We hold these treasures in earthen vessels that the surpassing power may be of God and not from us. We are afflicted in every way but not constrained, perplexed but not driven to despair, persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed, always carrying about int he body the dyi...
20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor. 21 Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every go...
Editor’s Note: The following article was written in 1914[1],when St. Hilarion was an archimandrite and a professor of the Imperial Moscow Spiritual Academy. Its message is especially pertinent for our times, when there is widespread confusion and ignorance about the true nature of Christ’s C...
(Please contact Guillon’s Christian supply in Statesville and King, N.C., for information about his books). Now that we have the complete and final word of God via scripture, and have been warned multiple times in the Bible not to add or take away even a single letter (Deuteronomy 4:...
Consider the circulatory system made up primarily of the heart, blood, and blood vessels that transport oxygen to the cells. This is going on right now as you read this. Which came first in the long time of evolution? The heart? What did it pump if blood was not yet evolved? How did...
Another example is your circulatory system of blood, heart, and vessels to carry the blood. Which came first? If the heart, then what did it pump? If the blood, how did it move? If the vessels, what was in it? All had to be present at once in a body for life to work. The id...
Rom. 5:12 – description of death and sin entering into the world is similar to Wisdom 2:24. Rom. 9:21 – usage of the potter and the clay, making two kinds of vessels follows Wisdom 15:7. 1 Cor. 2:16 – Paul’s question, “who has known the mind of the Lord?” references ...
2Co 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: So long as we live in clay vessels we need to always be on guard against our flesh and the lusts therein. They are always seeking to war with Israel to take back the spiritual land that Christ’s elect ar...
26The one who overcomes, and the one who keeps My deeds until the end, I will give him authority over the nations;27and he shall rule themwith a rod of iron, as thevessels of the potter are shattered, as I also have receivedauthorityfrom My Father; ...