Treasure in Jars of Clay

Sunday 2nd June 2024

Text:
2 Corinthians 4: 5-12
Mark 2: 23 – 3: 16

Our first passage today helps to show just how ensnared the Pharisees had become in rule bound religion. From the life-giving commandment around respecting the Sabbath, the Scribes and Pharisees had developed a huge tangled web of rules and regulations about the Sabbath that moved it away from its life-giving nature towards a life-robbing burden! So that healing couldn’t take place!

It is so interesting how rules, regulations and traditions grow up in religion and take on sacred qualities not warranted! Paul’s dramatic conversion moved him immediately from the dark arts of rule-bound traditions to the light of Christ.
 
Watch the recorded sermon here: https://youtu.be/TR6LWRX_5ro​

A mission lies before us
         To go and to proclaim
      The hope we have in Jesus,
         The glory of His name
      The faint and weak He's chosen
         His power to display
      By placing gospel treasure
         In fragile jars of clay.