Always Squeezed, Never Squashed

Suffering believers are like a precious and valuable treasure placed in disposable container, in order to show God's power.

1. Notice God's power – Christians living with personal powerlessness, but not despair. (v.7)
2. Notice God's power – suffering believers are physically squeezed, but not spiritually mis-shapen. (v.8-9)
3. Notice God's power – 'the life of Jesus' at work in us, and the 'death of Jesus' in suffering believers. (v.10-11)
   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