The Sermon The Treasure Lies Within by David McGee
Jan 27, 2013
The Treasure Lies Within (31:46)
Referenced Scriptures: Jeremiah 18:1-10; 2 Corinthians 4:5-12
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Jeremiah 18:1-10
1) The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
2) Arise, and go down to the potter‘s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.
3) Then I went down to the potter‘s house, and, behold, he was making a work on the wheels.
4) When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
5) Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
6) House of Israel, can‘t I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter‘s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.
7) At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
8) if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
9) At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
10) if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.
2 Corinthians 4:5-12
5) For we don‘t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus‘ sake.
6) Seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
8) We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
9) pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
10) always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
11) For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus‘ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
12) So then death works in us, but life in you.
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The treasure lies within you whenever we take up treasures no what what what words go with treasure in your and your idea of treasure hunting of treasure chests, no Pirates of the Caribbean, you know, looking for treasure, buried treasure. Well, in the house, gold, silver treasure hunt treasure Island Pirates didn't treasure, so whatever. What that lucky time to magically delicious. Yes, we find that there are treasures in all kinds of places, but our ire# and the message today is the treasure lies within the Sergeant Jeremiah, chapter eighteen, verses one through ten, Jeremiah, chapter eighteen, verses one through ten. God told Jeremiah up on your feet go to the potter 's house, and when you get there, I'll tell you what I have to say, so I went to the potter 's house, and sure enough, the plotter was there working away his wheel whenever the pot. The potter was working on turned out badly as sometimes happens when you are working with clay. The potter would simply start over and use the same play to make another pot, then God 's message came to me. Can't I do just as this potter does with the people of Israel, God 's decree watch this potter in the same way that this part of Marxist clay. I work on you, people of Israel, and then go to second Corinthians chapter four verses five through twelve second greatest chapter four, five to twelve. Remember our message is not about ourselves maybe they're proclaiming Jesus Christ, the master. All we are as messengers and runners from Jesus for you. It started out when God said, why do the darkness in our lives, filled up with like as we saw and understood God in the face of Christ, all bright and beautiful. If you only look at eyes, you might well miss the brightness we carry this prices. We carry this precious message around in an unadorned clay pots of ordinary lives, but to prevent anyone from confusing God 's incomparable power with us as it is, there's not much chance of that, you know for yourselves that were not much to look at. We then surrounded and battered by troubles who were not demoralized when not sure what to do, but we know that God knows what to do with a spiritually terrorized the God hasn't left our side we been thrown down, but we haven't broken what they did to Jesus. They do to us trial and torture mockery and murder what Jesus did among them. He does in us. He lives our lives are a constant risk for Jesus sake. What makes Jesus life all the more evident in us while we were going through the worst. You're getting the best. So whatever we think of treasure, the repossessed treasures that we possess treasures. Now we think of treasure while we assumed that there is well stored up or halberd reserved whenever we think of treasure as well. Somewhere in. It's like the this like a little boy. They were twins and one was an optimist. The one with the presence it out, and the parents were just so absurd as to how they were going to help the spirit of their children. The one and they were so concerned for that. The pessimist in because the optimist was just so up on everything. So the counselor suggested that they know the boy who is the pessimist, the optimist that you in all you wrap him up one package and in the package and then you wrapped with a pessimist. You gave him no. I think these unwanted inure to skim a whole bunch of gifts and so on Soto realized that he has good things in his life. So they did this and they many observed and watched how they responded in the pessimist when in the room and opened up his gifts and was the wrong color was the wrong size. It had that before. It wasn't any good for what he opened there was nothing there, so they didn't like anything so the optimists. They wrapped him a box of horse manure, and he opens it up. He looks at it. He's all excited these children around in his bloody excited about. He says while they go to be one answer was not the only wildlife only Nader than before. Okay, so the treasure really is what is of value to us. The treasure is someone or something that is valued highly. So whatever we think of what is highly valued in our life husband, wife, parents, children, grandchildren, family, friends, they are our treasures, so the treasure is what is inside of you and how that is conveyed to the people around you. So that's why something that is valued highly to you. Maybe one man's junk, but another man's treasure so what is the implication that the man who season is John doesn't see the same value as the one who sees it as a treasure, so the value of an item that is determined by what a person is willing to pay for that item. While Jesus says no longer I tell you or call you servants, but I I call you friend. Why, because the server doesn't know what is more done than I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard of my father. I make known to you. So Jesus what the Nazis on the value that we have and that he died from treasure in Matthew thirteen God 's Kingdom is like a treasure hidden in the field for years and then accidentally found by a trespasser. The Finder is a static one of fine overseeing to sell everything he owns to raise money and buy that field God 's kingdom is great treasure to the word of God, the Scriptures are a great treasure talk about spare and hope disparity is what we look at in the surroundings and the circumstances hope is what we find in the Scriptures that eternal life, heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. So in the despair on heaven and earth fumbling there is hope in Christ and his word. We hold onto that which is eternal, the eternal Word passes through time and we hold onto it. It's like that borrower in nine and a car or bus to those cable cars whenever you hang out that whenever things are rough and rocky, you know that movie you have something whole solid to hold onto snaring of God 's kingdom is a great treasure if a man came to the whole world, and loses his own saw what is a prophet him. So God you live in Christ for UNI because he saw the treasure that he made in the treasure that is instilled in us inside of us. This treasure of God 's kingdom. I converse you see, it takes the kingdom of God, and the treasures of God find the key in that treasure of God to uncover the treasure that God has placed the new the talents, the ability the skills the mindset that God has these treasures, and there headed us, but it takes. Try it to he takes one to know one case, a treasure of God to uncover the treasure of God in us. God has a purpose for our life. God has a calling for our life, it doesn't mean that it is good to take you from here to Africa. It means is going to let you see what you've got what you you are what's going on, and you shall let you see it in a different perspective and gives you the glasses. The focus. The microscope. The telescope of looking through God 's wins and what you are and what you have is a we have this treasure in earthen vessels. We are not divine, but the God who lives within us. He is the vine and he opens up the treasures of his storehouse and avails into us. I always say the right to make the right to make the job easier. The rights will make the job easier. And if you know what tools the tools on the power of God coming into your life and allowing the power of God to work in you as you deal with all of the issues that come to an Almighty God, who your talent with a new knows where they are hidden and how to release them on to unlock them. The truth is we have so much treasure we have so much treasure, buried within us as the enemy of my soul is out the skillet and keep it locked new member. This remembers remember this, remember that it is in stock that I'm saying that it's important right thing over and over again. Remember, this knowledge will try to steal something that doesn't have value, the enemy of our soldiers to steal the killer to destroy why, for what reason with the enemy of our soul want to steal something from your life to destroy something of your life because he sees the value it would be to the kingdom of God into you and the best way for him to keep that from you is to get you to doubt your value out your talents down who you are as an individual and therefore keep silent about that guy that is inside of you. It sounds may be raw. They may be undeveloped. It may be buried under self-doubts. But guess what God can create something wonderful within it. God can create something out of nothing. All he needs is the material that is inside of us and our desire to make it happen. You are what you know, the moving link in the originators see the movie linking it. That's good and I like it. I was not about half the spices, and I like Lincoln. That's a desk. I however, I would do workshops and things at the hospital I would. I often talk about and I don't have the exact slide in my mind, but you know who this individual that failed that being a congressman was elected to transfer 's local office was defeated, ran for state office. Your county office was defeated, ran for state office, and was defeated, ran for the Senate was was loaded and ran again and was voted out and ran for this is not enough defeated defeated defeated at children die for it all these things and I finally would like President and what yellow he was the greatest President Martine of our of our greatest presidents of all of history. Why can characteristic that was so young and in the film and talk about it that he was always signing these letters apart, and there are different stories to go with it, but one is one of the stories I used was that there was a soldier. They would then came Peter that he was, was charged with desertion, and they would always bring people land as witnesses and job so this one soldier appeared before Lincoln and get the witnesses and he asked the nanny scissors and I wanted to stand up for your character is a you don't have any brothers or sisters or parents, guys had no role that they were all killed in the war. Lincoln said I'll be your witness in part. You know what we are the only nation to survive a Civil War as we have been in the scene. It only gives a live in that movie. It only has one little scene of this, but it proxies the greatest distinction. The greatest mark of his presidency was that with in the war, he said see there was. There was a group in Washington and wanted to hang Jefferson Davis wanted to hang the southern Congress wanted to make them pay for their sins. All of rebelling and creating this division, and Lincoln said if they will lay down their arms and go home. The wars over will forgive that was the single move that brought the nations together if they had hung the southern Congress if they had hung Jefferson Davis if they had done all those things to punish probably would've been another Civil War, but it was his act of forgiveness and he say what brought out that character in Lincoln. What brought I was at all of his defeats the gave him a sensitivity to people who were defeated and in our lives eat you look inside of us. We look at the difficulty the despair and the whole and how does this work inside a method that we look at Jeremiah. God is going to take a normal life experience. He tells Jeremias is given up to the potter 's house, and when you get there I will tell you something to show you something so Jeremiah got the potter 's house, and the potter. He is a ready-made story of God 's sovereignty. Potter and Clay being fashioned by the hand on him. You were ever work with play. I work with plane. He wasn't a good guy work for now good resistance are not. But Eric McLean lab with DIA for it. I could never get it to go were I wanted to I put a bunch of water. I was too soft and do I'd wouldn't do. I wanted so I gave up on being a potter, but sometimes you hire sometimes it's too soft. Sometimes you find the value working with it or spend out people may decline letting it all alone stones out of it or chunks out of it and it mars what you want to do so. The same way the client struggled beneath the hand of the potter was applauded him, he simply works within again and reshapes it remote. The Bible says all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose. God has a way of reshaping the experiences of our life. God has a way of causing things to come about in a different perspective. Sometimes we need to be remade. Sometimes the despair is about how we are being reshaped, it isn't the pressures of life that shape our lives at the hand of God that were spent to announce their what did she. What did she say about this morning. She heard. But that is not about us. We need to get out of the way, what about the Potter and Clay. We like to tell God how to make us that God will let me i.e. oh I want to be this vessel that is used in the court now the price palace. Whatever God has a sovereignty over us that we are made with the purpose in the text says in the same way that the Potter works with his play. I work on you. So we look at this were saying that God is at work at the Potter is working on the place of God is working on our life and despair is our emotional this is safe and always see them. God is at work in a few weeks ago, but about movies we see only what the feeling is and in a lot of the situations in there. We spoke about unilateral movie review am sorry but that is a movie review from David McGee yeah, I'm particularly severe in the icon talk about now, but what that all spoiler alert you if you haven't seen the movie looked at the audience, not always like the little parking where the people stand in line to what they see the Titanic and the older people are talking about politics. I ended the younger people were behind his siblings go little before to find out what I pay Alan Lim is what if the situation must happen in order to open up the door to the talents and live within what if the despair. What if the situations must happen in order to open up the door to the talents that lie within us. She gone is the purpose and to make what he places on last to make money places a bus, and what changes he pleases with us to make what he pleases of us there is women's to make money plea can't read my writing to make money places the last at the change what he pleases with us, although also with us, so the vessel will be a vessel of honor God. Once the shape God formed us out of a claim that the beer regarding the clay pictures. We are still playing his hair let's look at second Corinthians here we are. Paul is saying replay pot clay pictures shape. I got into a vessel verse five says I message is not about ourselves were proclaiming Jesus Christ. So Paul is saying that here I am, and I am a vessel for God. The clay pitcher, but I want everybody to know that what I'm saying is not about me, but it's about God ENB is not what God has for me to do what God 's messages. So the message is not about us. It's about God. It is important to know that God formed us for purpose God has us were purpose. The message is about Jesus Christ. The master is fulfilling his call upon our life and he is filling us with the power of the Spirit is killing us with a part of the results we are his messengers errand runners from Jesus to you also. We are arrogant runners were running errands where we are instruments of God 's use bringing the message of God to use will be our errand boys and ladies of Jesus Christ and Paul says my vessel is full of God poured out who also what I'm here for, just to give you the message and so why post as in my container. He says will light up the darkness. When I possess and my container will light up the dark verse seven. If you look at us, you might well miss the bright if you become so preoccupied with me, you'll miss the brightness of the methods that I have if you Paul knew about this. Paul was traveling on the road to Damascus to kill Christians and he nearly message about Christ, but he didn't know Christ, and he became sole preoccupied with killing Christians stoning Stephen and the rest, but he missed what was inside of them. He found the individuals and miss the glory that was in them, but he saw it, Stephen Biden. He's young and gives his heart uses commands his life to God and Paul wanted to die and he sees the glory of statement, but it doesn't change him until he meets the person of that glory in our lives. It is our meeting this person Jesus Christ that comes into our life that changes us and we become the word paralyzed, no harassed. We look at the things of our circumstances of our life despair and hope, and we look at the spare we look at hope God is what feels our life withhold you can adorn a picture with many rubies and diamonds. But it's still a clay pot is still at play picture yell. We look at the our society and models in the beauty and this is not still clay pots, clay pots can come in many shapes and sizes many different colors and made an ornament many different gowns and crowns and suits in taxes and everything else, but that's the click the treasurer is what's inside of us. Paul says to look at the container is about within five backs to prevent anyone can faster prevent anyone from confusing God 's incomparable power with us. Don't get confused this life and the power and what I'm doing is not about me. It's about Christ and the power in you is the power the work of venue is from God to take on the situations and circumstances that we face and the claim pictures archive pictures no matter what you do with them. There's still the clay picture. Worse still the Temple were still just a pot form from my yell out of the dust of the earth and bring you get to watch the breath of life, who became a living soul, and this clay pitcher is going to go away someday, but the life inside of us will never go away. And so the power in you the power to work it in 's is of God and the power that works in us is to open up who we are those secret places where those treasures are hidden, sometimes we done there from self-doubt and whatever we keep them locked up. God wants to open it up to get inside. So don't get confused with difficulties don't become to this discouragement, despair not, as it were, as your clay pots been abused while Paul says we been surrounded and battered by troubles, but were not demoralized the powers of God. He is in the best of both were not sure what to do, but we oh God knows what to do. The power that moves within us is the power of God. He is in the vessel is in me when I was spiritually terrorized but God hasn't left our side, God is inside the clay pitcher don't be confused. The power of God resides in the vessel not certain he says we been thrown down. Imagine that the clay picture picture thrown down, but were not broken the glory is of God, the power is of God, and is not of us. And Paul finishes this section by saying our lives are constant risk for Jesus sake, which makes Jesus life all the more evident than us. It is the life of Christ inside of the picture is the life of God inside of us are encountering the treasures that God wants to take his word and rolled them in us develop them in us remember evil only wants to steal, and to keep buried what is of value. God wants to bring his word to life inside of us to uncover the treasures uncover what's inside here. It's been there all the time because he pointed their when you were getting your mothers womb you create forms for the treasures and and now the circumstances of life are opening the door for the opportunity to bring out what their words are moved despair will close it. Hope causes us to look at the substance of what God has done for fifteen hundred years in the nation of Israel for two thousand years through Christ and the church and his word and he wants to take that and that's substance of that what has taken place and give us hope for the circumstances that we face. I'm not in despair, I've been beaten, but I'm not broken. I been cast down, but I'm not broken. I have had conflict. I'm not giving up because Christ, he is in this vessel and the vessel that I possess is just a clay pigeon. Everybody looks a little different. Everybody talks a little different. Everybody can draw so little different but the glory is what is on the inside were displayed on in the circumstances of life, the hand of God molds us into who we are. The vessel of play God, who is our partner God, who is our popular has us molded to deliver his message through our lives, the powers not of us, but of God. That's what God is doing the potter and the play the treasure lies inside in the Potter Hills. The vessel with his spirit to uncover in us all those treasures that are about films Paul says greater is he that is in me. They needed in the world the power in the vessel. So what we fill our lives with what we fill our vessels with we fill our using nuclear vessels with word of God allow the spirit of God to speak that word to us. We are not in despair. We are clay pitcher experiencing pressures of life were not in despair because the hope that is in us is the hope is brought to us by God abiding within a man father, thank you, thank you far your spirit that abides within us. Thank you, O God, the greater is he that abides greater. See that is in us than he that is in the world that greater is he that is in us than the one who is behind the spare grandeur is he that is in us than the one who feeds our despair because God gives us hope he feels us. I feels our lives spirit in his work. It's a substance that we know now, we believe will be part of us for tomorrow and for the dreams that God has given us. Thank you, oh God, that we will be a vessel of honor for you and then payment unless youThe treasure lies within you whenever we take up treasures no what what what words go with treasure in your and your idea of treasure hunting of treasure chests, no Pirates of the Caribbean, you know, looking for treasure, buried treasure. Well, in the house, gold, silver treasure hunt treasure Island Pirates didn't treasure, so whatever. What that lucky time to magically delicious. Yes, we find that there are treasures in all kinds of places, but our ire# and the message today is the treasure lies within the Sergeant Jeremiah, chapter eighteen, verses one through ten, Jeremiah, chapter eighteen, verses one through ten. God told Jeremiah up on your feet go to the potter 's house, and when you get there, I'll tell you what I have to say, so I went to the potter 's house, and sure enough, the plotter was there working away his wheel whenever the pot. The potter was working on turned out badly as sometimes happens when you are working with clay. The potter would simply start over and use the same play to make another pot, then God 's message came to me. Can't I do just as this potter does with the people of Israel, God 's decree watch this potter in the same way that this part of Marxist clay. I work on you, people of Israel, and then go to second Corinthians chapter four verses five through twelve second greatest chapter four, five to twelve. Remember our message is not about ourselves maybe they're proclaiming Jesus Christ, the master. All we are as messengers and runners from Jesus for you. It started out when God said, why do the darkness in our lives, filled up with like as we saw and understood God in the face of Christ, all bright and beautiful. If you only look at eyes, you might well miss the brightness we carry this prices. We carry this precious message around in an unadorned clay pots of ordinary lives, but to prevent anyone from confusing God 's incomparable power with us as it is, there's not much chance of that, you know for yourselves that were not much to look at. We then surrounded and battered by troubles who were not demoralized when not sure what to do, but we know that God knows what to do with a spiritually terrorized the God hasn't left our side we been thrown down, but we haven't broken what they did to Jesus. They do to us trial and torture mockery and murder what Jesus did among them. He does in us. He lives our lives are a constant risk for Jesus sake. What makes Jesus life all the more evident in us while we were going through the worst. You're getting the best. So whatever we think of treasure, the repossessed treasures that we possess treasures. Now we think of treasure while we assumed that there is well stored up or halberd reserved whenever we think of treasure as well. Somewhere in. It's like the this like a little boy. They were twins and one was an optimist. The one with the presence it out, and the parents were just so absurd as to how they were going to help the spirit of their children. The one and they were so concerned for that. The pessimist in because the optimist was just so up on everything. So the counselor suggested that they know the boy who is the pessimist, the optimist that you in all you wrap him up one package and in the package and then you wrapped with a pessimist. You gave him no. I think these unwanted inure to skim a whole bunch of gifts and so on Soto realized that he has good things in his life. So they did this and they many observed and watched how they responded in the pessimist when in the room and opened up his gifts and was the wrong color was the wrong size. It had that before. It wasn't any good for what he opened there was nothing there, so they didn't like anything so the optimists. They wrapped him a box of horse manure, and he opens it up. He looks at it. He's all excited these children around in his bloody excited about. He says while they go to be one answer was not the only wildlife only Nader than before. Okay, so the treasure really is what is of value to us. The treasure is someone or something that is valued highly. So whatever we think of what is highly valued in our life husband, wife, parents, children, grandchildren, family, friends, they are our treasures, so the treasure is what is inside of you and how that is conveyed to the people around you. So that's why something that is valued highly to you. Maybe one man's junk, but another man's treasure so what is the implication that the man who season is John doesn't see the same value as the one who sees it as a treasure, so the value of an item that is determined by what a person is willing to pay for that item. While Jesus says no longer I tell you or call you servants, but I I call you friend. Why, because the server doesn't know what is more done than I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard of my father. I make known to you. So Jesus what the Nazis on the value that we have and that he died from treasure in Matthew thirteen God 's Kingdom is like a treasure hidden in the field for years and then accidentally found by a trespasser. The Finder is a static one of fine overseeing to sell everything he owns to raise money and buy that field God 's kingdom is great treasure to the word of God, the Scriptures are a great treasure talk about spare and hope disparity is what we look at in the surroundings and the circumstances hope is what we find in the Scriptures that eternal life, heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. So in the despair on heaven and earth fumbling there is hope in Christ and his word. We hold onto that which is eternal, the eternal Word passes through time and we hold onto it. It's like that borrower in nine and a car or bus to those cable cars whenever you hang out that whenever things are rough and rocky, you know that movie you have something whole solid to hold onto snaring of God 's kingdom is a great treasure if a man came to the whole world, and loses his own saw what is a prophet him. So God you live in Christ for UNI because he saw the treasure that he made in the treasure that is instilled in us inside of us. This treasure of God 's kingdom. I converse you see, it takes the kingdom of God, and the treasures of God find the key in that treasure of God to uncover the treasure that God has placed the new the talents, the ability the skills the mindset that God has these treasures, and there headed us, but it takes. Try it to he takes one to know one case, a treasure of God to uncover the treasure of God in us. God has a purpose for our life. God has a calling for our life, it doesn't mean that it is good to take you from here to Africa. It means is going to let you see what you've got what you you are what's going on, and you shall let you see it in a different perspective and gives you the glasses. The focus. The microscope. The telescope of looking through God 's wins and what you are and what you have is a we have this treasure in earthen vessels. We are not divine, but the God who lives within us. He is the vine and he opens up the treasures of his storehouse and avails into us. I always say the right to make the right to make the job easier. The rights will make the job easier. And if you know what tools the tools on the power of God coming into your life and allowing the power of God to work in you as you deal with all of the issues that come to an Almighty God, who your talent with a new knows where they are hidden and how to release them on to unlock them. The truth is we have so much treasure we have so much treasure, buried within us as the enemy of my soul is out the skillet and keep it locked new member. This remembers remember this, remember that it is in stock that I'm saying that it's important right thing over and over again. Remember, this knowledge will try to steal something that doesn't have value, the enemy of our soldiers to steal the killer to destroy why, for what reason with the enemy of our soul want to steal something from your life to destroy something of your life because he sees the value it would be to the kingdom of God into you and the best way for him to keep that from you is to get you to doubt your value out your talents down who you are as an individual and therefore keep silent about that guy that is inside of you. It sounds may be raw. They may be undeveloped. It may be buried under self-doubts. But guess what God can create something wonderful within it. God can create something out of nothing. All he needs is the material that is inside of us and our desire to make it happen. You are what you know, the moving link in the originators see the movie linking it. That's good and I like it. I was not about half the spices, and I like Lincoln. That's a desk. I however, I would do workshops and things at the hospital I would. I often talk about and I don't have the exact slide in my mind, but you know who this individual that failed that being a congressman was elected to transfer 's local office was defeated, ran for state office. Your county office was defeated, ran for state office, and was defeated, ran for the Senate was was loaded and ran again and was voted out and ran for this is not enough defeated defeated defeated at children die for it all these things and I finally would like President and what yellow he was the greatest President Martine of our of our greatest presidents of all of history. Why can characteristic that was so young and in the film and talk about it that he was always signing these letters apart, and there are different stories to go with it, but one is one of the stories I used was that there was a soldier. They would then came Peter that he was, was charged with desertion, and they would always bring people land as witnesses and job so this one soldier appeared before Lincoln and get the witnesses and he asked the nanny scissors and I wanted to stand up for your character is a you don't have any brothers or sisters or parents, guys had no role that they were all killed in the war. Lincoln said I'll be your witness in part. You know what we are the only nation to survive a Civil War as we have been in the scene. It only gives a live in that movie. It only has one little scene of this, but it proxies the greatest distinction. The greatest mark of his presidency was that with in the war, he said see there was. There was a group in Washington and wanted to hang Jefferson Davis wanted to hang the southern Congress wanted to make them pay for their sins. All of rebelling and creating this division, and Lincoln said if they will lay down their arms and go home. The wars over will forgive that was the single move that brought the nations together if they had hung the southern Congress if they had hung Jefferson Davis if they had done all those things to punish probably would've been another Civil War, but it was his act of forgiveness and he say what brought out that character in Lincoln. What brought I was at all of his defeats the gave him a sensitivity to people who were defeated and in our lives eat you look inside of us. We look at the difficulty the despair and the whole and how does this work inside a method that we look at Jeremiah. God is going to take a normal life experience. He tells Jeremias is given up to the potter 's house, and when you get there I will tell you something to show you something so Jeremiah got the potter 's house, and the potter. He is a ready-made story of God 's sovereignty. Potter and Clay being fashioned by the hand on him. You were ever work with play. I work with plane. He wasn't a good guy work for now good resistance are not. But Eric McLean lab with DIA for it. I could never get it to go were I wanted to I put a bunch of water. I was too soft and do I'd wouldn't do. I wanted so I gave up on being a potter, but sometimes you hire sometimes it's too soft. Sometimes you find the value working with it or spend out people may decline letting it all alone stones out of it or chunks out of it and it mars what you want to do so. The same way the client struggled beneath the hand of the potter was applauded him, he simply works within again and reshapes it remote. The Bible says all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose. God has a way of reshaping the experiences of our life. God has a way of causing things to come about in a different perspective. Sometimes we need to be remade. Sometimes the despair is about how we are being reshaped, it isn't the pressures of life that shape our lives at the hand of God that were spent to announce their what did she. What did she say about this morning. She heard. But that is not about us. We need to get out of the way, what about the Potter and Clay. We like to tell God how to make us that God will let me i.e. oh I want to be this vessel that is used in the court now the price palace. Whatever God has a sovereignty over us that we are made with the purpose in the text says in the same way that the Potter works with his play. I work on you. So we look at this were saying that God is at work at the Potter is working on the place of God is working on our life and despair is our emotional this is safe and always see them. God is at work in a few weeks ago, but about movies we see only what the feeling is and in a lot of the situations in there. We spoke about unilateral movie review am sorry but that is a movie review from David McGee yeah, I'm particularly severe in the icon talk about now, but what that all spoiler alert you if you haven't seen the movie looked at the audience, not always like the little parking where the people stand in line to what they see the Titanic and the older people are talking about politics. I ended the younger people were behind his siblings go little before to find out what I pay Alan Lim is what if the situation must happen in order to open up the door to the talents and live within what if the despair. What if the situations must happen in order to open up the door to the talents that lie within us. She gone is the purpose and to make what he places on last to make money places a bus, and what changes he pleases with us to make what he pleases of us there is women's to make money plea can't read my writing to make money places the last at the change what he pleases with us, although also with us, so the vessel will be a vessel of honor God. Once the shape God formed us out of a claim that the beer regarding the clay pictures. We are still playing his hair let's look at second Corinthians here we are. Paul is saying replay pot clay pictures shape. I got into a vessel verse five says I message is not about ourselves were proclaiming Jesus Christ. So Paul is saying that here I am, and I am a vessel for God. The clay pitcher, but I want everybody to know that what I'm saying is not about me, but it's about God ENB is not what God has for me to do what God 's messages. So the message is not about us. It's about God. It is important to know that God formed us for purpose God has us were purpose. The message is about Jesus Christ. The master is fulfilling his call upon our life and he is filling us with the power of the Spirit is killing us with a part of the results we are his messengers errand runners from Jesus to you also. We are arrogant runners were running errands where we are instruments of God 's use bringing the message of God to use will be our errand boys and ladies of Jesus Christ and Paul says my vessel is full of God poured out who also what I'm here for, just to give you the message and so why post as in my container. He says will light up the darkness. When I possess and my container will light up the dark verse seven. If you look at us, you might well miss the bright if you become so preoccupied with me, you'll miss the brightness of the methods that I have if you Paul knew about this. Paul was traveling on the road to Damascus to kill Christians and he nearly message about Christ, but he didn't know Christ, and he became sole preoccupied with killing Christians stoning Stephen and the rest, but he missed what was inside of them. He found the individuals and miss the glory that was in them, but he saw it, Stephen Biden. He's young and gives his heart uses commands his life to God and Paul wanted to die and he sees the glory of statement, but it doesn't change him until he meets the person of that glory in our lives. It is our meeting this person Jesus Christ that comes into our life that changes us and we become the word paralyzed, no harassed. We look at the things of our circumstances of our life despair and hope, and we look at the spare we look at hope God is what feels our life withhold you can adorn a picture with many rubies and diamonds. But it's still a clay pot is still at play picture yell. We look at the our society and models in the beauty and this is not still clay pots, clay pots can come in many shapes and sizes many different colors and made an ornament many different gowns and crowns and suits in taxes and everything else, but that's the click the treasurer is what's inside of us. Paul says to look at the container is about within five backs to prevent anyone can faster prevent anyone from confusing God 's incomparable power with us. Don't get confused this life and the power and what I'm doing is not about me. It's about Christ and the power in you is the power the work of venue is from God to take on the situations and circumstances that we face and the claim pictures archive pictures no matter what you do with them. There's still the clay picture. Worse still the Temple were still just a pot form from my yell out of the dust of the earth and bring you get to watch the breath of life, who became a living soul, and this clay pitcher is going to go away someday, but the life inside of us will never go away. And so the power in you the power to work it in 's is of God and the power that works in us is to open up who we are those secret places where those treasures are hidden, sometimes we done there from self-doubt and whatever we keep them locked up. God wants to open it up to get inside. So don't get confused with difficulties don't become to this discouragement, despair not, as it were, as your clay pots been abused while Paul says we been surrounded and battered by troubles, but were not demoralized the powers of God. He is in the best of both were not sure what to do, but we oh God knows what to do. The power that moves within us is the power of God. He is in the vessel is in me when I was spiritually terrorized but God hasn't left our side, God is inside the clay pitcher don't be confused. The power of God resides in the vessel not certain he says we been thrown down. Imagine that the clay picture picture thrown down, but were not broken the glory is of God, the power is of God, and is not of us. And Paul finishes this section by saying our lives are constant risk for Jesus sake, which makes Jesus life all the more evident than us. It is the life of Christ inside of the picture is the life of God inside of us are encountering the treasures that God wants to take his word and rolled them in us develop them in us remember evil only wants to steal, and to keep buried what is of value. God wants to bring his word to life inside of us to uncover the treasures uncover what's inside here. It's been there all the time because he pointed their when you were getting your mothers womb you create forms for the treasures and and now the circumstances of life are opening the door for the opportunity to bring out what their words are moved despair will close it. Hope causes us to look at the substance of what God has done for fifteen hundred years in the nation of Israel for two thousand years through Christ and the church and his word and he wants to take that and that's substance of that what has taken place and give us hope for the circumstances that we face. I'm not in despair, I've been beaten, but I'm not broken. I been cast down, but I'm not broken. I have had conflict. I'm not giving up because Christ, he is in this vessel and the vessel that I possess is just a clay pigeon. Everybody looks a little different. Everybody talks a little different. Everybody can draw so little different but the glory is what is on the inside were displayed on in the circumstances of life, the hand of God molds us into who we are. The vessel of play God, who is our partner God, who is our popular has us molded to deliver his message through our lives, the powers not of us, but of God. That's what God is doing the potter and the play the treasure lies inside in the Potter Hills. The vessel with his spirit to uncover in us all those treasures that are about films Paul says greater is he that is in me. They needed in the world the power in the vessel. So what we fill our lives with what we fill our vessels with we fill our using nuclear vessels with word of God allow the spirit of God to speak that word to us. We are not in despair. We are clay pitcher experiencing pressures of life were not in despair because the hope that is in us is the hope is brought to us by God abiding within a man father, thank you, thank you far your spirit that abides within us. Thank you, O God, the greater is he that abides greater. See that is in us than he that is in the world that greater is he that is in us than the one who is behind the spare grandeur is he that is in us than the one who feeds our despair because God gives us hope he feels us. I feels our lives spirit in his work. It's a substance that we know now, we believe will be part of us for tomorrow and for the dreams that God has given us. Thank you, oh God, that we will be a vessel of honor for you and then payment unless you