Treasure in a Box, #6

Suffering believers who are disabled precious and valuable treasures in disposable containers, to show God's power.

1. Notice God's power – seen in the church's experts in living with personal powerlessness, without despair. (v.7)
2. Notice God's power – seen in suffering believers being physically squeezed, but not spiritually mis-shapen. (v.8-9)
3. Notice God's power – in the form of 'the life of Jesus' at work in us, when we observe the 'death of Jesus' in the body of the suffering believer. (v.10-11)
   Applying: What if your value system needed a Biblical adjustment?
   What is precious and valuable? Colossians 2:3
   Which things are worthless, which have value? 2 Timothy 2:20
   In comparing life and death, what do we learn? Rom. 6:11