Sermon Tone Analysis

Pain Is My Password

Today with the sake of Time i want to pull your attention to verse 7

Everyone One Of Us are nothing but a earthen vessel that God is using on this earth.

The amazing thing is how God has chosen to use such a fragile vessel to do mighty things..

What day was Man Created? the 6th day..

How many water jars for washing?

6 Which represents MAN..

Man a vessel

Man as vessel used for cleaning

Man as Vessel that was created to hold water to clean has been transformed to Hold the best Wine (the Holy Spirit) for all to drinK…

2.) How does God assure he is going to get the best out of whats in your earthen vessel?

Paul breaks it down in the 8th verse.

We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed.

The verb hard pressed means “to press in hard against” someone, or, as we say today, to squeeze the life out of a person.

But God would not let them crush him..

2. We are Perplexed but not in despair.

To Be at a Loss how to act or proceed.

But he wasn’t in despair aka went off the deep end..

3. Persecuted but not abandoned

The greek word means to pursue and is commonly used of tracking a prey or enemy.

Paul was pursued from City to City by hostile jews, But through it all God never abandoned him.

The idea here is that God did not leave Paul behind or in the lurch for the enemy to pick up

4.

He was struck down by the Enemy but not destroyed

Hard pressed, perplexed, persecuted and struck down are summed up in the clause we always carry around in our body the death of Jesus (v.

10).

Carry around refers to the itinerant life of the gospel preacher.

Always points to the commonplace versus exceptional character of these experiences.

The death of Jesus is actually “the dying of Jesus”—a term that stresses the ongoing nature of the process.

When we think of the “dying” of Jesus, we tend to think of the cross.

Paul, however, has in mind the hardships, troubles and frustrations that Jesus faced during his three-year ministry—the loneliness, the disappointments with his disciples, the exhaustion, the constant harassment by opponents, the crowd’s continuous demands, the incredulity of his family, the mocking and jeers of his foes, the flight of his friends, the hours on the cross, the thirst and then the end.

“I die every day” expresses the same thought (1 Cor 15:31).

Paul is acknowledging the wearing effect that the gospel ministry had on Jesus mentally, emotionally and physically.

Nor is his a unique experience.

Jesus taught his followers that if anyone would come after him, “he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me” (Lk 9:23; compare Mk 8:34).

Pain Is the Password!!!