Clay in the Fathers Hands
Series: Living in Babylon
October 01, 2022
Michael Boyd
lay In The Potter's Hands LISTEN ON MIXLR @ HTTP://MIXLR.COM/PASTORGBCSL WATCH US ON YOU TUBE LIVE @ HTTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/GRACECHURCH-SLUS/LIVE Join us on Discord at the Grace Baptist Church Hangout HTTPS://DISCORD.GG/U9YZT9DQ Jeremiah 18:1-12 18 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear[a] my words.” 3 So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was working at his wheel. 4 And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do. 5 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 6 “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. 7 If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, 8 and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. 9 And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, 10 and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it. 11 Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.’ 12 “But they say, ‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart
Episode Notes
I. Four pictures
1. The Potter
2. The Wheel
Romans 9: 21-24 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? 22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory— 24 even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
3. The First Vessel- The Marred Vessel
4. The remade vessel.
II. God never learns anything. He is Sovereign.
1. God is Sovereign over the Nations
2. God loves to remake marred vessels.
III. Don’t resist the Potter.
1. We can resist the Potter even as believers.
2. The Potter has good designs toward you.
20 Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. 21 Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable,[d] he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work. 2 Timothy 2:20
3. Let the Potter Make you into a vessel he can use.
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