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There Is Not A Vessel More
Contributed by Greg Irby on Jan 30, 2009 (message contributor)
Summary: A Message on how God does the amazing with our little.
THERE IS NOT A VESSEL MORE
Text: 2 Kings 4:6
And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
Introduction:
1. PROBLEM WITH THE OWED
A. Insurmountable Sum (vs. 1)
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
We too, were born with a debt that we cannot pay.
B. Injustice Sought (Lev. 25:39-46)
And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: 40But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile: 41And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. 43Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God. 44Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Christ was done a great deal of injustice.
C. Inquiry Sounded (vs. 2)
And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.
What shall I do?
What hast thou?
2. POT OF OIL
Oil is a type of the Holy Spirit.
Ephes. 5:18
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Zech. 4:6
Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
Illustration of spirit filled Christians
A. Comparison - A drunken man vs. A spirit filled man
A drunk is controlled by another power.
A spirit filled is controlled by another person.
B. Commandments
Be not drunk
Be filled
C. Conditions
1. Thirsting
For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
2. Believing
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
3. Asking
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
4. Right Reason
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
D. Consequences
1. Holy Spirit strengthens the believer (Eph. 3:16)
Ephes. 3:16
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
2. Holy Spirit leads the believer (Rom. 8:14)
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
3. Holy Spirit helps the believer understand the Bible (I John 2:27)
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
