Pressed Into the World’s Mold.

A vessel is a hollow or conclave article. Mold into Business, Pleasure, home, worship and habits. Rom. 12:1-8, Tim. 2 2:20-21

I: There Are Many Kinds of Vessels:
1. A cup, bowl, pot, pitcher, vase, bottle, barrel, tube, etc.
2. Made of different materials: earthen, china, gold, silver, tin, wood, etc.
3. Vessels of honor: a cup, pitcher, or vase.
4. Vessels of dishonor: slop bucket, and the cuspidors.
5. There is a tremendous difference between a vase filled with roses and a cuspidor.

II: The World’s Mold:
1. There is the mold of the crowd. (Everyone is doing it).
2. There is the mold of public opinion. (What will people say).
3. There is the mold of popularity in dress, in habits, in compromise.
4. There is the mold of the business world.
5. Here is the mold of pleasure.
6. The final shaping of the vessel depends upon which mold it is pressed into.

III: The World’s Mold Never Fashions A Good Clean Vessel:
1. Sin molds vessels of dishonor.
2. The vessel that Satan uses soon becomes filthy.
3. Men of distinction are soon clothed in rags and filth.
4. Young virtuous women become filthy and unfit.
5. The world presses its mold upon us day by day, shall we yield?

IV: Vessels of Honor are Molded, and Molded by God:
1. Saul of Tarsus had to be broken and remolded. “He is a chosen vessel” Acts 9:15
2. “We have this treasure in earthen vessels.”
a. What treasure is greater than the water of life?
b. Who would want water out of a dirty vessel?
c. The water can be tainted by the vessel.