Below please find the video of the sermon I gave last Thursday night for the Thursday evening service. This sermon focused upon the verses found in 2nd Corinthians 4:5-12. I chose to focus upon the 'clay jars' section of the scripture. We are those clay jars in which the beauty, 'the treasure', of Jesus' message, is contained. We are rough, crude, and imperfect beings but from within us radiates the perfect and beautiful message of the cross.
Just as pure water can flow from the rustiest spigot, so to can the perfect love of Christ radiate from us, flawed humans. As we go about our everyday lives let us not forget this lesson and strive ever more to allow Christ's light to shine forth from our lives.
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In His Love & Grace,
Roy
2 Corinthians 4:5-12 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
5 For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake. 6 For it is the God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” who has shone 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 clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us. 8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies. 11 For while we live, we are always being given up to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh. 12 So death is at work in us, but life in you.
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