First Tuesday June 2025 | The Shape Shifter

From Jeremiah 18

If we attend church only to have our , we may not be .

📖 Jeremiah 18: 1–2 (ESV) The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2 “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.”

📖 Jeremiah 18:3 (ESV) So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel.

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1. God starts in the places, not the spaces.

📖 Jeremiah 18:3a (ESV) So I went down to the potter’s house… 4 And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand…

📖 Isaiah 64:8 (ESV) “We are the clay, and You are our potter.”

📖 Job 10:9 (ESV) “You have made me like clay.”

There’s the I seek to .

There’s the God seeks to .

📖 Job 5:17–18 (ESV) “Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty. 18 For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal.

📖 Hebrews 12:6–7 (ESV) For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” 7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

2. God’s tools are and .

📖 Jeremiah 18:3b (ESV) …and there he was working at his wheel.

In order to be , I must be on Christ.

📖 Philippians 1:21 (ESV) For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

God uses , not just .

God uses , not .

📖 Isaiah 55:8–9 (ESV) For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

3. God works with people.

📖 Jeremiah 18:4 (ESV) And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.

God what we to what He .

4. God’s requires my .

📖 Jeremiah 18:5–6 (ESV) Then the word of the Lord came to me: 6 “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

📖 Isaiah 45:9 (ESV) “Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?

📖 Hebrews 3:15 (ESV) Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts…

Sermon in a sentence:

God’s starts with to the hand in and on our .