me reference into right before prolific New Testament historian and keep scholar. He's written crazy thick books, right? He wrote a two volume book on Paul. That's just ginormous, this huge chapter one he's like, if you really want to understand Paul, if you really want to get what his message was and how he communicate that message. You need to look at the book of Philemon. I mean, NT, right. He's got a new book out on Romans eight. He's written a commentary on the whole New Testament. He's, he's Pauline scholar, big time, helped us understand Jesus in fresh ways. He's like, in a sense, this is Paul's most important book. Everyone will say it's Romans number. Two is Ephesians. But NT rights like it's Philemon are really see what Paul's really trying to do with all of his letters. So that's why I wanted to rush there. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna read Philemon together. But I want us to try to creatively utilizing our imaginations, to see if we can put ourselves into the church of Colossi. That met in polyamines house and heard this letter delivered to them. So the way I'm going to have to do it is I'm going to have to talk as quickly as I can about slavery. Because we know like even Devall says this is a short letter of a Jewish Christian Apostle Paul writing a wealthy Gentile slave owner, Philemon about his slave Onesimus. united together by their faith in Christ, you know, so we have to understand a little bit about slavery. I'm not going to talk about slavery for hours, but slavery in the ancient world was everywhere. millions of slaves throughout the Roman Empire. 250,000 slaves were sold on a block in Rome. A household is just a house if it has no slaves. Every household had slaves. In order for it to operate. Rome was based on a slave economy. 30% of the people in Rome could have been slaves. The benefit for having slaves went directly to the slave owners. By the time that Holleyman was written, most of the people that were in slavery were born into it. Prior to most of the people were enslaved from military conquest. It was they were conquered and enslaved in order for us to really wrap our minds around first century slavery, we have to set aside our bias concerning slavery, because it was absolutely had nothing to do with race, or skin color at all, so slaves look just like the everyone else. Except for they had no status. Slavery in the first century was all about status. The way the Empire operated was honor and favors and gifts. Quid pro quo just you know, I scratch my back. I scratch your back you scratch mine like you owe me I owe you you know, and that's just that's how and and it was always to try to gain more honor increase your reputation. status was the currency of the day. If you had no status, you had no honor. Slaves were there for at the bottom of the rung. I've actually said they're not even on the rung because they have no status whatsoever. So they were treated like animals. They were viewed as less than human often considered tools. A living tool. Some people have tried to gloss over slavery in ancient world and said, Well, it's just it's similar to having a really bad boss as an employer and it wasn't because there was no benefit to you whatsoever. You were completely dependent upon your master. One scholar says that it was social death. You were alienated from everyone else that had honor another scholar defined slavery is under total authority of another perceived superior human established by power and authority for the sake and and profit of that of the higher of the people with status. And in order to paint it like I'm going to walk down the road in the city. I'm gonna have all my slaves with me look at how many slaves I have. I'm gonna brag about it and they're all gonna be like, Oh, look at this guy. He's so important. You know? Slaves were loyal and obedient. They were very much exploited. They had fake marriages, or like they wanted them to have these kind of connections as if they were a married because then that could use that against them. Like, Hey, you want me to rip you out of this relationship and sell you off? No. So do exactly what I'm telling you to do that they used it as a way of controlling punishment of a runaway slave was death, or a slave branding. They've got slave collars that they found. Slave signs that are basically like, if you find me return me to who I belong to. It's just the way the world operated. Jesus used slave imagery in his parables, like stock images. So it would be kind of similar to if we talked about drug dealers, or prostitutes. Or, you know, you just just kind of like, we know it's bad, but it's so common in our language of how we talk about things. The stuckness of it. So when we get to the book of Philemon, there is some main characters that are mentioned the first we've already talked about as Paul.