Life in Jars of Clay - 2 Corinthians 4:7-18

If you like growing plants, you will be familiar with clay pots. To have or to work with clay pots is a practice that is thousands of years old. Clay pots are common, cheap and fragile. However, they can carry things of great value. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered around 1950. All of them were sealed inside clay pots, and they are among the oldest pieces of scripture on planet Earth. It's one of the most significant archaeological discoveries on Earth. Tons of fragments from books, or whole books, and they are the oldest that we have. They were contained for 2,000 years inside clay pots.The scriptures talk about our lives as clay pots, with all of the commonness, the fragility, the weakness, but containing in them something so precious.We're a couple of weeks from Easter. I want to think with you today about the death of Christ. But not how in it we find the forgiveness of sins. We relate much more to the death of Christ every day, whether or not we want to. I want to talk about this in this image: that we have this treasure in jars of clay, out of 2 Corinthians 4.Extra reading: Psalm 16Preacher: Bill Dyck