Show LiFE AN Rev Louis Bowerman Ds Ds courses on Trials and Tri Tn Triumphs of Prophet Prophet MAN MArJ MAY MOULD HIMSELF NOT LIKE MERE CLAY IN THE HAN HANDS DS OF TH THE E POTTER In Immanuel Baptist church yester yesterday yesterday day Roy Rev Louis S Bowerman spoke on the mission and tribulations of the Jeremiah The tot text waa wa And he hA made i It again Ju In the couro courso of his a dress Rev Rey Bowerman said The scene before us Is an Intensely Interesting one The prophet Is sent sento o 0 the Lord to watch the labor of an artisan I It is hoped that ho he may see I tb purpose as the tho workman turns the wheel and that the larger lesson of Gos Gods dealing wih with Isrl Israel may become evident The days of captivity ar are al almost most Bloat at hand To Jeremiah i It is sel self evIdent that nothing cn can stay the punishment Then what the promis promise made to Abra Abraham Abraham ham and Isaac Isaic The Messianic hop as pictured in psalm and prophecy This Is why the Lords was wass s ft nt to watch the poter potter You wi notice as you watch wih Jeremiah that ther there was a definite form in Di the mind of the poter potter He Is trying again and agin again to reach the In mind and ho wi will not nt stop un ti fl the Ideal Is attained The clay is 15 braking breaking The for form Is al almost most evIdent when dIsaster comes In ono one form and another and the whole work seems ruined Despair seems t fette settle upon the watcher hut the work worker er Cr takes it up agin again Worker Keeps On The hl work s uric was marred and yet fh r is keeping steadily to the work i and aud the th form fonn In mind Change Changes may be mao made In the materials and time and I cir allowed to fe file in thel their I part No marring or breaking Is at al atlow low to the form or Ideal This the prophet soon dIscovers and andis andIs is made mad to realize that even the corn com comIng lug Ing captivity may be a necessary ste stein step in n Un the Idel ideal of the promise math mad for Hf Hf made I it agin again Is not only the regarding purpose of for form but iUS als tIt of resource and power God has many ways of his plans and completing the tho Ideals He HeIs HeIs Is In patience and mercy morcy and the long seres of and experIments meats ments convInce the watcher that an that can be done wU will be done to form the clay Into the perfected form Jeremiah as the watcher Is thus led also to se sc the righteousness of God In permittIng the captivity of Israel To st set aside a naton nation or a people to change the kIngdom was wel well It if only i it was a step In enacting the Ideal r re the promise for makind mankind All Ail this apples applies I In the ful st ye re garling garding the indIvIdual clay In the hards hards f the poter potter Men en are assumed assume to have bave wills and thus are not mere day clay to be molded wih with no response from themselves Man may yield or ormay ormay may He may desire to be fash ione according to tIle the divIne fOr form or orbe orbe be may put himsel himself Into the power and control of another or even vaInly imagine that he Is creating hImself according to some special design of his ow own mind The resul result Is the breaking and tho maring marring Missing the Ideal for aen aca one of the race and falling short If f the glory of God Hope of Prophet The divIne mercy is sen seen in that God wais waits for mans repentance Here you see the fundamental purpose of the theOld theOld Old Testament Gods mercy in forgive forgiveness forgiveness ness at mans repentance We ned need t to remember that In this application to the Individual there is isn isU U n change tn In the original plan or Idel ideal for form Lt Let us make man In our Image never changes hanges The vessel is to be made after the perfection of the orIgInal original nal le life That manifested Ideal Is the Jesus of Nazareth God changes not In that purpose He may use may many met meth methods He may tr try many experIment experiments bitt thre IS no change In his purpose se seto to create men anew In Jesus Christ ChristIn In this I is seen the crownIng or of the love loc and patience marred and broken by sin Go God doe does not ct cast the tho sinner away He sti still holds the clay he Is turning the wheel Wen When the fhe human clay will but yIeld to the tho dl l vine he make makes I It anew I It was this hone that saved the prophet from 1ST tr r IsraeL |