Suffering believers who are disabled precious and valuable treasures in disposable containers, to show God's power. -1. Notice God's power - seen in the church's experts in living with personal powerlessness, without despair. -v.7--2. Notice God's power - seen in suffering believers being physically squeezed, but not spiritually mis-shapen. -v.8-9--3. Notice God's power - in the form of 'the life of Jesus' at work in us, when we observe the 'death of Jesus' in the body of the suffering believer. -v.10-11--Applying- What if your value system needed a Biblical adjustment--What is precious and valuable- Colossians 2-3-Which things are worthless, which have value- 2 Timothy 2-20-In comparing life and death, what do we learn- Rom. 6-11