The Potter The Clay And The Clean Vessel

1. �The Potter The Clay And The Clean Vessel� Jeremiah 18:1-6

2. Jeremiah 18:1-6

4. The Potter Shapes the Course of Our Lives6�"O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter?" says the Lord. "Look, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel! 

6. FALSE: I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. - What people claim in order to deny the Potter� Jeremiah 10:23 �23�O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps. --Romans 8:29� �29�For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

7. The Potter Has the Right to Shape Our Lives �Can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay� Isaiah 45:9 �9�"Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?' Or shall your handiwork say, 'He has no hands'? Romans 9:20-21 �20�But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?" 21�Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

8. The Potter Uses Pressure to Shape Our Lives �Just like clay in the potter�s hand, so are you in My hand�� 2ndCorinthians4:16-17 ��16�Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 17�For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,

9. The Potter Uses Pressure to Shape Our Lives �Just like clay in the potter�s hand, so are you in My hand�� Colossians 1:24� �24�I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church,

10. The Potter Uses Pressure to Shape Our Lives �Just like clay in the potter�s hand, so are you in My hand�� 1 Thessalonians 3:3� �3�that no one should be shaken by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.

11. The Potter Uses Pressure to Shape Our Lives �Just like clay in the potter�s hand, so are you in My hand�� 2 Timothy 3:11� �11�persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra--what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.

12. The Potter Uses Pressure to Shape Our Lives �Just like clay in the potter�s hand, so are you in My hand�� 2 Timothy 4:5� �5�But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

13. The Potter Has The Power to Re-shape Our Lives �But the jar that he was making from the clay became flawed in the potter�s hand, so he made it into another jar, as it seemed right for him to do.� Even in the times when God is correcting us� Isaiah 64:8 �8�But now, O Lord, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.

14. The Potter Has The Power to Re-shape Our Lives �But the jar that he was making from the clay became flawed in the potter�s hand, so he made it into another jar, as it seemed right for him to do.� Even in the times when God is correcting us� Eph 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

15. The Potter Has The Power to Re-shape Our Lives �But the jar that he was making from the clay became flawed in the potter�s hand, so he made it into another jar, as it seemed right for him to do.� Even in the times when God is correcting us� Ps 100:3 Know that the LORD, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

16. The Potter Has The Power to Re-shape Our Lives �But the jar that he was making from the clay became flawed in the potter�s hand, so he made it into another jar, as it seemed right for him to do.� Even in the times when God is correcting us� Isa 44:21 � "Remember these, O Jacob, And Israel, for you are My servant; I have formed you, you are My servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by Me!

17. We Are A Work in Progress �So I went down to the potter�s house, and there he was, working away at the wheel.� �Isaiah 64:8� �8�But now, O Lord, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.

18. We Are A Work in Progress �So I went down to the potter�s house, and there he was, working away at the wheel.� Acts 9:15� �15But the Lord said to him, "Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.

19. A Clean Vessel is a Useful Vessel 2nd Timothy 2:20-21 20�But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor. 21�Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work

20. A Clean Vessel is a Useful Vessel John 15:1-3� �1�"I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2�Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3�You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 

21. A Clean Vessel is a Useful Vessel John 15:1-3� �1�"I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2�Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3�You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 

22. A Clean Vessel is a Useful Vessel 1 Peter 1:22� �Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart.

23. A Clean Vessel is a Useful Vessel