The Purpose by Pastor Melissa Scott
In fact, if you keep reading in that chapter he talks about the wild olive branch, the tree being grafted back on. He has the right to save; which is what I’ve been saying for weeks. He has the right to save whom He wants. And we get stuck in this format somehow, “Well I want to submit to God, but can you not make it so difficult. God’s the boss, I know, but…”
Now listen carefully. The purpose. The purpose. Number two, the purpose. I’m going to outline the purpose in one word: His. His purpose. His purpose. “Well I know I’ve heard you say, Mrs. Scott, God wants to conform us to the image of His Son.” That’s true. And Ephesians 4 says, “Until we all come to the unity of the faith.” That’s true. To be conformed to His Son’s likeness, to bring out the Christ-likeness in me, absolutely. But there’s an element missing from the beginning.
Pastor Melissa Scott tells us that if you understand the purpose, go turn in your Bibles to Genesis 2. I covered this when I taught in Genesis. If you recall in Genesis 2, start at verse 7. We’re going to go backwards. Chapter 2, verse 7, “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils.” And read at verse 6 when it says, “There went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.” Well dust and water makes muck. Clay. And if you read the Hebrew, we looked at that word when it says, “the LORD God formed” as this word here yawtsar “the one being potter, the one making, the one being potter.” Being translated as that takes you right back to Jeremiah 18. If you read it in the Hebrew, “the Hebrew says…” never mind. “Get up, go you down house the one being potter” ha yawtsar.