Man has a human spirit (Job 32:8).ĭarwin tells us that men are the descendants of monkeys. Within us there is also a receiver, and this receiver is our spirit. It needs an inner recipient, an inner receiver. The outward box of the radio is not good enough. God breathed into man the breath of life because man needs a spirit in order to contain God.Ī radio has a receiver within it so that it can receive, contain, and express the radio waves from the air. The Hebrew word for breath in Genesis 2:7 is the same word for spirit in Proverbs 20:27, which refers to the "spirit of man." This proves that the breath of life breathed into the nostrils of man is the spirit within man. Genesis 2:7 says that when God created man, He formed man’s body of the dust of the ground and breathed into man’s nostrils the breath of life.
This bottle has something wonderful within it. Man is a "God-bottle." Man is a bottle made of clay, but this bottle is different from the Coca-Cola bottle. God had mercy upon us because He has destined us to be His containers.Ī Coca-Cola bottle is a vessel made to contain Coke. So Paul says we are vessels unto honor and vessels unto glory. Man is a vessel of clay but he was destined unto honor and unto glory. Romans 9:21 indicates that when God created man, He formed man as a vessel. God is going to do something in a fast way to bring back this generation to His purpose. Now is the end of time, the end of all the ages. Nothing can fill man up and satisfy him but God Himself. Education, religion, science, physics, marriage, and all the things in human culture cannot satisfy man. This is because they were made to be vessels of God. There is an emptiness, a vacuum, within them. After the enjoyment of all the material things, after the experience of all the things invented in human culture, they get nothing. In the United States the young people are enjoying and tasting all the material things. God’s purpose with man is to have man as His container. Now at the end time the Lord is going to bring the human race back to His purpose. Mankind, the human race, has continually been falling away from God’s purpose. The Lord’s recovery today is to bring back the young generation to His purpose. Brothers and sisters, you have to realize that you are vessels unto God! According to Romans 9 God desires that we be vessels unto honor, vessels unto glory, and vessels of mercy to contain Him. God, strictly speaking, does not need us to do something for Him. We have to realize that we are vessels unto God. I do not say that this is wrong, but it does not touch God’s central thought. Even in Christianity many teachers tell people again and again that they need to do something for God, to work for God. The human concept is that we have to do something for God. We are not supposed to do something for God. A vessel is not used to do something but to contain something. It is different from a utensil or an instrument. But in Romans 9 we are told that man is a vessel of God.
Some even go to the highest point by saying that man can be a child of God. Christians talk about men being God’s creatures or men becoming God’s people.
Not many Christians have paid adequate attention to the fact that we are vessels of God. The holy Word tells us clearly that we are vessels. Now we need to see what the Word says we are.
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