A VISIT TO THE POTTER’S HOUSE
Pastor J. C. O’Hair
The modern Pottery Factory is quite different from the Potter’s House in the days of Jeremiah or from many of the primitive workshops in Mexico. Generally you will find the display room with the finished product in front and the workshop in the rear where the workman sits with his foot turning the wheel as he molds the clay with his hands. Sometimes the workman has a printed design before him. Sometimes it is in his mind. Often you find a little hall between the display room and the workshop with a window at either end. As you look out through the window you see the Potter’s Field, filled with broken pottery, worse than worthless. We can imagine some such primitive place of business in Jeremiah’s day: “The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear My words. Then I went down to the potter’s house and behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it. Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in Mine hand, O House of Israel.”
This story is almost self-explanatory. God was the Great Potter and He still is. Israel needed to be made over. So does every sinner today, whether Jew or Gentile. According to II Corinthians 11:1 to 3 and Romans 5:12 and the story of Adam’s sin in Genesis 3, can we say that humanity was marred in the Potter’s hand? Satan did the marring. Many believe, whatever has happened to the human race has been either according to God’s direct will or His permissive will. It does seem that God permitted the Serpent to present his proposition to Eve. Sin is universal. All have been conceived in sin and shapen in iniquity. Sin has marred the whole human race.
But in Romans 8:28 to 32 we learn that before Adam sinned God had an eternal purpose. (II Timothy 1:9 - Ephesians 3:11 - Ephesians 1:4 and 5 - Ephesians 1:11). God foreknew that He would have a race of sons conformed to the image of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. So when God, the Great Potter, puts a sinner on the Gospel Wheel He has His Son in His mind and wants the finished product of II Corinthians 3:18 and Philippians 3:21. The Gospel of Christ is God’s power unto salvation. (Romans 1:16). Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead after He was buried. On the cross of Calvary His visage was marred more than any other man. (Isaiah 52:14). What a strange but wonderful story! The sinless Christ. Who had never been marred by sin, had to be marred and be made sin, wearing the cursed thorns, that marred vessels might become new creatures in Christ. (II Corinthians 5:21 - Galatians 3:13 - I Peter 3:18 - II Corinthians 5:17). Only the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit can take the child of Adam out of the wreck and ruin, and put him in Christ. Christ became a partaker of flesh and blood, even in the likeness of sinful flesh (Hebrews 2:14 and 15 - Romans 8:3), that the Great Potter might make the marred vessels into what is described in II Timothy 2:21: “a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the Master’s use.”
Note God’s eternal “show-room”: “That in the ages to come, He might show the exceeding riches of His grace, in His kindness toward us, through Christ Jesus.” For ever and ever God, in heaven, will have on display the trophies of His grace, to the glory of His Beloved Son. Are you going to be there? You will either be there or in the Potter’s Field. Poor Judas! Our contempt for him is mixed with pity. He brought back the thirty pieces of silver and gave them to the betrayers and murderers of the Lord of Glory. (I Corinthians 2:6 to 8 - Acts 7:51 to 56 - Acts 3:14 and 15 - I Thessalonians 2:14 to 16). Read carefully Matthew 27:3 to 10.
Are you headed for the Great Display Room in Heaven with Christ or for the Potter’s Field with Judas and Satan?
What is the Gospel?
Believing Christ died, that’s
HISTORY.
Believing Christ died for YOUR sins
and rose again, that’s SALVATION.
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel
which the preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you,
unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all
that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the
scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day
according to the scriptures. 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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