Msg #2246 Being Saved from the Fire

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Right after God takes Jeremiah to the potters house and gives him a poignant message about his forming a nation by carefully molding it in his hands (Jer.18), he tells him to “get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom … and say, Hear ye the word of the LORD … Then shall thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again and they shall bury them in Tophet (place of fire), till there be no place to bury” (Jer.19:1-3,10-11).

The nation of Israel was formed, framed, and fashioned by the careful persistent hand of The Potter, cf Genesis 12 thru 2Kings 25. It was very often “marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it” (Jer.18:4).

After an earthen vessel is dried, fired, used, and broken it cannot be made whole again. The valley of of Hinnom, Gehenna, where Tophet burned as an inferno, is where Israel passed her children through the fire of Molech and incurred this wrath of God.

Twelve times Jesus used the Hebrew name of this inferno, Gehenna, to describe hell where the fire is never quenched. He said it would be better to gouge your eye out than to go there (Mat.5:29). God is forming you; don't end up a broken burning potter's bottle. Be sure you are saved from that fire the Bible way (Joh.3:16-18, Rom.10:9-10).

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