Welcome To The Potter’s House
Pastor Erickson preaches from 2 Kings 7 and Jeremiah 18 on family day, contrasting the way society teaches people to manage their pain and problems with the four lepers who refused to sit and die. He calls people to stop settling, get back on the Potter's wheel, and let God make them new through repentance and the Holy Ghost.
The message in 6 points
Welcome to the Potter's House
On family day he opens with the four lepers at the gate in 2 Kings 7 and the potter's house in Jeremiah 18. He thanks God for the family of God and prays that lives will be changed.
1:33:24What society teaches us to accept
He says society teaches us that certain things just have to be accepted because everyone else does them. He honors the wisdom of the senior pastor and first lady, who chose a different path than the norm.
1:37:06Managing instead of healing
He describes how pain, stress, mental health, relationships and money are often managed instead of dealt with at the root. Society teaches people to settle for managing their condition.
1:42:35Starvation changes what we value
In 2 Kings 6 Syria starves out Samaria until a donkey's head sells for eighty pieces of silver. Like Esau trading his birthright, starving people lose sight of what really matters.
1:45:16Four lepers who got up
The four lepers ask why they should sit and die, get up, and walk into the Syrian camp. God makes the Syrians hear chariots and flee, and the lepers find plenty and go back to tell. He urges people not to die where they sit or give up right before God shows up.
1:48:59Back on the Potter's wheel
The potter does not throw away the marred clay but makes it again. He urges people not to settle for a disfigured life but to let God make them new, then calls them to the altar to repent and receive the Holy Ghost.
1:57:15
In his words
“Don't settle for less than what God has planned for your life, don't give up right before God shows up.”
“But the Potter still saw value in the clay that was already on the wheel. Is anybody thankful that the Potter still sees value in the clay that's still on the wheel?”
“God doesn't want to help manage your life, he wants to fix it. He doesn't want to help manage your life, he wants to heal it.”
Taken word for word from the video, with punctuation added.
Scripture
He reads
2 Kings 7:3
3And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
King James Version.
Jeremiah 18:1-6
1The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. 3Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. 4And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. 5Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 6O 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.
King James Version.
2 Kings 6:25
25And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.
King James Version.
2 Kings 7:4
4If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
King James Version.
Ezekiel 36:26
26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
King James Version.
2 Corinthians 5:17
17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
King James Version.
Romans 12:2
2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
King James Version.
Colossians 3:10
10And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
King James Version.
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