{"id":153,"date":"2011-07-08T09:35:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T14:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:22:03","slug":"pressed-into-the-worlds-mold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Pressed Into the World&#8217;s Mold."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n<p><strong>I: There Are Many Kinds of Vessels:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. A cup, bowl, pot, pitcher, vase, bottle, barrel, tube, etc.<br \/>\n2. Made of different materials: earthen, china, gold, silver, tin, wood, etc.<br \/>\n3. Vessels of honor: a cup, pitcher, or vase.<br \/>\n4. Vessels of dishonor: slop bucket, and the cuspidors.<br \/>\n5. There is a tremendous difference between a vase filled with roses and a cuspidor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: The World&#8217;s Mold:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. There is the mold of the crowd. (Everyone is doing it).<br \/>\n2. There is the mold of public opinion. (What will people say).<br \/>\n3. There is the mold of popularity in dress, in habits, in compromise.<br \/>\n4. There is the mold of the business world.<br \/>\n5. Here is the mold of pleasure.<br \/>\n6. The final shaping of the vessel depends upon which mold it is pressed into.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: The World&#8217;s Mold Never Fashions A Good Clean Vessel:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Sin molds vessels of dishonor.<br \/>\n2. The vessel that Satan uses soon becomes filthy.<br \/>\n3. Men of distinction are soon clothed in rags and filth.<br \/>\n4. Young virtuous women become filthy and unfit.<br \/>\n5. The world presses its mold upon us day by day, shall we yield?<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: Vessels of Honor are Molded, and Molded by God:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Saul of Tarsus had to be broken and remolded. &#8220;He is a chosen vessel&#8221; Acts 9:15<br \/>\n2. &#8220;We have this treasure in earthen vessels.&#8221;<br \/>\na. What treasure is greater than the water of life?<br \/>\nb. Who would want water out of a dirty vessel?<br \/>\nc. The water can be tainted by the vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}