We Have This Treasure in Earthen Vessels

Let's Pray:

We pray that You would not only speak to us but also dispense Yourself into us through Your rich word. We want to gain You and have Your element added into us.

Hymn: 445

Today's Verses and Footnotes: 2 Cor 4:1-12

Key Verse:

2 Cor 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not out of us.

Filling the Blanks:

In the apostles' speaking concerning their ministry for God's new covenant, ( ) very significant and expressive metaphors were used to illustrate how they, as the ( ) of the new covenant, and their ministry were constituted, how they behaved and lived, and how their ministry was carried out:(1) ( ) in a triumphal procession for the celebration of Christ's victory; (2) Incense-bearers to scatter the ( ) of Christ; (3) ( ) written with Christ as the content; (4) ( ) beholding and reflecting the glory of Christ in order to be transformed into His glorious image; (5) ( ) vessels to contain the Christ of glory as the excellent treasure . These vessels are like today's camera, into which Christ the figure enters through the flash of God's shining. (See 2 Cor 4:7 note 1)