Fully explain the illustration Paul uses of the vessels of honor and dishonor in Romans 9. Include?
... in your answer an explanation of what a vessel of honor and a vessel of dishonor would have meant to a potter and how to apply this principle spi
... in your answer an explanation of what a vessel of honor and a vessel of dishonor would have meant to a potter and how to apply this principle spiritually
or:... in your answer an explanation of what a vessel of honor and a vessel of dishonor would have meant to a potter and how to apply this principle spiritually
or:From a single lump of clay the potter could make a vessel for an honorable use and another for a dishonorable, a common, or an ordinary use. Similarly, Jehovah has authority to mold individuals as he pleases and has tolerated wicked ones, \u201cvessels of wrath made fit for destruction,\u201d but this has worked to the benefit of \u201cvessels of mercy,\u201d persons making up spiritual Israel.\u2014Ro 9:14-26.Yes, some of the Great Potter\u2019s work will be molded for an honorable use, and some, for a dishonorable use. Those who choose to go along with the world as it plunges ever deeper into the morass of ungodliness are molded in such a way that will mark them for destruction. When the glorious King, Christ Jesus, comes for judgment, such dishonorable vessels will include all obstinate goatlike humans who will, as Matthew 25:46 states, \u201cdepart into everlasting cutting-off.\u201d But sheeplike \u201crighteous ones,\u201d those molded for an \u201chonorable\u201d use, will inherit \u201ceverlasting life.\u201d
or:The potter\u2019s authority over the clay is used illustratively to show Jehovah\u2019s sovereignty over individuals and nations. (Isa 29:15, 16; 64:8) To God the house of Israel was \u201cas the clay in the hand of the potter,\u201d He being the Great Potter. (Jer 18:1-10) Man is in no position to contend with God, just as clay would not be expected to challenge the one shaping it. (Isa 45:9) As an earthenware vessel can be smashed, so Jehovah can bring devastating calamity upon a people in punishment for wrongdoing.\u2014Jer 19:1-11.In the Scriptures vessels are often referred to as people. (Ac 9:15) Christians are frail earthen vessels entrusted with a glorious treasure, the ministry. (2Co 4:7) Women are designated as the \u201cweaker vessel.\u201d Therefore, Christian husbands, by taking into consideration their wives\u2019 physical and biological limitations, as did Jehovah in the Law given to Israel (Le 18:19; 20:18), act \u201caccording to knowledge, assigning them honor as to a weaker vessel, the feminine one.\u201d\u20141Pe 3:7.An individual should keep separate from those vessels \u201clacking honour\u201d (persons who do not conduct themselves aright) pursuing a course in harmony with Jehovah\u2019s will. Thus he can be \u201ca vessel for an honorable purpose, sanctified, useful to his owner, prepared for every good work.\u201d (2Ti 2:20, 21) Jehovah\u2019s refraining from bringing immediate destruction upon \u201cvessels of wrath,\u201d wicked persons, serves to spare righteously disposed ones because it gives them time to be molded as \u201cvessels of mercy.\u201d\u2014Ro 9:17-26.
